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Lifestyle Tips for Lower Leg Health

Sticking with the Lower Leg theme – the calf and soleus – what are some other ways you can add support to a part of your body that is now moving more and moving better? If you’ve been doing the Calf...

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Lifestyle Tips to Support Foot Health

Functional feet are my fondest favourites! For fancy footwork and for fleet feet, follow these four fun facts: Move your toes Walk over non-level ground Go barefoot or transition to a more minimal shoe...

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Legs-on-the-Wall for Pelvic Floor/Adductor Stretch

Since it’s Spring, and the birds and bees are starting to do their thing, I thought I’d turn our attention from the foot and lower leg to the pelvic floor. Everyone needs a strong, supple, functioning...

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Shoe Review: Xeroshoes Lena

I interrupt my regular blog programming for a special shoe review: The Xeroshoes Lena I was given this shoe to review with the understanding that I would put it through its paces (which I have) and...

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Anatomy of the Inner Thigh Stretch

The Adductors are a group of inner thigh muscles. They are called that because their most obvious job is to adduct (pull in towards the midline) the leg. Like most basic anatomy, that is simplistic....

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Why you want to come to the Pelvic Floor Workshop

Wouldn’t it be nice if when you delivered a baby, the midwife or the doctor handed you the manual for the body that would map out your entire life so that you could prevent many illnesses and optimize...

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Snack Homework!

Get your Snack Homework by clicking on my affiliate link HERE. You can buy a half hour workout taught by Katy Bowman herself for $5. US. FIVE DOLLARS! So it’s a total no-brainer as they say. You will...

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How to stretch your Quads

Everybody is familiar with the stretch known as the standing runner’s stretch, or quad stretch. The one where you stand on one leg and hold your foot behind you, to feel a nice stretch down the front...

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2015 Gift Giving Guide

Welcome to The 2015 Gift Guide, curated by yours truly. If you were wondering what to get for me your friends and family members, look no further! (find last year’s guide here.) I know commercialism is...

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A Time for Reflection

This is traditionally the time when we all make amends for having way too much fun eating and drinking over the holidays. This is a way of thinking that permeates our culture – that of making amends...

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The Alignment REScue helps the Little RES Q!

People think of casts as a plaster casing that holds a bone and its associated joints in position, usually for the purpose of allowing a bone to heal if it’s been broken. The idea is that if the bone...

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RES Week #3 – Sequim WA

I just returned from my third week of training with Katy Bowman and her merry band of teachers (and merry they certainly are!). I’m thrilled to announce that I have joined that band of teachers, and I...

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Sequim Training Long Weekend

I just spent a long weekend at the Nutritious Movement™ Center Northwest – NMCNW with Katy Bowman and my colleagues. We’ll be teaching at the upcoming “RES weeks” – which are the culminating week after...

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Anatomy of a Twist

The core is a big area that encompasses a lot of musculature, fascia, the spine and spinal cord, pelvis, ribs, breathing apparatus, organs of digestion, organs of reproduction, and circulatory vessels....

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Feet and Walking

In my last post (link) I mentioned that walking is a category, and that what most people envision when asked to imagine a person walking, is a person walking on a flat, level surface, perhaps a...

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Scapulae: How Wide is Wide Enough?

Last post (link) I spoke of the relationship between the scapula (shoulder blade) and the humerus (arm bone) and that it would be nice if they had a supportive relationship so that the arm could have...

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Snack Homework!

Get your Snack Homework by clicking on my affiliate link HERE. You can buy a half hour workout taught by Katy Bowman herself for $5. US. FIVE DOLLARS! So it’s a total no-brainer as they say. You will...

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Movement Matters Retreat – Seed to Cider, River to Sea

On September 23/24, 2017, I took part in the first Movement Matters Retreat, with Nutritious Movement‘s Katy Bowman. Finnriver Farm co-founder Crystie Kisler hosted the first day at her wonderful apple...

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Moving Through Life’s Challenges Part 1 – Injury

Often when a new client comes in the door, they are motivated to seek my advice with issues related to chronic pain or injury, and the narrative often goes something like this:   “My chiropractor said...

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Happy New Year

For me, 2017 was a year of unprecedented personal and business growth. I broke out of my comfort zone on the video front (still a work in progress – teaching a room full of people is WAY easier than...

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