Pivot the Pattern
Permission To Pivot
Movement creates real change. Learn to interrupt your patterns and programming so you can move more freely through life. Tiago Martins, one of my favourite people to work with, has worked with the body as a tool for transformation for decades, so why not start now?
Now that you’ve watched me walk backwards and shake like a leaf in the wind, it’s your turn. These simple but deeply transformative practices have literally changed my life. If that looked a little like freedom, that’s because it is. Tiago’s practices are that simple, that accessible, and that effective at breaking the patterns your body has been stuck in.
PROGRAM
Tiago’s Pivot the Pattern Workshop
Get ready to move! Tiago’s offering gives you a set of movement practices you can do anywhere, with no equipment, that start rewiring how your body and mind relate to change. Here’s what you’ll move through:
- Shift Your Centre of Mass A foundational practice that gets you out of your habitual stance and into a different relationship with gravity. Where your weight goes, your attention follows.
- Spine and Body Shake A full body practice to release what's been sitting in your system and wake up the parts of your body you've been ignoring. Accessible, immediate, and more powerful than it looks.
- Squat Development and Active Resting Returning to one of the most natural human positions and learning to be comfortable there. This one changes how you sit, stand, and move through the rest of your day.
- Tennis Ball Playfulness and Awareness A simple tool that opens up sensitivity, coordination, and awareness in the body. This is where the practice starts to feel less like exercise and more like play.
COLLABORATOR BIO
Meet Tiago
Tiago Martins started as a competitive gymnast, went on to perform as a circus artist and dancer across Portugal, London, the US, and China, and eventually co-founded Movement Lisboa in 2017, one of Portugal’s leading movement education spaces. He’s trained under some of the most respected names in contemporary movement culture including Ido Portal, and brings that depth to workshops that are genuinely accessible to anyone who has a body and a floor. His parents were fishermen and he grew up fascinated by octopuses, which tells you everything about how he sees movement: adaptive, multidirectional, and built for a world without walls.
IG: @tiago_movementlisboa / @movement_lisboa