Why Stretch

I have so many clients who come in with back pain, shoulder pain, knee pain and more and I ask one simple question, "Do you stretch?" and I am astounded that the majority answer "no." WHAT?! When we move, exercise, sit, drive, our muscles are contracting. As we grow older, muscles tighten. How can stretching not be automatically something your body desires. Every morening when I get up, I stretch my body. I stretch my body to increase the circulation to help me wake up. My dog stretches his body to increase his circulation and mobility. After a massage, I come out and stretch my arms, my back and my wrists in order to release my muscles and keep them healthy so that I can keep doing this work for many many years.

I show my clients stretches and releasing postures but the next time they come in, they admit to not doing any of the stretches. I honestly do not understand. I want people to feel better, it's inherent in the obsessive quality of my work, but I can only do so much. I am happy to massage, bowen, instruct the pilates and yoga time and time again but the path to healing is in self empowerement. I can not fix what one does not want to heal. I can only help my clients facilitate their own healing. They come back to me time and again with the same pain or spasm in their body and I help them identify and release what is willing to release at that moment but our bodies are leaving my space and going back into the environment that caused that spasm, knot or tension.

Stretching has been proven to help with flexibility, mobility of joints, circulation, stress relief and more pain reduction. Who doesn't want any one of those things. I know that I want to be moving and grooving for a long long time and can only ask that if you want to keep moving forward, with flexibility, health and less or no pain then please stretch your mind, stretch your time to find a few minutes a day to stretch your body!!! If you do not know of good stretches, then please please ask and I will be more then happy to take some time and work with you. Your health and wellness is my business. :)