If you are on this list, you know someone who loves to smear themselves on the ground (hi.)​
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This goes beyond being willing to lie on the floor.
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I'm talking bona fide enjoyment.
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🥯 Ask a floor lover why they behave like a cream cheese being spread on a bagel.
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They might tell you, "It feels good."
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But how come sliding on the floor is such a yum for some? 🔥

1. Vibration pleasure​
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Place your fingertips or nails on something right beside you.
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Slowly and lightly drag your fingers across it.
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Notice the tingling.
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Don't stop 😜.​
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Those "tingles" are your felt experience of textural changes.
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🧪 The science:
You have teeny-tiny sensory receptors throughout your flesh dedicated to detecting vibration and changes in pressure*
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In everyday life, they support body awareness and help you move with greater sensitivity.
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In limb-sprawling floorwork, something special happens:
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You get big doses of movement-refining vibratory input through even more of your body...
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​once you know how to attune to it, that is.

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​2. Continuous touch is soothing ​
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You may have heard that human-human and human-animal touch can reduce anxiety.
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The same is true for slow, intentional touch—period.
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When your floor contact and self-touch moves at the pace of petting a sleeping animal,
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you will very likely feel safe enough to soften.**
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When you want nervous system regulation,
and don't want to "people",
lay down and stroke the floor instead 😬​
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I made you some imaginary T-shirts to drive it home ↓

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​3. The novelty of sliding

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Smooth, uninterrupted low motion in a world of bumpy uprightness captures our attention.
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This is why we enjoy water slides, ice sports, and moves like head-slides in breaking.
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Even if you aren't someone who gets your jollies from smooshing yourself into the floor, the neurobiological features listed above apply elsewhere, too.
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That said, I’ve watched many people go from:
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​“the floor is gross and ouchie”
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to
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​“the floor is joy!” ​
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Preferences are surprisingly maleable.
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Especially when you have guidance in how to change your felt experience of grounded motion.​
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Speaking of which...
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In the Floor Flow Teacher Training, we spend six months exploring how to create the conditions for maximally smooth & enjoyable ground-based movement.
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​→ There is a training track for those focused on their own floor practice.
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​→ And a teaching track for those who want to certify and share the smoosh with others.

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​Last chance to join the only
​Floor Flow Teacher Training of the year.​
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​Registration closes in...
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words from FFTT grads:
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“Before I started this in-person training, I wasn’t going to teach … but the in-person event brought me so much joy and so many expansive moments that I feel like it would be too selfish for me not share such joy with others.”
-Wendy
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“I’ve done dozens of teacher trainings…FFTT is the best.”
-Katja
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”I learned more about teaching movement from Floor Flow than I did in my dance master's program. I can’t recommend this experience enough!”
-Leah (4x attendee)
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“in terms of class creation and creativity, FFTT completely changed the game for me and my students..."
-Sophia
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"I can’t overstate how transformative Floor Flow Teacher Training has been to my facilitation work and my personal movement practice... The price was an obstacle at first, but on the other side, I would have paid double."
-Melissa

“I’ve completed a lot of teacher trainings related to floor movement and floorwork…This training was incredibly enriching, and the tools I learned I still use to this day. It gave me a deeper sense of my own expression and movement... Not to be missed.”

-Stella
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"This training bridges the gap between knowing floor work and actually flowing. It helps attendees go beyond concepts and regurgitating moves so they can have a fully embodied experience that blends technique, creativity, and self-awareness."
-Tracee (4x attendee)

Have questions? Hit reply!
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or check out the FFTT info session recording right here​

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​📱Shared this week on IG​
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1. If you feel Rusty, slow down ​
→ why slowing down is important if it's been a while...
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2. This is what it looks like inside my head
→ what I see in my mind's eye when I do or watch pole dance movement​
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3. When warming up, do you tend to focus on how tight and crunchy you feel?
→ here's why that might not be the move you want to make​
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4. You already know but...
→ here's why slidey floor movement feels good​
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5. And lastly, I shared a pole move that no one has ever requested to learn from me....
and asked for suggestions on what to call it.
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We have votes for #pdavocado, #pdrotisserie, #pdvulva, #pdoyster, #pdbretzel, #pdcrochet, and more 😆

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What's your vote, Reader?
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🧪 SCI STUFF
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* You have specialized sensory receptors throughout your skin, fascia, and connective tissues whose job is to detect vibration, stretch, and changes in pressure. (They are called mechanoreceptors with fun names like Pacinian, Meissner, Merkel, and Ruffini). Gliding, sliding, and vibratory touch are mechanoreceptor wake-up calls, aka great for improving body awareness.

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​** Slow, steady, surface-level contact activates nerves that are especially tuned to gentle, pleasant touch.
These are called C-afferent nerves — slow-conducting, gentle-touch sensors that respond best to soft, continuous contact moving at a very specific pace—roughly the speed of a slow, soothing stroke (about 3–10 cm per second)—and are associated with signals of safety, comfort, and calming states.​
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