Ep 14 Katrina Rogers – Posture and Dance

ABOUT KATRINA

• I am a movement specialist
• I have been in different forms of movement my whole life
• I was a runner, a dancer and now, I am able to work with individuals over the age of 40
• I also instruct in dance
• I love what I do, I love working with people and helping people have a better relationship with their body
• If you are coming in from a fitness perspective, if you are coming in because of chronic pain, a lot of what I do is to look what is your posture
• That tells me a lot where you are holding tension – what muscles are holding tension
• In addition to that, we are having conversations. You are telling me all about your life and we start to see where the stress is from
• I am also looking how you move, how is your body moving and understanding what you do in you daily life – what are your repetitive movements
• Then, we put a plan together for you to help that
• We are giving you exercises throughout the day and throughout the week
• And I am helping you have that relationship with your body
• I really encourage my clients to tell me what’s happening in their bodies
• You are going to be the best person to tell me what’s going on. The more that I can help you constantly look inwards, the better
  
• A lot of what I am seeing is rounded shoulders, heads falling forward
• I am really seeing a lot of slumped over postures
• And as you are talking to people, you are really seeing that they are carrying a lot of insecurities and fears about themselves, and that’s really showing in their posture
• I use multiple modalities
• I come out with the modality of NASAM, which is The National Academy of Sports Medicine and that’s where I am certified
• Through that, we have a protocol that we utilize where we look at the structural misalignment, the muscle imbalances that you have that are causing this
• We focus on loosening the muscles that are tight and strengthening the muscles that are weak
• I want you to have greater stability
• There are some times that I have clients come in and we just need to shake things off, I just turn on the music and we dance
• Music will play a lot in what I do
• Or maybe we just need to take a walk and talk things out
• I am always encouraging my clients to do the thing that they thought they could not do
• There is another program that I am working on, which is to be able to bring dance into a therapeutic group setting here in Denver
• Movement is life
• The moment you stop moving, is the moment you start dying
• I have experienced that when I was in my late 20’s to early 30’s where I kind of went to a job, I came home, I sat and I watch television
• I could feel my body. I gained a lot of weight, I was extremely unhappy and I wasn’t doing anything in my life
• The secret to aging well is by moving your body
• Find something that is allowing you to be fulfilled
• The moment we start isolating ourselves, we start to have more discomfort in our body
• If you have discomfort, it means something is not right
• We can address it in the physical perspective, but we can look at what are we not addressing in our lives
• Do we have stress in our world?
• Particularly women, we have tons of stress in our shoulders
• We can use the physical body as the first indicator
• Another great tool that I love to teach people is listening to whether or not we are kind of leaning in or pulling away
• It’s a lot of paying attention to going in to the words, mental and physical

ADVICE

• Be kind to yourself
• Be kind to wherever you’re at right now, and know that, it’s never too late
• Time is your construct
• Whatever you have been dreaming about, whatever you want to do, go do it and go do it now
• Life happens when you start
• Move your body, find any activities that allow you to engage
• It’s okay to do it by yourself, it’s okay for you to have preferences
• Go dance. Turn on the music and dance
• Let yourself move, let yourself laugh, let yourself be seen and let yourself connect with people
• I encourage you to try different styles of dances. For me, I don’t necessarily have a favorite because each dance that I dance, brings out a different touch of peace In my essence
• The first thing that I would tell people is to shift their weight, whether they are standing or sitting so they are stacked
• Having the chest open, is a lot of time, people pull they shoulder together
• I like people to think in bringing their focus to the spine
• If I can stack myself, I usually feel a sense of peace and ease

CLAIM TO FAME

• When I was 10 or 11 years old, I was laying upside down on a monkey bar and someone shot a picture. I was in a British magazine 

FAVORITE HEALTHIEST HABIT

• Laughter

FAVORITE QUOTE

• Be the change

FAVORITE FOOD

• Finger foods

MOST GRATEFUL FOR

• Lessons learned

FAVORITE MOVIE

• Gorillas in the mist

FAVORITE BOOK

• Crystal Cave

GUILTY PLEASURE

• Soft fuzzy things

WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU

• Facebook: Katrina Rogers
• LinkedIn: Katrina Rogers
• Website: katrinarogersmovement.com

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