The CALATA Methodâ„¢

Learn to notice your body while you move.

Exercise teaches us what to do. CALATA helps you become more aware of how your body is doing it.

Movement • Awareness • Appropriate Challenge
Explore the Method
Movement Attunement

Your body is giving you information while you move.

CALATA teaches you to pay attention to that information — not to become cautious about movement, but to become more skillful at navigating it.

Notice Effort

How hard are you working? Are you using more effort than the movement requires?

Notice Your Body

What is happening with your breathing, tension, muscle activity and movement?

Notice Change

What happens as you fatigue, increase the challenge or continue the activity?

Why It Matters

Better awareness can lead to better choices.

Awareness can help you become more intentional about how you're using your muscles, recognize when fatigue is changing your movement, and make appropriate adjustments to effort, range, resistance, pace or recovery.

That can be useful whether you're trying to move with better control, reduce unnecessary effort, appropriately challenge your muscles, build strength or simply stay active.

The Goal

The goal isn't less effort.
It's more appropriate effort.

Strength and capacity require challenge. CALATA isn't about avoiding that challenge. It's about becoming more aware of how your body is responding while you meet it.

Who It's For

CALATA may be especially helpful if...

✓ You want to become stronger and stay active as you age.
✓ Exercise sometimes leaves you unusually tight, tense or exhausted.
✓ You're returning to activity after a period of inactivity or rehabilitation.
✓ You want to better understand how your body responds to exercise.
✓ You tend to push through without noticing what is changing.
✓ You want exercise to support what you want to keep doing in everyday life.
Beyond Exercise

The same skill goes with you into everyday life.

Walking. Stairs. Gardening. Carrying groceries. Getting off the floor. Hiking. Playing with your grandchildren. Returning to a favorite activity.

The activity changes. The ability to notice, respond and appropriately adjust stays with you.

Keep Moving

Learn it through movement.
Practice it through life.

CALATA Communities bring movement, awareness, appropriate challenge and human connection together to support functional longevity.

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The CALATA Methodâ„¢ is an emerging movement and body-attunement methodology. It is not a substitute for medical evaluation, diagnosis, physical therapy or other appropriate healthcare. Individual experiences vary, and the methodology continues to be developed and evaluated.
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