Integrative Learning Center

05/08/2022

A great new article by our Carol Montgomery

By Carol Montgomery, GCFP CM Move a foot forward. Move the other foot forward. Repeat until you reach your destination…the bathroom, the kitchen, the mailbox, up a hill, the grocery store. Oh, if only walking were only that

04/29/2022

Be One of the Cool Kids -

12/08/2019

Book title?
We have started writing a book based in Integral Human Gait theory. Which title would be irresistable?
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HHMQJ8J
If you are a rehab, wellness, somatic, movement teacher we need your help on a 1 min survey. Thanks!

12/03/2019

Fabulous blog post on Conscious Breathing and its connection to balance and gait from Carol Montgomery. She leads a potent and short exploration for improvement as well. Go try it!

The body interacts with a three-dimensional environment (on three planes), but often we restrict our bodies by

11/23/2019

"It was known from animals that increased body movements lead to an increased firing rate in visual areas of the brain,” says Dr. Händel. So far, there are only a few behavioural experiments available for humans that investigate the influence of movement on sensory brain areas. However, there is evidence that cognitive processes are linked to the behavioural state. “For example, some studies show that people learn better when they move,” says the JMU researcher.

Walking leads to an increase in processing of peripheral visual input.

11/05/2019

Thank you St Louis for hosting our Gait for Wild Human Potential workshop. We So appreciate each and everyone of you for the opportunity to share, to learn, and to grow!

11/04/2019

What a weekend! The stories of reclaiming health. Tears of joy shed. Really powerful.
60 people showed up to explore Gait for Wild Human potential. It was a fabulous time in St. Louis with host Kelly Feder. We forgot to take a group picture! Darn.

10/30/2019

This is nice detail to go with the already known link between gait speed and dementia.

"We found that a walking speed of about 1 metre per second was linked with a decline in memory and we also found that variability of walking patterns was also associated with a decline in memory."

Betty Pilgrim is 71, but she's studying law online and just got back from two months of backpacking in Europe. She's hoping if she can stay active, it will help stave off dementia.

10/11/2019

For the last 10 years, in our Gait for Wild Human Potential workshops, we have helped participants explore how they can influence and optimize their biological signature, their Gait!

This pilot study provides initial evidence that certain diseases do indeed have a unique gait signature. At Integrative Learning Center we believe “how you walk” matters more than just gait speed and distance covered. What if how you walk could influence or change the path of a disease process instead of disease creating a unique gait signature.

This published paper starts to lay the foundation for our future research. We will keep you posted!

We aimed to refine the hypothesis that dementia has a unique signature of gait impairment reflective of underlying pathology by considering two dementia subtypes, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Lewy body disease (LBD), and exploring the role of cognition in disease-specific gait impairments.