6 months after I got my new hip, I started to get a really sore back. My Osteopath suggested I see Carrie and I immediately set up an appointment.Before seeing Carrie, I did not feel calm and at peace in my body. I knew something had to change.Working with Carrie has been a mind blowing experience for me!!! It has been an emotional journey as well as a physical healing journey. I expected to get physical healing, but I did not expect to get emotional healing as well.Carrie is really incredible – because she shows you how it is all related. Your mind and your body. And she taught me how to listen to my body which I had ignored for over 60 years. Now I am learning how to do that and my physical body feels so much better!I have to say I am now a different person. I feel so much better!! I highly recommend soma yoga to everyone. I feel such calmness and such peace in my body now, I really did not like doing stretching before, and now I love doing my pandiculations – because I can see that they make me feel better in so many different ways.
At 15, I discovered I had a scoliosis and for the following 30 years I mostly just ignored it because I was told there was nothing that could be done about it. I loved to run and hike and put up with the occasional time when my back would give me trouble for a few weeks or months at a time.Then one day, during a particularly stressful time period, I woke up with lower back pain that got progressively worse. As the weeks led to months, I sought out all sorts of specialists: chiropractor, physiotherapist, massage therapist, pelvic health physiotherapist. Most would ultimately tell me that they didn't know how to help me as all their usual 'tricks' were not working. My back had become one tight mass of muscles that simply would not release themselves. Even taking the dogs for a short walk was painful.After a year and a half, I stumbled upon Carrie Meyer and her Somatic Neuromuscular Re-education Therapy. It has been a lifesaver. My back has transformed from a mass that moved as one unit, to a functional back where I have regained control over individual muscle groups. My posture has changed dramatically. I can lie flat on a table again. I can walk the dogs without pain again.Most importantly, she has given me the skills to keep working on my back. This is not a type of treatment where someone works on your back and fixes it for you – Carrie teaches you how to fix it yourself, giving you incredibly valuable skills and body awareness.