Warming-In is a daily movement hygiene practice designed to help you better understand how your body IS — before you ask it to perform.

Rather than stretching, bracing, or forcing your body into readiness, Warming-In helps you:

• gather information,
• reduce unnecessary tension,
• improve responsiveness,
• and make clearer movement choices based on how your system is actually functioning.

This is not a workout.

It’s not corrective exercise.
It’s not performance optimization.
And it’s not about doing the movements perfectly.

It’s a practical system for improving body literacy — helping you understand your own structure, breath, pressure, balance, and movement more clearly.

I wish it could replace mainstream warm-ups in exercise spaces! We will start a movement of our own to revolutionize what it means to be ready to move and for movement to go well! (*Hint* it doesn't start with jumping jacks)

This course is for:

• patients wanting to feel better between appointments
• people recovering from injury or returning to movement
• movers wanting a more intelligent alternative to mainstream warm-ups
• clinicians looking for accessible language to discuss structure and movement
• people who feel disconnected from their body during exercise
• aging bodies
• athletic bodies
• overwhelmed bodies
• curious bodies

You do not need:

• flexibility,
• fitness experience,
• coordination,
• or anatomical knowledge.

People often notice:

• easier breathing
• less bracing
• more awareness of tension patterns
• improved balance and coordination
• better movement decisions
• more ease getting up and down from the floor
• improved recovery from workouts
• greater confidence in understanding what their body needs

And perhaps most importantly:
A growing sense that their body feels more inhabitable. More like home.

Most mainstream warm-ups focus on:

• stretching,
• activating,
• raising the heart rate,
• and priming the movements or muscles you're about to use.

But very few people are taught how to actually check in with their body before movement to see what it's actually ready for.

Warming-In asks different questions:

• How am I right now?
• What would I need for this to go well?
• Can I relax my belly while I do this?
• Can my breath move?
• Can my body respond sequentially?
• As the movement gets harder does the tension in my body go up or down?

Better information tends to lead to better movement choices.

And over time, this often means:

• fewer injuries,
• less unnecessary tension,
• more efficient movement,
• better recovery,
• and a more trusting relationship with your own body.

Throughout this self-study course, you’ll learn how to:

• Use dropped-belly breathing and yawning to improve whole-body breathing mechanics
• Map the soles of your feet and connective tissue lines of the legs
• Explore the four corners of your sitting bones for healthy hinging
• Improve proprioception and body awareness through sensation-based movement
• Use floor-based rolling and developmental movement patterns to integrate the body as a whole
• Understand readiness and movement capacity more clearly from day to day