Every new client begins with a thorough assessment of the physical, mental and the lifestyle factors that go into creating an effective program. With the information gathered we can begin the process of making positive changes to the behaviors and habits , which form a holistic plan of management. Together we will work out what gets you ticking, what you need to eat to support the habits, how to rest more effectively and how to train appropriately.

Based upon our findings we’ll select from a growing number of techniques to create a holistic exercise program that will help you meet your goals.  These are those techniques.

FOUNDATION TRAINING

Foundation Training is all about creating space within the body. It lengthens, strengthens and integrates muscle chains, whilst correcting common rotational imbalances. Created by Dr. Eric Goodman as a way to get out of back pain himself, it has since grown and adapted to help people with many different symptoms of pain by teaching the body to move more efficiently and better disperse the compressive forces of gravity.

Think yoga but with a strengthening component, aimed to combat the poor postures that we are falling into due to modern lifestyles.

It comprises itself on many powerful exercises designed to alleviate back pain and correct poor posture. Using the muscles of respiration in a specific and very focused way, poses work to lengthen and strengthen your core muscles and spine, and teach you how to integrate and strengthen the strongest muscles of your body, alleviating pain and increasing mobility.  If keeping your body decompressed and strong is part of your healthy lifestyle, then Foundation Training is a tool you have to learn.

I am one of a small number of certified instructors in LA who teach this system. Based in Mar Vista, California, I see clients from my quite and airy studio at home.

Functional Range conditioning

The concept around mobility is fairly simple, like most things in life you’ve gotta use it or lose it. Functional Range Conditioning can help you get that range of motion back, maintain it and bulletproof it. It takes you beyond being flexible and steers away from the idea that passive inputs will lead to long lasting change. Mobility is about controlling your flexibility and increasing the resiliency of your human tissue, whether it be muscle, tendon, ligament or bone.

“Functional Range Conditioning, or FRC®, is a trademarked system of mobility and joint control training based in scientific principles and research.”

As a trained practitioner, I use it with clients to ensure their movement is of the highest quality. Often I see clients who have joint pain due lack of movement, lack of space or inappropriate loading strategies. FRC offers me a thought process that is calculated, requires consistent work and creates long lasting change.

By assessing you joint by joint, I can identify where you can and can’t move and how that affects your total body movement.

I came to this work because I saw a need to prepare people for activities that took them out of neutral safe ranges and in to real life scenarios. I wanted to help people regain lost movement and be strong enough to meet the demands of a physical life. I needed to figure out why people get hurt and FRC® has given me a really great lens to see that through.