Conditioning the Right Side of the Brain Makes Us Smarter.
The right hemisphere of the brain is largely responsible for creativity and movement while the Left hemisphere is very practical and logical. Our sense of self can be deBined intuitively by our spatial intelligence and how our physical movement and actions relate to and affect others. To live in good health and as a member of a community, everyone must take responsibility for his or her actions and this includes conscientious movement and body language.
Every culture has societal norms that predicate how we communicate with one another through movement. From the earliest recordings of human life, movement has been used in the forms of dance, religious rites, hunting and gathering, and the building of villages and cities. A greeting with a kiss can make an American blush while it is the norm in Europe. In today’s modern world, everything is a mouse click away and human interaction and movement has become limited to answering the phone, takeout, and email. Just within the past twenty years, human life has been “advanced” to objects of convenience.
How does this relate to Pilates and Gyrotonic? As dedicated practitioners and teachers of these movement practices, Jessica believes that with each session, we are delving deeper into the integral connection between mind and body‐the relationship between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Beyond the effort to bring the mind into the body, Pilates and Gyrotonic both work to strengthen our Kiesthetic or Bodily intelligence and our Spatial intelligence. Beyond identifying the self as either logical or liguistic, as a professional or a spouse, each individual has unique expressions and qualities that help to deBine our personalities.
By freeing up the body and having a sense of the physical self in health and well being, each person has the potential to positively affect those around us. Positive healthy movement can manifest itself in posture, how we reach out to others, our physical capabilities to help one another in manual tasks, gestures and expressions in conversations, and the sense of self worth. We encourage you to look further into the power of the right hemisphere of the brain the power of movement.