From Football to Primal Movement Practices

Having a football career was definitely a great teacher, a I have learned alot about discipline & passion.

What you put in your training & lifestyle is what you get in the game performance.

One of the challenges I had in my career was repetitive knee injuries.

As a lot of limitations started to appear in the end of my football career.

In my case I had 5 knee surgeries.

I gained and learned a lot through my professional sport's career, but I also lost a lot.

My education about my body was not solid enough and the fact that we

over use some patterns in order to excel specific skills.

After stopping my football career in the age of 33, I have decided that I would like to heal my old injuries, work on my limitations, and keep digging and exploring my physical and mental aspects.

It s a journey not a destination.

It all started with Yoga as i randomly did an online class during the corona times and I felt that my body was cracking, and limited. so i started to explore it more and realized i have to do what i am not good at in order to reset the body. My journey with yoga began as i travelled to India Rishikesh and did my yoga 200hours teaching. where there was alot to learn and grasp from diffrent practices. Also it helped me to learn more about stillness and breathing as I came more from a dynamic discipline.

Few months later, I saw a video of some primal movement (animal flow ), I felt the big pull toward it.

and i ve enjoyed mixing both and added others to them like calhistanics boxing and many other sports...

Meanwhile, I was practicing shapes and figures of primary movements inspired from different practices (animal flow, Capeira , breakdance mixing and exploring those figures and how they felt).

As I was doing that, I started to feel more comfortable with my knee cracks and limitations , my hips started to open more and I felt I m getting new ranges.

Stared to combine strength , mobility and primary movement in a holistic approach.

feeding the body and soul.

months later, I have started to teach what I have leaned to practitioners that were in similar paths.

Integrating yoga ,primary movement ,fitness for athletes, and somatic breath practices .

My curiosity toward movement has tought me to find interconnections between practices rather than separating them & becoming again a specialist as i was in football.

I believe and have experienced that, the less sophisticated the tools we train with the more intelligent the body becomes.

The healing happens through education (self education ) that inquires curiosity and discipline.

'We all have different scenarios but the path to elevation is one'.

Mahdi khamassi