Exercise for Ages 40 and Beyond: Training Advice from Stacy Sims’ Book: ‘Next Level.’
For eons Earth has tilted as it rotates around the Sun, cycling through restful, preparatory, flourishing and quietening seasons. For...
Four Knee Class Recordings
Dusty knees may be a sign of submission. For those with knee pain, kneeling is fond memory of a movement that once meant nothing and now...
Training The Whole Person: Supporting Clients' Physical, Psychological, Spiritual and Social Health.
The overarching message of the course that I am studying at the moment (SURG 0133: Chronic Pain), is that pain is complex. It encompasses...
Good Health is More than Moving and Eating Well: Conducting a Health MOT
A marriage You are holding up a ceiling with both arms. It is very heavy, but you must hold it up, or else it will fall down on you. Your...
The Strain in Pain Lies Mainly in the Brain
Thank you Sean Mackey for the catchy title of this blog. His slides from his lecture on the neuroscience of pain can be found here I will...
No pain IS a Gain: helping clients work through medical decisions while staying in my lane
dinos and comics As a movement teacher and an educator, advising on anything medical is beyond my scope of practice. However, since...
Writing for Self Care: 10 notes to my body
This meme is really cute but for me it is through writing that I can peel back the layers of patriarchy and agism and cultural...
How to Structure a Pain Education Class When There Are More Flavours of Pain Than Coffee
Pain is unique, personal and has far more flavours than any coffee order we could ever imagine. Each of the older adults in my embodied...
Our Pelvis, the Crossroads of the Body: Class Recordings
Do you have a favourite way to stand? Do you tend to lean on one hip? Do you thrust your hips forward or tip your pelvis down? Do you...
Self Management of Pain: six class handouts
Isn't Charlie Mackesy wonderful? His images say so much and this little mole is so right: One of our greatest freedoms is how we react to...
