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.
Since 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 where I travelled to India Rishikesh and did my yoga 200hours teaching. It felt amazing to be a bigger. Also to leared more about stillness and breathing as I came more from a dynamic discipline.
Few months later, I saw a video of some primary movement, I felt the big pull toward it.
Since then, I started to mix practices.
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 fed the philosophy behind it.
seeing the bigger picture through the guidance of great teachers such as Ido Portal .
I believe and have experienced that, the less sophisticated the tools we have to train 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
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