OVERRIDE

 Bodies require movement, and we all develop creative ways to get us where we want to go. And… sometimes these new  pathways of movement create pain, tension, bracing, held breath, and set in motion a series of compensatory patterns that do not serve! 

The trick is to notice the patterns of compensation and return to movements that are granular or building block in function. 

How do we fire or ignite the functional muscles while allowing the supportive plane muscles to function just enough?

The concept of overriding compensation muscles refers to the process of reducing reliance on muscles that are habitually overworking to make up for weakness, instability, or lack of coordination elsewhere in the body. Compensation muscles often step in when the primary or stabilizing muscles aren’t functioning optimally—this might be due to injury, poor movement patterns, or lack of awareness.

 Over time, these compensations can create inefficient movement, chronic tension, pain, or imbalance. To override these patterns means to re-educate the body through mindful movement, breath, and neuromuscular retraining, so that the deeper, more appropriate muscles (like those of the Spontaneous core or stabilizers around joints) can activate instead. This leads to more balanced, efficient, and sustainable movement, allowing the body to move with greater ease and less strain.

               REHEARSE 

Moving with functional movement to practice or “Rehearse” actions. Building pathways in the motor sensory parts of the brain. Heightening the quality of movement to be effortless and effectively resetting old movements or modes of physiology that don’t serve now.

Rehearsing movement patterns means intentionally practicing specific movements with awareness, precision, and repetition to rewire neuromuscular pathways. It’s not about going through the motions, but about building quality, coordination, and control. This kind of rehearsal helps the body remember how to move efficiently, engage the right muscles, and develop trust in its own structural intelligence.

Benefits:

• Neuromuscular Re-education: Helps the brain and body form better connections, especially after injury or compensation patterns have developed.
• Efficiency and Ease: Encourages smoother, more energy-efficient movement by reducing unnecessary effort or overactivation.
• Pain Reduction: Minimizes strain caused by poor mechanics or compensation by engaging the correct muscles.
• Improved Stability and Mobility: Strengthens foundational patterns, improving both groundedness and range of motion.
• Embodiment and Awareness: Builds somatic intelligence, allowing the mover to feel and correct patterns in real-time.

EASE 

 After Rehearsing, Overriding, and Crowning, we are set up to move with Ease.

Moving with Ease is:

Fluidly passing muscle group engagement to another muscle group.  Building Islands of awareness

Connected

The bones are in optimal position, the Myofascia is not stretched or pulled but is in the “Just right” form. For example, use the starting point of the armpit to the elbow and down to the hand and then each finger

Expansion

From the “just right” body, we create space in the joints, like a necklace with a bead 

between each pearl creating ease and freedom.

Rooting

Connecting higher up the chain of the limbs, we lean down slowly, building into the supportive planes of movement to hold the structure.

 Breathing

We know we are moving with ease when we can breathe effortlessly in all poses of yoga and in all situations in life. When there is tension or bracing, there is no ease. The nervous system goes into the sympathetic system, readying you for flight, fright or freeze. Moving slowly, we monitor breath functioning and notice the mind’s state building a balance between Sympathetic and Parasympathetic states.

No Pain

When we move with ease, we have the opportunity to notice if we are moving into pain and strain. Each time we move with pain, our motor sensors register this as the norm for movement. When we move in the range that is on the kind side of Pain.. No Pain, then the mind/body understands ease, and allows for this to be the new normal. We create opportunity for the movements to increase in range and strength with trust.