Your body doesn’t lie but your perception does. You have two halves of your nervous system, and there can be important messages hidden beyond your conscious awareness. I communicate with the body using functional feedback. This shows us where muscles are weak, or take alternate paths instead of the uninhibited natural path your form was made for.  These paths are determined by your proprioception.

Using this information we can determine where there is hidden pain in your system, and then determine if we need to work with physical structure, nutritional support, or (I know it sounds wild-) emotions!

You see- the problem with pain is that “nociception,” the technical word for pain, turns off muscles in the interest of prioritizing the message to preserve the body and reduce damage. Another part of the story is that even in the awareness we do have, we are only consciously aware of the top 3%-6% of that pain. Also- here’s the “delight in the details” our brains do not differentiate between physical and emotional pain.

Muscle Phasing is an Applied Kinesiology approach to the nervous system, using the soft tissue as a communication medium for functional responses, to determine clear signs and signals for viable local improvements.

When we have an emotional pain, the brain discerns it as organ pain. Organs pair up with nerve roots to the same vertebra that muscles do- and they correlate! This means that if you are missing something in your nutrition, or you have a painful emotion looping in your subconscious system, your organ can send a stress signal, and weaken the related muscles. Those muscles in turn not working, cause a pattern that brings up pain.

After going through this feedback checklist, when we know what to work on, we can focus on helpful practices that will directly improve your system as a whole, and leave you feeling relief quickly!