Do-at-home, no-equipment-needed, non-invasive therapeutic skills are indispensable for effectively managing stress, anxiety, exercise burnout, pain and more. The following three self-care skills and accompanying practices will help you understand and transform your experience of pain. Self-Care Skill #1: Notice Your Pain…
By shifting from prescriptive teaching to empowerment teaching, author Michelle Pitman helps clients take healing and pain relief into their own hands.
Go beyond pain management, and look at how to actually disrupt the pathways of pain.
Soft tools can achieve all the potential benefits of massage: increased relaxation, proprioception, pain-relief, and circulation, reduction of inflammation, and sometimes, manipulation and restructuring of connective tissue. However, there are certain cases where soft tools don’t get the job done, or…
January 2018 is here and there’s no better time to educate yourself on the ways of self-care fitness! It is our goal at Tune Up Fitness to empower you with simple tools and techniques to eradicate pain, improve your posture, and…
The time has come…to tune up your life! Eradicate pain, improve your posture, and enhance your performance with The 10 Days of Yoga Tune Up®. Follow along on social media for the next 10 days, and give these techniques a try. Day 1…
You’re in the restroom before a big job interview. You remember reading this blog and you decide to do Megaplank on the wall. You feel your serratus anterior responding, but you also begin to feel your anxiety decreasing and your sense…
As you build a regular yoga practice, you may experience many new bodily sensations as you go through the process of strengthening and changing the resting tone of the muscles throughout your entire body. But what happens if you begin to…
This article is part of a series on how to maximize the benefits of massage therapy. Read the rest of the series here. In addition to using self-massage to maximize the benefits or your professional massage experience, as described in Part…
This article is part of a series on how to maximize the benefits of massage therapy. Read the rest of the series here. Six years ago this month, I began rehab from a complicated knee surgery (after three months spent in…
