How to turn on and strengthen your anti-gravity muscles naturally Anti-gravity muscles hold your body up against gravity. As I’ve mentioned in other posts and web pages, these muscle’s size also correlates with decreased back pain. I use the GravityFit program to activate and strengthen these muscles. However, I want to provide some options […]
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Pull Your Shoulders Back
Should You Really Be Pulling Your Shoulder’s Back? One of the most common pieces of feedback given by almost everyone in the physical therapy/yoga/fitness industry is: “Pull your shoulder’s back and down.” It certainly seems reasonable. We see so many people with rounded shoulders, why wouldn’t you bring your shoulders back? Rounded Shoulders While almost […]
Awareness
“Without awareness, there is no choice.” -John F Barnes Yin Yoga and Feeling Pain Before I took MFR classes, I too had low back pain. It came about after starting an unhealthy yoga practice. Fortunately, a healthier yoga practice: yoga nidra and yin yoga helped me significantly. The yin yoga I did took my pain away […]
Move . . . Just Move
As a physical therapist, I constantly give advice on how to move. If you’ve taken a GravityFit class from me, you definitely got some specific advice on how to move your body. This advice has a lot of merit. When I see coaches/therapists tell their clients to move a specific way, sometimes these clients become […]
Bodywork and Emotions: Mind/Body Connection
Emotions During Bodywork As a physical and massage therapist, I frequently see the mind/body connection in action. Many people, when you find that right spot, have emotions, memories, and intuitions come up for them. They report a significant increased awareness and growth from these experiences. Frequently, they report, “I didn’t know I was carrying […]
Strengthen the Right Back Muscles
Look at these pictures. Do they look like you? Does your back have these two prominent and large back muscles? Do you have low back pain? If you answered yes to the first two questions, you probably do have low back pain. Those back muscles you see are called the thoracic erector spinae. They […]
