The LOCAL Gympie Issue 1 WIP 4

6 Lifestyle, Community & Health Being Active
Issue 1 2021
Educate, Empower &
Evolve with The Real
Body Movement
Bee informed with FREE
beekeeping sessions at
Gympie & District Landcare
By Fiona Keable
The team at The Real Body Movement
are excited to be able to educate the
readers of The Local Gympie and Surrounds
News on health and wellness
topics to empower you all to take control
of your movement and wellness.
We are a locally owned training studio
in Gympie that doesn’t feel like your
traditional gym - we’re a place for
everyday people keen to develop their
body and mind through our Educate,
Empower, Evolve values.
Our unique blend of Strength and
Movement merges primal movements
however we forget to get back on the
ground. We start to wear restricted
shoes and sit in chairs more as we
start school. By exploring movement
that takes you back to the floor
and opens the hips you can start to
reverse the dysfunctions we unknowingly
adopt from a young age.
To start, some people simply need to
learn to get down onto the floor and
back up again. Animal Flow can be for
everyone... aged, youth and everyone
in between we just modify or intensify
where needed.
By Staff Writer Victoria
Bees are fascinating, there’s no two ways
about it. But how much do we really know
about these industrious insects? Luckily
for those of us in the region, Gympie &
District Landcare hold free beekeeping
sessions from 9am-1pm on the first Saturday
of every month. A massive thank you
to Valley Bees for hosting these sessions.
The next session held at Gympie & District
Landcare is October the 2nd, so be sure to
check it out!
Let’s not get a bee in our bonnet waiting
until October to learn, though… let’s start
now!
(much) honey, due to not storing nectar,
European honey bees were introduced to
our country around 200 years ago to help
with our honey production.
Beehives
When choosing a beehive, it’s all about
personal preference in relation to convenience
- it makes no difference to the bees.
There are three different hive designs (see
picture) - The Langstroth Hive, the Kenyan
Top Bar Hive, The Warré hive. Jump on
www.valleybees.org.au/types-of-beehives/
to learn more.
and breath work education with
traditional strength training; a yin
and yang offering that balances limit
testing, strength building, growth and
good old fashioned sweat sessions
with mindfulness, mobility, and restoration.
As instructors of Animal Flow movement,
we encourage people to train
for the here and now but also for
their 80-year-old body. Animal Flow
is ground-based training that is great
for coordination, balance, stability,
flexibility, strength, and power. It
looks a little like yoga mixed with
parkour and break-dancing (depending
on the level you train at).
Did you know that an exercise such
as our staple Beast Hold, progressing
to activations, crawling patterns and
eventually moves like a Side Kick-
Through (see picture) can restore
movement and balance out your
body to improve posture, balance
and stability but also promotes brain
health too, preventing the onset of
dementia?
From a young age we begin to walk
(often a progression on crawling)
Link to
YouTube
Before doing ground-based training
you need to mobilise your wrists.
Do this by bringing your forearms
together, clasp your hands and start
to move your wrists in a figure of
8 movement (like a lazy 8 or a race
track), reverse it back the other way,
add in some waves getting flexion and
extension into the wrists and then
make your way to the floor. Depending
on your level of fitness, you could
even just start getting on the floor
and crawling using opposite hand /
foot moving in sync with each other.
Ground-Based movement and crawling
patterns are a foundation for restoring
movement for our body. In our
coming articles we will be discussing
training with intent and tips to help
you train with intent so you can train
more frequently and continue to stay
mobile and achieve results.
Link to
podcast
Types of beehive from right, Top Bar Hive, Langstroth Hive, and the Warre’ Hive
Environment
Bees are important to our environment
- the presence, absence and quantity of
bees communicate a lot about the state of
our surroundings. José Graziano da Silva,
Former Director-General of Food and
Agriculture Organisation of the United
Nations, states that “Bees are a sign of
well-functioning ecosystems.” They are vital
for biodiversity in nature, the preservation
of ecological balance and the protection
and maintenance of ecosystems.
Pollinators
Bees are pollinators, meaning they assist
in plant reproduction (and therefore food
production). They move pollen from the
male anther of a flower to the female
stigma of a flower, thus bringing about
fertilization. Pollination directly affects
agricultural produce in terms of plant
quality, quantity and resistance to pests.
Approximately one third of food production
is dependent on bees.
Food and pharmaceutical products
Bees provide us with honey, royal jelly,
pollen, beeswax, propolis, honey bee venom
and more… How amazing is that! These
products have a myriad of health benefits
that can be found on the internet at the
click of a button.
Intelligence
Bees instinctively know how to build
their comb - the six walls that make up
the strong hexagon pattern meet at a
consistent 120 degrees. No room is wasted
with this intricate pattern, and cell size is
determined by the size of the bee’s body.
Diversity
Did you know that Australia has over
2,000 species of native bees? As Australian
native bees don’t generally produce
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
HONEY BEES
To collect just a kilo of honey, honeybees
will need to
• make approximately 150,000 fiights
• fly between 250,000 to 450,000km
(True! - that’s the equivalent of more
than 10 times around the World!)
• visit more than one million flowers
A Strong productivebeehive
• has between 30,000 and 50,000 bees
• in one year, can produce around 60 to
100kg of honey, depending on seasonal
changes. has 2,500 hexagonal cells
on each side (5,000 cells in total)
A single frame from a hive
• has 2,500 hexagonal cells on each side
(5,000 cells in total)
• can hold up to 3kg of capped honey
The next FREE beekeeping
session run by Valley Bees
To be held at Gympie & District Landcare,
is Saturday: the 2nd of October
from 9am-1P-m.
BYO bee suit and plate to share - tea
and coffee provided.
Come along and enjoy learning how
to work with bees on your own
property
Parking is available in the office carpark
or roadside only - the nursery
car park is for nursery customers
only.
Access through the side office gate
will be permitted.
For all enquiries and
further information,
please contact Valley
Bees directly on
0407 652 755.