Your Body, Your Greatest Teacher
Through my Anatomy in Motion training, I’ve heard Gary Ward, the founder, say several times that your own body is your greatest teacher.
Of course, as with many things in life, we sometimes want someone else to solve the problem for us. But as I was working on my right inferior fibula yesterday, I was reminded that meaningful learning comes from lived experience - you need to feel it.
Over the past few months, I’ve been shadowing and collaborating with osteopath Ed Paget to gain different perspectives and encounter a range of patient scenarios. Through this process, it has become clearer that change often comes through testing and trying a mix of approaches - whether manual intervention or otherwise - and then translating that work into real-time movement to create new feelings and experiences.
Interestingly, the clinical process isn’t that different from teaching a ski lesson. Progress comes through collaboration, conversation, testing, drills, assessment, and reflection between the individual and me. It is through that process that understanding, change, and improvement emerge.
At the end of the day, my body remains one of my greatest teachers.
