North American Sponsor of Bones for Life®
  Foundation for
    Movement
       Intelligence
             Best Practices in Posture and Locomotion

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 Bones for Life® —
Outsmarting Osteoporosis with
Movement Nature Meant
 




















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Ruthy Alon
FMI Founder and President

 
Incorporated in the state of Maine in 2007, the Foundation for Movement Intelligence is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization dedicated to promoting the world’s best movement practices in the service of osteoporosis prevention and reversal.

  Our current Board Members are:
 
  Ruthy Alon, President and Founder
  Doug Boltson, Webmaster
  Linda Howell, P.T., GCFP
  Brian LaSalle, Treasurer
  Hélène Lévesque, GCFP
  Cici Runge, P.T., GCFP
  Tyr Throne, GCFP
  Sheila Zangara, GCFP
 
  Past members: Karen Chwe,
  Kelly Feder, Gail French,
  Gretchen Langner, Carol Lingman,
  Deborah Lotus, and Richard Rogers

FMI oversees activities of the North American instructors of Bones for Life® in the U.S. and Canada. We are a proud member of ISMETA — the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association.
 

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Wave of the Future:
Aligning with our Cultural Past

From navigating the Australian outback, to scaling the mountains in the Andes and the Himalayas, to trekking vessels of water and baskets of goods across sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s traditional cultures have evolved ways of moving to sustain life and maintain health which have served for centuries, and which have much to offer our comparatively sedentary twenty-first century society.

In particular, as regards skeletal health, it is notable that African women have the world’s lowest incidence of bone fractures. Yet we all live on the same planet and share the same gravitational field (save for astronauts, who return to earth with bone loss of as much as 2% per month). Could it be that there is wisdom in the water carrier’s walk? That by modeling their manner of moving, as nature meant, and adopting attributes of their graceful gait, we, too, can strengthen our bodies, reversing bone loss and increasing bone resiliency, while we restore our health and boost our biological optimism in the face of our culture’s current concern with osteoporosis?

This is the working premise of Bones for Life® — an experiential training in optimal human biomechanics, whose precise, practical, hands-on approach to autonomous mastery of posture and movement is being championed in the United States and Canada by our growing organization. FMI’s aim is to spread the word about this innovative somatic pedagogy, promoting its teachings, and encouraging its recognition, investigation, and acceptance among academic, scientific, research, and medical centers throughout North America.






Bones for Life’s key concern is with safety. As an initial step in attaining and maintaining an optimal weight-bearing posture, you learn to align your spine with its innate design, so as to protect your vulnerable joints from injury. Then, later, while intelligently “using your head” — literally — to sustain bone-building loads, you learn to walk once more as nature intended, allowing yourself to lengthen as you strengthen, and improve how you move.

How does this help your bones? Bones are constantly remodeling; osteoclasts break down old tissue, while osteoblasts generate healthy new cells. When we learn to walk again with a dynamic spring in our step, as humankind has done for centuries, the rhythmic pulsations stimulate growth, fortifying bone tissue in accord with Wolff’s Law.

With this age-old answer to the modern malady of osteoporosis
Bones for Life is acheiving some remarkable results. For improved health and well-being, we invite you to safely explore integrated patterns of natural movement and weight-bearing posture embodied by indigenous people worldwide, and awaken your skeleton’s innate intelligence — both consciously and cellularly. You may discover a resiliency inherent in your bones that energizes, invigorates and revitalizes your entire self!








































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