
21/01/2025
Paddington Bear is off on another adventure! Greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
If you tried to book with me in January, you may have noticed that you’ll have to wait. I was fully booked seeing all my clients before I left, and out of office until early February. Sorry I didn’t have time to squeeze everyone in 😢
As much as I hate leaving my practice and amazing clients behind, this was the most valuable course I have EVER taken.
I had the incredible honor of training with Tom Myers, the creator of Anatomy Trains, a holistic view of myofascial continuities throughout the body. He is one of the most pivotal body workers of our generation, and his system is used by massage therapists, chiropractors, personal trainers, and movement teachers of all types.
His books and online teachings have guided my approach to massage therapy since the very beginning of my career. He views the body as a dynamic web, held together through balanced, opposing forces, with a floating structure within. Instead of a reductionist view of muscles and their roles, acting around a fixed skeleton, he looks at fascia as elongated lines of force and shock absorption, connecting toes to nose, in a dynamic web.
This course is called “When the Body Speaks” analyzing how emotional trauma interplays with posture, fascia, and tension. We dove deep into body reading, postural analysis, and the meaning behind different holding patterns.
Tom could put one of us in front of the class, and read us like a book. He noticed any imbalance, and theorized the potential trauma behind the pattern — and he was spot on, time after time. Many (unexpected) tears were shed, and healing happened ❤️🩹
Of course, there was much reverence and manual therapy for the all important psoas 🙏 and other muscles of breath.
I wil forever see the body differently, with greater understanding of the history and buried emotions within our fascia. And I can’t wait to share this work with you all! In the mean time, I’ll be reading books on the beach ✌️