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Best secrets from a contortionist

The Physical Poetry technique has been created to help professional or amateur athletes excel, and more importantly, gain years of practice.

Erika Lemay is a famous performing artist who decided to share her best stretching tricks with you. Apart from her successful career, She has experienced many types of flexibility training, including yoga, pilates, rhythmic gymnastic, classical dance and circus contortion in order to improve her own skills and teach others.

From a life of personal experimentation, studies of the human body including her own as a human guinea pig, Erika has a unique and extensive experience allowing her to develop a singular technique which proved to be efficient and as risk-free as possible

Who is it for?

Here are a few forms of art/sport where Physical Poetry technique has helped people to excel:

Training and fitness redefined

If you don't consider yourself an athlete, but you want to improve your overall physical condition and flexibility, limit the effects of ageing (weaker muscles, limited mobility, poor posture), I can help you.

Although each sport's specificities are considered and pushed to new levels, the initial fitness and training consultation is taken seriously until we define together the most accurate applied program.

The Real process

Flexibility is a long work road, and no one is made the same, that's why a personalized approach is required. As a professional circus performer and contortionist, I see people everyday stretching in an extreme way and too often stretching the wrong way, creating irreversible damages to their body or losing time.

It is fairly easy to get injured when using a wrong technique or pushing too much without knowing what we're doing. Fine muscles are involved in our hips area. A simple false movement might turn into months of pain—an eternity not only for professional athletes but for anyone passionate about their practice. I'll help you gain flexibility while protecting your body from injuries, building a strong structure, and improving your stretching capabilities. 

The Physical Poetry technique mainly focusses on active flexibility.

What is active flexibility?

Active flexibility is a technique that promotes the tissues extensibility while improving neuromuscular control. In other words, it is the art of stretching while developing muscles in the area we are working on; allowing more control in a full range of motion. We avoid damaging tissues that could take months or years to heal by keeping proprioceptive control in a full range of motion. 

The muscles we aim at developing with this technique are long fibres, making you look slender. No need to fear developing big muscles; we prioritise long lines while improving your flexibility and looking toned and lean. 

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Why choose the Physical Poetry technique:

• Get better lines by working on your knee extension and points; it makes all the difference; your legs will look much longer.

• Help you get your three different splits or improve your oversplits. Attendees of our workshop gained a minimum of 20 degrees on the first day and kept improving afterwards.

• Develop your active flexibility: You will be able to lift your legs without bending them much higher, whether you are a rock climber, ballerina, martial art athlete; active flexibility is a key to your practice.

• Build strong deeper muscles allowing you to reach excessive mobility without injuring yourself in the long run.

• Increase your back flexibility without injuries. The back is a very tricky area to stretch, especially if you are an adult. Injuries are frequent, and we will avoid creating permanent damage. Increasing back flexibility by strengthening your back muscles is crucial. Your backbends will look more aesthetic since we focus on the form.