BRAVO Manual Therapy + Bodywork

09/19/2025

Total Body Mobility: Compass Testing

Do you know why you can’t move the thing you want to move? Do you know why that other thing hurts when you sit that, stand that, move that certain way? Well, get your ass to Total Body Mobility this weekend and learn how to start answering some of those questions for yourself.

Compass testing is a series of mobility baselines. It shows you where you’re limited and what you can work on to start moving better and moving forward. This Sunday, I’ll be guiding you through the 3 main mobility tests I use with private clients to assess movement function - and you’ll go home with your own personalized answer sheet to help you start taking mobility off the mat and into your life.

It’s only $10. Dude.
This Sunday, Sept. 21 @ 11:30am

08/08/2025

12/31/2024

Life plucked our little family out of the city and plopped us in the woods. Some old things we miss. Some new things we happily embrace. 2024 took a different kind of toll, but we made it through, together. And coming out on the other side of it with my boys? I’m good.

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“And did you get
what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved.
To find myself beloved on the earth.”

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
* his rendering of one of the last conversations he had with his wife before she passed.

Hold each other close and never stop getting around to noticing all the love along the way.

Happy Holidays.

🤍 the Bravos

12/29/2024

Santa Clause came to Rogue Awakening 🎅🏼

12/25/2024

Feliz Navidad, from the Bravos. 🤍🎄😘

12/22/2024

And that’s a wrap on my first year as a yoga + movement instructor. That j got to end it on mobility and foot stuff warms my festive little heart.

Reflecting over the last 12 months, I’m so thankful to each and every one of you who got me here. Those of you who inspired me to teach ( )Those who made me get over myself and just teach already (.shapes ) and, of course, those of you who took the chance on me ( )Last and certainly not least, thanks to all of you who showed up in my classes and showed up for yourselves in a way that continually reminded me why I am still passionate about what I do.

Happy Holidays from Bravo Functional Therapy. Looking forward to moving forward in 2025. Together.

🙏🏼

12/19/2024

Calm in the stillness. Clarity in the movement.

Appreciating my practice all the more as we approach the Winter Solstice. The days feel almost smaller as the daylight becomes shorter and shorter. But eventually it will have to expand. So we’ll sit here, just for a little while, in the short darkness. The light always returns.

08/04/2024

Thank you for hosting our Summer Passport Power Flow class this morning! Great class, great yogis, awesome beer 🧘🏻🍻

07/22/2024

Time under tension (TUT) is a strength training technique that involves holding a muscle under tension for a longer period of time during an exercise set. TUT is determined by the number of repetitions and the speed at which they are completed. To achieve TUT, you can slow down the movements of each repetition + focus on the more difficult parts of the exercise… like moving slowly into and holding the eccentric hamstring contraction in a Nordic Curl 😏🦵🏽.

Not only can this help improve muscular strength, endurance, and growth, but training time under tension in a Nordic Curl has been shown to decrease the chance of hamstring injury by up to 51%*. Whether you are an athlete or not, the hamstrings are critical to overall health and functional longevity - and they are often overlooked. So Nordic Curls, hamstring-bias bridges, Romanian dead lifts… all great ways to engage, strengthen and mobilize those hammies.

In Total Body Mobility today, we went over these exercises and more, preparing our hip extensors and knee flexors to attempt the partner-assisted Nordic Curl exercise. We discussed the differences between the TUT approach and progressive eccentric lowering. I prefer the TUT approach for its ability to increase muscle fiber recruitment and activation. While it can technically cause more muscle “damage” in the short term, this process also encourages greater muscle repair, forming stronger muscle mass over time with the proper self care.

To each their own though. My main advice is to take your time, prep well, take rest time in between sessions and stay consistent. Any Nordic Curl training is a progression and a full repetition isn’t going to happen overnight, if at all.

Just keep moving.

*van Dyk N, Behan FP, Whiteley R. Including the Nordic hamstring exercise in injury prevention programmes halves the rate of hamstring injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 8459 athletes. Br J Sports Med. 2019 Nov;53(21):1362-1370. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-100045. Epub 2019 Feb 26. PMID: 30808663.