The Dynamically 'Alive' Wedge Squat
A 'Facilitated' Entry Into a Fundamental Human Position, with Exploratory Ques...How Much Better Could It Get?
This is a different way to orientate towards the basic human squat, and also a ‘small’ exploration of what the loss of squatting in modern culture can actually teach us about the stripping away of ancestral lifeways on multiple levels.
The squat is a great example of something inherent and innate, that is not present in modern humans.
What else has gone the same way as the lowly squat? Quite a lot actually. This is about the squat…and in some ways… it’s also not.
And for the record, I use to have a hell of time trying to squat, so I get it. My knees were so badly injured at one point, that the thought of squatting was full of fear, and the act full of pain. It has taken years of work to squat freely and smoothly.
While my squat is not ‘perfect’, it is somatically juicy, and I appreciate every second of connecting back into MY squat.
The Deeper Why of The Wedge Squat- Grounding, Ancestry & Foundation…with ‘ease’
Nice post I like to use squat like movements for breath synchronization and learning to plunge into breathing out and learning to use these muscles and dynamics
I love this post. Having worked with children in a preschool for about a year and a half, I find that the year from 2-3 is where the children lose their preference for the squat as well as some ease and 'perfection' with it. Earlier than that, I will usually see children resting in the squat, investigating in the squat, playing in the squat, communicating with others in the squat, and so on.
I myself sit in the squat often, but have not quite gotten to the awareness of the 'somatic juiciness potential' shown in the video :) The Ido Portal 30/30 squat challenge got me to be able to sit in the rock bottom squat for time back in 2015, but I was not 'living there,' so to speak. Even back squatting 185 x 21 several times did not get me to 'live there.' Food for thought, y'all. Again, awesome post.