By Eva Riihiluoma
Last Saturday the students of Form is Function had a wonderful opportunity to explore a style of restorative movement with Health Wands. We learned basic forms with light wands and were introduced to meel clubs, leather (!) kettlebells, and sand disks. As far as the techie stuff, here’s a blog post from Ron’s page, featuring some great video.
http://www.theleanberets.com/circular-journeys-restoration/
For myself, I found that the free flow of working with the clubs to be a very complimentary exercise to do in tandem with kettlebells training. I work a lot with my hands, playing instruments, making jewelry, and computer work. In the past few years I have begun to feel a certain stiffness, soreness, and strain with certain movements. Also with sitting to these tasks for long hours. Discovering this movement style is exciting for me. Doing a few clean and press sets is wonderful to get the blood flowing if I have been sitting, and now this adds another tool in the belt. Just yesterday after some hours of jewelry making I put on some music and practiced some of the forms, the restorative benefits were felt pretty much immediately. Thanks Ron, hope to see you back up our way!