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What Is Your Body Trying to Tell You?

Your Body Is Talking, Are You Listening? Your body can’t send you an email or text message. It communicates through pleasure and pain. How we interpret what we feel is what makes each of us unique. We are also challenged by outside forces that bombard us with a…
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Don’t Fix It, Feel It, Using the Miracle Ball Method

There’s an expression: You don’t know what you don’t know. Let me change that a bit: You don’t know what you don’t feel. This perfectly explains why many of us feel stuck in our bodies, desperately wanting relief and to move freely, but somehow can’t. We can’t move…
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Healing Chronic Pain Part 2

Here are some specific directions to help relieve chronic pain: Checking in: Notice your body and describe what stands out, rather than focusing on what you want or hope it will do. You can start sitting comfortably in a chair, on the floor, or lying down.  Be as…
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Healing Chronic Pain Part 1

Healing Chronic Pain Part 1 I’m always amazed at how many things in life, from the simplest tasks like tying your shoelaces, require direction. There is even a learning curve. Some of us are more patient than others. Some can be frustrated but still persist through the process…
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Everyday Movements Can Heal or Hurt Your Body

Using the balls feels amazing, but an invaluable byproduct of The Miracle Ball Method is tapping into your body’s ability to move freely without stiffness, or the everyday aches and pains many of us experience. Everyday movements done differently, using the benefits you get while on the ball,…
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Good Pain, Bad Pain

Good Pain, Bad Pain I remember when a friend of mine had a car accident. He was in his early 20s and might have been under the influence. He ended up with 123 stitches in his face, running under and along the bottom of his cheekbone. Remarkably, he…
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Emotions and Chronic Pain

So much of our day-to-day life is charged with some level of emotional response. We constantly ride the roller coaster of our emotions. From the seemingly simple act of of sitting in traffic, we are tightening our neck and shoulders, to the rush of packing lunches and the…
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The Third Option

Healing therapies, exercise and The Miracle Ball Method: What’s the Difference? Every day, we make decisions not just about what we’re going to do, but how we’ll do it. From choosing our clothing to deciding how much food to pack for lunch, which is the best route to…
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Reaching

Using Everyday Moves to Heal Your Body

It’s not necessary to isolate exercise in a gym, at a sporting event, or on your yoga mat. Moving is something we do all day. This should be good news for those who haven’t found their preferred “exercise” yet. It also doesn’t mean that every day movements can’t…
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Seesaw

Enjoying Moving Your Body: Relieve Everyday Aches and Pains

Do you enjoy moving your body? The body is a peculiar place. One might assume that basic, practical principles we use in everyday tasks—like balancing on a seesaw, distributing weight evenly; layering a three-tier cake; bouncing a ball; or reaching for something on a high shelf—would apply straightforwardly…
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The Miracle Ball Method: Making Exercise Effective

Meet Rose, a regular gym-goer who diligently practices the Miracle Ball Method. She finds great relief from it, but recently, she’s been experiencing hip pain after exercising. While the Method helps relieve residual tightness in her hips post-workout, the pain returns after her exercise class. She reached out…
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Don’t Get Old: 5 Antidotes to Aging

Here are five antidotes to aging: Breathing Discovering five key areas of your body Moving five key areas of your body Doing the Miracle Ball Method Never stop moving In the webinar this Saturday, I will go into more detail on each of the 5 antidotes. For example,…
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Don’t Get Old: The Antidotes to Aging

Overcoming Fear of Physical Sensations Many individuals struggle with fear of certain physical sensations, often creating a narrative around these sensations that can become disabling yet oddly inaccurate. These sensations can be a momentary twinge in the neck or knee in that same moment we are defending against…
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A Journey to Inhabiting Your Body

In the quest for holistic well-being, we often overlook a fundamental aspect: inhabiting our bodies. It’s akin to attempting to operate a vehicle without being behind the wheel. In this blog, we’ll delve into the significance of truly inhabiting your body. Many of us are familiar with the…
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Why the Ball Works When your Back Hurts

Many years ago, there was a neurologist who came to me for a session. She described perfectly why the ball worked. She said it was a neurological tool for the brain. She, being a neurologist, had a completely different vantage point than I. But I sensed her clarity…
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Hands Up

Webinar Review: The Miracle Ball Method for Posture and Balance

Just like getting feedback from your body gives you direction, so do the comments from those attending the webinars give me direction. In our recent webinar, the discussions on posture and balance resonated deeply. I urge you when you do the method to linger longer on the nuances…
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The Miracle Ball Method for Posture and Balance Part 2

Relieve your Pain, Reduce your Stress, Reshape your Body. Gaining an understanding that your body knows where good posture and balance is will allow you to enjoy the process.  The old idea of the static stiff laborious way people think of posture and balance must stop. It is…
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The Miracle Ball Method for Posture and Balance

Relieve your Pain, Reduce your Stress, Reshape your Body. Gaining an understanding that your body knows where good posture and balance is will allow you to enjoy the process. The old idea of the static stiff laborious way people think of posture and balance must stop. It is…
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About the Webinar: Finding Your Core Using the Miracle Ball Method

Sharing the Method with others has always been about listening to what people are wanting. Last Saturday’s webinar, Strengthening Your Core using the Miracle Ball Method was amazing. For me, it’s listening to what those attending, are saying. The answers many times are in their own questions. Connecting…
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People Looking Up

Look up! How One Small Movement Can Change Your Entire Body.

Looking up. As we become adults, most of us spend a lifetime looking down. Its only small children that are looking up, at their parents, the sky, in general the entire world around them. Looking up for a child is much easier than for most adults. Their whole…
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Finding your Core using the Miracle Ball Method

How the Miracle Ball Method can help: How can the miracle ball method help you find those elusive abs that seemed to disappear as we become adults and even more so by middle age? It’s not just how we look, but those muscles have so much to do…
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Don’t Get Old Part 2

Changing your thoughts, changes your body. Our thoughts are directing our physical body without our knowing it. Its why our body won’t always do what we are asking, it’s listening to that silent boot camp I spoke about in Part 1. Those thoughts have been working out in…
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Don't Get Old Workshop

Don’t Get Old Part 1

*My thoughts from the “Don’t Get Old” Webinar, February 24th. When teaching the recent ‘Don’t Get Old Webinar’, I had a plan. I wanted to clarify that as adults we may want to improve the way we move, not be sidelined with injuries or other physical challenges. But,…
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Don't Get Old Workshop

Free Webinar Don’t Get Old

Miracle Ball Method Relieve your Pain. Reduce Stress and Reshape your Body. Join Me Free Webinar Don’t Get Old February 17th 3pm ET This is a blog about the upcoming free webinar Don’t Get Old. Most of us pretty much assume getting old means moving less, and as…
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Simple Solutions for Lower Back Ache

Do You Believe Your Body Can Transform Itself?

While teaching for many years, one thing that’s consistent is how unique each person is in their relationship to their body. What is also similar is people don’t believe they can really change and improve the way they feel. Believing is a big part of trying things. You…
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Venetian Blinds

Miracle Ball Method: Finding Balance

Miracle Ball Method Relieve your Pain. Reduce Your Stress. Reshape your Body. Is your side body, pulling you down?  Recently, I was teaching a class where I used an example of raising venetian blinds. Your hand must securely hold the strings on the side of the blinds to…
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Don’t Get Old

Don’t Get Old What does that word “old” mean to you, a number? Can you describe what “old” is? Do you have any symptoms of what you think means you’re getting older? I remember teaching a 28-year-old student who had difficulty raising her right arm up over her…
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Breathing is NOT Optional

Breathing is NOT Optional

Breathing is NOT Optional On November 19, from 1 to 2 PM, I’m hosting a free webinar titled “Breathing is Not Optional.” The title emerged from teaching classes in The Miracle Ball Method. There are many misunderstandings about breathing that can make improving it feel like a chore.…
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Brain

Take Advantage of Your Muscle Memory

Take Advantage of Your Muscle Memory We have it, and we can use it to relieve pain, reduce stress, and reshape our bodies. What is Muscle Memory Looking at small children is a great way to evoke your muscle memory. Think of your brain somewhat like a computer.…
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Simplify Your Life: Letting Your Body Guide Your Decisions

Don’t Over Think It This is not so much an admonition, as admitting I can relate. Distinguishing between thinking, and feeling the physical body is the basis of my Method. We all overthink many aspects of our lives, what to wear, eat for dinner, what to purchase and…
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Recognizing the Mind Body Connection in Common Colloquialisms

Recognizing the Mind Body Connection in Common Colloquialisms Here are some common colloquialisms we all might be familiar with. For example, pain in the neck, carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, weak in the knees, no backbone, and maybe even tight ass. When said, we…
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Simple Solutions for Lower Back Ache

Understanding the Body: It Goes Both Ways

Understanding the Body: It Goes Both Ways Most of us think we can control how we physically feel.  If we take care of our body, eat a certain way we will feel good and reap the benefits. That works until it doesn’t. When I first began to have…
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