Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is episode

seven. We're usually walking around stuck in our habits.

We don't even know that we are because that's the nature of a habit.

So this technique is designed to break up these habitual patterns and introduce new ways of functioning

so that we're not so tied to our habits that might an expert in movement,

our guest today is an expert in movement, the body,

and how the quality of a person's movement directly affects their quality of life.

Peggy Proths has been a professional dancer, a plottis instructor, and since 2002 has been a Felton

Christ practitioner.

Welcome to the show, I'm really excited to interview you today. Oh thank you I'm really

excited to be here. Excellent. So for those who have never heard of Felting Christ, what is it?

Well it has a funny name because it's named after its inventor, Moshe Felting Christ, who was a funny name because it's named after its inventor, Moshe Felden-Chryse, who was a physicist.

He also was an engineer and a black belt in judo, so the technique has a lot of basis in martial arts and physics and just how we function

in gravity.

He also studied how children move and learn to walk.

And so a lot of the things that we do

are based on developmental movements,

kind of reintroducing that to us as adults

so that we can kind of reconnect to moving with ease as we did when we were young.

I guess you could say it's kind of a body work technique that works with movement and just how learning to be more attuned to your body kind of knowing where it is in space

if you've had injuries or other accidents or health issues oftentimes our movement is really connected to many other

different problems that we might have because I mean we have to move around in

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