24/12/2025
This week, I worked with a 67-year-old woman during her 18th Spinal Flow session, spread over the past five months.
She has lived with a hip issue for decades and has always sensed it was connected to her childhood—something deeper than structure alone. This session was emotional, layered, and revealing.
At the beginning of the session, she shared how much more internally aware she has become—how clearly she now notices her body’s responses to people, situations, and stress. This kind of awareness doesn’t come from pushing or correcting; it comes from a nervous system that feels safe enough to listen.
Her hip issue isn’t something she would describe as pain. Instead, it shows up as restriction, tightness, a holding pattern, and at times discomfort. And that, too, is changing. It’s no longer static or locked in the same way. Alongside this shift, she’s experiencing unexpected functional changes. She recently did an almost full chin-up on a bar—something she has never been able to do before, not even when she was younger. She also shared that she’s far more aware of the position of her lower back and how she organizes herself through movement and daily life.
Along with these physical changes, she’s noticing emotional shifts as well—periods of crying, moments of anger or frustration, and a heightened sensitivity to injustice in the world and in her interactions with others. I explained to her that these experiences are also indicators of change at the nervous system level. When long-held protection begins to soften, sensations, emotions, and perceptions that were once unavailable can surface—things her body and nervous system may never have had the capacity to fully feel, process, or release before.
During her session, there was a significant let-down through the skeletal structure of her left pelvic side—an unwinding that reflected what her system has been preparing for over time.
After the session, she quietly said:
“I’ve had acupuncture, osteopathy, practiced tai chi, massage therapy, chiropractic… none of it compares to this. Nothing has gone this deep. This really gets to a different level.”
I am deeply humbled by what my clients share with me.
Not because Spinal Flow is about fixing or forcing change, but because when the nervous system is finally supported—rather than overridden—the body begins to reorganize itself in intelligent ways. Decades-old patterns don’t always disappear overnight, but they can soften, shift, and transform as awareness and regulation increase.
Healing doesn’t always arrive as the absence of pain. Sometimes it shows up as change, awareness, strength where there was none before, and a quiet sense that the body is finally being heard.
