How our Performance Mentality Affects our Movement Routine

<p>Have you ever stopped to ask yourSelf why you move your body?</p> <p>Where did you learn how to move your body?</p> <p>What physical activities did you grow up doing?</p> <p>How has moving your body shifted with age?</p> <p>I grew up a university-level athlete. I was taught to move my body to perform and that my body was a machine to run fast and score goals. </p> <p>When I was playing well on the field, I felt like I was a better person. For years I attached my worth to what my physical body could do. </p> <p>But what happens when your body isn't able to move like it's 'supposed' to? What happens when the universe starts to give you strong signs to slow down? </p> <p>Do you listen . . . do you realllllly listen? </p> <p>I had a turning point in my athletic career and sprained my ankle after reaching my goal of making the starting line-up. I was crushed. BUT it was the universe's way of asking me to listen. For weeks I felt lost and uncertain. Soccer was like a second skin to me. </p> <p>I slowly came back to my body through yoga but still the goal of the game was handstand. </p> <p>I continued to go to yoga and became a yoga teacher and my original class style was very physical. This is because I was taking my performing mindset into my teaching style. </p> <p>Years later, my performing mindset is settling, it is beginning to dissolve leaving me space to move my body for me. </p> <p>Tune-in to today's episode to learn if you are moving your body to perform or to feel at home and take your first steps to feel OMazing in your body. </p> <p> </p> <p><a href= "https://view.flodesk.com/pages/60ea37d29102704f62e7a6a6">Subscribe to the Tribe</a> - <em>To be the first to receive new offers and exclusive In Power Content + Goodies</em></p> <p><a style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" href="https://www.instagram.com/erin.chiarelli/">In Power Instagram</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.erinchiarelli.com/">In Power W