“Work in flow again, free of the pain
that sitting for years has cost you."
- On the cushionThe place you once found stillness now brings an ache that pulls you out of it.
- At the writing deskThe hours you savor end with a back that feels like it can't hold itself up.
- At the computerLong days at work leave you stiff, tired and somehow absent from your own body.
Tune into lived biomechanics, nervous system regulation, and expanded human consciousness that brings more than comfort: it brings you back into creativity & flow.
It lets you get back to doing what you love without the constant background noise of physical discomfort.
It's not enough to be able to sit. You have to be able to sit comfortably. Otherwise, it's background noise that interferes with everything you do, including the creative process.
You were taught to strive for good posture by holding yourself up. But alignment isn’t something you hold. It's something that holds you.
I teach you to regain the comfort of alignment you once knew as a child, how to do it for yourself. That way, you're not dependent on an external fix. That independence let's you get back to doing the things you love.
When you reclaim your innate Somatic Intelligence, you can stop tuning out, just to get through the day. Discover a way to tune into biomechanics, nervous system regulation, and expanded human consciousness that brings more than comfort: it brings you into a state of creativity & flow.
What once restored you...
has started to hurt.
You have given years...
to sitting with what matters:
• a meditation practice.
• a manuscript, a novel.
• a body of work you crave.
Yet, lately your body
has begun to complain.
Reclaim your superpower: kinesthetic learning. Without it you would never have learned to eat, walk, talk, or write, for that matter. With it you can improve any area of your life: creativity, cognition, and alignment.
"I feel so grounded!"
This is the most comment I get most often when people work with me. It's usually accompanied by a certain calm that is a result of the process. I'm just the messenger. You embody the work when you do it and the benefits
are a sense of spaciousness and new access to ease and creativity.
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Gabrielle is incredibly knowledgeable. She is helping me through my grief process. By becoming aware of how my thoughts and emotions are affecting my body, I am much more mindful of moving in healthy, safe ways.
Cheryl Colwell -
I've been telling everyone I know with back pain about the lessons I've taken from Gabrielle and what I've learned from her. I sure do recommend her! I have very serious scoliosis and the relief I have found is an improvement I have longed for. The clearing of old emotional baggage is huge.
Michelle Howden - Over the past year, with skill and innate intelligence, she has helped me use writing to tap into my past, understand who I was growing up and who I am now. As I continue the journey to becoming more true to myself. She gives me the right mix of challenge and heart. I couldn't be in better hands.Mary Donkersloot
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After I started working with Gabrielle I found that the peace I long was creeping into my life in unexpected ways. I experience calm in frustrating situations. My reactions to situations are way different. I can see other ways of viewing things. I don’t work at this-I don’t do anything. I merely attend the meditations or listen to the audio files at home!
Pam Perkins -
I don't know how it all works, but Gabrielle has given me some great medicine, in the form of her instruction, that has given me hope for managing my pain. That means a lot to me. She has given me a way to respond to aging that makes me feel it's not an inevitable decline in mobility and mental acuity.
Jennifer Soloman - PTSD was raging and I couldn't get rid of it...I would lash out at people, get overwhelmed and always looking for a bunker, a place to get away. Getting to a different place started with going to iRest sessions with Gabrielle. I started to notice people looking back at me, like I wasn't projecting rage any more...I didn't see that for many years but whatever I was projecting outwards was differentRichard Lowry
If you brace as you sit all day to do what you must or what you love, the result is the same.
Your comfort & life force are compromised.
Your muscles were never meant to hold you up in space...
Instead, age with increased mobility, not less.
Instead, learn to play with awareness in a way that feels expansive.
Instead, find your voice, your authenticity and your sovereignty, get your power back.
Mobility, awareness, and sovereignty. These are what the system would have you suppress. But you know better. This is how you make that knowing a way of life
The conditioning to ignore your own pain.
The conditioning to dismiss your own needs.
The conditioning to push through which blocks the ability to receive.
The conditioning to hide behind behavior that is expected of you.
The conditioning to sublimate emotion even when your humanity is being dismissed.
It's time to find your way back home.
A Smarter Way to
Release Tension
Looking For A Clear Path to Greater Physical Comfort?
"My walking improved."
Why would you take something so fundamental to being in a body as walking for granted?
"My Balance Improved."
Do you really want to wait until it's too late to make sure your balance remains intact?
Studies show that 62% of student in Awareness Through Movement have better balance.
"I Was Able To Do My Favorite Activity Again."
What have you stopped doing that you now miss as a part of who you are?
In a different study, 75% of the participants were able to go back to their favorite sport. Imagine being able to sit comfortably again, so you can finish the work that means so much to you.
"It's so much easier to get up off the floor, now!"
What do you take for granted? What would your quality of life be like if you fell on the floor and couldn't get up? It's not just about the discomfort of feeling like a beached whale; it's about fall prevention before it's a crisis.
In one study, 93% discovered how to get up and down off the floor more easily.
You can't sleep, you can't rest or relax.
The medical system is falling apart.
The insurance system limits your options.
Yet, your intention determines what's possible.
90% of the people out there are 80% more tense than they realize.
...Discover how to respond to what your body is trying to tell you.
Feldenkrais®
Awareness Through Movement®
mindful exploratory neuromuscular education teaches you how...
- for creators, meditators and writers who've blocked alignment, ease and flow due to unconscious habitual bracing patterns that keep you stuck in excess tension and effort.
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® offers a path to lasting physical self-reliance - iRest Yoga Nidra offers deep relaxation to clear painful emotions - Insight JournalingTM provides clarity & inspiration.
The great news is that there's more than one way to make this transition. It imay nvolve lying down to practice relaxing. It might involve lying down to do mindful movement that allows for a much calmer, more grounded sense of self with less tension. It always involves reconnecting with your body's wisdom, your mind's capacity for critical thinking and your spirit's ability to heal the hurts that time will not, and cannot heal, without clearing space for a new mindset.
The basis for improvement is retraining your brain to regain the state of calm and freedom from tension you knew as a child.
As you reconnect with that natural state of wellbeing, you begin to feel more and more comfortable in your own skin. The transformation is nothing less than a somatic shift in identity characterized by feeling present, happy, inspired...
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How does trauma affect the muscles?It's obvious that trauma causes tension. It causes hyper-vigilance that leads to exhaustion. But you already knew that! What is not so obvious is that it the tension, if allowed to grow at a low level for years, causes density. Healthy muscles are springy and elastic. Tight muscles become more and more hard over time, until they are so dense that it's like trying to soften rock. - How do you prevent the kind of tension that is irreversible?What most people don't understand is that the issue IS progressive and that it gets worse over time. The longer you wait to do something, the longer it takes to get results. It's a bit like doing the dishes or the laundry: you have to do a little bit each day or each week at a minimum, to experience the kind of ease and freedom of motion in your body that you expected as a child.
- How can I get rid of tension in a way that holds?The problem with assuming somebody can fix you, or some drug can fix you, is that it may help temporarily, but it's meant to be a jumpstart that gets you to a better-feeling-place that you need to expand on if you want to feel better for good. Your nervous system controls the resting length of your muscles. If you do things to relax on a regular basis, your nervous system with reset that resting length and you will feel the wonderful sensation of having more spaciousness to move in your own body.
- Why does nobody talk about this in conventional medicine?Professionals in physical therapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, surgery, massage, myofascial release, feldenkrais, neuromuscular therapy, alexander technique and fitness trainers all focus on different solutions without having the same basis of understanding of how the body works. They don't communicate, because they each use a different vocabulary for similar terms, or they use the same terms to mean different things. This is a disaster for the consumer, who is left asking the primary care doctor what to do, but they know even less about the muscular system and it's interactions with trauma and how the nervous system both responds and could regulate the response if given the right environment.
- What is it that doctors and other professionals in musculoskeletal health are missing?They pay lip-service to the fact that the nervous system controls the muscles and the response to trauma, but they don't know what to do with that information. They don't know how to set up the right conditions for the nervous system to reset itself. They won't tell you what to do, because they don't realize that you are better equipped to help yourself than they are. Why? Because it involves refining the ability you already have: the ability to sense what hurts, where and when. It's never just, "Does it hurt, or not?" Your body is like a child or a hurt animal: it speaks, but not in words. Only you can "hear" it. And the difference between "good pain" and "bad pain" is something only you can learn to discern. It comes naturally to athletes and may not always be a conscious process. Here, we break it down, so you can respond more quickly each time. That way, you can nip major hurts in the bud, BEFORE they turn into a major medical bill or a chronic issue that is much harder to resolve than at its inception.
- What are they missing in conventional medicine in terms of how to cope trauma?The research on trauma is fairly new and has not filtered into the mainstream, yet. Trauma causes a dysregulation of the nervous system. Dysregulation is a term used by trauma-informed specialists who understand how your nervous system automatically takes over when stressed and how to regulate that response. Talking about it won't change that. Trauma happens faster than thought. It's pre-verbal. Therefore, a somatic solution is the obvious way to go because it addresses the nervous system, which is the master control center that jumps in when any response is demanded, be it emotional, physical or heart-based.
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