Realigning for Photographers & Videographers
Lesson 4 from: How to Prevent Aches and Repair the Body of a Career CreativeAaron Alexander
Realigning for Photographers & Videographers
Lesson 4 from: How to Prevent Aches and Repair the Body of a Career CreativeAaron Alexander
Lesson Info
4. Realigning for Photographers & Videographers
Lessons
Course Introduction
02:17 2Daily Exercises for Every Creative
13:41 3Unwinding the Body with the Couch
10:41 4Realigning for Photographers & Videographers
04:25 5Overcoming Back Pain
22:29 6Exercises for Hand Heavy Creatives
10:16 7Optimizing Your Home Office & Eye Health
13:16 8Travel Hacks
11:52Lesson Info
Realigning for Photographers & Videographers
Okay, so now we are going to go through some fundamentals on how to be more biomechanically efficient while working your camera. So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually going to grab the camera from Mr. Matt here. We're gonna turn it around on you. And so we're gonna come through. And first, when we're thinking about holding the camera, we're thinking about all the things that we've talked about throughout the Align Method program, throughout this program. And we're going to first think drop the shoulders. Drop the shoulders down, take a breath in the side of the ribs. Imagine there's a little string pulling your head up towards the ceiling, dropping your feet right underneath you, and just feeling stacked, oomph, through your body. So from here, whatever position that we end up going into, whether the camera is, obviously, I have a screen here so I can see what's happening. Whether I'm going low, whether I'm going high, my body is stable and stacked from this position. Next, if I want to...
go into actually getting lower with the camera and be facilitating the health of my joints, I can be dropping myself down into a lunge position where I'm keeping my ribs stacked and imagining my hips. It's almost like I'm on an elevator shaft. So I'm dropping straight down from this position, staying stacked, staying stable, elongated through the spine, coming back up, and really starting to have fun with it. You can come into a squat position, same thing, staying long. We could go into actually holding from, like if we were a photographer, coming through, we could come down. Stay nice and stacked, elongated through the spine, ribs stay tucked, dropping down just like you're an elevator shaft. Back up. Coming into a lunge position. Same thing, holding from here. Dropping the shoulders elbows staying in tight. So we're not flaring the elbows out to the sides like so. Drop the elbows in tight. Elongation through the neck and the spine. Stacking, stacking, stacking. Ribs stay tucked all the way straight down. You could get low and really enjoying that journey of maintaining stability as you're going through your photographic or videographic experience. Now, as I'm going through this motion, I'm standing up. I'm staying totally stacked. And I can maybe start to come over to the side a little bit. Maybe I start to go into Skandasana position. I'm working from here, I'm coming over to the opposite side. So I'm going through these positions that we would actually be engaging in in a yoga class while we are doing our craft that for so many people ends up pulling our bodies into these crunched over, collapsed, tense positions. So the reframe here is as we're working with our camera, doing the thing that for most of us, we would think is just pulling our body down into tension, it's actually becomes an opportunity to start to implement all of these new lessons that we're gathering throughout the Align Method, or just general mechanics of how to move better in your body. We can start to integrate them into who we are as people as opposed to it being like a gym workout that we do. So those are the basic mechanics, maintaining ribs, slightly tucked. Imagine you have a little string pulling your head up towards the sky. For the most part, your feet be, they're like on railroad tracks. So they're both facing straight ahead. As you're dropping down into the lunge, you can have the back leg turned in ever so slightly, boom, like you're on an elevator shaft coming straight up. And then elongation, big breath in the bottom. Create some pressure in the abdomen. And then boom, straight up from that position. So maintaining those basic mechanics as you're going through a full range of motion and starting to make your videography or photography more like an art and science of movement. So I hope that is supportive. Now it's on to the next section.