Jeannie Di Bon, London (2026)

06/01/2026

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05/01/2026

I find this time of year quite stressful. The expectations of the fitness world to reset, challenge ourselves or have a 30 day turnaround is exhausting.

If you live with hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, or any chronic illness, this societal pressure to have ambitious goals and hit the ground running every new year can be stressful. For many with a chronic illness, the goal may look very different from those that society expects of us.

It’s absolutely OK that your new year looks different. For many of us, it has to if we want to avoid flares, injuries and overload.

Ease into the year with what feels good for you. I am advocating for a Gentle January. You can read more about this concept in my blog. Link in comments, website and today’s stories.

Happy Gentle January 🦓💪

04/01/2026

Did ‘pushing through’ ever backfire for you? I know it did for me many times.

If you’re Hypermobile, your body is constantly asking one question. That is “Am I safe enough to try?”

When the answer is no:
• pain increases
• muscles guard
• coordination drops
• fatigue rises
• confidence collapses

When the answer is yes:
• movement becomes possible
• control improves
• pain often reduces
• capacity grows
• trust returns

This is why pushing harder doesn’t work for everyone.
And why forcing intensity can backfire, especially in hypermobility and chronic pain.

Safety doesn’t mean doing nothing. It means doing the right thing, at the right dose, in the right way.

Small, precise movement - go low, go slow
Clear boundaries set by you not someone else
Predictable progress - not perfection
Permission to pause and breathe
Support without judgement

Safety is what allows the nervous system to lower threat and allow change. This isn’t about being careful forever.
It’s about creating the conditions where strength, confidence, and freedom can return.

Safety is not the opposite of progress. It is the precondition for it.

What’s been your experience?

01/01/2026

Happy New Year 💜You’re allowed to arrive into this year exactly as you are.

2025 may have had progress, survival mode, holding on and ups and downs. I know I did all of these phases.

Living in a body that asks more of you takes strength that rarely gets seen. Your capacity shifts. Your energy is precious. Your nervous system carries more than most people realise.

This year, I’m not asking to push harder. I’m inviting you to move with gentleness, calm, curiosity and compassion. Let’s go Gentle January. And beyond.

Small shifts change more than perfection can help
• steadier movement
• pacing without guilt
• boundaries without apology
• nervous-system safety before intensity
• stability before strength
• rest without the guilt

You don’t need to transform overnight. You don’t need to fight your body. You don’t need to perform to perfection.

You can begin gently.

Thank you for being part of this community and for your trust, your honesty, your presence.

Here’s to a year of working with your body, not against it.

Happy New Year 💛 I’m grateful you’re here & excited to bring you lots more content in 2026.

30/12/2025

Strong and unstable at the same time 🤔

It is possible to feel strong and weak at the same time due to underlying hypermobility.

You can have strong muscles, good endurance, or years of training behind you and still feel unstable, shaky, clumsy, or easily injured.

Because strength and stability are not the same thing.

Strength is the ability to produce force.

Stability is the ability to control that force, especially at your joints.

With hypermobility, your connective tissue doesn’t give you clear boundaries. So your muscles and nervous system work overtime to create control and sometimes without success.

That’s why you can lift heavy one day and struggle to carry groceries the next.

Why you can squat but can’t stand still without pain.

Why you can move big but fatigue fast.

Why you can be fit and feel fragile.

You’re not inconsistent but it just means we need to dial back on the intensity and build solid, safe foundations first.

I even consulted with a US college athletic team a few years ago. They couldn’t understand why their most fittest athletes (who were also Hypermobile) were always the injured ones. I had to explain this concept to them and advise to adapt their training plans.

Have you ever felt that crash from strong to unable to do what you used to? Let me know.

27/12/2025

IMM Masterclass: Clinical Perspectives on Movement, Pain and EDS Free Event on January 12th, 5pm GMT.

I am so excited to announce this free in-depth masterclass exploring The Integral Movement
Method and its clinical applications for hypermobility spectrum conditions and chronic pain.

This educational masterclass brings together leading voices in the EDS / HSD field to share their expertise:

Featured Speakers with:

I will provide an overview of the research and clinical development behind IMM and the launch of my new book: The Integral Movement Method for Hypermobility
Management.

- Dr Alan Hakim, consultant rheumatologist and EDS specialist, will discuss connective tissue disorders and their implications for movement-based interventions.

- Dr Leslie Russek, Professor of Physical Therapy, will examine pain mechanisms and how understanding pain science informs therapeutic approaches.

- Lara Bloom, President & CEO of the EDS Society, will share perspectives on the critical importance of movement for part of an overall management plan.

The presentations will be followed by an interactive panel Q&A session.

Who should attend:
- Healthcare professionals working with hypermobility patients
- Movement therapists and instructors
- Individuals with hypermobility spectrum conditions
- Researchers interested in movement-based interventions
- Anyone seeking to understand evidence-based approaches to pain and hypermobility

There are limited spaces. Sign up essential - link in the comments or today’s stories.

Hope to see you there on the 12th.

26/12/2025

Rib flare isn’t just about posture in hypermobility.

If you’ve been told to fix your rib flare by just pulling your ribs down, this video and my top tip might help.

In hypermobility, rib flare is rarely a posture problem as it’s more about a stability strategy.

The ribs, diaphragm, abdominal wall and spine work together to manage load. When that system doesn’t feel coordinated or supported, the rib cage often lifts, widens, or flares to create a sense of stability. Your body is doing its best with the control it has and I call this our fight or flight posture.

Simply pushing the ribs down doesn’t create support. This will usually increase tension, restrict breathing, and shifts load somewhere else.

What tends to help is restoring coordination between breathing, trunk control and movement so the ribs don’t need to over-work to feel safe. Try my breathing exercise and let me know if it helps.

24/12/2025

As we reach Christmas Eve, I want to simply say thank you 💙

Thank you for
• all your wonderful engagement with my posts
• showing up here when you could
• taking in new ideas about movement and mindful micro moves
• caring for your body in whatever capacity you had
• responding with curiosity - I know my method is very different to the norm.
• being brave to explore change

My page & .zebra.club holds people navigating:
• pain
• instability
• fatigue
• medical dismissal
• lost identities
• new identities
• grief
• hope

If this time of year feels particularly emotionally full, or socially demanding, or physically draining, remember -
there is no correct way to experience Christmas.

Rest is not failure.
Leaving early is not rude.
Saying no is not selfish.
Quiet is not avoidance.
Your body is not an inconvenience.

Thank you for being part of this space with me 💜

Your support allows me to keep educating, advocating, and helping people feel safer in their bodies.

Wishing you a gentle holiday season - whatever that looks like for you 💛.

22/12/2025

It’s such a busy time of the year. How about a quick breathing micro move to reset the nervous system regulation? Try this quick video in times of stress, anxiety or overthinking.

A pause + breath is a micro-reset.

Let me know how you get on 😌.

20/12/2025

At this time of year, we can overload ourselves. And then crash. But if you’ve ever been made to feel guilty for pacing yourself, you need to hear this.

Pacing isn’t about doing less. It’s about managing the load your nervous system can organise safely.

Our bodies don’t operate on unlimited bandwidth. They work within thresholds which are sensory, physical, emotional, autonomic.

When those systems reach capacity, performance drops, coordination drops, pain increases, fatigue spikes, and recovery takes longer.

Pacing is how you prevent overload before it happens.
It’s how you extend participation, reduce flares, and stay connected to the world without burning out.

Pacing is essential. Let’s go pace 😌.

How do you pace yourself at this busy time of year?

19/12/2025

Many people with EDS/HSD hear some version of:

“Just stand up straight.”
“Fix your posture.”
“Engage your core.”
“Stop slouching.”

It assumes posture is a behaviour problem. But with hypermobility, it’s much more complex.

Hypermobility affects:
• whole body awareness
• connective-tissue stiffness
• joint stability
• proprioception
• load tolerance and stamina
• nervous-system threat perception

When stability is reduced, the body adapts. It may lean, sway, collapse, or brace, not because it’s lazy, but because it’s balancing load with the control it has available. It’s trying to find stability and comfort.

Forcing upright posture can create:

• increased muscle guarding
• shallow, effortful breathing
• fatigue
• neck and shoulder tension
• more pain, not less

Posture improves when there is whole body integration and sensation of the whole structure.

• control improves
• load is introduced gradually
• the nervous system feels safe
• breathing and movement coordinate
• the body finds efficiency, not rigidity

Movement helps when it’s the right movement, in ranges the body can manage. This is not about fixing posture. It’s about making posture dynamic, adaptable and fluid.

Have you ever had posture advice?

09/12/2025

This is why EDS & HSD patients struggle to get the right care post diagnosis.

My apologies for the zoom quality, but not for the message.

In 2025, we still have NO formal exercise guidelines for hypermobility. That means that our community are left guessing how to move safely. Patients receive conflicting guidance. Practitioners don’t have a framework to follow.

This is why I’ve dedicated my work to building evidence-informed frameworks like the IMM — because it is absolutely essential that we have help on the ground. My new book - The Integral Movement Method for Hypermobility - offers the first evidence based method which I really hope can be a starting point to formulate guidelines.

Huge thanks to for hosting this book launch event and sharing this vital information. Thank you to everyone who came.

PS we know the books have SOLD OUT (thank you - that’s just awesome). We are getting more in soon.

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