Drake Advanced Myofascial Bodywork

07/16/2025

Join us on Mondays 3:30-4:30 PM Eastern time-beginning August 11th for a revolving virtual series of movement explorations from Ruthy Alon’s Movement Intelligence work. Why take this class? It’s a long list. Although Movement Intellgience is a Feldenkrais (R) informed discipline, it can be incredibly helpful in many ways. Here are a few!

❤️ Pain Relief
❤️Functional and Structural Integration (improved movement and posture)
❤️Nervous System regulation (trauma recovery as complex as PTSD or as “simple” as the overwhelm of living day to day)
❤️Specific body pain solutions (low back, neck, feet, etc, etc)

I’ll bring almost 40 years of body centered education and experience to our Monday sessions. I’d love to see you there. Registration link on the front page of the website, top right under “classes”. 🙏 🏃 🧘

05/26/2025

Sometimes it seems like the modern world is too much to naviagate with all our many problems and other times it feels like there isn’t enough lifetime to live to learn all the possible things we could learn. I’m so grateful to have spent a lifetime learning from so many people, in disciplines that support and help the world 🌎. In June I’ll be headed right back out for a week in Elkhart, Indiana to learn BoneWork with Rolfer, and ScarWork creator, Sharon Wheeler. Deeply attuned and oriented toward offering what is good.

05/04/2025

Another group of ScarWork therapists learning and sharing Sharon Wheeler’s unique method of working with scars in the world. This incredible method is like speaking another language in the world of fascia. We are so grateful for each other and for the people who came to offer their time, stories and spirit for us these past four days so that we could practice and learn together. Our next class in Charlotte, NC will be October 2025. Join for this special professional training!

04/08/2025

Need Solutions for your Low Back Pain? Tired of not knowing how to begin? Join us in person for this virtual class over Zoom, or participate by recording/self study in your own time through our password protected classroom page. What is Movement Intelligence and what solution does it offer you? Ruthy Alon’s transformative work is grounded in physics, anatomy and neuroplasticity, in a way that directs us to autonomous learning. Learning and exploring below our threshold of effort, helps us to unlock lost options for movement. Relieve the pain and “mystery” of difficult movement patterns and the miracle of agency as you direct your own process of discovery.

03/16/2025

Volunteers need for our May 1-4th ScarWork seminar. Priority is given to untreated scars, and scars that are complex, and have pain and movement limits created from (but not limited to) complications of healing, trauma, infections, delayed wound closure. Please send us an email to express your interest and receive more information about this opportunity. Space is limited. We cannot usually take all volunteers. #

02/24/2025

I’m recommending this discussion for every person and especially those with pain or movement difficulties. What does it mean to explore coordinated movement below the level of effort? How can we find long term solutions for these issues? Develop personal agency, understanding and that supports your life in this one body that you’ve been given!

In this month's Senseability podcast we interview Andrew Gibbons. Andrew is a very experienced Feldenkrais® practitioner and assistant trainer. He has a clea...

01/12/2025

The Image Channel is one of five nervous system channels in the Somatic Experiencing (R)/body centered trauma healing work of Peter Levine, PhD. We can be curious about our body experience through this lens and sometimes find an easier process path. Image channel can offer us some neural space to process content or experience that might feel overwhelming from the lens of sensation or meaning, for example. Sometimes we might have memories that are stored as images and not like a moving narrative. Memories that can arrive like still photos or stop frame. This can be useful and help our nervous system manage activation in a way that stays within our capacity. If sensation feels confusing, unclear, or unsafe-we might ask ourselves “if this sensation or feeling had a shape, what would it be?” A cloud, a water balloon, a moving tide, a twisted towel? What needs to happen? Can we image expansion or movement? Dissipation or consolidation? We might feel moved to image the shift in our body than increases safety and gives ease. With our hand or an object, we can follow the wordless nature of our autonomic nervous system and show the body what is needed. Offer gentleness and grace to yourself. Offer what is easy.

11/08/2024

Join us for something gentle and different exploring Ceramics and Somatic Experiencing (R), the body-centered, trauma healing work of Peter Levine, PhD. What is a container to support neural safety and to hold us when difficulty arises?

Join us in this small six week class of 2-3 people to explore the body centered, trauma healing work of Peter Levine, PhD while combining proximity to nature and outdoor space with the basics of throwing a cylinder on the wheel. We will use Dr Levine’s groundbreaking lens for body centered healing...

10/07/2024

Four days spent with seven other Bodywork professionals and people from our community who came to trust us to receive care and treatment in a collective, group setting of learning, growth, and support for all. I ask myself, after experiences as simple as this, what is the core of human life and human experience? It seems to just be these simple human exchanges that communicate intention, hold space without judgement, or efforting, and support the nervous systems longing for neural safety. Neural safety, from the PolyVagal Theory lens of “no need for defense, all needs met.” I am committed, both personally and professionally to spend my days to my last day, directing myself along this path. Thank you to everyone who made this happen and offered something to this experience. With compassion and acknowledgment of those people not with us but close in our hearts. Work that matters. Life worth living.

08/13/2024

Making Meaning can help us manage activation! How does your nervous system prefer to manage activation? How can we find flow more than fixity?

07/10/2024

We are grateful to offer the Safe and Sound Protocol (R) for our established clients! ❤️‍🩹🙏 follow the link in the link to read more about Dr Stephen Porges’ ground breaking program based on The PolyVagal Theory.

The Safe and Sound Protocol ® is primarily administered in one to one settings in our practice. If you are interested in remote access, please reach out to us in person with your questions. This option is for established clients ONLY who wish to include the SSP in their one to one sessions. Access ...

06/27/2024

Today I made the decision to become a provider for the Safe and Sound Protocol. The Listening Project and SSP support the work of Dr Stephen Porges and all things PolyVagal. I hope to integrate the SSP into group classes and one to one sessions in my Movement Intelligence work and to support my training to complete becoming a Somatic Experiencing (R) practitioner in the coming year.