How To Stop Body Tightness With Rolfing Structural Integration
Transcript Below (0:00) In today’s video, I’m going to talk about general over all body tightness, (0:04) muscular tightness and how structural integration helps resolve that. (0:08) Periodically, (0:12) people will come into my office with overall body tightness (0:15) or you might have a range of motion limitation where you can’t raise an arm or…
Read MoreHow To Activate Inner Outer Hip Part 3 of 3 – Integrative Exercise For Core Integrity and Back Pain
Transcript Below (0:00) So once you can do that, then you can do the third one. (0:03) It requires neither of these tools because you’ve mastered (0:06) the first two. (0:09) Stand hip-width distance apart just like you did before when you were using the brick and the strap. (0:15) You take your arms straight up into…
Read MoreEpisode #16 Does Bad Posture Make You Slow, Tired, And Fat?
Open New Window | Download Show Notes: Head forward posture is at epidemic levels due to laptop, tablet and smartphone use. Sitting for more than a few minutes at a time results in slouching, and, over time, vertical postural misalignment. Postural misalignment literally takes more energy to do day to day tasks- less efficient- an…
Read MoreEpisode #15 Should I Eat Breakfast Or Should I Skip It?
Open New Window | Download Today’s question of the week: I’ve heard of this idea called “intermittent fasting”. Should you skip breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Good question. The easiest way is to skip breakfast. But not if you’re hungry. This may take a bit of getting used to if you are habituated to eating in the…
Read MoreHow To Activate Inner Outer Hip Part 2 of 3 – Integrative Exercise For Core Integrity and Back Pain
Transcript Below (0:00) The second one is the exact opposite of (0:03) that. And I’m going to use a strap to simulate that so you can see (0:08) what you can do to feel that action before you actually try it without these tools (0:12) because I’m going to ask you do the exercise without…
Read MoreEpisode #14 Does Drinking Coffee Make You Fat?
Open New Window | Download In this episode, I address the age old question: Does drinking coffee make you fat? Many factors: Black coffee vs coffee with cream “manufactured drinks” better known as “sugar delivery systems”(coffee “drinks”) “Research” Caffeine and coffee: their influence on metabolic rate and substrate utilization in normal weight and obese individuals.…
Read MoreEpisode #13 Are you breathing correctly?
Open New Window | Download In this episode I interview Chris Corrales- Owner of Medicinevolution in Dublin, CA. Chris is a lifetime martial artist, Practitioner of Structural Integration, Certified Homeopath. A powerful natural healer spiritual deep thinker, Chris discusses how he cured himself of severe asthma and the insights he had along the way that have…
Read MoreHow To Activate Inner Outer Hip Part 1 of 3 – Integrative Exercise For Core Integrity and Back Pain
Transcript Below (0:00) Hi there. My name is Manny Aragon with The Rolf Workshop Center for Structural Performance (0:04) and today I’m going to show you a very simple exercise (0:08) that I’ve put together from a series (0:11) other exercise that I’ve done, if you’ve watched some of my videos before, (0:14) that provides fabulous relief…
Read MoreEpisode #12 Are you breaking these "off season rules"?
Open New Window | Download In this episode I am joined by my wife, the lovely Christabel Tabbada, LAc., An acupuncturist and herbalist by trade, Christabel is a former collegiate (volleyball, crew) and lifetime athlete. She practices in a Sports Medicine clinic in Costa Mesa-with additional specialties in Pediatrics, Womens Health, and Fertility. Christabel and I…
Read MoreEpisode # 11 What The Heck Is A Human Cashew?
Open New Window | Download In this episode I interview Aaron Guyett, owner of Innovative-Results – a functional fitness center located in Costa Mesa, CA. Aaron’s Bio: http://www.innovative-results.com/aaron-guyett-personal-trainer-and-co-owner-of-innovative-results-gym-in-orange-county/ Aaron and I discuss some of the fundamental structural, postural, and strength challenges that everyday people face- the same ones faced by athletes and especially endurance athletes. We…
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