+ "Play" sounds like this is just for kids, how can this help me as an adult?įind out more with a series of blog posts on the Importance of Play + Is Primal Play really for me? Therapeutic - movement should correct impairment ,improve musculoskeletal function, and maintain a state of well-being. When you can enjoy instant gratification from play-based movement and still attain similar goals? Transformative - why endure several days, weeks or months of a punishing regimen for a physical transformation. Instinctive - familiar games and challenges that are reminiscent of our childhood as well as our ancestral past presented in novel ways. with activities that are healthful:įun and functional movements that are useful, challenging and edifying. The Primal Play Method focusses on getting you F.I.T.T. ![]() + I am not too keen on fitness - how can this help me? It is inclusive and not elitist, Focussing on what a person CAN do rather than emphasising what they are not capable of. Playful because play is the highest form of experience. What is fitness if it doesn't assist us day-to-day? Primal movement that is human, movement that is practical, fun and functional. Powerful because power is the driving force behind movement we can count on when we REALLY need it! The key principles of the Primal Play Method - incorporates movement that is: + What are the three key principles of Primal Play? Primal Play is designed for those who wish to reclaim the joy of movement and who relish a new challenge. It is a combination of primal movement with solo, partner and group-based activities that are engaging, fun and transformative. 'Primal' and 'Play' the combination of these two words forms an intense mechanism designed to enhance the experience of movement. But if you do it right, if you find your connection to the world and your body in the world, you know it. Tapping into those basic human directives gives us benefits we can’t even begin to understand yet. Music, drumming, hiking, climbing, camping, fishing, swimming, gardening, sports, laughter, even dancing in dance clubs, all tap into the primal part of us.Īnd that’s because we all still carry with us our original primal programming. You can still see of our human past in what we do today. In incredibly creative and fascinating ways. Primal people danced, celebrated, competed, sprinted, hunted, walked, dealt with nature and played. The primal world is much more complex and interesting that the simple ways we think of it. We look at the tribes that still exist that never changed from how all humans lived thousands of years ago. We do this most easily by studying people who never have created cities or civilizations. To search for our more “primal” ways of living, and perhaps find some answers there. ![]() One way of finding answers about our design is to look back to how we lived in other times, before civilization came along. There is a strong push in the health community to learn more about our basic internal programming, to discover exactly what we are designed to be by our DNA. Primal Play movement gives us the benefits of functional fitness training, but doesn’t stop there. When we play we kick our minds into imagination mode, and we tap into that powerful charge we get from positive experiences with other happy people. ![]() When we have fun it feeds our brains and our emotions. When we have fun we get the same endorphin kick people get from long endurance exercise, except we get that kick instantly, constantly, and much more intensely. We move, we laugh, we explore what our bodies can do in the world around us. The people involved in it, and the many health benefits you get from doing it all centres around this powerful idea that humans benefit most from activities that are pure, raw, all-out, rewarding fun. And the coolest thing about all of it? It’s all FUN.Įverything about Primal Play® from the interesting, even outlandish movements (carry your friend, anyone?), to the supporting science of play psychology, exercise physiology and evolutionary biology. It’s a way of rediscovering something deep and essential and exhilarating about ourselves as human beings. It’s a social and community creating experience. It’s a super creative and always evolving exercise and movement program. It’s a way of orienting yourself in the world. It’s a feeling about how we live our lives. Darryl Edwards developed the PRIMAL PLAY METHOD® to inspire children and adults to make activity fun while getting healthier, fitter and stronger in the process.
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