Personal Journal — Breda, NL

Six Years of Movement & Flexibility Notes

Not medical advice. This website is a personal journal. Everything here reflects my own observations and private practice. I hold no medical, physiotherapy, or nutritional qualifications. Please consult a qualified professional for any health-related questions.

A Private Practice Made Public

My name is Pastor Dizon. Over six years I have kept detailed written notes on my personal gymnastics routine, daily flexibility work, and the eating patterns I observe alongside. This is where those notes live.

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Three Recent Entries

Each post is drawn directly from my personal notes. I write to document what I personally observe — not to instruct, prescribe, or guide anyone else's practice.

Movement
9 April 2025 · 8 min read

My Morning Gymnastics Sequence: Six Months of Notes on What Stayed and What Went

When I started keeping serious notes on my morning floor work, I was doing twelve different positions each session. After tracking every morning for six months, I noticed that I consistently returned to only six of them without any conscious decision to reduce the number. I documented which positions I kept and what I personally observed about how each one felt over time — but I want to be clear that I am recording what I did, not recommending what anyone else should do. These are private observations made by one person about his own body over a fixed period of time.

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Nutrition
2 February 2025 · 5 min read

Ten Weeks of Eating More Oily Fish: What I Wrote in My Notes

For a ten-week period I made a deliberate effort to include oily fish in my meals at least four times a week, and I wrote down what I personally noticed during my morning and evening sessions across that same period. I have no explanation for the observations I recorded and I am not qualified to offer one. What I can share is the pattern in my own notes.

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Flexibility
18 November 2024 · 6 min read

Long Passive Holds: My Personal Observations After Two Years of Practising Them

In my own practice I spend time each day in stretching positions that I simply hold for extended periods — much longer than most stretching advice I have come across suggests. I have been doing this for two years now and my notes from that period are detailed. I share them here as a record of personal experience, not as a guide for others.

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Who Is Pastor Dizon

A Private Person with Six Years of Notes

I am Pastor Dizon, and I live in Breda. I work in an office, I am not an athlete, and I have no background in sport or physical training. What I do have is a habit of writing things down and a long-standing personal interest in how my body feels when I move differently or eat differently. That is the whole story.

The journal you are reading started informally — a few lines after a morning session, a short paragraph when something felt noticeably different. Over six years it became a serious practice of documentation. I now have detailed logs covering different phases of my gymnastic floor work, stretching positions I have experimented with personally, and changes in my eating habits and the observations I made alongside them. The journal has no curriculum, no programme, and no ambition to become one.

I decided to share it publicly because first-person accounts of real personal practice are, in my own view, more genuinely useful to read than polished instruction written from authority. Someone who has never studied physiology can still document honestly what they personally observe. That is what this journal is.

I hold no qualifications in medicine, physiotherapy, personal training, nutrition, or any related discipline. This journal is a personal record only. For any health-related matter, please speak with a qualified professional.

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6 yrs of personal practice notes

"I write about what I personally observe in my own practice — nothing more."

My Personal Approach

What My Practice Actually Looks Like

After six years of notes, three things appear consistently. This is a description of what I do — it is not a prescription for what anyone else should do.

01
Floor Work

Daily Gymnastics-Inspired Floor Movements

The foundation of my personal practice is morning floor work lasting between twenty and fifty minutes depending on the day. The movements are drawn from gymnastics — controlled rolls, bridging positions, spinal arches, hip circles, and slow leg sweeps. I did not learn these from a coach; I developed them myself over years of trial, adjustment, and observation. My notes from this area are the most detailed and the longest-running part of the archive. I describe what I do and what I personally notice — not what I recommend.

02
Passive Stretching

Extended Passive Holds at the End of Each Day

For four of the six years I have kept notes, I have ended most evenings with a period of passive stretching — positions I enter slowly and remain in for an extended time without active effort. In my personal practice I find this different in character from the morning gymnastics work, and my notes from the two periods are very different in tone. I do not claim to understand the mechanisms involved. I simply write down what I personally observe in my own body at the end of each day and note whether it feels different from days when I skip the session.

03
Eating Habits

Tracking What I Eat Alongside My Movement Notes

From the second year of this journal onwards I began noting what I had eaten the previous day alongside my morning movement observations. This was informal at first — a few words about meals — but it became more systematic over time. I am not a nutritionist and I make no claims about what any food does or does not do to the human body. My notes simply record what I personally ate and what I personally observed during my practice on the same or following days. I share this alongside my movement notes, not as dietary advice.

Questions & Answers

What People Ask Me Most

Straightforward answers to the things I am asked about most often regarding this journal and my personal practice.

Important

No — not in any way. Nothing on this website constitutes medical advice, and it should never be interpreted as such. This is a personal journal that records my own observations about my own practice. I am not qualified to give medical, physiological, or therapeutic guidance of any kind, and I am not attempting to do so. Every entry is first-person documentation of one individual's experience. If you have any concern about your physical health, please speak directly with a doctor, physiotherapist, or other licensed health professional.

Important

None. I want to be completely direct: I have no qualifications in any health-related field. I am not a doctor, physiotherapist, certified personal trainer, sports coach, nutritionist, dietitian, or gymnastics instructor. I have had no formal education in anatomy, exercise science, or any related subject. I am an ordinary private individual who practises daily movement and keeps detailed written records of what he personally observes. The depth of my notes does not make me an expert — it makes me someone who has been paying close attention to his own personal experience for six years.

The Movement Codex is the full archive of my personal journal: six years of morning floor work notes, daily stretching observations, food tracking entries, and the written reflections I made at different points throughout the practice. It is organised chronologically and by theme, and it includes detailed descriptions of positions and movements as I personally do them — not as instructional guides. You receive it as a downloadable document archive. It is a genuine journal, not a structured course or guide.

I am genuinely not in a position to advise on this, and my honest recommendation is that you should not look to my personal notes for that kind of guidance. Because I have no medical or physiotherapy training, I have no basis on which to say whether anything I do would be appropriate or safe for someone with any specific physical consideration. My journal describes what I personally do in my own practice — the descriptions are not instructions written for others to follow. Please consult a qualified health professional if you have any existing concern about your physical wellbeing.

A Deep Practice Dialogue is a one-to-one online conversation — approximately ninety minutes — in which I walk in detail through how my personal practice works: what I do each morning, how I structure my evenings, what I track and how, and which entries from the archive I find most interesting to reflect on. It is not coaching, assessment, or advice of any kind. You share what you do, I share what I do, and we compare notes as two people interested in movement. Nothing I say in the session constitutes professional guidance.

Six years, though not perfectly consistently throughout. The first year was irregular — perhaps three or four entries a week on average. From year two onwards my journalling became more systematic: most mornings I write after my floor session, and most evenings I add a few lines after my stretching. The archive now contains over one hundred individual entries of varying length, plus supporting notes, food logs, and periodic longer reflections. The entries published here are a selection — the full archive is available through the Movement Codex.

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Monthly access to my active journal as I write it, plus the full archive. You receive new entries each week with notes on what I am currently observing in my own practice.

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Reader Responses

What People Say About the Journal

Responses from people who have read the archive or joined a session. These are their own personal views.

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★★★★★

What sets this journal apart is the honesty. Pastor does not claim expertise he does not have — he writes clearly that this is observation only. Reading six years of genuine notes from a real practice feels completely different from reading any fitness guide. I found myself making notes of my own just from reading.

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Roos B.
Breda, NL
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★★★★★

The Deep Practice Dialogue was genuinely useful to me. Not because I received advice — Pastor is clear from the start that he gives none — but because spending ninety minutes hearing someone describe six years of consistent personal practice in such detail made me think carefully about my own. The written notes he sent afterwards were thorough and I keep coming back to them.

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Thijs M.
Eindhoven, NL
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★★★★☆

I subscribed to the Living Practice Subscription mostly out of curiosity and ended up staying for four months. Receiving new entries each week made me pay more attention to my own mornings than I had in years. There is something about reading someone else's detailed, unexaggerated personal account that makes you want to keep your own. A genuinely unusual thing to find online.

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Carmen V.
Tilburg, NL
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Based in Breda

Gasthuisstraat 7
4811 BS Breda
Netherlands

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