Decrypt Bodywork

For anyone with movement limitations or pain, a clear framework is useful to know what they really need. Oftentimes we just don’t know because we lack structure in our attempt to resolve it. But with a structure, anyone can become the owner, the expert, of the body that they’re living in 💡🗒️

Imagine you had a map to navigate your own way out of your problem…

When I jumped onto the Zoom call for our second session I said that his feet looked quite different to me… He said “yes!”, and that he couldn’t believe that after our session his feet were pointing straight when he went for a walk.😄

Feet that are turned out are a solution that the body finds to overcome “something”. For example, if you took someone’s feet and turned them straight, you might find that these feet don’t actually have a lot of contact with the floor. Turning feet like that straight, would therefore won’t just reduce the base of support that the feet provide. It will probably also feel pretty awful around the hips and/or lower back🙈

Turning them out is a really clever way that the body finds in order to create a bigger surface on the floor as well as to overcome limitations for example around the hips or back…It really is quite genius, but we quickly label it as a “dysfunction”…😕
That word couldn’t be further from the truth. Turning these feet out is SUPER functional.

Turned out (or turning out) feet tell us something. So let’s first of all be okay with them and appreciate that they are a not a problem, but a solution.
We don’t just want to blindly take away that solution, we want to understand how it might be helping the body.
Then, we can use movement to re-educate the system about its potential of a larger, more stable and more adaptable base of support that allows easy, less effortful and more efficient movement all the way up the chain.
Once we re-organise those relationships, the body will naturally turn them straight without any conscious effort.

Note that he did do his homework between our sessions. This wasn’t a one-off miracle…Change takes time and effort.🤫
And if you look at the feet it’s evident that there’s more work to be done, but it highlights nicely that if we put the right input (movement) into the body, it will start to balance things out, even if - like his feet - “it’s always been like that”… 🙃

Transformation time!🤩 not perfect yet, but the results so far speak for themselves 😊

3 weeks ago her shoulder was, as she described it, “locking” - what you see were her end ranges…all extremely limited and causing pain. All “after” pictures are pain-free.

Rather than mindlessly stretching, pulling on bands, or worse, having surgery as is sometimes suggested, we took a step back and approached it through the lens of Anatomy in Motion and The Flow Motion Model by .

Most importantly however, it was HER dedication and curiosity that now allow her to carry out daily tasks again⭐️.
But we’re not finished yet. We’re gonna get her climbing 😏

When I say “her” dedication, I truly mean it…All this was done by herself through movement, not by me. No hands-on treatment..and no knives 😊