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Here, you will find expert-crafted posts that explore the science and practice of somatic healing, neuromuscular re-education, and mind-body connection.

Our content is designed to discuss why pain persists, how your nervous system shapes your experience, and what steps you can take to retrain your body and nervous system for lasting relief.

Consider each article an invitation to deepen your understanding, challenge conventional assumptions about pain, and gain actionable tools to support your well-being

Mind Body Blueprint: A New Way to Heal from the Inside Out

December 3, 2025

Most of us have been taught to treat pain from the outside in.We stretch the tight spot. We book another treatment.We try medications, supplements, new pillows, foam rollers, and “miracle” gadgets.When the relief doesn’t last, it’s easy to start thinking: Maybe I’m just broken.You’re not broken. You’re just working with an incomplete map.Pain isn’t just a mechanical issue in a joint or muscle. It’s a message from your nervous system — a sign that your brain, body, and emotions are doing their be

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🧠 Is Your Nervous System in Overdrive? Here’s How to Reset & Relieve Stress

October 27, 2025

In today’s high-speed, hyperconnected world, many of us are unknowingly living in a state of chronic stress. Our nervous systems—designed to protect us from danger—are stuck in overdrive, constantly interpreting everyday stressors as threats. Understanding this dynamic is the first step toward reclaiming your health, resilience, and peace of mind.⚖️ The Two Faces of Your Nervous SystemYour nervous system operates in two primary modes: • Parasympathetic Response: Often called “Rest and Digest,” t

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Join Us at Toronto Yoga Conference

February 14, 2024

We are so excited to bring our unique blend of Somatics and Yoga Therapy to the 2024 Toronto Yoga Conference & Show. Integrating a knowledge and practical application of somatics into your yoga teaching and practice is transformative. We invite you to join us and learn why.Our offerings will include: • Nervous System Overdrive & Pain: A Somatic Perspective (2 Hours) • Somatic Reflex Patterns that Keep You Stuck & In Pain: 1 of 3 The Red Light Reflex (2 Hours) • Somatic Reflex Patterns that Keep

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Listen to Our Latest Podcast Interview

November 24, 2023

We were so pleased to be invited on the air with Elizabeth Sullivan, author, speaker and spiritual teacher on her Soul Sovereingty Podcast where we talked about Mind-Body Healing and just what is available to us when we look at the whole.Give it a listen on all your favourite apps including Apple, Spotify, Google, YouTube, Rumble and more. Search for "Soul Sovereignty With Elizabeth" on your favourite podcast provider.We are featured on EP. 39: YOGA THERAPY FOR AWAKENING In this episode she conv

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Somatic Education Significantly Lowers Low Back and Neck Pain

December 12, 2022

Are you the kind of person that needs proof that something works, before trying it?The world of Somatics including Clinical Somatic Educators, SomaYoga Therapists (like Nicole and I) and our allied health colleagues who teach somatic mind-body movement re-education can join in support of the findings of a September 2022 research paper that clearly demonstrates that the application of Somatic Education results in marked reductions in low back and neck pain, among other significant results.The Jo

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Incontinence or Prolapse After Child Birth?

November 25, 2022

Are you suffering from urinary incontinence, pelvic floor pain, prolapse or general discomfort in your pelvic floor? I just received an email from a client, asking for support for a friend, a new mom experiencing pelvic floor prolapse who is having trouble doing a pelvic floor contraction.Guess what ladies, you do not have to suffer with the symptoms listed above, there is lots you can do to restore good pelvic floor function.When you feel disconnected from your pelvic floor or a lack of control

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On Being Truth

July 24, 2022

Those of you who are new to our blog and site(s) should know that we are truth seekers, warriors of this work on deep and intersecting levels. We try, test and practice the work that we share with you. Our M-O (Modus Operandum), is to continually work on healing our traumas, injuries, physical, mental and emotional burdens so that we can live our best lives and share this experience and passion to help others.Nicole and I are never "not in the process" of self discovery. This body of work is tru

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Addressing Neuroplastic Pain with Pain Reprocessing Therapy

March 8, 2022

All pain is in the brain. And despite our tendency to seek a structural cause for pain, most chronic pain that has lasted over 6 months is neuroplastic in origin, not structural.Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a new diagnosis & treatment paradigm that helps clients unlearn chronic pain by retraining their brains. The psychological re-training approach teaches the brain to no longer mis-interpret healthy signals from the body as dangerous, reducing the fear of, and eventually the onset of pain

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How Diagnoses Are Helpful and Harmful?

February 1, 2022

Say you are at the doctors for back pain and you are told that you have functional scoliosis. The imaging shows your spine being tugged out of an easy straight and stacked line. While this can provide some relief knowing how things are presenting, how does this information empower you to take your next steps? Equally important questions to ask are: Why are the muscles on one side of my spine stuck so short and tight? What effect does this have on my spine and muscles on the opposite side? Unde

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Are you Frustrated? Let Us Help

January 13, 2022

This year is all about you! We know that you have joined us because you need help to resolve pain or tension in your body or mind. And since our bodies do not come with an owners manual we take pride in our role as educators about how the body and mind are connected, and how these relate to pain. We have spent years studying the best approaches and techniques, and thousands of clinical hours applying what we know works with our clients.So it is understandable that it can be frustrating that you

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Shifting out of the “Fix Me” Mindset

September 24, 2021

When it comes to your health and well-being what are your beliefs around health and healing?Are you waiting for someone to “fix you”? Do you believe that the resources for healing are outside yourself? Do you feel that others know more about your body than you do?Have you fallen victim to a diagnosis that has left you feeling helpless and disempowered?We understand how this can happen. And we understand how the things that we read or hear, take our minds down rabbit holes of worry and disempower

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MORNING PRACTICES TO STIMULATE ELIMINATION & DIGESTION

May 18, 2021

The science of Ayurveda and the 6 pillars of balanced living outline many easy to adopt practices that have a large impact on our health and well-being.The first time I was introduced to the concept of drinking warm lemon water on rising was from a Naturopath specializing in woman’s health. She had a strong focus on digestion, and looking back I could swear she was schooled in some Ayurvedic methodology.She recommended to me a great little book called the Fat Flush Plan by Anna Louise Gittleman,

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HOW TRAUMA SHOWS UP IN OUR POSTURAL PATTERNS

May 5, 2021

Dictionary online defines Trauma as 1) a deeply distressing or disturbing experience and 2) a physical injury. Inherent in this definition is an emotional aspect, a mental aspect and a physical aspect. Our somatic nervous system is continually responding to our environment and the events that happen in life. The job of our nervous system is to keep us safe and to continually assess threats of an emotional, mental and physical nature.While severe experiences such as abuse, assault, major injury a

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READINESS AND TRUST

April 26, 2021

Have you ever had the experience of working through a problem or challenge in your life and received good advice from someone to make a particular change in a behaviour or habit? And can you recall “sort of” hearing the advice, but it kind of hit an invisible wall, where you could not fully take it in or act on it?You might say that a deeper part of you resonated with the advice, knowing that it was the truth and would help yet another part of you resisted?In Yogic Philosophy the Sanskrit word

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CONSCIOUS REST TO COMBAT PROLONGED STRESS

April 13, 2021

The latest research is showing that rates of stress have skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic and that it is starting to affect our health. A big part of this is because of isolation, working from home and the disruption of our usual social activities leaving us feeling disconnected and fatigued. An online article published February 5, 2021 in Healthline, interviewed Dr. Michael Young, the service chief of a psychiatric hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He was quoted saying, “Social connec

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THE POWER OF MICRO-MOVEMENT

March 23, 2021

We are running a 4-week pain relief series right now with an amazing group of people. A key theme in the reintroduction of functional movement and release of tension and pain in the body is to start exploring micro-movement. This is particularly critical if you have been stuck in a holding pattern for years or have had an accident or traumas where your nervous system is essentially “on guard” and sensitive to higher load and bigger movements.So what is micro-movement? It is slow deliberate movem

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POOCHY BELLY EXPLAINED

February 9, 2021

Pain is the body’s way of telling us that something is out of balance. Yet often where we experience pain is not necessarily at the place of the movement limitation. If we consider the body and muscles as an elaborate system, then when one area of the body is stuck tight and short, it is plausible that this area of tightness can pull, tug or restrict movement and inhibit proper functioning in other parts of the body.Somatics explains that muscles become habituated short and tight in response to

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WE NEED TO REBOOT OUR MUSCLES REGULARLY

January 26, 2021

I was renting a clinic space in a pilates studio several years back and heard one of the teachers remark - Stabilize, then Mobilize...Stabilize then Mobilize. The remark is a key teaching principle of the pilates model that was being taught to students on reformers - a pilates apparatus that challenges load and rebound as you lie on a carriage pushing and pulling against cables and springs.I immediately thought to myself - I disagree.What I have learned from well over 10 years of working with dy

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DO YOU LIVE IN LOVE OR FEAR?

December 23, 2020

Family interactions can be stressful, particularly this time of year and now the stress created by the suffering and uncertainty of the current world situation because of Covid 19. It is hard to stay centered and positive. As humans we have the free will to choose how we want to show up in our lives. Building awareness of how we interact with the world and with ourselves is the key to finding balance. Start to pay attention to how you react to situations. Everyday of your life you have two choic

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TUCKING THE TAILBONE IS NOT A GOOD IDEA

November 24, 2020

Do you have a habit of sucking in your belly and tucking your tailbone?We are here to tell you that you should never do this.It creates a stretch reflex in your lower back and sacrum area which pulls and tugs on your sensitive SI joints. When you repeat this movement day in and day out it stresses the sacral muscles making them very unhappy.Want to know what else this repetitive movement does?It forces your hip flexors into a shortened pattern and they become tight and sore, pulling even more on

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BEST WAY TO RELEASE YOUR PSOAS

November 17, 2020

In our last two posts The Psoas Runs Deep and The Psoas gets a Bad Wrap we have been talking about habitually tight psoas muscles and the effects they have in our bodies. Let’s now discuss the best way to release your psoas based your new understanding of how the psoas relates to our innate reflexes, anatomy and emotions.Sensory Motor Amnesia – the underlying cause of a tight psoasA chronically tight psoas muscle is just that “chronically tight or chronically contracted”. Essentially, it has for

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THE POSAS RUNS DEEP

November 3, 2020

The Iliopsoas, or psoas runs deep. Often referred to as the hip flexor muscle it is the only muscle that directly connects the torso to the legs. Its role is to flex the hip joint, causing the legs to swing forward when we walk so that we move forward in life. The problem is that the psoas can get tight, and downright unruly sometimes, causing persistent pain and discomfort. The psoas can overbear, overwork and over grip, That happens because the other muscles responsible for pelvic stabilizatio

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WE ALL HAVE PAIN - IT IS WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT THAT COUNTS.

October 27, 2020

Believe it or not, we all have pain – it is what we do about it that counts. It is inevitable that we will cycle into and out of pain – it is what we do about it that counts.Even Pain Resolution Therapists have pain. Again let me stress that it is what we do about it that counts. Do we mask it with drugs and temporary relief, or are we willing to work at the root cause and correct the imbalance?A couple of years ago I hurt myself during an exercise class. How did that happen? I was moving quick

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WHY BREATHING WELL IS SO IMPORTANT

October 20, 2020

Breath is life force and essential to supporting all the functions and systems in our bodies, thereby regulating health. Those with imbalanced health generally have compromised, shortened or reverse breathing patterns.As you see in healthy babies, their bellies expand and their ribcage expands 3-dimensionally as they inhale, both releasing and drawing inward slightly on their exhale. This happens without thought, holding or restriction. This normal breath pattern is called Diaphragmatic Breathin

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Join FREE Plantar Fasciitis Summit Oct 26-29 2020

October 16, 2020

I am honoured to be one of 18 speakers to be part of the Virtual Planter Fasciitis Summit upcoming October 26-29 2020. Want to get unstuck from Plantar Fasciitis and learn from some great teachers, therapists and experts in this field? Its easy, CLAIM your FREE TICKET here.Those of you that suffer from plantar fasciitis understand that it takes away from enjoyment of your favourite activities, and might even make those activities impossible to do. Join this Summit and listen to my interview and

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STRENGTHENING ABDOMINAL MUSCLES WILL NOT RELIEVE YOUR TIGHT BACK MUSCLES

October 13, 2020

Strengthening your core by tightening your abdominal muscles does not relieve chronic back pain. In fact, this approach could potentially make things worse!When you take the approach to strengthen or tighten the belly muscles in order to counterbalance a tight back you are working against your body. The result is a co-contraction of the front and back body muscles which creates a braced-liked situation that layers on more problems than it does solutions. Why strengthening abdominal muscles will

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IF PAIN RESIDES IN THE BRAIN, THEN HOW DO YOU CHANGE YOUR PAIN?

September 27, 2020

Neuroscience research proves that pain resides in the brain. When pain is persistent and continues beyond a 6 month period after an injury has occurred then we need to look at what is happening in the brain. So how do you change pain?Typically six months after an injury our tissues have healed. Yet persistent or recurring pain beyond this point is very common.Ron Melzack developed the Neuromatrix theory and coined the word neurosignature. When our brain develops a pain neurosignature, a mass of

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