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Building Your Physical Foundation: rotator cuff and shoulders

by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 19, 2014 | Self-Care

There’s a tendency among actor/combatants to over-extend the shoulder joints. I know several people in this field with rotator cuff injuries, and I suspect that improper shoulder alignment has a lot to do with that. Here’s a video of some of the standard...

Building Your Physical Foundation: feet

by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 18, 2014 | Cross Training

Your feet are your stability. They are your first line of communication with the floor, but so many of us spend all of our time in shoes that don’t allow us to feel the floor. For this reason, I like to start many of my classes with a foot warm-up. After...

Bend at the HIPS, not waist

by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 17, 2014 | Get Physical

You can’t always feel when you’re doing it, so pay attention to how the two feel different once you start getting corrections in class. In the meanwhile, these habits can form because of strength or flexibility issues. For strength, you’re looking at...

Cool-Down/Warm-Down

by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 16, 2014 | Rehearsal Methods

I know they’re not scheduled during the workshop, but be sure to do a cool-down or have a personal cool-down routine. It’s two weeks of long days. Give your mind and body some cues that it’s time to rest, recuperate and relax. Maybe it’s a...

Warm-ups

by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 15, 2014 | Self-Care

We all have different bodies and so we have different needs (you’ll hear me say this ad nauseum). You’ll find that your body reacts to physical work differently than the people around you. There is a group warm-up scheduled every day of the workshop, but...