Renae Molden

My back is bad. My hips are tight. I cannot do that. I have always been stiff. My doctor said I should not. We carry these stories for years. They become part of how we introduce ourselves to any new movement practice. Here is what is wrong with me. Here is what you need to work around. What I notice is that after a few months of practice, the script gets quieter. Not because someone told you to stop saying those things, but because your body started telling you a different story. The hip you...

Translated from Ted Talk: Brazil Who here has never had pain? Raise your hand. Go ahead, raise it. Exactly. Everyone has pain. When I was six years old, I was shot in the hip. The bullet entered through my groin, hit the head of my femur, and exited through the back side. Since then, since I was six years old, I have lived with pain. This pain has been with me since before I even had the cognitive ability to explain it to the adults responsible for me. It marked my life. Hospitals,...

It takes a willingness to question what you’ve come to believe about your body. Not in a dramatic way. Not by throwing everything out. But by becoming curious.