Going primal
“Playful movement is known to promote adaptability, injury prevention, strength, balance, agility, coordination, speed, skill and mental focus—and a little can go a long way”
The word primal is bandied around a lot these days—used to describe movement, diet and lifestyle—but what does it actually mean?
The word itself stems from primary, that which came first. So“primal” can mean“original” in terms of our evolution either as an individual or as a species.
This can relate to how humans evolved from primitive sea creatures to four-legged mammals and up to primates, and still possess the types of motions such animals exhibit within our range of movement.
Humans also progress through these same patterns of movement within our own lifetime, from our fetal shape within the womb to becoming an upright adult.
Along the path of life, various experiences, stresses, traumas, criticisms, judgments, comparisons and other factors come along to support or interrupt how you stand upright.
Feeling that you may need to protect yourself or keep yourself small can affect your whole-body expression. A common trauma (and shame) pattern held in body tissues, for example, is a collapsed
