Shape Happens

Everyday you move your body into a variety of different shapes. Your "body shapes" (similar to posture) are learned and created from work, athletics, traumas, the way you sleep, and many other life activities and inactivities. Some of these body shapes are more familiar such as standing, sitting, or lying down. Other body shapes are more subtle such as twists, tilts, constrictions and typically go unnoticed. All of these types of body shapes become a problem when they get stuck and literally won't let you go.

Getting Stuck In Shapes

Many times your body shapes are actually just chronically contracted muscles. These contracted muscles can come from injury, stress, stillness, or repetitive movements. Over weeks, months, or years, people begin to collect these body shapes - a collection of chronically contracted muscles. Young athletes, office workers, mothers holding babies on their hips, and inactive retirees can have contracted muscles. Everybody can create body shapes that get stuck, feel painful and reduce your freedom of movement which limits your ability to live your life fully. Below are just a few of the ways you get into shapes during your daily life.

 
  • sitting or leaning at a desk
  • your reaction to stress
  • frequent cellphone use
  • an old accident that is lingering
  • doing repetitive movements
  • slumping while feeling depressed, scared, or even bored
  • repeating the same sports training regimen
  • wincing from regular pain or trauma
  • Holding a heavy weight for years (like a baby on your hip)
  • lying on a soft couch in the same position
  • and more
 
 
These are some of the common shapes and postures which can form and eventually cause our pain or stiffness. Stress, daily repeating activities, mood, or even accidents can form our shapes, which can turn into stuck and chronically contracted muscles.

These are some of the common shapes and postures which can form and eventually cause our pain or stiffness. Stress, daily repeating activities, mood, or even accidents can form our shapes, which can turn into stuck and chronically contracted muscles.

 


The Problem With Shapes

If you haven't been finding solutions to your physical health problems with therapy, medication, or surgery you may have chronically contracted muscles. As those tight muscles can continually stay "on" and pull you into limiting shapes, they can become an underlying contributor to many physical health issues, diagnosed or not. Below is a general list of possible common physical complaints that many clients have found they can now alleviate, prevent, and even reverse.

  • Aging - Aches and Pains
  • Arthritis
  • Back Pain
  • Breathing, Shallow
  • Bursitis
  • Fatigue 
  • Flexibility, Poor
  • Foot Pain
  • Headaches, Migraines
  • Hip Pain
  • Insomnia
  • Leg Pain
  • Muscular Pain
  • Neck Pain
  • Numbness, Hands or Feet
  • Posture, Poor
  • Sciatica
  • Shoulder Pain
  • Spasm, Muscle
  • Spine, Curvature
  • Stiffness
  • Tension Muscular
  • Tired, Muscles
  • Can't get relief from:
    • Therapy
    • Surgery
    • Medication
  • Similar Conditions..


Life Solutions

Below are just a few of the many aspects of clients' lives that they have successfully been able to improve once they know how to Get Out Of Shape.

  • Athletics and sports
  • Aging well
  • Everyday Activities
  • Fun and Spontaneity
  • Hobbies
  • Home Life
  • Making a Living
  • Posture and Appearance
  • Physical Fitness
  • Physical Independence
  • Post Trauma Relief
  • Performers and Muscians
  • Sleep Better
  • Stress Management
  • Weekend Warriors
  • Many more...