Life Force Chiropractic

Life Force Chiropractic Gentle, nervous system-centered chiropractic that works with the whole body—not just the spine.

Designed to unwind tension, restore inner rhythm, and help you feel at home in yourself again.

Nervous system regulation is not about staying calm all the time.It is about building the capacity to move with what lif...
04/15/2026

Nervous system regulation is not about staying calm all the time.

It is about building the capacity to move with what life brings without getting swept away by it. Without spiraling into overwhelm. Without dropping into shutdown.

Spring is such a clear example of this.

You can feel it in your body.
Brighter mornings. More light. More stimulation. More movement. A natural pull to get out more, do more, begin again.

This rising energy is not a problem.
It is part of how the body responds to seasonal change.

The challenge is when that activation has nowhere to go.

Without tools, spring energy can start to feel jangly instead of alive.
Your chest feels tight.
Your thoughts speed up.
The desire to do more turns into pressure.
What could feel like vitality starts to feel like stress.

This is why nervous system regulation matters.

It helps you notice activation earlier, before it becomes overwhelm.
It helps you ground when your energy spikes.
It helps you work with your breath, your body, and your rhythms so that increased energy can move through you instead of taking over you.

That is what 12 Days of Nervous System Regulation is here to support.

Over 12 days, you will be guided through simple practices that help you build real capacity in your body.

You will learn how to:
• recognize activation early
• ground yourself when energy rises
• use breath to work with intensity rather than suppress it
• create steadier rhythms that support you through seasonal change
• build resilience through daily repetition

Each practice is 10–20 minutes, simple enough for real life and powerful enough to create meaningful shifts.

You receive lifetime access to all 12 days for $50.

If spring has your system feeling stretched, activated, or a little overwhelmed, this is a gentle place to begin.

Learn more at the link in bio.

Not all chiropractic care is the snap-crackle-pop kind.Some bodies do not need more force. They need a quieter kind of h...
04/13/2026

Not all chiropractic care is the snap-crackle-pop kind.

Some bodies do not need more force. They need a quieter kind of help.

I work gently, listening for where the body is bracing, guarding, or holding on. Instead of forcing a joint to move, I support the body in softening what has been stuck so movement can return more naturally.

That can look like:
• gentle release of stored tension in the tissues
• restoring motion without force
• subtle repositioning and postural lengthening
• breath-guided unwinding
• craniosacral-informed care
• Reiki and nervous-system-centered support

When the body feels safe enough to let go, you can often notice the shift.

Breathing gets fuller.
The neck and shoulders stop gripping so hard.
The low back feels less compressed.
The body begins to feel more spacious, more settled, and more like itself again.

This is why I do not force the body into alignment.
I help create the conditions for alignment to return.

Chiropractic, in this way, becomes less about “cracking” something into place and more about helping the body unwind, reorganize, and rebalance from within.

If you have been feeling stiff, compressed, off-center, or like your body is carrying more tension than it knows what to do with, this work may be supportive.

I’d love to welcome you in Pleasant Hill.
You can learn more and book online at www.chiropracticlifeforce.com

A question I hear often in practice is:“How did this even happen?”Usually, it doesn’t happen all at once.Your body is co...
04/10/2026

A question I hear often in practice is:

“How did this even happen?”

Usually, it doesn’t happen all at once.

Your body is constantly adapting to how you live in it.

How you sit at your desk.
How you stand with more weight on one leg.
How you drive.
How you sleep.
How you brace when you’re stressed, rushed, or trying to push through the day.

At first, these changes can feel subtle. Maybe your shoulders start creeping forward. Your jaw stays tight. One hip feels heavier. Your low back feels compressed when you stand up. Your neck doesn’t turn quite as freely. You may not notice much at first—until one day something starts to hurt.

This is often how misalignment develops.

Not because the body is fragile.
And not usually because something suddenly went terribly wrong.

It’s more often a gradual build-up of tension, compensation, and restricted movement that never fully got the chance to unwind.

Muscles tighten to protect.
Joints begin to lose some of their natural motion.

The body starts working around restriction instead of through ease.

And over time, that can create strain, imbalance, discomfort, and the feeling that something is just “off.”

Chiropractic care can help restore movement, release built-up tension, and support the body in finding a more natural alignment again.

Often, when the body begins to realign, people notice they breathe more fully, stand more easily, and feel less compressed inside themselves.

Sometimes pain isn’t coming from one dramatic moment.

Sometimes it’s the accumulation of many small patterns the body has been carrying for a long time.

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You don’t need to overhaul your entire life to regulate your nervous system. You need small, consistent practices that h...
04/02/2026

You don’t need to overhaul your entire life to regulate your nervous system. You need small, consistent practices that help your body learn new patterns.

Most people think nervous system work requires hours of meditation, major lifestyle changes, or perfect conditions. So they wait for the right time. For life to calm down. For things to feel less overwhelming.

And often, they never start.

But real regulation usually doesn’t happen through one perfect retreat or one big breakthrough. It happens through repetition. Through simple practices, done consistently, that teach your body a new way to respond.

That is the heart of 12 Days of Nervous System Regulation.

For 12 days, you’ll receive a short guided practice focused on a different aspect of regulation:
• grounding when activation rises
• releasing built-up tension
• building capacity for presence
• working with different nervous system states
• practices for morning, midday, or evening

The practices are designed to fit into real life. You can do them before work, on a lunch break, or before bed. You do not need special equipment or perfect conditions. Just your body and a willingness to begin.

This is how lasting change happens.
Not through perfection. Through practice.

12 Days of Nervous System Regulation
$50 • Lifetime access

If you’re ready to stop waiting for the perfect moment and begin with small practices that can create real change, learn more at the link in bio.

Many people don’t realize how closely the spine and nervous system are connected.When someone has ADHD, the body can oft...
03/31/2026

Many people don’t realize how closely the spine and nervous system are connected.

When someone has ADHD, the body can often feel like it’s always “on” — alert, busy, restless, easily overstimulated, or constantly tracking what’s happening next. It can feel hard to settle. Hard to soften. Hard to focus without effort.

You can often see that stress pattern in the body too.

Rounded shoulders. A forward head posture. A tight jaw. Shallow breathing. Tension through the hips, low back, or mid-spine. A body that looks like it’s always bracing for the next thing.

When the spine and surrounding tissues are carrying that kind of tension, it can add more strain to an already activated nervous system. The body and brain may have a harder time communicating with ease.

Chiropractic does not treat ADHD directly. But gentle, nervous system-centered chiropractic care can help reduce mechanical stress in the body, restore motion through the spine, and unwind stored tension patterns.

As the body becomes more open, balanced, and less guarded, the nervous system often has more space to regulate.

And when that happens, people may notice they can breathe more fully, sleep more deeply, and feel a little less scattered and overstimulated — because the body is no longer working so hard against itself.

Sometimes better regulation begins with helping the body feel safer, softer, and more supported from the inside out.

When the pelvis shifts even a little, the whole body feels it.You might notice one hip feeling tighter than the other. A...
03/30/2026

When the pelvis shifts even a little, the whole body feels it.

You might notice one hip feeling tighter than the other. A deep ache through the low back. Stiffness when you first stand up. Discomfort walking, bending, or getting out of the car. Sometimes it feels like the tension moves from side to side and never fully settles.

Often, what’s happening is that the body is quietly compensating.

One side starts carrying more weight. One hip may roll forward while the other pulls back. The knees and feet adjust. The muscles tighten. The fascia braces. The body does its best to keep you moving, but over time those small compensations can create pressure, strain, and that familiar feeling of being pulled, uneven, or stuck.

This is part of what I look at in my work.

Through gentle chiropractic care, craniosacral work, and Reiki, I help the body unwind the tension patterns that have built up over time. This is not a forceful, snap-and-crack approach. It is gentle, precise, and deeply connected work that helps the body soften, reorganize, and return to a more natural sense of balance.

As alignment begins to return, many people notice more ease in their hips, less pressure through the low back, freer movement, and a feeling of being more grounded and connected in their body.

If your body has been feeling tight, off, or uneven, there may be a reason.

Learn more or book a visit at chiropracticlifeforce.com ✨

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Most approaches to change teach us to work from the outside in.Be more disciplined. Control the habit. Push through the ...
03/10/2026

Most approaches to change teach us to work from the outside in.

Be more disciplined. Control the habit. Push through the feeling.

But real change begins somewhere else.

It begins in learning how to feel.

To notice the breath.
To sense the body.
To receive sensation instead of numbing it.
To stay close enough to your experience that your life becomes more vivid, more honest, more fully lived.

Your body is communicating all the time.
Through tension, warmth, contraction, openness, tingling, heaviness, ease.

These are not interruptions.
They are part of the conversation.

Attuning Into You is a 21-day practice in deepening that conversation.

Through breath, movement, awareness, and presence, you’ll learn to recognize the signals of your body, strengthen your capacity to stay with sensation, and cultivate a more intimate relationship with your own experience.

This work is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about coming into deeper contact with yourself.

Because the depth to which you can feel is the depth to which you can live.

Special pricing *NOW* $105
Regularly $350

Learn more and enroll at the link in bio.

Low back pain rarely starts as “just a low back problem.”Sometimes it begins more quietly.A hip that feels tight and tug...
03/06/2026

Low back pain rarely starts as “just a low back problem.”

Sometimes it begins more quietly.

A hip that feels tight and tugged forward.
A pelvis that doesn’t quite feel even.
A belly that stays braced.
A breath that won’t fully drop.
A low, familiar ache through the sacrum or across the waistband line at the end of the day.

Over time, the body starts adapting around that tension.

If the hip flexors stay shortened, the psoas stays gripped, or the diaphragm and abdomen can’t soften well, the pelvis can begin to tip or twist. Then the low back often becomes the place that works overtime — tightening, compressing, and trying to hold everything together.

That’s why low back discomfort is often about relationship, not just location.
It’s about how the spine, pelvis, breath, and surrounding tissues are coordinating as a whole.

In my work, I don’t force the body with a quick crack and send you on your way. I listen for the deeper pattern underneath the pain.

Using gentle chiropractic care, craniosacral work, and nervous system-centered touch, I help the body unwind the tension patterns that may be pulling on the low back in the first place. As the system softens, the pelvis can settle, the breath can open, and movement can begin to feel more fluid and supported again.

Clients often describe feeling:
lighter,
more grounded,
less braced,
and more at home in their body.

If your low back has been asking for attention, there may be more going on than the spot that hurts.

You’re welcome to learn more about my approach and explore booking through the website — in a way that feels right for you.

Pregnancy doesn’t just grow a baby.It reorganizes your entire body.Your ribs widen to make room for breath.Your pelvis s...
03/02/2026

Pregnancy doesn’t just grow a baby.
It reorganizes your entire body.

Your ribs widen to make room for breath.
Your pelvis subtly shifts to support new weight.
Your spine adjusts as your center of gravity moves forward week by week.

Sometimes that adaptation feels beautiful.

Sometimes it feels like:
• A low-back ache that won’t quite leave
• A deep pulling through one hip
• Pressure under the ribs
• A sense that your body isn’t moving the way it used to

Nothing is “wrong.”
Your body is intelligent. It’s adapting.

But adaptation without support can feel tense, compressed, or unstable.

In my practice, we don’t force anything into place.
We listen.

Using gentle, hands-on work rooted in nervous system regulation, I support the spine, pelvis, and connective tissues as they reorganize. When tension softens, joints move more freely. The pelvis feels balanced. Breath deepens. Sleep improves. There’s more space — physically and internally.

Care during pregnancy is slow. Intentional. Personalized.

Whether you’re in your first trimester, preparing for birth, or navigating postpartum recovery — your body deserves support that meets you exactly where you are.

When alignment restores, many mothers describe:
✨ Movement that feels lighter
✨ Pressure that eases
✨ A deeper sense of trust in their body
✨ Feeling more at home inside themselves

Pregnancy is constant change.
You don’t have to navigate it alone.

If this resonates, you can learn more or book a visit through the link in my bio.

I would be honored to support you and your little on the way 🤍

You were taught how to read.How to write.How to solve for X.How to manage your calendar.But were you ever taught how to ...
02/23/2026

You were taught how to read.
How to write.
How to solve for X.
How to manage your calendar.

But were you ever taught how to notice when your chest tightens…
When your breath gets shallow…
When your shoulders slowly creep toward your ears?

Most of us weren’t.

So we override it.

More coffee.
Push through the workout.
Answer the email anyway.
Scroll to numb out.
Tell ourselves we’re “fine.”

Until the body says otherwise.

Overwhelm rarely explodes all at once.
It shows up in a clenched jaw at a red light.
Waking at 3am with a racing mind.
Snapping at someone you love and not knowing why.

That’s not a flaw.
That’s a nervous system asking for support.

Sustainable well-being isn’t built on willpower.
It’s built on regulation.

Regulation is the ability to:
• Notice activation before it spirals
• Drop into your body and soften
• Use breath and movement to shift your state
• Trust your body can return to balance

This is a learnable skill.

And when you build it, everything changes.
Sleep deepens. Focus sharpens. Conversations feel steadier. You stop white-knuckling your way through life.

✨ Attuning Into You is a 21-day guided experience that teaches this foundation through daily somatic practices, breathwork for specific nervous system states, and yoga nidra for deep repair.

You receive:
• 21 days of guided practices
• Practical breathwork tools
• Yoga nidra sessions
• Lifetime access

Special pricing now: $105 (regularly $350).

Pause right now.
Where is your breath?
Are your shoulders soft… or braced?

If you’re ready to stop overriding your body and start working with it, this is your invitation.

Link in bio to learn more about Attuning Into You.

If your body feels tired but your mind won’t slow down… pause for a moment.Have you ever laid in bed exhausted — eyes he...
02/23/2026

If your body feels tired but your mind won’t slow down… pause for a moment.

Have you ever laid in bed exhausted — eyes heavy, body drained — but your thoughts keep looping? Your jaw subtly clenched. Shoulders hovering just slightly off the mattress. Breath shallow without you even realizing it.

Often, it’s not just “stress.”
It’s accumulated tension held in the structure of the body.

When the spine, neck, and cranial system are under prolonged strain, they can become tight, compressed, or subtly restricted. The nervous system stays in a low hum of vigilance. Muscles don’t fully soften. The breath never quite drops into the belly. And over time, that state starts to feel normal.

Until it releases.

In my work, I use gentle, hands-on chiropractic techniques that invite the body to unwind rather than force it to change. There’s no snap or crackle. Instead, it’s slow. Attuned. Responsive.

As alignment restores, you may feel:
• Shoulders melting down your back
• Breath deepening without effort
• A wave of warmth through the spine
• The jaw unclenching
• The mind quieting because the body finally feels safe

When the structure softens, the nervous system follows. And when the nervous system settles, sleep becomes deeper, steadier, more restorative.

Many people share that after a few sessions, they:
– fall asleep more easily
– stay asleep longer
– wake feeling clearer and more refreshed
– notice their body feels lighter, more spacious

If you’ve forgotten what true rest feels like, your body may simply need support remembering.

I invite you to experience this work for yourself.

Learn more or book a visit at:
www.chiropracticlifeforce.com

Your body already knows how to restore. Sometimes it just needs the right support.

If you’ve been falling asleep exhausted but waking up like you never really rested…If your shoulders live somewhere near...
02/16/2026

If you’ve been falling asleep exhausted but waking up like you never really rested…

If your shoulders live somewhere near your ears…

If you finally sit down at night and your body still feels like it’s bracing…

That’s not just “stress.”
That’s a nervous system that hasn’t been able to shift out of go-mode.

When the body stays in a low-grade survival pattern, even stillness doesn’t feel restorative. Muscles stay subtly contracted. Breath stays shallow. The spine holds tension like a coiled spring. You might feel tired and wired at the same time—foggy, but unable to fully soften.

This is where my work is different.

I practice a gentle, nervous-system centered form of chiropractic (BGI-informed, cranial, tissue-unwinding based). There’s no forceful twisting or cracking. Instead, I use precise, responsive contacts along the spine, sacrum, and cranium that invite the body to reorganize itself.

You might notice:
• your breath deepening on its own
• warmth spreading through your back
• a subtle unwinding sensation through your neck or jaw
• your shoulders dropping without trying

We’re not forcing alignment.
We’re creating the conditions for your body to come out of defense.

When the spine decompresses and connective tissues soften, circulation improves, nerve communication becomes clearer, and your system can finally access parasympathetic repair. That’s when rest starts to feel like rest again.

If you’ve been longing to feel grounded in your body… clear in your mind… and able to truly recharge, this kind of care may be the missing piece.

You can learn more or schedule a session at
www.chiropracticlifeforce.com
or simply head to the link in my bio.

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200 Gregory Lane Suite B105
Pleasant Hill, CA
94523

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Tuesday 1pm - 7pm
Thursday 1pm - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

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About Dr. Alandi Stec DC, Reiki Master

Dr. Alandi Stec DC believes that within the body, movement is intelligence, sensation is information, and awareness is the vehicle between the two. In practice, her intentional and present touch guides her patients towards connecting to, and integrating, their current physical manifestations so as to better express health. She uses breath, postural positioning, stretching, tissue work, cranial sacral technique, reiki, and traditional chiropractic adjustments to guide the body through the integration of stored tension patterns.

Dr. Alandi received her Doctorate of Chiropractic degree from Life Chiropractic College West (graduating with clinical honors) and her Bachelor’s degree in Art History from San Francisco State University (earning honors of Phi Beta Kappa). She is certified by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners.

Her adjunctive educational endeavors include a dedication to chiropractic studies through seminars instructed by Dr. Eric Rubin DC, yoga asana studies with Noah Mazé, as well as yoga philosophy and meditation course work with Christopher Hareesh Wallis, PhD. Her personal interests include exploring nature (hiking, backpacking, surfing, rock climbing), plant based cuisine, and international travel. Dr. Alandi proudly assists the world renowned Walnut Creek Aquanuts Synchronized Swimming Team. Her elite athletic background combined with her passion for the innate intelligence that orchestrates the human form, informs her unique and insightful vision of functional movement and the healing arts for her offering of health and wellness.