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Shift Bodywork and Performance Care, 388 Carlaw Avenue, Toronto, ON (2025)

09/17/2025

Shift was out last weekend helping tune up runners participating in the Constantine

The run raised over $746,000 for 38 Toronto charities this year.

What can Shift do to optimize your run? Whether you’re starting out or a seasoned runner, we use techniques like , , as well as manual therapy, joint mobility, etc to ensure you’re firing on all cylinders and have compensation-free access to everything you want to train.

An individualized biomechanical tune up with any of our practitioners can add longevity and optimize performance for the long run.

03/06/2025

IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.

Life happens, and our nervous system reorganizes to keep us safe and keep our eyes level. Sometimes these compensations are less than biomechanically efficient and need a tweak to maintain optimal strength and mobility. When a structure overworks for something else that’s underworking, it gets angry about working above its pay grade. Then it starts screaming at you.

Can’t fire your glutes? It’s not always a cueing issue. Or a hip flexor issue. We’re a complicated biomechanical being and no one’s compensation is the same. If your body is defaulting to a structure that’s not meant for that function, it needs a motor pattern overhaul.

A biomechanical assessment, gait assessment, muscle testing and tune up can ensure that you’re moving properly, and firing on all cylinders from the feet up and the nervous system out.

Using a vast array of innovative techniques, team can assess and offer efficient game changing individual solutions to decrease pain and optimize function.

TAG A FRIEND WHO COULD USE A TUNE UP ⬇️

11/11/2024

. As the home of NKT North of the border, our practitioners know the value of individual muscle testing to assess dysfunction.
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JOGA x NKT

Saw a rugby gal I’ve been working with for ACL rehab. She’s 10 months post ACL repair and just finished her first season back in action. We check in from time to time to mitigate and fine-tune any issues that come up on the field.. She complained of some knee tension on her repaired side when she was put in as prop in the scrum. What functional move do I know that mimics a scrum? JOGA tabletop. Not only does this train the stability required to scrum, but it gives me a tool to assess stability side to side as JOGA extends one leg back to incorporate rotational stability. Stabilizing with her surgical leg on the ground replicated her discomfort in the scrum. Back to the treatment table. Using NKT testing, I found her right TFL overworking for an underworking right psoas. Basically her hip flexors were in a dysfunctional relationship. Fixed that pattern and re-assessed tabletop. No pain.

Homework: stretch TFL and activate psoas to get everything online, then train it with JOGA. There is no one size fits all motor dysfunction. Test, don’t guess.

11/03/2024

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If you’re curious to know more about and - come visit me on Wednesdays and Saturdays at

These classes are warm and welcoming, and the small class size means that you’ll get just enough hands-on cuing and feedback to help you feel successful and strong.

ELDOA is an incredible exercise program. People who have done everything from yoga to crossfit find it to be one of the most effective and surprisingly challenging exercise classes they have ever done.

It’s personal and focusing, meaning that everyone (athletes, wellness folks, those recovering from injury, etc) gets an effective and rewarding experience.

Try it in your own body, and see why people often say, “I can’t believe my doctor / chiropractor / physiotherapist never told me about this!” It really might change how you feel about exercise and how much you can do for your own health by moving your body well.

Visit torontoeldoa.com and shiftbodywork.com for information about ELDOA group classes and private sessions in Toronto!

10/28/2024

✨When is low back pain not a back problem? ✨

Met this gal backstage at a rock show. Mentioned ongoing long standing low back pain and pointed to both QLs. Speaking of standing, she stands for a side hustle bartending, and stands for backstage work, also clocking about 25000 steps a day (not uncommon for production/crew on a show day).

I immediately think core due to bilateral back symptoms. Transverse abdominals were not online, and I couldn’t get them online with anything. Then she mentions an old left ACL repair. Hamstring graft.

The truth will set you free. If you clip hamstring tendons, they’re either going to check out or be super pissed. Based on NKT testing, her left hamstrings were overworking for an underworking re**us femoris (both playing tug of war with her tibia post ACL injury/surgery). Fixed that pattern and her TVA came back online and her back felt better.

Assess, don’t guess.
Chronic pain doesn’t have to be that way.
You are a special snowflake (in your dysfunction and solution).

Your nervous system runs the show.
IMPORTANT PSA: As always, no injury, body, or nervous system is the same. Nothing replaces a diligent assessment of your special snowflake dysfunction & compensations.

10/07/2024

Sheri is introducing one-on-one classes at Shift! She uses her impressive arsenal of continuing education and experience to help liberate her clients through movement.

Sheri believes in the power of good movement for self agency, well being, and being able to simply enjoy life. She focuses on helping clients cultivate a calm mind and deep strength in ELDOA / Pilates classes and personal training sessions. In kind, her classes always include full body, large movements to “take up space”, and then deeper, challenging exercises to find and unwind one’s own restrictions, identify compensations and release stress.

Sheri loves working with people who are curious about the way they currently use their bodies, and how they might push their limits safely to find more freedom in their day to day movements. Her goal is to offer an equal amount of play and focused work in each class, so that clients can leave mentally refreshed and physically reinforced.

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09/19/2024

Meet Kevin! After many years of martial arts, sports, athletics, and dance, Kevin’s passion for movement combined with a long list of continuing education has created a client-centred and comprehensive assessment and treatment approach. Kevin strives to understand his clients’ functional goals and identifies the source of pain and dysfunction to help his clients thrive in the activities they love. Kevin strives to empower his clients with an understanding of their pain or symptoms, ways to manage it, and a path to recovery and injury prevention. Treatments often consist of manual therapy of soft-tissues and joints, motor control retraining, customized corrective exercises, mobility techniques. Certifications including , etc, enhance his personal experience in competitive , , , , , , etc to optimize his clients’ performance, function and quality of life.

09/04/2024

✨Come and find centre with ✨
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After a long break from my normal life schedule I’ll be returning to Toronto this November to teach two Anatomy in Motion courses and work with a few clients.

If i’m being completely honest, 2023 was a slow build towards me recognizing I was on a path I didn’t like, burnt out on trying to make things continue to work as they were, and in need of a big ol’ rest. So I hit pause on working with peoples’ bodies, moved to Australia, and decided to discover who was left of Me without the professional reputation and habits I defined myself by.

No longer held Suspended in one version of my life, I made a Transition. A leap of faith. A big Shift. A Propulsion into new territory... (forgive the Flow Motion Model phase analogies...).

Just like teaches in AiM, I’ve been recalibrating by exploring the other end of the spectrum in order to find center. This parallel to the way we learn and move through our lives, the same rules our bodies in motion abide by, is what I love about AiM and drew me to want to study it in such depth, and now have the privilege to teach.

Returning to Toronto in November to teach the new AiM course line-up feels like a return from the “rest and play” end of the spectrum back towards “teach and guide” (and hopefully this time with a new sense of center). And I’m stoked!

If you are interested in studying Anatomy in Motion with me, please save these dates come join myself and other fellow movement nerds, explorers, and detectives:

Phase 1: Finding Center, Nov 16 & 17
Phase 3: The Flow Motion Model, Nov 22-24

Both courses at

Link for more info and to register for these courses is at the top of my profile.

As part of my own movement practice, exploring the AiM mechanics and exercises have been an anchor for me in turbulent times. Through AiM I have a practice that helps me find center in my body when life is reliably anything but. A little dose of cogs, pronation, and supination goes a long way.

I hope to share this valuable material with all who feel ready :)

(photos are from the closed chain biomechanics course I taught last year in Tacoma)

08/19/2024

Saw a client today who complained of heel pain. Has bone spurs on imaging, meaning tissue is pulling on bone where it’s not supposed to. So I ultrasounded his foot and he was all better. JUST KIDDING. He had a “pump bump” on his left heel. Ie., his achilles, through his tight calf, was pulling on his heel bone.

A couple clues:
1. this character doesn’t like the sagittal plane ie moving forward and backward. His pelvis swaps planes and overuses rotation. He doesn’t extend his hips in gait.
2. past medical history: old Achilles tear on the opposite side
3. he can’t fire the back of his hip into hip extension

So, he’s tight in the front and weak in the back and has heel pain. I thought I might find his calf overworking for his inhibited glute. However, using testing, I found that his psoas (hip flexor in the front) was overworking (facilitated) for his underworking (inhibited) hip extension. His calf/heel adaptations and pain are a victim of compensation higher up the chain. So we released his psoas and activated his hip extension, and his gait improved.

Don’t guess, test. Biomechanical checkups are underrated. There is no one size fits all.

Everyone is a special dysfunctional snowflake with their own motor compensations and medical history.

07/18/2024

Where the magic (Physio, RMT, Chiro, Osteo, AT, NKT, SFMA, Neurofunctional acupuncture, SFMA, pelvic physio, PDTR, AiM, etc) happens.

07/16/2024

Want to elevate your golf game? Prevent injury? Optimize your swing? Drew brings his Physiotherapy background and Neurokinetictherapy experience to the Titliest certification to change your game. Book online below or at link in bio.

https://shiftbodywork.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/5/treatment/185

05/07/2024

One of the most important factors in golf injury and performance literature is the ability to dissociate your pelvis from your thorax; referred to as the X-factor.

A proper 10-minute warm up targeting a few mobility and stability aspects is also key to injury prevention and performance on the course; Hip mobility, shoulder mobility, and eccentric hamstring loading. Using your club, you can run through these exercises on the course to optimize your game.

Cogs for the X-Factor:
Pelvic cogs - hold club in front to keep thorax stable, rotate pelvis both directions
Thorax cogs - hip hinge holding golf club and rotate thorax bilaterally, keeping “eyes on the ball”

Hip hinge - using club to keep back flat - eccentrically load hamstrings

Shoulder passthroughs - if a club is too short, you can keep a band with your clubs to achieve the same effect - make sure to keep your core on

Shoulder external rotation - this is more important in your trail arm.

Finally - hip mobility - hold onto your feet, sink your glutes to the grass keeping your chest up.

If you would like a pdf of this warmup with some added tips and training exercises, email info@shiftbodywork.com.

Pro Tips:

We operate in a global system, from the foot up. Compensations from past medical history can affect our current biomechanics. If you’re having trouble activating or mobilizing, this can be assessed and optimized, both for injury prevention and performance, by our team at Shift.

Because Not Golfing Sucks.

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