Facilitating Your Body’s Magic With Aston Kinetics – Judith Asto

In this opening module, you’ll tap into your body’s wisdom — and explore brand-new ways to connect with your body.

Judith will share how the forces of this planet affect you, and how you can use them to your advantage. Most people are aware of gravity that pulls us down, but many people haven’t heard much about the opposite force that holds us up and enlightens us.

With Judith as your guide, you’ll explore new ideas and gain new perspectives on healthy aging, vitality, and longevity.

In this first module, you’ll:

• Complete a pre-test to assess your current movement patterns
• Explore new ways to feel your body and establish a starting point so you can track your progress
• Identify the 2 forces on this planet and explore how they affect your everyday movements and impact your life
• Make the forces work for you, instead of against you
• Use movement to explore the many different applications of force to help you become more efficient in your everyday activities

Many of us become aware of our body only once it’s in pain… but pain should not be the only way you feel and experience your body.

For example, we only become aware of how we move our arm when we feel a twinge after reaching for something in the cupboard.

In this class, you’ll discover how to become aware of your body through your other senses to move more comfortably and with greater efficiency.

Judith will share the new possibilities that can emerge in your life when you stop comparing yourself to others — or even to a past or future version of yourself.

As you’ll discover, these continuous comparisons and judgments usually prevent you from being truly present.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• How to finally view and review your body without negative judgment
• How sensory information and your own interpretation come together to create emotion
• How to perceive your body in new ways, using all your senses
• How to add benchmarks — besides pain — for evaluating how your body feels
• Ways to sense and incorporate your body’s feedback for better and more comfortable movements — and see how your body can even respond with a yes or no answer
• Why your inner self often has more wisdom than you realize

Your biography becomes your biology.

Have you noticed, for example, that the wear-and-tear patterns on your shoes seem to be in the same spots every time? Your shoes are revealing your body’s stressors.

Or have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and noticed that the way you sit at work every day is starting to show up in your posture and physical body?

In this class, Judith will share why it’s “the HOW you do what you do” that ultimately changes your shape.

She’ll explain how, if you sit with the same unhealthy posture at home as you do at work, your body never gets a break from that pattern.

It becomes a greater challenge when you can’t neutralize the physical pattern you’re in while at work.

Judith will explain how to neutralize your posture during and after work, so you can create a new and different body pattern.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• How to decompress from excess tension and too little tone in certain areas
• Why discomfort in the body is not only caused by too much tension or tightness
• Why your body’s lack of tone means it isn’t getting the support it needs
• How to decompress your body’s excess tension and tone up the areas that aren’t as supportive
• Exercises to loosen and decompress, allowing you to reclaim space within your body

A chef knows that when sautéing onions, tomatoes, and peppers, the order in which she adds them to the pan will affect the outcome of flavors in the dish.

In this class, Judith will explain how, in this same way, the order in which you perform movements or activities determines the effectiveness, range, and comfort you’ll experience.

For instance, when you pick something up off the floor while sitting, do you flex the spine first and then bend — or do you bend forward and then flex the spine? As Judith will explain, the effect on your body will be different, depending on the order.

As you’ll see, when you change the order of certain basic movements, it dramatically changes the required effort and level of comfort.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• How a simple change to the order of 2 motions can impact your everyday activities
• How to reorder many of your basic actions — like bending, reaching, or initiating a walk across the room — to make them more comfortable and efficient
• Ways to think differently about some of your most common physical motions — including tying up your hair, washing your hair, tying your shoes, or lifting something heavy

Pain and discomfort within the body can have many different origins and causes.

In this class, Judith will share how discomfort is often the outcome of areas that are too loose. If there’s not enough tone in your body, then your body is not able to support itself.

Judith will share new ways of toning your body that don’t only require daily exercises.

She’ll also share ways to “sneak” in a toning workout, just by moving through your regular routine.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• How low body tone can directly change your body’s shape
• The long-term impact on your body when essential areas aren’t toned enough
• The habits that cause your body to change shape
• How many exercises, by design, hold you in a state of compression and flexion while you’re performing them
• Simple toning exercises that utilize length, not compression

If you’re like most people, you don’t often think about how a chair or other piece of furniture impacts your physical wellbeing — and so you may not realize that it could be contributing to your ongoing discomfort or fatigue.

During this session, Judith will share simple modification techniques that allow you to “carry your comfort” with you — so you can feel supported no matter where you are or what ergonomic environment you’re in.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• How the way you use your body every day has more influence than a couple of workouts a week
• The meaning of your neutral body — the point of departure and place of rest within a comfortable range
• How to find and use your best neutral body for any activity
• Easy ways to support your neutral body while sitting, lying, and exercising
• The ways your world will shift as movements become more comfortable, supported, and efficient