Nucleus Strength

When you breathe your body moves.  Feeling this natural movement when you breathe can help you understand how to move more efficiently over time.  When you inhale, among other things, your body naturally extends (arches) and when you exhale your body flexes (rounds).  In this episode we break down arching and rounding and connect those movements to your breathe.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Using a small inflatable exercise ball (or rolled up towel, inflated balloon, anything soft/pliable...) we will explore the locus and meaning of efficient breathing.  Focusing on where the ball/prop makes contact with the body creates awareness of how the lungs move while breathing.  By feeling how the lungs/ribs move during respiration you can help encourage a more efficient and stress free breathing pattern.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Breathing while moving our torsos side to side is a powerful practice that can increase both lung capacity and deepen torso strength and control.  Expanding  awareness into breathing more to one side than the other can also increase lung capacity and dynamically fortify our mind and bodies.  Side bending can also help to underscore how our hips directly connect up through the entire side of our toros: shoulders, neck, and head.  Very powerful to feel that deep and constant connection/relationship.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Rotation/Twisting is a foundational movement of the torso.  Many injuries could be avoided by efficiently incorporating rotation into our daily practices.  While twisting to the right and breathing through the right side nostril we are able to focus on the right lung and vice versa.  Encouraging the lungs to inflate during rotation serves to offer the deepest level of core support to this movement pattern.  By using breath to encourage a natural and efficient twisting pattern we serve to simultaneously strengthen both our torso and lungs.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Encouraging the mind to focus on breathing for specific lengths of time deepens our awareness of the Mind Body Connection. Guiding the breath simultaneously counting through varying specific durations of time fosters a foundation of calm and fortitude.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.