Becoming A Trusted Advisor: Why Clients Keep Coming Back Even When Pain is Gone | #394
In this episode, I break down the transition from getting out of pain into moving back into the rest of your life—a concept I call Model Two.
What Happens When a Client Doesn’t Have Awareness? Ideas from 30+ years of helping people reduce and eliminate pain. | #385
In this episode, I explore a common challenge that movement teachers and practitioners face: what to do when a client lacks physical awareness or struggles to describe what they are feeling. I explain why body awareness is essential for creating lasting, transformational change rather than just temporary pain relief. By breaking down the difference between […]
There Is No Culprit: Why finding the “problem” may be keeping you stuck – and how I help my clients out of pain. | #384
In this episode, I explore why searching for a single “problem muscle” or quick-fix diagnosis often leads to a dead end when dealing with persistent pain. Drawing on my early career at a chronic pain center—and over three decades of working with clients—I break down how our culture’s “pain on, pain off” light-switch mentality prevents […]
Becoming a Movement Detective 6 of 7: How Barb Eliminated 90–95% of Her Pain by Becoming a Movement Detective | #379
In this episode, I sit down with Barb Morin, who shares her journey from years of chronic shoulder, hip, and flexor pain to becoming 90–95% pain-free. After trying numerous treatments and practitioners without lasting success, Barb discovered a different approach—learning how to become a movement detective and understanding the compensatory patterns that were contributing to […]
Becoming a Movement Detective 4 of 7: Becoming a Movement Detective with Kendra McCuine, C-IAYT Yoga Therapy Trainee | #377
In this episode, I’m sharing a conversation with Kendra McCuine, a trainee in my Movement Detective program from Massachusetts. We talk about her journey from being a special education teacher to becoming a yoga teacher who is now learning to see the body through a much more functional and investigative lens. Even in just a […]
Becoming a Movement Detective 1/7: Choreography, Corrective Exercise, and Being a Movement Detective | #374
In this episode, I introduce a new miniseries on what it truly means to become a movement detective. I explore how this approach has shaped my work as a yoga therapist and kinesiologist, helping people reduce and eliminate pain by focusing not just on techniques, but on understanding how the body actually moves and adapts. […]
Relief to Sustainable Results | #367
In this final part of the three-part series, I walk through what it really takes to turn temporary relief into lasting results. I break down why pain isn’t the problem, but rather a signal of deeper patterns in the body—and how learning to recognize subtle “whispers” can completely shift the way I approach healing and […]
Why Relief Doesn’t Last… Yet | #366
In this episode, I build on our conversation about “whispers” in the body and take it a step further—what happens after you start noticing patterns and experience relief. I explain why relief doesn’t always last, why symptoms return, and why that’s not failure, but actually part of the change process. When you understand how your […]
The Pathway of Change: What Getting Out of Pain Really Is | #365
In this episode, I bring together over three decades of clinical observation working with people in pain—from chronic and autoimmune conditions to frozen shoulders, scoliosis, kyphosis, and post-cancer movement recovery. I explore how, beneath these seemingly different presentations, there is a shared process of patterning, awareness, and change rather than a focus on chasing symptoms. […]
Kyphosis: Why “Stand Up Straight” Doesn’t Work | #364
In this episode, I explore the common desire to “fix” posture and why simply trying to sit or stand up straight rarely works for long. I share how posture isn’t something we force or hold—it’s something that naturally emerges from how our body moves and coordinates as a whole system. I also dive into why […]