MOVE THE WAY YOUR BODY IS DESIGNED TO
MOVE THE WAY YOUR BODY IS DESIGNED TO

We optimize performance of the human body with a combination of Muscle Activation and Posture Reprogramming. These two methods provide stimulation to the brain and influence the mind-body connection in a way that you can feel immediately. The more in tune that connection is, the better quality of training and life as a whole!

Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) is a method used to restore connections between the brain and muscular system. Motor nerves connect the brain and the motor neurons in the muscles like a wire connecting a light bulb to a battery!

Posture Reprogramming is a method used to change the way the brain positions the skeletal system, which is heavily determined during childhood development.
Stress - When we experience emotional stress, it is not an just an experience. It can be stored in the body. Some people experience gastro-intestinal issues, and others muscular dysfunction. If you've ever been stressed at work, or by a loved one, and have experienced discomfort in the body (often in the traps and shoulder blades), that is your nervous system storing stress in your muscular system. Once the sensation dissipates, it is very possible that you are ailment free, but the issue remains.
Trauma - If you have ever experienced physical trauma, such as banging your pinky toe on the coffee table, or falling onto a knee, and the area has just never felt the same despite medical diagnostic imaging.
Overuse - If you are a person that sits at a desk for many hours a day with your hips flexed at all times, those muscles that flex the hips are in an almost fully contracted position for hours on end. The body prefers to be in neutral, where the muscle fibers of the body are pulling at an equilibrium. Staying in a position that is not neutral for extended periods of time end can cause dysfunction. This area of dysfunction also the most directly influenced by imbalance in the postural system, and the main link between the two modalities.
Assess range of motion to get more precise information on where the issue is coming from in real time.
Then we put each individual muscle involved in the limited range of motion through a test of resistance. The client moves into the position in which the muscle being tested is dominant. The body is a chain, however each muscle has a position in which it is more dominant than the rest (this is the most challenging position for the nervous system to contract that muscle). The practitioner then pulls or pushes perpendicular to the muscle fibers.
If the individual fails this muscle test (roughly about 10 pounds of force), we go to the points where the muscle attaches to the bone and apply pressure with the finger tips. The attachment points of the muscle fibers are where a majority of the motor neurons within the muscles are located. These motor neurons respond to the pressure. Think of jumper cables to the positive and negative points on a battery.
We follow up with testing the muscle again not only to check our work, but to really solidify the connection.
The process is repeated until the range of motion on the limited side matches, or in some cases, is better than the opposite side.
Imbalance in the unconscious postural system is caused by two main factors:
Dysfunction of the photomotor cortex (eye movement) and lack of stimulation to the soles of the feet.
When we stand upright, our nervous system gets information from the feet feeling the ground and the eyes looking for the horizon to determine how to position the body. As this information gets skewed by the eyes seeing two different images from dysfunction of the muscular system in control of eye movement, and the feet being in shoes, the nervous system adjusts. However, these adjustments aren't accurate to what we need and become detrimental. When we provide stimulation to these two areas, it cleans up the information the nervous system receives and balance is restored.
By stimulating these two places, we get the best bang for your buck recalibration of the postural system. However, there are a few other factors that can attribute to imbalance, to a much lesser degree that we must address as well. They are:
A failure to integrate primitive reflexes in early stage childhood development.
TMJ - Misalignments of the jaw (over/under/cross bite), asymmetric tooth removal.
Microgalvanisms - Permanent metals on the body, EMF, deep scars, etc.
This imbalance looks like larger curves in the spine. The head may protrude forward in front of the body, and the pelvis may have an anterior or posterior tilt. The knees may appear to be hyperextended at rest.
Common symptoms associated with this imbalance are:
Chronic tightness across the middle of the low back.
Jaw Pain/knee pain
Limited shoulder and hip range of motion.
This imbalance looks like tilts in the shoulder and pelvis to one side. One shoulder will sit lower, one leg will appear longer. One or both knees may be knocked/bowed
Common symptoms associated with this imbalance are:
Persistent migraine on the forehead above the eye.
Sensations that travel from side of the neck to the fingers.
One sided sciatica or knee pain. Scoliosis.
This imbalance looks like one shoulder sits forward or one side of the pelvis sits back.
Common symptoms associated with transverse plane imbalance are:
A chronic pinch above the pelvis on one side of the lower back,
A chronic knot between the shoulder blade and the spine on one side of the upper back.
Disc bulges and herniations from daily wear and tear in the lumbar spine.

MAT and GPR fill a hole in each others practice.
The area of imbalance in the postural system heavily attributes to the "overuse" aspect of muscle dysfunction. If one of my shoulders is low, this means the muscles that depress the shoulder are constantly being contracted, similar to a person being in constant contraction of their hip flexors sitting at a desk. Over time, those shoulder depressing muscles lose their functionality. The shoulder elevators will then become tight due to their inability to lengthen, and will eventually lead to dysfunction of those muscles as well. When they become dysfunctional, that dysfunction includes the trap muscles, which attach to the back of the skull, the muscles that run on top of the skull then become tight, and pull, causing headaches. You can see how dysfunction spreads. This example holds true for any area of postural imbalance. MAT can rebuild the nervous systems connection with the muscle involved, but if the skeletal system is not aligned appropriately, it is only a matter of time before those muscles fail again.
As we go through the process of recalibrating the unconscious posture, the muscular system may need to be prepared through MAT for the new position of the attachment and insertion points of the muscle fibers.
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