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The Athlete's Blind Spot: What Your Movement Patterns Can Reveal About Your Potential

• Susannah Steers • Season 2 • Episode 15

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What if the key to athletic breakthrough isn't training harder, but moving better? For athletes chasing performance goals, the path forward might lie in what's been there all along – your movement patterns.

From the moment we first move in the womb to our latest workout, our bodies develop unique neuromuscular highways – patterns that govern how we organize and execute every movement. These patterns become our movement signature, as distinctive as our handwriting or walking gait. But unlike static signatures, these patterns directly impact our athletic potential, either supporting or sabotaging our efforts.

This episode dives deep into how movement patterns develop, why they matter for athletes, and how addressing them can transform performance. Host Susannah Steers draws from decades of experience helping athletes break through plateaus by focusing on movement quality instead of just quantity. She shares the story of Olympic legend Michael Phelps, whose success came not just from genetic advantages but from addressing movement imbalances that threatened his performance.

For those who've hit unexplained walls in training or struggled with recurring injuries, this conversation offers a fresh perspective. You'll discover why compensations that initially help you push through challenges eventually create new problems, and how mindful movement training can rebuild patterns for sustainable strength and performance.

Whether you're a competitive athlete, weekend warrior, or simply someone who wants to move through life with less pain and more freedom, you'll gain practical insights for assessing your own movement and simple strategies to begin improving it today. The science is clear: quality movement isn't just a nice-to-have supplement to athletic training—it's often the missing foundation that determines how far your hard work can take you.

Subscribe to the Heart of Motion podcast for more insights at the intersection of movement science and vibrant living, and connect with Susannah on Instagram @theheartofmotionpodcast to share your movement journey.

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Heart of Motion Podcast host Susannah Steers is a Pilates & Integrated Movement Specialist and owner of Moving Spirit Pilates in North Vancouver, BC. She is passionate about movement, about connections and about life.

Through movement teaching, speaking, and facilitating workshops, she supports people in creating movement practices that promote fitness from the inside out. She loves building community, and participating in multi-disciplinary collaborations.

Along with her friend and colleague Gillian McCormick, Susannah also co-hosts The Small Conversations for a Better World podcast – an interview based podcast dedicated to promoting the kind of conversations about health that can spark positive change in individuals, families, communities and across the globe.

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Susannah Steers:

Welcome to the Heart of Motion Podcast. I'm Susanna Steers and I'll be your host as we explore the heart, soul and science of movement as a pathway to more active, vibrant and connected living. Nothing happens until something moves, so let's get started.

Susannah Steers:

Welcome to the Heart of Motion Podcast, where we dive deep into the art and science of movement and explore what it really takes to thrive in our bodies at any age and at any level of performance.

Susannah Steers:

Today, I want to talk directly to the athletes out there. If you love to move, whether you're chasing personal bests on the trails, perfecting your golf swing or simply seeking more ease in your daily life, you know that training the body for performance is a journey filled with both exhilaration and challenge. We push ourselves to go further, faster and stronger. We celebrate the wins and sometimes we have to grit our teeth through the setbacks. But here's the secret that so often gets lost in the drive for achievement Sometimes the very strategies we use to train our bodies for performance cost us in other ways. Our bodies are brilliant at adapting, but those adaptations aren't always in our best long-term interest. We learn to compensate, to push through pain, to ignore the whispers of fatigue or imbalance, until one day, those whispers become shouts we can't ignore.

Susannah Steers:

Today, I want to shine a light on the hidden stories that our bodies carry, the movement patterns that shape how we perform, recover and even how we feel in our own skin. We'll explore why how you move matters just as much as how much you move and how small mindful shifts can unlock new levels of power, resilience and joy in your movement. So, whether you're an athlete, a weekend warrior or simply someone who wants to move through life with more freedom and less pain, this episode is for you. Let's uncover the ways that honoring your body's story can help you perform at your best for the long run. So we're talking about movement patterns

Susannah Steers:

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Susannah Steers:

The human brain organizes movement by creating patterns that we call on to move our bodies every day. These patterns allow us to unconsciously engage the chain of sequenced muscle activations that's necessary to lift an arm or turn a head or play a game of tennis. If we had to consciously activate every single muscle required for all the movements in our days, there would be absolutely no room in our brains for anything else. Our patterns begin from the very first flow of cells in utero. They continue to develop as we grow, from infancy to adulthood. They're influenced by our genetics, our structure, our emotions, our experiences, the movement of the people we hang out with the most, the way we train our bodies, the injuries we sustain and the ways in which we adapt and move through challenges, both physical and emotional. Our patterns aren't just influenced, they're influencing. They play an important and sometimes underappreciated part in the selection and evolution of new movement strategies in our bodies. Like when we're learning a new sport, our daily habits play a huge role in creating the structure and governing the function of our bodies, no matter what exercises and activities we may do to strengthen our muscles and improve our mobility.

Susannah Steers:

Handwriting is a great example. Most of us have had the same kind of lessons in how to shape and space our letters, to do cursive and to line things up on a page, but rarely do we see two people with the same handwriting. Your writing differs from mine in the amount of pressure you use to put the pen to paper. It differs in the size and the shape and the flow of the letters. Your handwriting and the patterns you use to write are uniquely yours and if you pay attention, you might even notice that your writing changes with your moods. The same is true of our larger movement. I'll bet you can recognize the people closest to you by the way they walk. Before you can even see their faces well enough to make out their features, you might even be able to tell the kind of mood they're in.

Susannah Steers:

When we do any kind of physical activity, our habitual movement patterns come with us. If the patterns you start with are pretty good, then your ability to perform various activities or to build good functional strength and capacity will likely be pretty good too. Your movement will probably feel fluid and efficient, strong and clean. But if the patterns you bring to movement challenges are not so good, you might find obstacles that show up as things like difficulty breathing, difficulty building the muscle mass you want, or maybe building it in the right places. You might struggle with injury, you might feel uncoordinated and you might experience mobility or stability problems. You might fall. Poor patterning creates all kinds of scenarios where you feel like you just can't get the job done. So when we're exercising or training for something, I think it's really important to ensure that our movement patterning is as clear and efficient as it can be.

Susannah Steers:

Joseph Pilates once said, "a few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion, and over the years, I've found that to be true. If the goal is to move and perform at our best, why wouldn't we pay attention to how we're getting there?

Susannah Steers:

Sometimes, when we're training for something, an event or performance, professional athletic pursuit, whatever it is we can be so fixated on the what that we're doing that we don't pay attention to the how of what we're doing. We focus on the stats, the reps, the load levels or the times, and we work toward improving those things with energy and drive. These are important and they're easily measured. I would argue, though, that how you do these things is equally important, and that is not so easily measured. But without attention to the how, I think you're missing the kind of work that makes you a better athlete, the stuff that takes you from average to exceptional, the stuff that builds resilience, that builds sustainable strength and stamina and serves as a powerful foundation for all of your physical activities In building skills and capacity for athletic performance, no matter what your discipline. I think good quality movement trumps mindless reps and sets and brute force every time. At the very least, attention to how you move should be a trusted companion in your overall training arc.

Susannah Steers:

I often think about Olympian Michael Phelps when I talk about this stuff. Phelps is now a retired American swimmer who won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Still a record for any athlete at a single Olympic Games. As with most Olympians, there is an element of winning the genetic lottery in his story. I mean, the guy is six foot four inches tall and he's said to have the perfect body for swimming. He has an exceptionally long torso and short legs. His trunk is the length of someone who's actually closer to about 6'8" and his legs are comparable in length to someone 8 inches shorter. He's also hypermobile, which contributed to a kind of fluid movement in his body that was helpful for his butterfly stroke, which was his best event.

Susannah Steers:

But hypermobility can be a blessing and a curse when it comes to stability and force transmission. In Phelps' case, his hypermobility contributed to that rhythmic undulation through the body that worked really well for his butterfly stroke. But at the same time, he suffered constant challenges with his back, even to the point of having to withdraw for some important events over his career as a result. Luckily, he had a team of people working with him who helped him learn to control his hypermobility, with dedicated stability work and training to improve his movement patterns, along with other supports and therapies. Along with other supports and therapies, with his dedicated training and discipline, not just in the pool but also in other areas where his movement needed support, he went on to become one of the most successful Olympic athletes of all time. If he had just kept swimming harder, Michael Phelps might not have been able to achieve his stunning Olympic victories. So let's talk about these movement patterns.

Susannah Steers:

A muscle pattern develops over time. When we choose a specific pattern of muscle activations to do a particular task over and over again, the brain starts to recognize that this is a frequently used path and it begins to choose it as a kind of default pattern. The more often we use that pathway, the more easily we can access it in the future. It's where that old adage practice make perfect comes from. A movement that we do frequently, like walking for example, has some pretty well-worn patterns associated with it. It's like a neuromuscular superhighway, and unless you're on tricky terrain, your walk is pretty automatic. At this point I'm guessing If you've never gone swimming before, though, your first swimming lessons might feel a little less well-organized because your brain hasn't yet developed a good pattern for you to work with. It's building the patterns as you go learning, often borrowing from other patterns you might already have available in your neuromuscular library. It's a trial and error process until your brain and your nervous system land on a pattern that feels like it works for you and then things start to smooth out a bit.

Susannah Steers:

Things like the length of our bones and the relative tension or laxity of our ligaments and connective tissues are all genetic factors that absolutely influence our patterns. No question. After that, things like the tone of our muscles, our overall health and fitness and the state of our nervous system can impact a pattern. The way we train is important too. Are you constantly pushing your limits to the absolute edge, not providing enough recovery time? Constantly living in survival mode may leave your nervous system in a state that is not conducive to sustainable gains. But even things like our emotions, the way we feel about ourselves, or the situation and the tasks we're doing, or who we're doing it with, can make a difference. Our sense of safety in the task or in our environment can also have an influence. Movement patterns are like a living, breathing archive of all our collected life experiences.

Susannah Steers:

If you ever sustained an injury that sidelined you for a bit, that likely plays into things too. Maybe you broke your lower leg and were in a cast or crutches for six to eight weeks. After a couple of months of standing and hopping around on one leg, your body probably developed some new strengths and new patterns and maybe has lost some access to old patterns, especially in relationship with pain. You may find that as you get back to regular activity there may be some kind of residual impact in your movement. The muscle mass on one leg might be smaller than on the other. Your shoulders and your upper back have been kind of bent forward over the crutches for a while, with more weight on your arms and hands than you'd normally have. And did you even look at that situation in your post-rehab?

Susannah Steers:

It takes a while to get back to fully active duty again, and there will probably always be little breadcrumbs in your movement that show the journey. Over the years, these things add up. You probably won't even notice them at first, but over time the accumulating breadcrumbs start to create a whole different reality in your body. The compensations you've created over the years start to add up and maybe even glom together until your movement begins to feel less and less free and organized. So let's extrapolate that in a hypothetical scenario over a number of years.

Susannah Steers:

Maybe you had a knee injury in your early years that left you with one thigh muscle bigger than the other. Since then your thigh muscles, generally on one side, have always felt a little like they were a bit short and tight, but you stretch and you don't really notice it too much. Then you know you get a little older and the realities of having to work for a living mean that you're probably sitting at a desk most of every day. Your hip flexors are chronically tight and your core is probably weaker than you'd like. Then maybe you had a baby or two and since then you've had issues with your pelvic floor or your core. Perhaps you've managed to reclaim the flat belly, but you kind of pee a little when you sneeze After the babies.

Susannah Steers:

You were determined to get your body back in a hurry, so you went after it hard and maybe now you tend to grip your ribs and your butt after trying to get active too fast without good deep core support. So the butt and the ribs took over. Now you experience maybe a little low back pain or stiffness, maybe a little arthritis in various parts, combined with the stress of all of the above. So now maybe you notice that your knees don't love a deep squat anymore. You pee a little when you laugh, it's harder to twist your spine and you're beginning to notice that your neck is often stiff and sore and your core well, it's just not supporting you the way you want.

Susannah Steers:

Our bodies will give us movement only where it is available for us in terms of the mobility, strength and the stamina. The problem, and the gift, is that we are so adaptable that we often don't notice that we've lost movement until we try to do something we want to do - and we can't. We chalk it up to injury or aging or whatever, and those things do count. But you might be surprised by what more becomes possible for you with some attention to your movement.

Susannah Steers:

Now I'll say this - Athletes take things to a whole new level. . Athletes have a special kind of mindset. I've been there and I know it. You eat, you breathe and you sleep. Your sport, everything in your life revolves around it your body, your training cycles, your events. You swallow your pain, you work through your challenges, you push your boundaries until you reach the goals that you've set for yourself. You tap into that inner strength and that discipline, that indomitable will to continue against all odds. And then you set the bar a little higher, reaching for new, loftier goals. It never stops. You're always reaching for what's just beyond you.

Susannah Steers:

But have you ever reached for one of those lofty goals and found that it took more energy than you could reasonably have expected it to, based on the training up to that point? Have you worked towards new heights only to repeatedly hit an invisible wall before you get there Injuries, less than inspiring performances, fatigue, pain, inefficiencies. Sometimes these things come about as a result of poor technique, inconsistent training or maybe insufficient recovery periods and maybe even miscalculations in your training . , But but sometimes, in fact a lot of time, I would say, problems Problems come up as a result of challenges in your structural support. The foundational patterns upon which all of your technique and conditioning . rests Is the architecture of your body, handling the load you're putting on ?. Are the stresses balanced or pulling you in all the wrong directions? Are you gradually loading and overloading your body towards strength, strength or instead to the point of collapse? More is not always better.

Susannah Steers:

Athletes are master compensators and probably have more sophisticated and deeply ingrained failed load transfer patterns in their movement than non-athletes. They make it work. You're used to doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You push through, adding power to those faulty patterns and working around the problem. Other muscles and tissues take on the job and your structure literally shifts to accommodate the new pattern. You don't feel it as it's happening. In fact. At first your compensation might actually make things feel better, since it begins to take stress away from a problem area. But eventually the cost of your compensations and structural shifts show up as increased energy expenditure, reduced efficiency and diminished range and quality of your movement changes. You have to work harder and spend more time to achieve less. It begins to feel as though you're losing ground.

Susannah Steers:

Accumulated compensations can eventually lead to diminishing performance to a point where the structure has trouble compensating its way out of pain or injury. You can treat the injuries, you can rest, but until the underlying structural issues are addressed you're kind of fighting a losing battle. Here's the thing. You can't erase your history. But this kind of challenge is not the end of your journey, even though it can sometimes feel like it. Focused retraining of problematic movement patterns can restore balance and unlock new potential, as one of my clients described it somewhat incredulously after a big back injury she said I've got more in the tank than I ever had before. That's kind of a fun thing to learn after what felt like a debilitating, career-ending injury.

Susannah Steers:

Movement training focuses on finding clear and efficient motor control in your body to support your structure and move it through space with ease, with a lot of work to do and not a lot of time to do it in. It's easy to get caught up in the performance aspect of your sport, focusing on strength and power, reaching for better times, for better lines or anything else that makes you a beast in your sport. Many people forego movement training or restorative exercises, thinking that they won't get the same bang for the buck in terms of performance. They don't feel like they're working hard enough. The only thing that will make you a better hockey player is playing hockey a lot. It's the thing that you do for yourself, the background work that makes you a better athlete. That will allow you to perform in ways beyond, specifically, what hockey training can give you.

Susannah Steers:

Retraining a movement pattern is about reprogramming not only the muscles and other tissues, but the neural map your brain uses to spark your body into action. It's as much about training the brain as it is about training the body. You're literally redrawing the map. If you're used to working at high intensity, high velocity and heavy load, it can be hard to accept the idea that small, specific and very focused movement could improve your larger movement long enough to make a difference, but it does. These days there are lots of ways to do this. For most of my career it felt a little like I was singing into the wind about the power of movement.

Susannah Steers:

Lately I see all kinds of people talking about training movement in new ways. I'm kind of secretly amused by the fact that for years dancers were often not seen as real athletes because of the movement focus of their training, and now there are a lot of innovative new techniques in sport conditioning that look an awful lot like dance to me. All that to say, if you look for it, you'll find a movement training program that suits your particular kind of mojo. Over the last 30 years this is how I've typically worked with people to improve their movement. First, the athlete and I discuss what's not working in their world, where do they perceive the problem to be and maybe what feels strong. We also talk about their history in perhaps surprising detail. Sometimes surprising things pop up in their movement. That might be traced back to old injuries, old training habits and that kind of thing.

Susannah Steers:

Next, I look at posture. Posture will give you a relatively accurate reading of where your body is well supported and where it's not. When you look face into a full length mirror, what do you see? Is one shoulder higher than the other, one hip higher than the other? Is one side of your body, from armpit to hip, kind of shorter than the other, or are you twisted? Is your head off to one side or tilted? Is one knee rotated inward or both knees knocking? What are your feet doing? When you look at the mirror with your body facing the side, imagine a plumb line traveling down from your ear to the side of your shoulder, to the side of your hip, through your knee and to the outside ankle bone and then to the ground. Is that plumb line hanging straight down through those joints or are there kinks in the way it hangs? Is your head forward of the plumb line or your shoulders behind it? Posture is typically observed in a static position instead of in motion, so it's not an entirely reliable measure of the whole picture, but any significant deviation from an easy plumb line can translate into challenges for the body in motion, especially where there are several deviations that might unbalance or counterbalance your body.

Susannah Steers:

The next step, then, is to look at the body in motion. This is the time for wide open curiosity. What do we see? Together, we test different ranges of motion, different loads and coordinations. Is there adequate support for the spine and the pelvis in various ranges of motion? Is there sufficient mobility? Are the joints stable or do they require bracing? Can the combination of the central, stability and mobility provide effective load transfer across the body? Is there adequate strength in the places that need it? Where are the gaps, the incongruities, and what might they mean? Lack of strength in the glute, for example, might not necessarily mean that we immediately dive into glute strengthening exercises. First we need to know why that glute is weak. Then we can explore what we want to do about it. So once we've figured out that there is an issue, we can start to work toward creating awareness of the situation and better control.

Susannah Steers:

At this point, it's often a case of not knowing what we don't know. Athletes generally feel that they know their bodies pretty well and they do but they adapt so well under pressure that sometimes these little issues fester under the surface. It might be one vertebral joint that isn't well supported, creating a cascade of failed load transfers down the body when you serve your tennis ball, ultimately causing undue stress and maybe pain in the hip. Maybe it's a stiff foot which the rest of the body has to move around, creating compensation after compensation up the legs and into the body. Each one of us has our own unique issues. Gaining control of these things means first creating better access to the specific structure that isn't supporting its load well. Practicing small, controlled motions, using better imagery to improve our proprioception, releasing tissues that are inhibiting our access or strengthening weak areas these are all strategies that can be used to increase our access. These are not things that can be typically achieved at full volume, so we don't load heavy. Instead, it's likely about doing a series of gently loaded movements, ensuring that the patterning is good. Many, many, many times. We repeat it a lot Light, and often is the mantra here.

Susannah Steers:

This phase of things might feel really easy, or it might feel as though you're trying to perform mental gymnastics. At first, your brain may sweat, but your body probably won't. You may even find that it's difficult to feel the structures. You are attempting to engage. What you will feel, though, as you're gaining better control, is increased ease in performing these simple activities. You won't have to strategize the movement anymore. The movement will feel lighter, it'll feel better, it'll feel more fluid and less dense. You'll often get the sense that it just feels right.

Susannah Steers:

Once you've gained conscious control over a new movement pattern in simple, low-level activities, it's time to up the ante. Now it's necessary to take the control phase to a new level. If your activities have involved movements in only one plane of motion so far, it's time to take things into 3D. Change direction, change level. If you've been working with minimal loading, add a little more. Increase your range of motion, try some rotation, explore the speed with which you're able to move and still maintain control.

Susannah Steers:

But beware in this phase it is important to stay vigilant about your control. Once you get going, it's really easy to say to yourself great, I got this. And then you dive into your most challenging activities somehow, expecting your body is just going to do the thing. But that's not always the case. Gaining capacity in these new patterns takes conscious attention and a gradual build. Throwing too much at it too soon often prompts further compensation, either with your old patterns or with brand new ones. So at this stage I like to encourage people to ride the soft edge, where they're pushing to the edge of their control, but not beyond it.

Susannah Steers:

Once you move into efforting the activity or bearing down to accomplish it, you're probably no longer working the structures that you're intending to train. You can't rush this phase. It takes the time it takes. The more consistent quality practice you put in, the better your results will be and the faster you'll get them. There are no shortcuts, but if you do the work diligently, I can confidently say that your movement will improve exponentially.

Susannah Steers:

Set aside a bit of your training time to work on specific movement training tasks. If you're beginning to learn a new movement skill, you may not be able to sustain control in your most challenging athletic pursuits right away. So a little bit of time to do some movement training work separately, gradually increasing the demands you place on that control, will be a good thing. You may want to do this prior to your regular sport-specific training to set up your structure for success in the higher level activities. You might find it's also useful to do a little bit after your high level training too, to help you reset and recover from any potentially faulty load patterning that crept in while you were kind of pushing your edges in those higher level activities. This is true while you're in transition. That'll start to change and it'll become more automatic as you go along. But try both the set and the reset and see what works for you.

Susannah Steers:

There is no doubt that movement training and I include good Pilates practice on that list there's no doubt that it's a positive way to boost your athletic performance. It supports your structure and your posture. It builds balance, sustainable strength. It enhances your brain-body connection, which will serve you for a lifetime. It improves your nervous system balance and your recovery. It increases mobility and range of motion. It improves your nervous system balance and your recovery. It increases mobility and range of motion. It reduces injury risk. It boosts endurance and efficiency and sharpens body awareness and self-regulation. Overall, it provides strategies for daily move, not just sport, and it integrates the whole body for powerful, coordinated action.

Susannah Steers:

For a lot of athletes, the supplemental work they do to support their sport is like a necessary evil. They're not fitness junkies. They want to move and perform at their best. Good conditioning is simply one of the many ways you have to pay to play. In my experience, though. Consistent movement training or movement practice is like a way to come home to your own body. Your sport requires a lot of you, and you probably already know that what is good for the sport may or may not be ultimately good for your body. Movement training allows you to connect to your own movement in a way that brings you back to you and helps you find ways to navigate what you need to do both inside and outside the sport. Remember that you are more than the discipline that you are passionate about. Don't forget to look after you in your pursuit of excellence. So all of this might sound kind of hippy-dippy.

Susannah Steers:

I am happy to report that the research is finally catching up and showing the benefits of movement training. Recent meta-analyses show that core training, including Pilates, significantly improves foundational athletic qualities like core endurance and balance. At the same time, they indicate that sports-specific effects may vary, which to me highlights the need for individualized, integrated approaches. There's also new research into motor synergies, which are coordinated activation patterns of multiple muscles working together to achieve a specific movement or task effectively a movement pattern that experienced athletes coordinate their whole bodies more efficiently than novices. Improving performance through integrated movement, not just isolated strength. It stands to reason that spending time on improving these synergies can improve athletic performance overall as well. Studies also confirm that better movement patterns, as measured by things like the functional movement screen, are linked to improved speed, agility, balance and lower injury risk in athletes. Data indicates that functional movement training is shown to improve sprinting, jumping and complex movements, especially when tailored to an athlete's needs. I think all of this evidence lends some weight to the individual approach my team and I take with everyone at Moving Spirit Pilates.

Susannah Steers:

We want to know how you move and how you need to move, and then we find ways to help you do it in a way that gets the results you're looking for. I'll pop links to some of the research in the show notes if you'd like to have a look at that data for yourself. If you're listening and you're wondering how you can start to improve your own movement for better health and performance, I want to give you a few tips that you can use on your own right now. Notice how you move in your daily life and in your sport. Where are the demands? What kinds of movement are you doing most often? What feels easy? Where are the challenges? Start to observe patterns. Do you prefer to lead with your left leg? Does that right shoulder keep lifting up? Does your body shift to one side when you squat? Become an expert in your own sensations. Understand what's happening when you move.

Susannah Steers:

As you look to make a shift, start by making small, focused changes. Subtle adjustments make big changes over time. Notice when something that you're experimenting with makes it easier or harder, or maybe makes no difference at all. Start with a baseline and then explore. When you find something that works, then repeat it. If it doesn't work, adjust it or get some help. If it doesn't work, well, time for a new strategy. Remember that retraining movement is a process and progress will take attention, patience and practice, but the results can be profound and they are lasting.

Susannah Steers:

If you're struggling with a movement issue, it's often helpful to have an outside eye to help you identify where you need help. It comes back to the we don't know what we don't know situation. Find a movement specialist or a Pilates or integrated movement training person to get personalized support. A private session, at least in the beginning, will likely net you the best results, because that's where we can look specifically at you and not just at the whole room. How you move matters it really does, with mindful and consistent practice, you can deconstruct patterns that are getting in your way, create new ones to support your best performance and overall health. Bringing your whole self to the table and spending some time exploring and playing with your own movement is a hugely valuable thing to do, and I think you'll start to feel how powerful all this can be. Your performance will improve in ways that you hadn't imagined possible.

Susannah Steers:

That's it for today, but I'd love to hear about your experiences. Share your story. You could share it on Instagram at the Heart of Motion podcast or at the Moving Spirit, or send me an email at sue at moving spirit dot ca. I think if we share our experiences, we all learn from each other and things get better. You know we're in this together, so until then, until next time, go play around with your movement, enjoy and we'll see you again soon. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. Subscribe and, if you love what you heard, leave a five-star review and tell people what you enjoyed most. Join me here again in a couple of weeks. For now, let's get moving.

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