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Why Its So Hard to Feel Good

Why Its So Hard to Feel Good When most of us think about pain, we focus on the part of the body that hurts. That makes sense. If you burn your finger you’re going to attend to your finger. If you twist your ankle, you’re going to deal…
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Simple Solutions for Lower Back Ache

Simple Solutions for Lower Back Ache

Simple Solutions for Lower Back Ache The body is simple people are not. When it comes to many chronic aches and pains that people have there are simple solutions. Unfortunately, the pain is sometimes so big we think a solution must be equally as complex. But it’s not…
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how to relieve excess muscle tension

Rushing Part 2

Rushing Part 2 The Miracle Ball Method Relieve your Pain, Reduce your Stress, and Reshape your body. I thought about the recent Blog on rushing, and wanted to address how the Method might help. What makes the Method unique is understanding our body is giving us feedback all…
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Rushing

Rushing The Miracle Ball Method Relieve your Pain, Reduce your Stress, and Reshape your body.   Rushing is something most of us take for granted as a part of everyday life. It certainly can’t be as bad as chronic stress, poor diet, drug addition, alcoholism, and all those…
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Muscle Tension is a Good Thing

Muscle Tension is a Good Thing Many of us do a dance between straining our muscles to work and then relaxing them completely. We think, if I didn’t have so much tension in my neck and shoulder, or lower back, then I would feel better. That is probably…
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The Flip Side of Release, Relax, and Let Go

The Flip Side of Release, Relax, and Let Go Miracle Ball Method: Relieve your Pain, Reduce your Stress, Reshape your Body. Yesterday I was teaching a gentleman who is very high energy, and at the end of class he said, “I feel so relaxed”, Whenever I teach a…
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When Exercise Doesn’t Work

When exercise doesn’t work When people try the miracle ball method, they inevitably use the directions that they have learned from exercise. The Miracle Ball Method is the opposite of exercise. Think of it this way. If you are a pianist, the piano is your instrument. Similarly, your…
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What is good posture?

What is good posture? I had an email from a student after a class. She mentioned how she noticed when she stood, her upper body was leaning back. She said she’s going to have to fix that when she stands. She wants to improve her posture. I explained…
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Improving your Muscle Memory

“Memories… What’s too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.” * I was thinking about muscle memory today. As I was contemplating the topic for my next webinar, I thought about the ways in which we move at different times of our lives. For me, the greatest…
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Is Your Stress Stressing You Out?

We All Experience Stress It’s not always logical the way some people can have a tremendous amount of stress and seem to be very at ease with it, whereas others can have a seemingly easy life, with little stress, but feel miserable. Stress for some of us, builds…
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Miracle Ball Method Training and Instructor Discount. Group of students on floor during a training session.

Saturday Summer Camp of the Method

Saturday Workshop Series Testimonial Email I wanted to share a recent email from someone in the Saturday Workshop Series. It is a diverse group of people from around the world. She signed her email, Saturday Summer Camp of the Method! I think it says it all. For those…
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The Miracle Ball Method Mind Body Connection, Part 2 - Rebooting

Reboot Your Mind Body Connection: The Miracle Ball Method

Part 2: Mind Body Counseling: Rebooting In Part 1 of the blog on the Mind Body Disconnection, we began to make a distinction between the thoughts about the body and feeling your body. In other words, having a personal experience with your body vs simply listening to information…
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Feel Your Body?

You don’t know what you don’t know. It’s an interesting thought. It very much applies to our bodies. We don’t feel what we don’t feel. Moving freely, relieving stress, many times requires us to feel our bodies in ways we are not familiar.  When we go about it…
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That Irritating Muffin Top 

That Irritating Muffin Top 

A ‘Muffin Top’ is really just a silly way of referring to the muscles around the middle of the body that are somewhat underused. Many of us exercise and get disappointed when our shape remains the same. We want our core or waist area to slim down, tighten…
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The Miracle Ball Method - Elbow on the Ball

Elbow on Ball

Elbow on Ball is a great way to relieve stiffness in your shoulders and tightness in your neck. See page 223 in The Miracle Ball Method™ book for more details — and check out this video to see ball placement. Remember to take it slow and BREATHE…
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Talk About That Back!

Most of us have areas of the body that are extra tight at the end of a day. Sometimes that tightness can even prevent a good night’s sleep and last through the next day. For many, the low back is one of those areas. Take a look at…
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The Knee Bone’s Connected to the Hip Bone…

Talk to any runner, dancer, tennis player, martial artist, etc. and they will tell you how important healthy, happy knees are to the rest of their body. But as a lot of us experience — athlete or not – our knees aren’t always happy. (more…)
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Gravity

Gravity

Gravity. Got it love it! Here’s a Miracle Ball Method student at her desk at Stamford Office Furniture letting the weight of her body do something that another MBM student calls “stretching without stretching.” So easy and your back will feel so great afterwards. Have you done a…
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Twin Skin

Twin Skin

Happy Birthday John and Lucas! Although having two babies at the same time had its challenges, I can’t say it wasn’t amazing. I thank God that I knew the Method at that time. After the birth, I had what I found out was called “twin skin.” I could…
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Must-Do Move to Restore-Relieve-Renew: Raise Your Hands

For stiff shoulders, carpal tunnel syndrome, and a great stress reducer. Hands are extremely connected to movement and to moving with freedom and flow – just look at any sport, dance, martial arts, or folk dancing around the world. Unfortunately, though, most of us don’t realize the connection…
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Back

Must-Do Move to Restore-Relieve-Renew: Oh, My Aching Back

Do you know where your pelvis is? A lot of us get an achy low back and struggle between holding ourselves up stiffly and just collapsing. Why is it so hard to maintain great posture without it feeling so forced? The same reason our lower back aches. Tight…
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How to alleviate stress

Must-Do Move to Restore-Relieve-Renew: Breathe

Look up and reach for the sky. We spend most of our days hunched over computers, steering wheels, kitchen counters- not to mention our phones– and our breathing gets constricted. Looking up lifts the ribs off the diaphragm and allows us to breathe again. Try it now: Look…
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November Miracle Ball Method Level 1 Certification Training Course

Happy Fall! I am so happy to announce that I have just firmed up the dates for the next Miracle Ball Method Level 1 Certification Training Course! November 2-4, 2018 in Stamford, Connecticut. The location will be determined soon. Remember: The Level 1 training is also great for one’s own personal growth…
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