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...
View ArticleLifestyle 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...
View ArticleLegs-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...
View ArticleShoe 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...
View ArticleAnatomy 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....
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleSnack 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article2015 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleRES 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...
View ArticleSequim 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...
View ArticleAnatomy 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....
View ArticleFeet 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...
View ArticleScapulae: 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...
View ArticleSnack 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...
View ArticleMovement 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...
View ArticleMoving 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...
View ArticleHappy 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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