Check this link and find out…

The Godi Method® workshop “Optimizing Exercise Through Postural Alignment”  is back at the Swedish Institute, College of Health Sciences, New York City.

The workshop will take place on Sunday November 6, 2016 from 1pm to 5pm  and it is part of the Professional Continuing Education classes.

The Swedish Institute College of Health and Science is an approved provider for ongoing professional development of licensed healthcare professionals. My workshop is approved for 4 NCBTMB credits.

The workshop is opened to everyone that would like to learn about postural alignment and how to use this new awareness on your posture to optimize exercise, reducing stress on your joints and muscle aches and pains. 

Check this link to register:

https://online.swedishinstitute.edu/all-classes/optimizing-exercise-through-postural-alignment-;

Pre-registration is required and can be done online via the Continuing Education website, www.swedishce.com, as well as by phone, email or in person. Please contact the Continuing Education department at (212) 924-5900 x 146 or at ce@swedishinstitute.edu.

P.S. In the process of registering on line you will be asked a few questions that may not apply to you. In that case just write N/A as an answer, so you can proceed with the registration. Thanks.

This article is to bring awareness on a recurrent pain that DJs experience during their work, which I have coined the “DJ Syndrome.”

I’ve often worked with DJs that experience pain on one side of the neck, and often the shoulder on that same side, shooting sharp pain to the correspondent arm. DJ Syndrome is usually due to the action of bending the neck to the side and lifting the corresponding shoulder, in order to hold one side of the headphone closely to the ear while the other headphone is loose and off the opposite ear, so that the DJ can listen to two different music tracks in order to mix them.

If this action is performed repeatedly and the position described is kept for a long time, the DJ will experience tightness and pain in the neck, in the mid-back, in the shoulder and sometimes even tingling sensations and shooting pain in the correspondent arm. This is due to the increase in tension in the neck, shoulder and central back muscles. The excessive tension of these muscles can also lead to a disruption of the physiological sequence of the joints related to the vertebrae of the cervical spine and mid-back. In this case, the DJ’s spine is subject to compressions that can lead to bulging or herniated discs in these areas, and to related symptoms such as a sharp pain that travels through the arm known as “brachialgia.”

Obviously an accurate diagnosis and cause of the pain must be determined by a qualified physician.

Anyone suffering from DJ Syndrome can prevent or reduce the condition and its related symptoms by taking the following suggested preventive and corrective measures:

• Any time during the DJ session that you don’t need to mix, just break from the “DJ position”: drop the shoulder and place the neck and head straight.

• Before and after a session, release and stretch the muscles of the neck and mid-back through proprioceptive exercises and appropriate stretching exercises of those particular areas.

• Establish a “ritual gesture” to break out of the position any time you don’t need to hold it, so in other words, to change the habit of maintaining that position even when it is not necessary. For example, place your headphones around your neck any time you are not mixing; this simple motion could be your “ritual gesture”, reminding you to break from the action of tilting and lifting the shoulder.

• Change or alternate the “DJ position”: instead of tilting your head and lifting your shoulder in order to listen to the music track you want to mix, you can bend your forearm, maintaining the head in the center, while pressing the headphone against your ear with the hand corresponding to the bent forearm. Even when adopting this new position, please do not lift the shoulder corresponding to the bent forearm. Changing or alternating the “DJ position” will reduce the repetitive stress on your joints.

Ideally, some innovator will design a pair of DJ headphones that won’t fall from the head while they are mixing, so that DJs can keep one headphone to the ear and the other loose off the other ear without lifting and tilting their shoulder on the side.

For more info on The Godi Method® exercises for “DJ Syndrome” contact method@claudiagodi.com.

This Saturday, 6-21- 2016,  I will be at  the Public School, P.S. 125, to have the young students tumbling, jumping and playing with movement at their Spring Festival. The school is planning a variety of healthy options for their students in order to increase their Wellness. I am happy to be part of this project and attempt to improve the quality of living of the young students in Harlem, offering more occasions to enjoy movement.
P.S. 125 Spring Festival will be from 12 to 4 pm this Saturday at 123rd Street at Morningside Avenue.
Looking forward to seeing some of you there. It should be fun!

The Godi Method® workshop “Optimizing Exercise Through Postural Alignment” is at the Swedish Institute, College of Health Sciences, New York City.

The workshop will take place on Thursday July 21, 2016 and it is part of the Professional Continuing Education classes.  It is approved for 4 NCBTMB credits!

Check this link to find out more…

https://online.swedishinstitute.edu/all-classes/optimizing-exercise-through-postural-alignment-

Pre-registration is required and can be done online via the Continuing Education website, www.swedishce.com, as well as by phone, email or in person. Please contact the Continuing Education department at (212) 924-5900 x 146 or at ce@swedishinstitute.edu.

What’s the difference between regular lunges and The Godi Method® lunges?

Watching this picture you could think that there is no difference between a regular lunge performed with a correct form and The Godi Method® lunge.

In reality the difference exists, but you can’t see it in this picture, as The Godi Method® lunge is based on an inner work. In fact, what you can’t see in this photo, is the work the client is doing, through proper breathing and correct postural alignment, in breaking the patterns of tension, so that the leg muscles work more efficiently and to an higher degree. The result is that you will need to perform fewer lunges and just one series to feel the work, and you won’t need to add extra-weight ( for ex. dumbbells).

This process  will strengthen your leg muscles reducing the interference of other muscles and the stress on your joints.