The Reason Your Neck Hurts Every Single Night Has Nothing to Do With Your Pillow Five movement practices you can do at your desk in under two minutes and why doing them every thirty minutes changes your tissue chemistry completely

Sarah came to see me at 34 with a neck that hurt at the end of every single day without exception. She had tried a new pillow. She had tried stretching before bed. She had tried ibuprofen on the bad days. What she had not tried, because nobody had ever told her, was interrupting the pattern that was creating the pain in the first place. The problem was not happening at night. It was happening between 9am and 6pm, at her kitchen table, in the same position, for the same nine hours, every single day. And the solution was not going to be found at bedtime. It was going to be found at 9:30am, and 10am, and 10:30am, and every thirty minutes after that

Your Body Is Remodeling Itself Around Your Chair. And Not in a Good Way. What prolonged sitting is actually doing to your spine, your fascia, your organs, and your nervous system — and why most people have normalized a level of physical decay they do not have to accept

David came to see me at 52 feeling like he had aged ten years in the last five. Stiff every morning, a dull ache in his lower back that never fully resolved, shoulders that rounded forward even when he was consciously trying to sit straight, and a creeping suspicion that this was just what getting older felt like. I have been seeing David — in one form or another, for over twenty years. And the first thing I tell every version of him is the same thing. This is not aging. This is tissue remodeling. And tissue that has remodeled in one direction can be guided back.

Flexability and Functional Movement are important because you never know when you are going to need to utilize your body in an interesting way. To pick up your grandchildren, reach for a bag of potatoes, bend over to smell fresh flowers, or install drywall.

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