Engage your Spine, Enhance your Stance
 

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   Melissa Cook   Jileen Russell, GCFP   Elinor Silverstein, P.T., GCFP   Tyr Throne, GCFP, Secretary   Sheila Zangara, GCFP, Acct Treasurer     Past members: Karen Chwe,   Kelly Feder, Gail French,   Linda Howell, Gretchen Langner,   Hélène Lévesque, Carol Lingman,   Deborah Lotus, Richard Rogers   and Cici Runge 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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helping to restore flexibility in this often stiff, non-negotiable area of our dorsal spine.

Pole usage when walking also increases our vitality, since the non-habitual interaction of the arms with the ground (through their extension via the poles) employs a long lever that boosts the ballistic force we employ
for propulsion.

In format, the Walk for Life program consists of experiential indoor movement lessons to convey simple-yet-potent strategies that effect beneficial long-term change in flexibility, coordination, posture, strength and well-being.

It also incorporates a real-world outdoor component — walking in nature using Nordic poles — to help participants integrate patterns characteristic of a lively, pleasurable and health-promoting walk into their daily lives. Factors covered include optimal alignment, coordination, pace, propulsion and impact.

Program outcomes are being researched by the University of New Hampshire’s Department of Kinesiology.

North American teachers and classes can be found here (see California and New Hampshire for trainings conducted by Ruthy Alon). In South America, Claudia Bejar will present Caminatas Vitales — Walk for Life, in Spanish — in Punta del Este, Uruguay; more info here.

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