warm up
warm up video 1: gentle awakening
This video follows a series of standing movements intended, as the title suggests, to gently awaken the body. This is a whole-body stimulation technique, that agitates and encourages blood flow, and a gentle approach to facilitating healthy organ function and alertness.
As with all practices on this website, you are actively encouraged to proceed with a gentle attitude toward the self. Be patient, and learn to associate accomplishment with positive feeling as much as technical results. There is nothing to prove, and pushing yourself beyond physical comfort is discouraged. Set your limits from a place of love, patience, and self respect.
warm up video 2: better breathing
This short practice uses techniques to expand and stretch the chest cavity, strengthening the muscles involved in the breathing process. Through a gentle form of stretching and alternating motions, the ability of the body to absorb life-giving oxygen is enhanced. Like all three stages of the warm up presented here, this technique is gentle, easy to follow, but very effective.
warm up video 3: limber up
In the third of the introductory videos to warm up, Barbara presents a final series of movements based on eastern disciplines, with this specific goal of limbering up the joints, muscles, and associated body systems. Through complimentary movements, this technique focuses on full-body impacts, rather than isolation of a particular joint or muscle group. As the body functions as a unit, no part functions or works alone. This technique encourages flexibility, and complementarity of function.