Know Movement

Celebrating one year of officially opening Know Movement 🎉🎈

Thank you to everyone who has trusted me to work with them through sore muscles, injury, or movement! I cannot thank you enough for your support. It has been one of the best years for me as I got to develop many new relationships, learn from each of my clients, and grow to become a better therapist.

I am looking forward to (hopefully🤞) many more years of helping others achieve their goals, and seeing what this business can become down the road! Cheers 🥂

While on the surface, Know Movement is a massage therapy service, there is more to it that I offer. What I hope to communicate is my aim for your sessions is to offer you in-depth, quality, and specific work to areas you are having trouble with. As a client of bodywork myself, I knew I needed specific attention to areas that were heavily loaded with training and life. Some days that meant specific tissue work to shoulders or ankles, and other appointments that meant I needed full body work like a standard massage. This is what you can expect when booking a session at Know Movement. Your current needs drive the design of the appointment. We currently offer 60 minute and 90 minute sessions, where manual therapy and movement analysis is combined to provide both immediate relief and continued solutions to help alleviate pain, and break problem movement patterns. Head over to www.weknowmovement.com to schedule today.

Movement is medicine. There are times, especially when dealing with a nagging injury or pain, that moving doesn’t feel medicinal. When we’re at our best, all movements should be pain free; our joints and tissues working cohesively. Fluid movement doesn’t just happen out of the blue, much like we don’t just wake up one day and have a successful career, it takes work. It requires dedication and continued discipline to stay on track to meet our goals. This same strategy is what is needed in order to maintain our bodies and allow them to work at full capacity.

While Know Movement is just a business, what I hope to create is a movement that changes how you (and others) think about your own bodies and how they move. For example, if you’re dealing with back pain, next time you go to pick up something off the floor: did you think about where that motion was initiated from, or did you just pick it up? When you’re about to go for your next run and you’re already feeling stiff, do you just shrug it off and decide the first few miles will be a little slower till you loosen up, or do you take a moment to perform mobility work? Most people just accept these aches and pains, but I personally feel our bodies deserve a bit more. We only get one of them, so we need to help take care of it.

My challenge for you is this: if you’re dealing with a nagging issue, spend 5 minutes to address the tissue surrounding the problem area, even if that means 5 minutes less for your workout. Get into a healthy habit of spending 5-10 minutes pre and post exercise to give movement to your body, allow it to loosen up before you start adding load. Be preventative in tissue care. Be your own advocate for healthy movement. Make a change now in how you approach exercise, training, daily life, or whatever you may do. Movement is medicine, but you need to be willing to commit to it for it to work.

I'd like to introduce myself a bit more: my name is Bria Edwards, and I am the founder of Know Movement. Some facts about myself: I graduated in 2015 from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology. While I was unsure of my direct path from college, I moved to Boulder, CO post graduation, and trained as a professional triathlete for 6 years. I competed mainly in short course ITU racing, and had the chance to represent the US at the U23 World Championships. The greatest experience I received was working with some of the best athletes, coaches, and therapists around. I experienced a plethora of injuries throughout my life that included stress related injuries, arthroscopic hip surgeries, and soft tissue injuries. All of these experiences helped me in understanding movement better, and how to help myself become more durable and able to withstand stress placed on the body. I took a step away from racing in the spring of 2021, and knew I wanted to focus my energy and efforts on a new path. This led me to receiving my massage therapy license, and opening Know Movement. I am excited to begin by helping individuals get the best out of themselves and their body. If you'd like to learn more, visit www.weknowmovement.com.