Some people keep on stretching and are wedded to the concept.

Look at this poor guy stretching

By attempting to stretch his hip flexor, he’s actually tightening his hamstrings, the muscles behind the leg.

He might be even contracting his back muscles to be able to get that foot to the buttocks.

Maybe he can still sit on his heels, but the point is… a stretch such as this is still done at professional levels and worse, high schools and even middle schools kids are being led down this lazy and counter-productive route.

Lazy on account of research moving on. Athletes do not need this to warm-up.

Divorce Counselor for Stretching

As a divorce counselor for stretching… you can rest easy, there are other ways to lengthen muscles and warm them up.



For instance, healthy vertebrate animals aren’t stretching either. It’s not what you think.

They consciously contract and then release themselves.

By refocusing your attention on what muscles are designed to do, that is to contract, we can reset them and ready them at the same time.

Stretching is Over

Leave it to the folks who’ll continue to argue about it saying it makes them feel good rather than understanding it’s a waste of time and we can use our intelligence to reset things rather than pulling us apart.

Even for us 50 year olds, stretching is over.

Feeling well in our body is satisfying when have useful tools which allows us to move more freely and easily.

A daily exercise workout plan

Before we think about exercising, we ought to consider what sets us up for exercise in the first place.

When we get up, we are naturally stiffer since our muscles shorten overnight.

Oh what to do? Start with an exercise workout plan.

Instead of traditional stretching, which we know harms us, we can move ourself simply.

Simple, easy movements to articulate our joints primes the muscles for our larger movements throughout the day. After all, you won’t see Fido stretching nor hitting the weights in his exercise workout plan.

Instead, Fido reprograms the muscles first.

The most important exercise workout plan

According to Mel Siff, who wrote the book, “Facts and Fallacies of Fitness”… the most important exercise is reprogramming the central nervous system. He considered this to be more important than strength training and aerobics.

This makes obvious sense. The brain, which can reset our muscles, needs a continual updating of its movement software.

We’ve got to take out any stiffness and tension we accrue.

This is why healthy vertebrate animals naturally reset themselves periodically throughout the day.

When we naturally reprogram our muscles, they are left more functional and ready to be used since they’ve been given the cue to let go of any residual holding tension.

Muscles which are less tense, move far easier than the ones which keep us bound up, throwing our parts around like we’re a hobbling zombie.

Our brain’s cortex can do the job to reset the muscles. This is why we can use the un-exercise approach of somatics exercises anytime to feel better.

Exercise workout plan class

There exists a delightful set of somatics exercises which are known as either the cat stretch or daily maintenance routine.

This exercise workout plan sets the body up for movement for the day.

This week, I’ll be teaching a version of that particular exercise workout plan.

By modifying certain elements, the very exercise routine we accustom our self to, becomes enhanced.

Join our somatics exercise online class. This set of movements can be quite the useful exercise workout plan.

Why live with back pain when we can do something by our self to get the back pain relief we need, when we need it.

Simple, easy gentle movements change the brain. By changing the brain, we can directly change the comfort levels of our back muscles which many of us have experienced with great displeasure.

The constant, gnawing, seizing signals I lived with in my 20′s and 30′s didn’t give me any moments of significant back pain relief, it was just grief.

“Learn to live it” was the motto I heard and bought into.

Whadya gonna do about back pain relief?

Like many people I tried a number of approaches… the hot tub “was” one of my favorites. The heating pad, those ice packets and tens units didn’t get the job done. Nor did the pain meds either.

Well, what did I know. I had no idea I could use the brain to change those discomforting signals to finally feel the back pain relief I thought I deserved while having fibromyalgia to contend with.

Those recalcitrant and tight back muscles didn’t wanna seem to budge other than remaining taught with tension.

All the lathering of tiger balm, icy hot and other gels while soothing couldn’t shake the beast of living with chronic tightness.

Heck, even the stretching routines I had learned… would not solve the riddle. But what did I know. I had no idea that stretching was compounding the problem as today’s research points the fallacy of this method. Who knew the back pain relief I truly wanted was not to come by stretching.

Back Pain Relief Class

Shifting our internal state of discomfort can be remedied when use the brain’s ability to reset the resting levels of our muscles so we can truly feel the back pain relief we think is possible.

This is well within our natural ability. It’s a matter of getting back on track through a learning process which somatics exercises are the avenue for.

A systematic approach of un-doing muscular tension and un-locking tigthness, inflexibility and the rigiidty our back muscles have accumulated shifts with simple, easy movement done with a particular kind of awareness.

To experience this simplicity, you can join us for our online back pain relief class where you’ll learn 35 movements to free up both the lower back and the upper back.

Your brain is better and more effective than a hot tub. These natural sets of tools are available 24/7 for back pain relief.

Did you laugh at this coordination exercise?

Coordination exercise for natural flexibility

Things which look easy take a lot of coordinating actions and natural flexibility.

Developing this kind of flexibility can be achieved via a learning process using the brain’s intent to create movement patterns and experience them in novel ways which releases any holding or compensatory patterns we carry.

When we’re stiff and too contracted or not as mobile as we’d like, a movement like that coordination exercise may seem to take a lot of effort.

Coordination exercise to build strength

We can naturally and quickly develop the requisite strength by setting up the building blocks of movement so a coordination exercise such as the one in the video… becomes effortless.

Strength can be achieved in many ways. Somatics exercises lead us down this path as we need the requisite freedom in movement of our smaller muscles to move the larger ones.

Coordination Exercise Class

We’ll do more than just that particular movement you saw in the video in this week’s online class, though not on a table like you saw. We’ll give it a whirl on the ground instead.

You’ll get the chance to see and feel how your hamstrings and back will lengthen
by doing a simple test at the beginning and end of class.

What sets up our ability to do a coordination exercise easily and naturally is accomplished using the pandicular process which is at the heart of somatics exercises.

Please join me in this week’s online coordination exercise class for the hamstrings, back, knees and more.

Have you been hamstrung and tried all sorts of hamstring exercises lately?

Hamstring Exercises

Those muscles behind the back of the legs can be tight and stiff in spite of our attempts to loosen them by stretching.

Is it possible to release other muscles associated in a causal chain of movement which will allow the hamstrings to be more comfortable?

Somatics hamstring exercises focus on the brain’s ability to release chemicals of relaxation so the hammies are free to move about without all the stiffness or tightness we carry around with us.

Hamstring exercises and a tight back

Many times, a stiff back is what prevents hamstring exercises from being effective. You can actually tighten things without realizing it, if you push contracted muscles beyond their set limits.

Freeing up the back is often necessary for the hamstrings to function more effectively.

Not only that, we may need to free up the shoulders, which if left too contracted, can have adverse effects all the way down to those screaming hammies. Ouch!

Somatics hamstring exercises class

Instead of the usual hamstring exercises and approaches, somatics exercises work with the brain’s cortex to release held muscular contraction levels which frees up the hamstrings.

Having a more flexible back, looser shoulders and a freer neck allows the hamstring to work in concert with certain patterns of movements.

Hamstring exercises while all well and good, may not provide the necessary connection towards freer movement overall.

Join us this Friday for some online hamstrings exercises and more.

Somatics is often the reverse of most approaches out there since we use the brain to focus on freeing up movement rather than the brawn of exercise.

Hamstring exercises can be fun when we coordinate entire movement sequences which will ultimately free the hamstrings and undo being hamstrung.

Improve eyesight… free up the neck.

There are any number of eye exercises, diet considerations and things you can do for the eyes. Sometimes getting up and drinking some water is enough to take out the strain.

Sitting at a computer for longer periods of time is not a way to improve eyesight since our range of vision and motion is compromised into a smaller space. Unless of course, you are working on building shorter, more contracted eye muscles.

Simple neck mobilizations and moving the eyes just a little differently are enough to ward off hours of limited motion.

Improve eyesight in just a few minutes

Relaxing the tension from hours of using our eyes in a small space or holding our neck a certain way, takes just a few minutes. Yet how many of us are really going to spend the necessary few minutes to take care of it.

Don’t we usually wait until the jaw pain or neck immobility becomes too great before we act. Pain is a great teacher, but why wait for our body to get locked up and not be able to lessen the accumulated tension and muscular stress.

Just a few minutes of careful self awareness combined with releasing the tension as naturally as any animal will do, allows us to keep on doing the things we human animals think we need or want to do.

Healthy animals do things like yawn. Well they contract their jaw muscles so it looks like a yawn. Go ahead, give yourself a big yawn and pay attention to all the muscles in your neck your tightening up.

Somatics exercises improve eyesight

The way to let go of tension and improve eyesight is to do what animals do. Thank goodness we’ve systematized what animals do as somatics exercises.

We’ve borrowed the very same process which is done in movement, not a static hold and release for a certain period of time.

With periodic self-adjustments and self-corrections, our neck will be freer, our jaw will be looser and we can improve eyesight simply.

Why hold all the tension in place when we can consciously learn to let it go with a little simple practice of awareness and easy movement patterns.

If you want to learn more, please join me in this Friday’s somatics exercise class to improve eyesight, free the neck and ease a tight jaw.

I remember when I could barely walk 50 feet and my shoulders would sear in pain and my ongoing tight back… well it would simply stiffen more as I trudged my way through it like a trooper. Why oh why?

Good news is, I was moving. The bad news, it wasn’t getting better and so after some time I just learned to continue to move painfully and suck it up.

So what can we do about better walking?

To be able to facilitate better walking, just imagine those lost feelings we had of childlike, easy movement.

We all know how well a panther can move.

Setting up movement is what all healthy vertebrate animals do before they have to run away or go after the prey.

Walking with stiffness like a zombie scared a lot of us as kids. Why did we lose our childlike feelings of easy, effortless movement? Is this the reward of aging or forgetting to move like an animal.

Better Walking by Not Exercising

The other side of the coin is using our brain, the one big muscle, to facilitate better mobility, agility and flexibility naturally as all healthy vertebrate animals do.

Simply through the conscious act of a pandiculation which has been systematized as somatics exercises can we move more effectively.

Somatics is not exercise in the traditional manner since all we are doing is using the brain to decrease excessive muscular contraction levels.

By decreasing those levels, we can move more easily so better walking is accomplished through the release of held muscular positions that we consciously can’t let go off or those that we aren’t aware of in the moment.

So please join me this week, Friday, September 16th as I’ll be offering some ways to move which will afford you better walking in the days to come.

Somatics exercises uses the field of gravity so you can use the brain to get muscles to lose tension and relax more quickly. This is one way to act as your own bodyworker.

Doing a pandiculation, which is at the heart of somatics, is what we do when we do somatics exercises. When a trained somatic bodyworker works with your muscles this is called an assisted pandiculation.

Bodyworker and assisted pandiculations.

Hanna Somatic Educators are trained bodyworkers and movement experts who help people restore the function of muscles with either bodywork or specific exercises or a combination of both.

This training takes place over the course of three years since even for the so-called experts, there is a shift in learning how the body responds neurologically and well let’s face, the practitioner needs a lot of practice to fully understand the thousands of combinations we all move in and how we articulate ourselves.

In the last decade, I’ve noticed many shifts of internal organization as I too have learned my way out of compensatory habits and established newer, easier movement patterns which evolve and continue to surprise and delight me as I age.

A hands-on bodyworker in cooperation with a person has to figure out what needs to be released. By assisting a person with a pandiculation, both parties can sense a result taking place.

These assisted pandiculation often turn into the self-pandiculations that a person will do as the somatics exercises or homework to keep improving mobility, flexibility and the diminishment of panful signals.

Become your own bodyworker

As you become familiar with the somatics exercises, you can learn how to become your own bodyworker using gravity as the load or weight of resistance when you move yourself in the variety of movement patterns to restore function and improve coordination.

You can also use your own hands to provide the resistance with some of the somatics exercises. It’s best to be led by a Hanna Somatics Practitioner who can give you the idea or guide you along this path to help restore balance in the muscles.

When we use our own hands as a bodyworker on our self, we may be able to learn how to modulate our efforts with a little bit of practice.

Be your own Bodyworker Class

Reminding the movement system as to how it moves is what all healthy vertebrate animals do to keep themselves moving well. After all, what kind of bodyworker can they go to themselves?

For the most part, nature has set it up so all vertebrates can move well merely be reminding the nervous system to reset, or reboot if you will.

Fortunately, we can apply a systematic approach through the somatics exercises and use these tools to be our own bodyworker when needed.

This Friday, August 19th, I’ll be offering an online class in somatics exercises so you can do your own pandiculations in the field of gravity.

You’ll also learn how to use your own hands and be a bodyworker so you can do things like sit more comfortably crossed legged and free up your hips and hip flexors.

When we use our brain and neurology in novel ways, we can foster growth and education in the ways in which we move. We can actually move better as we age.

Now I’m only saying that when I compared myself to a group of 55 high school athletes and few if any had the hamstring flexibility of someone 3x their age.

Register for this Friday’s class. Find out for yourself how free you can be. Sign up and be your own bodyworker.

Instead of preparing to run or lift weights for this past weekend’s Washington State Senior Games, I chose to do some un-conventional exercises for lower body.

Exercises for lower body. The other side of the coin.

As a senior athlete, I’m very interested in how my muscles can return to function as quickly as possible. By working with the space between our ears, namely the brain’s cortex, we can reset the muscles back to a comfortable resting place so they won’t ache, complain and need any ibuprofen.

Getting the gold is one thing, being able to be comfortable afterwards and ready to play again is another.

Rewiring the brain with exercises for lower body using somatics exercises takes out any compensations and substitution patterns.

Since many of us substitute or compensate with our muscles, to regain better function through a re-wiring process with our given structure… takes time.

It is in the very time of now, we can observe how we can change our self.

Taking steps to increase our function with exercises for lower body even during an event can allow us to move well especially after the competition is over.

Limping to the car and looking forwards to the hot tub is what some people will do.

Athletes who struggle with compensations are like the many people who have to be athletic just to move their body around by pulling themselves or trying to move rather than it being more effortless, easy and comfortable.

Undo the compensations with exercises for lower body

Are we all so far away from graceful movements? Hardly, if only we were to re-program the muscles, then we’d get to experience that youthful wonderful movement we once had or were denied.

By working with the brain, we can lessen the negative output to the muscles. We can take out the stress and excessive tension.

What I mean is the excessive tension and holding patterns that muscles will do based on habits, shortening of our muscles and even things like dietary issues and medications which compound how we can effectively move.

Exercises for lower body can be done with the least effort when our brain organizes movement in an efficient manner. We can regulate this time and time again.

To manipulate ourself well in space, to move as well as you can… doesn’t require hard work, just focused attention on how well you can move.

As we become consistent, then we restore our natural ability to do what all healthy vertebrate animals do which is moving with awareness.

The quieter we become in ourselves, the more we’ll notice… and there’s a lot beneath the surface if we dare to venture inwards. We can sense how our compensations can unwind with unique exercises for lower body.

Unlike stretching or strengthening, with somatics exercises you are engaging the brain’s motor cortex where the learning of movement occurs as well as the resetting of the muscle’s length.

Exercises for lower body to un-lock muscles

With the number of substitution patterns and compensations we’ve created, we can still unlock and unlearn those so we can improve our movement patterns which is vital to moving well for the long run.

Even certain training habits and the usual exercises for lower body where we’ve been cued a certain way may have fostered a furthering of compensations unless we took the time to release those compensatory habits.

Moving with natural patterns rather than conditioned patterns allows us to return to moving freely. Then, we use those conditioned patterns in the games and activities we enjoy.

With our 600 muscles and 17 layers of muscles, it’s no wonder some of the aches and concerns we have remain a mystery or are left un-resolved.

We can help resolve things with unusual exercises for lower body. We can go back into our sense of movement and notice the adjustments which take place.

By noticing our own self-adjustments, we can master the art of moving well before, during and after our competitions, games and dances.

Becoming aware of how we hold ourself, we can truly let go and return to moving effortlessly and easily with some unusual exercises for lower body known as somatics.

Want to change the quads, psoas, and other leg muscles in a very different and easy way?

Join us this week, Friday August 5th for an online class on exercises for lower body.

Generally, when we think of exercise we are usually pushing a weight, giving a bit more effort, holding a pose, stretching or breathing more rapidly.

Cortical Inhibition Upper Body Exercises

Do we ever take the time to un-do what we just activated with our upper body exercises?

Many people would think of stretching, which we know is bad for us according to the research. There is a unique way we can actively use our brain to un-do the activating of the muscles of the upper body.

When it comes to the neck, upper back, chest, shoulders and arms… how often have you consciously worked on getting those muscles to let go?

The brain can do this through exercises known as somatics exercises which primarily uses gravity as the load to release any held contraction levels.

Those contraction levels may remain higher after we activate our muscles with normal upper body exercises. If we remain activated and tight, then the muscles can’t lower their resting rates to be more fully activated the next time we need to use them.

While we may spend worthwhile time activating muscles, we can use the brain’s inhibitory process to bring those very muscles back to neutral resting rates so they are idling in neutral rather than revved up in 2nd gear to begin with.

Is the brain factor missing in upper body exercises?

The brain can be used to release relaxation back into our muscular system so we can feel how the muscles let go and become softer.

If we are living with a tight neck from everyday stress do we need upper body exercises to strengthen that which is already tight?

Wouldn’t it seem to make more sense to have a set of upper body exercises which could release the muscles we just jacked up thus giving us a more balanced use of ourself.

Many times we often talk of balance as working the front side or the back side when it comes to upper body exercises. Do we include the muscles of our side so that each side is balanced as well? By working with the front, back and both sides we can strengthen equally and attempt to be more in balance.

Anybody doing de-activating upper body exercises?

All of these upper body exercises are all well and good yet did we take the requisite time to actively de-activate those muscles too.

Getting stiff from exercise or feeling the tension increase in our muscles doesn’t necessarily have to remain. Any rigidity would be hard to balance by what, more upper body exercises to strengthen tight or stiff muscles on the other side of what we think we need to balance.

In normal exercise, we’ll lift or move with ideas like 3 sets of 10 to build strength or we’ll do many movements so our aerobic capacity increases through the repetition of swinging a limb many times.

By using the brain in a very conscious manner, all we need to do is just say three or less movements to get the brain to reset the muscles.

Then we can move onto perhaps a different angle or different intention to re-focus the brain and improve the movement and the memory of that particular movement.

Moving freely, easily and naturally as healthy vertebrate animals do comes from the very same procedure they use to move well, be agile, and appear graceful with their movements.

This type programming and learning comes from the brain. We human animals have forgotten how to use this other side of the coin when it comes to upper body exercises.

All it takes is just a different orientation with gravity and being mindful so we can more fully return ourself to a fuller capacity and have a more or deeper balanced approach with upper body exercises.

If you’d like to find out how to rebalance in a completely different way, then join us on Friday, July 16th. You can join us live, online or get the class which will be ready for replay afterwards.

We’ll explore how to use the brain with simple movements to reset those muscles which often don’t when it comes to upper body exercises.

We often activate muscles and rarely think about de-activating them unless we think or are told to stretch. Stretching, as we know it is bad for us.

The other side of exercise and pain. Animal know-how.

Instead, the de-activation of muscles is the other side of the coin and is what can allow us to free a painful back spasm for instance.

Healthy vertebrate animals have this know-how to move well. Below is a video on a human animal, who at the age of 79, learned about the system of de-activation to control a back problem which plagued him since age 42.

A woman was scheduled for back surgery. She was curious as exercise and pain was going hand in hand in her life. During the course of one afternoon, she learned how how to de-activate muscles as animals do.

She went to Alaska on vacation and merely did 5 of these unique de-activating exercises and she traveled pain free in the car and plane for the next two weeks.

When she came back home, she cancelled the back surgery merely from learning how a unique form exercise and pain don’t have to go together.

Naturally, she saved herself and the healthcare system $39,000.

It’s amazing how life can change when we get back on track so we can do what we want again.

Exercise and pain don’t have to go hand in hand.

As a former member of what I call the pain club… I lived with a chronic pain condition known as fibromyalgia. This affects some 5+ million Americans. The minority of the 10% who live in this painful state are men.

Despite all our efforts, if we continue with both exercise and pain, then it ain’t working and there’s no need to push through it anymore.

If you want to be done with exercise and pain then learn to move like an animal again. You can even try it for free. Try the other side of the coin and learn how to deactivate painful, aching, tight muscles the way nature intended.

Get past exercise and pain.

Animals have the know how. We’ve merely lost the fine sense of moving well like the animals we truly are. You know, the nice ones who won’t bite you… though some of them bark awfully loudly, especially if you live in pain without a resolution.

Download some free animal moves so you can experience how exercise and pain will no longer be in the same equation.

To Free Shoulder and Neck Pain…

We’ll focus on how tight, contracted chest and abdominal muscles prevent your neck and shoulders from being pain free.

There is a yoga movement which we can somatically explore. In case you’re in a yoga class, the next time you get to this position, it will seem waaaay easier.

If you’ve never done yoga, no worries, we can lie on our side and you’ll be able to move comfortably or well within your comfortable range of motion.

When people try to “stretch” unknowingly the slightest of strain can cause the muscles to re-contract and re-tighten afterwards. This can exacerbate both shoulder and neck pain if the goal is to stretch.

Using the brain’s cortex to release muscles will allow for more freedom in movement and the lessening of shoulder and neck pain.

Releasing Shoulder and Neck Pain

Since the brain loves differentiated patterns, this is how we’ll floss the joints. Moving the joints in ways we normally wouldn’t think of since we’re generally upright. And how many upright exercises have we tried?

Changing your body’s relationship to gravity is key. To unwind ourselves from held tension, contraction patterns or binds we find ourself in, we can use our brain and muscles in a very delicate manner.

That’s why we love somatics to unwind shoulder and neck pain.

Inside of us are delicate tissues so when we carefully move with awareness, the tissues get reminded of their function. The brain keeps improving as a result. The muscles will move as I’ve said waaaay better. That’s my technical term. : ).

To get there, out of shoulder and neck pain, further and faster, is to learn how to slowly move and pay close attention. It’s quite simple.

The risk in holding a contraction pattern for too long only keeps the pain and discomfort going. Simple awareness and intelligence will easily free shoulder and neck pain.

Join us this Friday online. From the comfort of your own home, be free.

Register here for the Shoulder and Neck Pain class.

You can enjoy this class right at home with us.

Online somatics classes usually incorporate our awareness of breathing while moving.

Breathing exercise class in the somatic tradition.

In this Friday’s class, we’ll work with variations of the basic somatic movement pattern which gets the spine to move more freely and easily.

Breathing while we move, integrates breathe naturally and effortlessly into our every day lives, especially when we engage in activities when we need to breathe and move easily.

A simple breathing exercise can un-lock tight muscles so we are free to do what we want with our bodies.

Held tension is easily remedied using somatics exercises which have been systematically designed to help us move better, recover from injury, and end all the bracing and flinching we live with when pain and discomfort happens to get in our way of doing activities we enjoy.

One breathing exercise may be enough

To unlock muscles which bind themselves together, we’ll move in a number of different ways so we have more keys and routes to facilitate more enjoyable and better breathing.

We’ll do a breathing exercise on our back and compare that it how we experience our breathing sitting.

The same breathing exercise can have profound effects.

When we do the same thing in a variety of positions, we can experience the breathe in ways we may not normally get the chance to. This opens up channels of breathing and possibilities of experience.

Come and explore with us how simple somatics exercises are a natural, gentle, easy, safe means to a path of internal freedom.

Sign up here for this online breathing exercise class.

You can get 100% out of physical pain and stiffness, the way nature intended for us to get out of pain, not by exercise but by un-exercise the way animals do.

Exercise and Pain is not the way to go.

Immobility and bracing doesn’t have to be the way.

• Without drugs
• Without surgery
• Without any special equipment

You can naturally get out of pain and discomfort as simply as healthy animals do to move comfortably.

The secret of what healthy animals do to stop pain has been systematized for our benefit.

To heal agonizing muscles for good without surgery and without medication can be achieved with an un-exercise system.

Exercise and pain is not the animal way.

Using three simple steps that is similar to what cats and dogs do every day is the secret which will unlock the way out of a painful recovery and give us back the ability to walk easily for instance.

To be comfortable in long car rides or to go skiing once again, even after they’ve told you, you won’t be able to do it… is what they don’t know. There is a natural way out of pain.

If we experience exercise and pain, we’re moving further away from our natural birthright of moving easily and comfortably.

Living Pain Free is easy and instead of exercise and pain as we know it, we can un-exercise our way out of it.

We can follow Fido’s lead since animals un-do stiffness and immobility all the time yet no one really notices or pays attention to what it means for us human animals.

This little known animal secret comes with a $5 word called a pandiculation. When you do it, you can move like a tiger again and feel how exercise and pain no longer go hand in hand.

It’s simply a matter of un-locking the code of stiffness without all the fancy equipment. We’re already endowed with a brain which can un-do pain and stiffness.

Getting to the other side of exercise and pain

All you need is you and Gravity to live pain free. Moving freely in the field of gravity is easy with a little animal know-how.

If gravity isn’t working for you. You already know the pain of living in it. There is a way out of this misery. Simple, easy animal moves shows us the way out instead of exercise and pain.

If we’re living with the frustrations and limitations that pain brings, healthy animals know the easy way out.

To un-do physical pain right it its tracks is to un-exercise.

To get immediate relief from pain… with a little practice as healthy animals do, you can move easily again.

Exercise and pain is not what animals do. To move like a cheetah and get immediate relief from pain, all it takes is a little animal know how and the pain is gone.

Simple things like a back spasm is easily set right once you know what healthy animals know. Don’t have a cow, get relief.

When is the last time you saw a cheetah pull a hamstring or get into a back spasm?

You can discover how animals know-how to move freely by using an un-exercise system known as somatics exercises which gets us out of pain.

After you try the animal secret, you might think differently about exercise and pain.

Somatics exercise is an exercise approach where you learn how to release tight, stiff, sore muscles which may have taken us off track.

Jonathan Hunt who played soccer professionally in England is a bud of mine. He left football, that’s soccer to us…


on account of back pain and eventually found his way to Somatics which helped him get out of his back pain where many other approaches failed him.

Get this, he actually discovered it moments before he was leaving from vacation. He was visiting Thailand for some r & r… He knew the plane ride would be a killer on his back.

How many people hurt just sitting in car or being on a plane?

He eventually became a fellow Hanna Somatic Educator himself and now can enjoy the games of his youth as he continues to play today.

If you’re in London, you can always check him out for a hands-on session. You’ll be in good hands.

Mail Online in the UK just posted an article in their health notes sections on Jonathan. See getting your back on track.

The very exercise for back pain which is described in the article is one in which many somatics educators teach people to have a healthy, flexible spine.

If you’d like an audio version, you can listen to several exercises for back pain and find out for yourself what somatics is all about.

How does another animal tell the other one… wait, I just pulled a hammie… would you eat someone else today?

Unlike our fellow animals, we wouldn’t eat each other at a sporting event or when we merely move quickly enough to feel the pain of a muscle spasm and go down and out.

So what in the heck is it that animals know? What is their secret for not pulling a hammie?

There’s a little known animal secret that cheetahs, cats, dogs and pretty much every animal with a spine knows…

But every human intuitively understand it… even babies in the womb get it…

It’s odd how we really don’t know about it and use it to our advantage… otherwise, the statistic that some 70-85% of Americans have experienced back pain in their life is high when you consider that it happens even if you are exercising too…

Did you know… that you can un-do pain and muscle spasms with a relatively little known healthy animal secret?

There’s no mystery to transforming the root cause of physical pain and agony… you know that one of pulling a hamstring or getting taken out by a back spasm.

Once we understand there is a natural way for a human being to get back on track and be as well as any healthy animal.

Just like animals, we’ve got a similar movement software system built in… yet we don’t access it.

We have forgotten to access our movement software and update it… simply, easily and effortlessly.

Why have we forgotten?

As a human, we’ve evolved in ways where we’ve undermined our self, since we’ve basically forgotten this most natural ability…

How to move like an animal and reprogram our movement software. By doing this, muscles move comfortably.

While this might sound like a lot of work, it actually isn’t, in fact…

What’s ironic is that we had this programming down pat as babies in the womb. As adults, it’s as if we went into a sensory motor amnesia of sorts.

We’ve merely forgotten to remind our nervous system of its capacity so our brains just check out. You’ve heard the term, don’t use it, lose it.

Somewhere inside each of us, is what I call our lost movement files. Like childhood memories, youthful movement isn’t lost, it’s forgotten and the brain waits for us to access these long since forgotten ways.

Healthy animals…on the other hand practice what we think is a secret, yet this is what points a clear path away from those painful muscle spasms… the stiffness we sense… and the built up muscular tension which ties us in knots.

Check back on a future post as I’ll talk more about exercising and having pain. The healthy animal secret points the way out of pain and muscle spasms. In the meantime, you can find out for yourself how to move like a healthy animal again.

Whether you’ve been experiencing back pain, hip pain, neck pain, etc… you can take care of it at home.

For some time, I’ve been working with fabulous people all over the world offering private online somatics one on one sessions… all in the comfort of home.

This compliments the ongoing online classes which are also offered.

From my experience providing online webinars where you watch a presentation and follow it with some live somatics movements… combining the low techiness of somatics with a computer has been a revelation.

In fact, doctors are now using this approach too.

Cisco has been teaming up with them. They’ve discovered this is a highly effective approach which works well for many people.

All you need to do is answer an email and your computer does the rest, otherwise we can use the Free Google Video interface, Skype and if you happen to have a mac, we can use Facetime.

For those of you on the go, we’ve even done it over an iphone too while away from home.

Your initial session includes a health background intake.

Followed by:

• A posture assessment

• Movement sequences specifically tailored to your needs and concerns

• And you’ll receive an audio recording of the easy movements you did, so you’ll know exactly what to do

• + You’ll have access to a private members only area with videos and written files to further enhance your progress.

Press here to schedule a private video session.

You can play at any age!

They don’t understand what Fido knows that could unlock your muscles and set you free once again.

There is a startling truth about your physical pain and how you can get out of it…
with a way most people aren’t talking about.

You can get out of pain more quickly and easily than you ever thought possible.

But let me back things up by saying “Having Pain Sucks”

Flinching & bracing is no way to live since living in chronic pain is hard… since it seems like it may never end or go away.

It might even seem like it keeps you guessing by moving around and not getting better, just becoming worse.

Having to take a hot shower just to get started in the morning to soothe already aching muscles… is no way to live.

Feeling older and over the hill before your time is not the way you thought it was going to be… but it’s become a way of life or so for the moment.

Is there any reason to live in this cave of despair?

You know that place to shut everyone and everything out since the relentless pain is too much.

That lingering flu-like feeling which doesn’t let go…

What’s interesting is that no one really get its since they say “you look fine to me”.

Like a bad movie version of Ground Hog Day… everyday you wake up in pain, everyday you wonder why does that mack truck keep hitting you… and you keep forgetting the license plate number too.

Sadly in this movie, you want to stay in the hole since you’re too tired…

And now what? Another day of aching pain… another day of misery… another day of the pain coming back.

But you know about this…you’re really tired and really tired of the endless pain which doesn’t go away.

So I’ve got a weird question…

Have you ever seen a cheetah or dog in back pain or ever seen one pull its hamstring?

The story will be continued…