by Mari Hodges | Sep 18, 2017 | Articles, English, Posts English
Every kind of movement you do is fair game in a DiscoverEase in Movement with Alexander Technique class. Just the other day, I explored with someone how to push the vacuum cleaner without having her back hurt and ending up so exhausted. We realized that her focus as...
by Mari Hodges | Sep 11, 2017 | Articles, English, Posts English
I recently participated in a permaculture workshop, and one of the classes I attended was about how to build beautiful soil from hard ground. The teacher was passionate about her subject, and I couldn’t help reflecting on the similarities between her advice on soil...
by Mari Hodges | Aug 30, 2017 | Articles, English, Posts English
I’m often asked how can you look up without scrunching your neck and compressing your spine. I agree that tasks that involve looking up are challenging, whether it’s looking up at a screen, painting your ceiling or gazing at the stars. When looking up or looking down,...
by Mari Hodges | Jul 30, 2017 | Articles, English, Posts English
Lately, mainstream news has told us that yoga and other types of exercise do just as well as physical therapy to improve chronic pain. Why is that? In this series of blogs I’ll talk about what pain is, how it works and why it’s so important to understand it. Solving...
by Mari Hodges | Jul 2, 2017 | Articles, English, Posts English
Chronic pain can be present without actual tissue damage, or even after tissue damage has healed. It can be triggered when your brain weighs all the factors and determines that you are in danger. You can protect yourself from – and reduce – chronic pain by...
by Mari Hodges | Dec 10, 2016 | Articles, English, Posts English, Uncategorized
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has decided to limit prescription drugs and to encourage a combination of exercise and mind-body options incorporating a “cognitive behavioural approach” for low back pain. General...
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