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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

The Shi*t No One Tells You About Your Back & Hip Pain

Your muscles aren’t tight because they’re weak. They’re tight because your brain is holding them there.

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Why Your Whole Being Needs Care — Not Another Piecemeal Fix (And Why Somatics Is the Missing Link)

Is this you? You feel like you’re in fight or flight all the time. You live with pain. Your sleep is terrible. You’re longing — desperately — to feel calm in your body again. You’re tired of feeling like sh*t in your body. You’re tired of blaming it on aging. You want to sleep, move, and feel better. It’s that simple. You hurt. You’re desperate to feel better, release pain, sleep deeply, and be active again.

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The Red Light Reflex Pattern: Understanding Stress Responses in Our Bodies

Red Light Reflex is the most common reflex present across society today. It deserves focused and dedicated practice to neutralize the deep-seated stress and trauma that your nervous system has accumulated over your lifetime, especially during periods of personal stress or situations beyond your control. Each person handles stress differently, shaped by their unique personality and life experiences.

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5 Benefits of a Functional Diaphragm

Are you under lots of stress, suffer from anxiety or feel on edge a lot of the time. All of this may reflect a diaphragm that is holding a tone of tension, not moving properly and keeping you in a state of nervous system overdrive.

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9 signs that your Tight Muscles may be caused by Sensory Motor Amnesia

Have you ever felt like your body is doing everything “right” — you stretch, you strengthen, you try to sit up straighter — and yet you still feel tight, achy, and tired? Sometimes what you’re experiencing isn’t a flexibility problem or a weakness problem.

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10 Signs Your Lymphatic System May Be Blocked or Stagnant - and What to Do About It

How much do you really know about your lymphatic system and the role it plays in your tension, pain, energy, and overall health? If your answer is “not much,” you’re not alone — and you’re exactly who we wrote this article for.

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5 Top Reasons Why Stretching Never Works (and What to Do Instead)

For decades,we’ve been told that stretching is the key to relieving tight muscles, improving posture, and reducing pain. Yet for so many people—especially those living with chronic or persistent pain—stretching simply doesn’t work.

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Break Free from Chronic Pain: How Brain-based Healing Is Helping Thousands Reclaim Their Lives

If you’ve been living with persistent pain, you know the struggle isn’t just physical—it’s emotional, exhausting, and deeply personal. You’ve tried everything: medications, therapies, surgeries, supplements.

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When Muscles "forget": Understanding Sensory Motor Amnesia and Its Impact on Everyday Movement

A growing number of Somatic Educators are sounding the alarm about a little known but widespread condition affecting millions: Sensory MotorAmnesia (SMA) .

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Addressing Neuroplastic Pain with Pain Reprocessing Therapy

Updated: Mar 16, 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.

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Are you Frustrated? Let Us Help

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.

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BEST WAY TO RELEASE YOUR PSOAS

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.

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Best Way to Stimulate a Satisfying Morning Poop

Updated: Sep 7, 2020 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, not to mention the best way to stimulate a luscious morning poop.

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Client Alleviates Frozen Shoulder Symptoms

We take a different approach in how we help clients alleviate conditions and symptoms that are showing up, causing distress and pain. Read this great story about how Nicole’s client alleviates frozen shoulder symptoms with our Method.

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Clients: Are You Getting the Most Out of Arch & Flatten?

Arch and Flatten is a powerful and transformative movement that requires learning in stages to understand the how of the technique of pandiculation .

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Conscious Rest to Combat Prolonged Stress

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.

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Do You Live in Love or Fear?

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.

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Does Your Workout Routine Create Pain in Your Body?

Updated: Sep 18, 2020 All movement should make you feel great during, after and days later. You might feel that you have worked hard, but you really should not be in pain.

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Ease and Freedom of Movement Creates Stability in the Body

Updated: Sep 7, 2020 Did you know that optimal core function arises as the by-product of re-educating tight muscles to release and do the job they were designed to do? Do you brace your belly during movement and life?

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How the Activities You Love May Actually Be Causing You Pain

It may be hard to believe, but some of the activities that you love may actually be causing you pain. The Learning Process To understand pain, it is essential to understand the learning process of the brain.

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How to Identify the Roots of Your Pain

Updated: Sep 16, 2020 Pain has big shoulders and deep roots. Our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects all influence pain.

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HOW TRAUMA SHOWS UP IN OUR POSTURAL PATTERNS

Updated: May 6, 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.

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How Diagnoses Are Helpful and Harmful?

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.

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How Your Nervous System Health Determines Your Readiness to Heal from Tension and Pain

There’s a powerful truth at the core of all somatic healing: Your nervous system determines your capacity to heal.

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

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.

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Improve Efficiency in Your Muscles

Would you like to improve efficiency in your muscles? Do your muscles fatigue easily?

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It's Time to Maintain Your Body as Well as You Maintain Your Car

Do you take care of your body as well as you maintain your car ? If your vehicle is vibrating or rattling when you drive over 60 miles per hour, what would you do?

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