11/08/2025
“It’s like there’s electricity in my glutes now“
I had a breakthrough with one of my clients today. She had a C-section about two years ago and her body has had trouble ever since. It was like her nervous system just refused to function properly. Her brain wouldn’t send signals to her body like it had in the past. One of the main symptoms was that her glutes were not firing properly and every time she tried to exercise them, there would be significant pelvic floor pain.
That changed today. She came in for her regular appointment and for some reason a thought popped into my head. “What if we combined laser work, manual work, and breath work?” I have never tried that combination with any of my clients before but it seemed like it just might work in this situation. We didn’t have anything to lose.
I usually get results, but this time I got a miracle. As we engaged with the work, I felt her body willing to release the restrictions in ways that it never done before. This was accompanied by her exclaiming , “Oh, wow!” a few times throughout the session. Her body changed from being a reluctant subject to being an active and willing participant.
Then we decided to take it a step farther and see if her glutes were working now. Yep, they sure were. “It feels like there’s electricity in my glutes.” They were not only working, she could feel the individual muscles doing their specific jobs as she lowered into a squat.
You see, most of the time when the glutes are not working it’s an issue with the nervous system. If the body thinks that it’s going to injure itself, it will generally stop firing the muscles that would contribute to the injury. This means that if your pelvis does not have enough intrinsic stability or if the restrictions are too great, the brain will use the quads instead of the glutes because there is a decreased chance of immediate injury. But when the body detects that the tension is gone and that the stability has returned, it will automatically fire the correct muscles.
I’ve known of this principal for quite some time but today my understanding went to a new and deeper level. This is going to have a trickle down effect for my other clients as well and we are going to see even more breakthroughs in the future.