It has been well over 15 years since I had a third and final knee surgery to repair cranky joints that had broken down due to misuse and overuse.
Some people are born loose, some tight, and some perfectly inbetween. I am of the loose variety.
Loose people are usually born to do yoga with overly long muscles and too loose joints. It served me well as a practitioner and I became fairly advanced quickly.
After a while this led to some problems. Back then yoga and alignment were not words uttered in the same sentence. As a result, without focusing on how I aligned my body, or how I built muscle, my knees began to complain and finally broke down after a couple of years of daily practice.
My healing journey was fairly arduous. It took a long time for me to understand why I, and so many others, have bodies that are all too happy to fall apart in one form or another, and then stubbornly refuse to heal.
I began to look at my movement off the yoga mat.
How do I stand when I am on line at the grocery store?
What do my feet and knees do when I walk up and down the stairs at the train station?
Why does that person in front of me walk like a duck?
And the person next to them walks like half a duck, with one foot pointing forward and the other turned out?
My CoreWalking program was born out of a desire to help people who find themselves in a position similar to mine.
There were moments in my eighteen month odyssey of injury and rehabilitation where I thought I would never be pain free and whole again.
But here I am biking, and hiking, and rollerblading, and really doing anything I want without fear of injury from which I won’t be able to heal.
I recently made this video (about 7:30) telling a little bit about that story and how I ended up teaching people how to walk.
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