Your spine connects your head to your pelvis. If your spine is free and flexible, a movement from your head should create a movement in your pelvis like a wave moving through the water. We often hold stiffness in our spine because of muscle tension, joint degeneration, or habit, that prevents...

For some rolling in bed can be a challenging or even painful activity. I often watch patients struggle needlessly while attempting to roll on my treatment table. By following a few key principles nearly everyone can roll with less effort and little to no pain. In this video, you will see how to...

Very often the best way to alleviate a stiff neck is NOT to push the neck further into the restricted direction, but rather to allow the rest of the body to move more so the neck can do less. When the neck has help from the rest of the spine in turning the head you will gain mobility and if you...

When it comes to sitting, we actually have a lot of options for positions and postures. However, we tend to gravitate to the same position all the time due to our habits and preferences. This will strain the same areas all the time and can lead to pain or joint breakdown. You may not give a lot...

Having strong muscles is essential for healthy joints. It can be very difficult to build strength when you have arthritis pain. This video will show you a number of different exercises for your shoulders that are easy on the joints and can be modified to suit almost any ability level. 

How you use your hips and low back will determine how much stress you put on the joints of your entire leg. In this movement improvement series, you will learn how to comfortably improve hip mobility by releasing tense muscles in your low back and groin and engaging underutilized muscles in your...

Take notice of how your feet interact with the floor. Your ability to allow your foot to make easy contact with the floor and still support your arch has a large impact on how you walk, how you stand, and how well you can balance. In this movement improvement session, you will explore your...

Over half of all women and one-quarter of all men will experience stiffness in their hands and fingers due to arthritis at some point in their lives. It is one of the most common arthritic conditions. We have patterns of movement that dictate the way we use our fingers to pinch, grab, or carry...

Painful flare-ups are inevitable when you live with a chronically painful condition like arthritis. Flare-ups can be caused by physical activity, mental or emotional stress, immune system activity, sleep quality, nutrition, and even the weather. No matter what the cause of your pain flare-up...

Your balance system is comprised of 3 main sensory inputs, vision, inner ear, and joint receptors. In this series of progressively challenging balance exercises, you will test each of the systems and learn which of them might be deficient and contributing to balance loss. 

You will also test...

This video is the final of the three-part series on making your spine more flexible. In this video, you will explore how your spine twists and work on allowing it to move with greater ease and comfort. This movement improvement session starts with smaller, less taxing movements and then gets...

If I was only allowed to do one movement improvement routine for the rest of my life it would be this one. Shoulder circles are a great way to free up the entire spine, from neck to mid-back to low-back. They also create freedom in the hips and shoulders. In this session you will learn to find...

Getting your arms over your head is a very complex coordination of actions between the arm, the shoulder blade, and the ribs and mid-back. People often subconsciously hold down their shoulder blades or stiffen their torsos restricting arm movement. This makes raising the arms strenuous and can...

We don't live life laying down, so it is important to practice core control skills in a standing position. In this session, we will take the skill that you have developed in using your core from laying, to standing against the wall, to standing with support, to freestanding. By the end of this...

Healthy movement begins at your center. The ability to use your core muscles to drive movement in the limbs will make you stronger and allow you to move more easily and with less pain. Being strong is important, but if you are not able to coordinate that strength to harmoniously engage with the...

Discover the strength that is already inside of you. In this session, you will learn how to unlock your pelvis so it can move freely. This will enable you to position yourself in more efficient positions with standing, walking, and climbing stairs.

In this session, I demonstrate how to create new movement patterns by putting unlikely movements together. When you confuse your brain with unlikely combinations of movements it has no hose but to let o of old ways of moving that have caused pain and stress. Thankfully it worked for me. 

In our last session, we explored standing taller by changing the position of your spine. Today we will build on that by examining how you use your hips when you are standing. Most people who lose height from the hips have no idea that it is happening.

In this session, we will perform a diagnostic...

Do you feel like you're stooping forward a little more than you used to? Has your doctor told you you've "lost" a few inches? Well, you are not alone. Postural changes are a normal part of the aging process, but you can do something about it.

Join me in this session and explore a  movement...

Sit up straight!!! How many times have you heard this or perhaps even said it to someone else who was all slouched over? Today we will learn to let go of the idea of straight "perfect" posture and learn to sit up strong.

Understanding how to utilize your skeleton for postural support is the key...

In today's live session we worked on discovering how clear the connection is between your brain and your Gluteal (butt) muscles. We discussed how to make that connection stronger and then how to use it to find strength and stability in the hips. This is important to building a foundation for a...

In today's live session we took a deep dive into becoming aware of habitual movement patterns in the low back and pelvis. A common source not only for low back pain but also knee, hip, and even neck and shoulder pain. 

If you missed this week's live session or just want to practice these...