Scans, Imaging & Pain: Helpful Information But Not the Whole Story When you’re in pain it’s completely natural to want a scan. Many people feel reassured by seeing something ‘concrete’ like an X-ray, MRI, or report that appears to explain what’s going on. For some imaging feels absolutely essential for understanding pain, reducing anxiety and…
January injuries aren’t proof you chose the “wrong” hobby. They’re usually a load + novelty issue, not damage. So we are sore, what’s the next steps? Pause. Calm it all down. Then build capacity back up. Movement helps you heal, it’s not the enemy. Trying something new and feeling sore dosn’t mean that movement…
Uncertainty is the technology of possibility. What a great sentence. Could doubt really be a place of discovery? The idea that NOT knowing is a super power to harness, not to fear or avoid. Uncertainty can show up as finances, the future or even simple daily events such as what we should eat or what…
A lot of us grew up thinking exercise had one job: shrink us. So of course it feels like a chore. Of course it’s easy to skip. If the only measure of success is a number on a scale or seeing visible change then any day without these “results” feels pointless and any discomfort feels…
WHY PAIN REMAINS AND RETURNS AND WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS When pain lingers or keeps coming back, it’s easy to think something must be wrong with the body, with your approach, or even with you. If you’re a movement professional, you might start to wonder if you’ve missed something, if you have failed or not…
We get into shaky territory in yoga and especially yin yoga when we start suggesting it can fix pain. Pain is personal, complex and multifactorial. It doesn’t neatly dissolve after a class or a stretch and even speaking anecdotally about an individuals persons experience of their pain improving through yoga can be irresponsibly misleading. It…
Less is More: Why Simplicity Sticks in Movement Teaching As movement teachers, many of us, especially in yoga, feel the pull to create ever more elaborate sequences. To keep clients entertained, to keep things fresh. Clever transitions, intricate links and choreography that impresses our peers can become the standard we hold ourselves to. Yet there’s…
The Body Odyssey: explaining and understanding pain care providers 🙃Everyone has bias including those with the best intentions. 🤸🏽 The mobility teacher will always advocate that becoming more flexible with mobility drills will resolve pain. 🏋️♂️ The personal trainer will advocate that losing weight lifting weight will eradicate pain. 🥼The physiotherapist will advocate that…
Why Rethinking Running & Resilience Helps Non Runners Too There’s a persistent belief that there’s a “right” way to run. A perfect form that keeps us efficient, fast, and injury-free. Yet, when we look at the evidence, that idea starts to fall apart. Heel striking, for example, is often blamed for injury. However, there’s no…
Function Over Fixation- A Shift In How We Talk About Pain When someone’s been in pain for a while, it’s easy – understandably – to make being pain-free the main goal, but in truth, that binary thinking of ‘pain or no pain’, can be frustrating, disheartening, and misleading. It might even stop people from noticing…