Stop Walking Duck Footed.
Did you know that walking with duck feet is often at the root of hip, knee, foot, and lower back pain? When your toes point out, it alters your body mechanics. Being duck-footed creates problems. And, it’s to your benefit …
The Pelvis Part of Your Gait: Three Essential Somatic Tips
The movement of your pelvis is a little-known yet profound part of your Gait. This is a big topic. But, this blog post offers 3 essentil tips for you to experiment with and improve your walking gait. First, what is …
What to Do When Lose Your Balance.
Losing Balance is an interesting phrase. We can lose balance physically. Often, this happens accidentally or is part of aging, muscle atrophy, or illness. We can lose our balance emotionally. Watching, reading, or listening to news reports can trigger horror, …
Sensuality, Resilience and the Experience of Simple Pleasures
Sensuality, resilience, and the experience of simple pleasures help us all live a richer life. Unfortunately, we often deny ourselves the sensual. Too commonly, we think of sensuality as sexual, decadent, or even otherworldly. So, we shy away from it. …
3 Ways Embodiment Helps Navigate Loss
Loss is quite present on many of our lives. So, how do we navigate this turbulent terrain? This article offers 3 ways Embodiment helps navigate loss. Please understand, there are no hard and fast answers. However, embodiment can be a …
Calm your nervous system with somatics
Try and calm your nervous system with somatics. It’s quite effective. Somatics is calming and centering for your nervous system because it lets your body lead you into ease and recovery from the inside out. Many of us do good …
Guided Imagery Meditation
Guided Imagery meditation can let us bring calm and a newfound appreciation for life after a loss or disappointment. We all know what it is like to lose something near and dear to us. It’s often shocking and deeply discouraging. …
8 Somatic Breathing Exercises to do today.
These 8 Somatic Breathing Exercises to do today came to me as I searched for gentle ways to free my breath. You see, as a long time yoga and somatic movement therapist I studied many breathing techniques. Most of these …
What is Somatic Movement?
A somatic movement is made with focus on the internal movement instead of on the external movement. You may already realize, internal movement is very different from most physical or exercise training. And, because this internal way of moving builds …
Finding Pain Relief with Somatic Movement
Finding pain relief with somatic movement is often what brings people to my office. When pain is severe or when it triggers other symptoms people look for a gentle approach. I help them ease out pain and move in more …