It’s not everyone’s idea of a New Year day outing, but if you’re a family of Physio’s & Personal Trainers, it fit’s the bill!
We love having a little day trip planned for New Year’s day. Having visited the Body World’s exhibition when it first came to the UK as a newly qualified Physio (many, many years ago), and seeing it had returned to London, we decided to make this our 1st event of 2019!
The philosophy behind Body Worlds is preventative healthcare. The Body Worlds exhibitions were conceived to educate the public about the inner workings of the human body and to show the effects of healthy and unhealthy lifestyles. The exhibitions are aimed to inspire visitors to become aware of the fragility of their bodies and to recognise the anatomical individual beauty inside each of us. And it certainly achieved this for us! With our group age ranging from 4 to 70, the exhibition kept us all engaged for a good few hours.
It was very interesting and made me aware of how much power you have over your body. It showed me that smoking can decrease your life by many years, as it makes your lungs black.
Annabelle, Aged 10
What were the highlights, messages & takeaways?
- The human body is undeniably AMAZING! Seeing it stripped back (literally) to all it’s amazing components was fascinating.
- Stress plays a huge part in health and wellbeing. We all realised that stress features highly in our lives now on a daily basis and the exhibition reminded us to take stock and slow down.
- The effects of obesity on our health and seeing it in 3D, and how diet and exercise are so crucial, was frightening. You are what you eat has never had so much power!
- The ITB is huge and there is definitely no way you can stretch it!
People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
Albert Einstein
The Einstein quote really resonated – at goPhysio we’re all about movement! And life is all about being balanced. A healthy mind and body, supported by eating well, sleeping well, relaxing well and moving well, as we wrote about in a previous blog, are so important. None can be neglected and we are privileged to work with so many people and support them with their movement as a crucial part of this healthy jigsaw.
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
The Nervous System (can you spot the Sciatic nerve?)The exhibition ended with this fantastic TED Talk from survivor of the Hudson River plane crash in 2009. 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed. Well worth a watch.
For more information and tickets to the London exhibition, take a look here.