What is BAM?
Biomechanics Applied to Movement
BAM is an educational bodywork method developed from the study of movement in the human body and its flexibility when freed from the unconscious tensions of everyday life.
It is essentially based on movements that improve body posture and awareness by reorganizing the different muscular chains. From small to large, all movements are registered by our body schema, usually in a non-conscious process.
When the body feels heavy, stiff, tired and isn’t moving smoothly, something has affected our body shape, something has been reshaped. Even breathing may become difficult, because perhaps we are using muscles that are not specific to the action we want to perform.
During the sessions, you will learn to use your muscles so as to enhance your well-being. By exploring new possibilities of movement, you can easily become aware of the existence of muscles that were unknown to you or you didn’t know how to move.
This technique enables new connections between the nervous system and the body, giving the latter more freedom and autonomy to move around, updating the body schema, and re-engaging deactivated areas, while focusing on the perception of the body in motion and not as something heavy and hard to move.
Within Biomechanics, we work with geometry because our body is made up of parts with different shapes, just like any architectonic structure. Depending on how we move our body, our living anatomy may feel light and ethereal or heavy and stuck, to the point of hindering movement.
The aim of this bodywork is to regain mobility, shape, a well-aligned structure, to play with geometry until we understand that there is a lot of physics in our body, in order to ease pain and become healthy again.
Restoring form and flexibility brings back vitality, strength and enthusiasm. When this happens, breathing is freed and becomes a driving force for well-being.
This approach invites you to understand that there are different reasons that make us change. Among them are our emotions, which reshape and change our body form. And form, understood as structure, determines function. With this awareness, we become researchers ourselves and begin to understand that the history of our body is our own history.