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19/03/2024

Dave's arm has fallen off!! Easily fixed, but the important question to follow is WHY? if we want to prevent it from happening again.

Thankfully, this is exactly what I do at The Gravity Technique.

Why did Dave's arm fall off? Because it had been working too hard.
Why? Because its the only complete arm he has so it does everything.

Ok, now we know that Dave has a compensatory movement pattern, he can start to move his whole body slightly differently to ensure that the arm doesn't overwork and subsequently fall off again. Problem solved.

Sounds silly on a plastic skeleton, but this is actually the way things work in our bodies too.

When we follow the Why of an issue down to its root cause, we can then make small changes that stops unnecessary wear and tear on the joints and the pain goes away. Just like that.

**No skeletons were harmed in the making of this image and Dave is now restored to his former glory.

If you want to get your frozen shoulder/ tennis elbow/ carpal tunnel sorted - my Spring Offer is running and has 5 spots left. Link in the comments to book or message me if it's something more complex and let's chat.

15/03/2024

No, I’m NOT a Physio...

I'm a Human Movement Expert. Let me explain what that means:

I’ve been studying human movement for nearly 20 years and I’ve trained with some of the best Teachers in the world in various modalities.

I started off in Yoga sorting my own wonky body out and whilst it did help to an extent, the ‘cookie cutter’ approach to asana only took me so far.

Multiple abdominal surgeries had left me with complex compensatory patterns that weren’t useful. Even though I was regularly exercising, I had tennis elbow, cold hands (Renaud's), constant stiff neck and a ‘dicky’ right shoulder (technical term).

In pursuit of a solution, I spent years working through :
Chiropractic
Pilates
Physiotherapy
Acupuncture
Cranio Sacral Therapy
Qigong & Tai Chi
POLE DANCING (I know...)
Scarwork

None of them provided the answer I was looking for. Manual therapy was nothing without the movement and the movement was nothing without the hands on therapy.

Whilst each was useful, nothing gave me a succinct, straightforward schematic that I could replicate at home on my own.

I was tired of handing out my health and wellbeing to any third party that promised it could help.

Part of the adventures in my career had brought me to take a post-grad degree in Yoga and I started to teach others.

This showed me two things:
1. I had a knack for seeing hitches and glitches in people's movement.
2. What I was being taught in books and what I could see in the client's body in front of me didn't match up.

All humans are completely unique.

So why don't we have a movement modality that is designed for each individual? With a bit of hands-on work to release the stuck bits?

So I created the Gravity Technique.

We start by identifying what’s going on in YOUR body and not compared to some schematic that has been dreamt up by someone who thinks humans ‘should’ look a certain way.

Then I help you to understand what your body is doing and most importantly, WHY you intelligent body and brain are getting up to the things they are (and usually causing you pain in the meantime)!

Then comes the good bit - Empowerment. Education. Responsibility.

I NEVER dish out sheets of generic exercises.

I DON’T do maintenance either.

You won’t need me for longer than 6 sessions (usually 1, 2 or 4 sessions and we’re done).

You get a lovely toolkit of movements tailored to your individual needs that you can use to relax and restore the natural patterning of your body and you get to understand how your body and brain work together to create your everyday movement so you can avoid your pain pitfalls.

My 🌸Spring offer🌸 is only on until the end of March and I've got 8 places left.

Grab your spot via the link in the comments or send me a message and let’s chat 💜

22/02/2024

“It is clearly her calling to help others in this way”. I’ve been healing folk since I was young and whilst the chubby knees may have disappeared, my grin and the drive to ensure everyone feels better definitely hasn’t.

From my early days of wanting to be a nurse to becoming a Yoga teacher in the 200's sharing my newfound Yoga knowledge with anyone willing (or just unsuspecting and couldn't run fast enough), I’ve been striving to know more, share more and impact more in the field of wellness.

I've always been convinced that we there is a pain free, healthy state available to us and I was determined to find the keys that access it.

The last 15 years have been a whirlwind of fascia research, anatomy in movement and studying the habitual and compensatory movement patterns that cause many of our chronic ailments.

Today, The Gravity Technique is a LONG way from that nurses outfit, but the ethos isn’t.

The 1:1 work I offer is life-changing, investing in this approach long term is game-changing and I’m on a mission to ensure EVERYONE (and I do mean everyone) can feel empowered to take control of their own health & wellbeing.

Also, I recently found out I’m a projector under human design which explained a lot!

**Quote credit: Justine, TGT Member & Retreat Attendee
Photo credit: 1. My Mum c.1983 😂
2. Petra Gatto 2022

21/02/2024

It's all about mindset. Struggling to lift one knee? Here’s how a simple re-frame changes the game…

I met with my client a few weeks ago to get started with her movement re-patterning post hip replacement. She had the sheet of generic exercises from her post-op physio and we were working on optimising those too.

There was an exercise where she stood holding the back of a chair and raised her knee up in front of her. “What about this one?” I asked her.

“Oh, I don’t do that one.” She replied. “I can’t do it.”

“Show me” I said

She was quite right, no matter how hard she tried, she could not get her foot to leave the ground. This was not through lack of range of movement or muscle weakness as she was walking just fine and her gait was good.

So we took a different approach. Rather than trying to lift the leg, how about employing a different movement that would gain the same result?

Pulling the other foot down into the ground, as I’m sharing in this video clip from The Gravity Technique online session, at some point allows the other foot we want to lift to leave the floor. Keep focusing on the pull down and eventually the knee will lift all the way up.

So why didn’t my client’s leg want to lift even though she could do it?

Because her brain had decided it couldn’t. For whatever reason, either the surgery, or leg too heavy or not strong enough muscles - her brain had taken the executive decision that it didn’t want to do it.

This is where The Gravity Technique employs some lovely neuroscience to get to the bottom of what’s going on and then shifts the mindset which ultimately improves range of movement.

You literally get to move in ways you found impossible before!!

Give it try for yourself. In this short clip we were discussing the ever challenging ‘plank pose’. Because everything we do is accessible to all, it’s modified with a chair.

Let me know in the comments how you get on and if you’re ready for a revolutionary approach, head over to gravitytechnique.com to find out more about the membership and working with me 1:1.

20/02/2024

Why do shoulders freeze? And why do we rarely ask the question “why has your shoulder frozen?”

Nope, we just barrel on in there with a whole load of symptom relievers: massage, acupuncture, stretching, the list is endless.

Yet, we never question why your highly intelligent body has decided to immobilise this crucial area (it picks up cups of tea and nice things to eat, afterall)!

Incredibly rarely a symptom is also a cause. More likely, the pain you are experiencing is coming from an unknown place in your body. Follow this trail of ‘breadcrumbs’ and it will lead you a) to a cause of your pain and b) more often than not, a solution to that pain so when it leaves, it doesn’t return.

Take frozen shoulders for example - I haven’t treated a shoulder yet, that wasn’t compensating for the opposite hip, knee or ankle.

Once we’d sorted out the crucial foundation of the body by introducing functional feet and legs, the shoulder cleared itself up and the pain was gone.

If you’re in pain, you don’t have to settle for the conventional painkillers, steroid injections etc. There is another way and I’m here when you’re ready.

Currently booking 1:1 for March onwards on zoom and in-person in the London/ Bucks/ Berks/ Oxon areas. Head to gravitytecnique.com to book your informal chat.

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