Physicality
The critical payoff of movement is that it transforms and resolves the chronic release of adrenaline and cortisol which is at the essence of tissue-held trauma. A body which cannot resolve these fight, flight, freeze hormones lives in hyper vigilance, fear, anxiety and exhaustion. Moving on any level from yoga to vigorous plyometrics to endurance sports to weight training provides a huge relaxation effect. Energy increase, inner heat, strength and flexibility, spinal decompression, iliopsoas and piriformis release provides muscles the opportunity to thrive and oxygenate. Dynamic compression and expansion of the lungs and heart decreases rumination (compulsive negative thinking), and puts us into the well body, which Freud, before his death, called the frontier of psychological health.
Professional athletes and dancers were Britton’s training ground. Watching elite bodies in motion provided her with the applicable understanding that alignment always comes first in training and competitive expertise. An aligned musculoskeletal system provides the template for a sense of freedom and growth throughout all other systems: Neurological, hormonal and throughout the organs, including the digestive system.