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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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Elaine Petrone Miracle Ball Method

After the Summer Workshop Series

After the Summer Workshop Series Last Saturday we finished the two-hour Basic Workshop Series. I was concerned how people would feel experiencing two hours of an unusual body method. The truth of the matter is, I think it was harder for me than it was for them. They…
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Miracle Ball Method Balls

Man Doesn’t Live by Balls Alone

Man Doesn’t Live by Balls Alone I have heard all the ball jokes, seen all the different methods of using balls, and love using them myself and sharing The Miracle Ball Method with others. There are balls used to massage our muscles, roll around on, and exercise with.…
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Bending Over

Are You a Tight Ass?

Are You a Tight Ass? Find your leg joints and free yourself from chronic lower back aches, stiffness, sciatic pain and more, using the Miracle Ball Method. Do you clench your muscles? Your leg joint is a Key Area of your body. All of us clench muscles in…
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The Miracle Ball Method: How Breathing Transforms Your Body and Mind

The Miracle Ball Method: How Breathing Transforms Your Body and Mind What breathing tells you about your body, your pain, the way you move, stiffness, anxiety, the way you sleep at night, the way you stand, your metabolism.,,,,,, Everything ! Mindless breathing vs deep breathing? Mindless breathing versus…
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The Miracle Ball Method Hip Shoulder Relief

HIPS ON TWO BALLS AND…

HIPS ON TWO BALLS AND Why is the Miracle Ball Method Important to include in your life. Miracle Ball Method provides a missing link when wanting to improve the way you feel! For many of us including healthy things in our day to day lives is a challenge.…
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The Miracle Ball Method

Reshaping your Body Using the Miracle Ball Method

Reshaping your Body Using the Miracle Ball Method   Thinking the body is how many people approach exercise: Most of us are familiar with the myriad of fitness regimens for sculping, toning, and reshaping the look of your body. These programs may be very effective for some, but…
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Elaine

Big City Mayor Mandates Breathing in School System

Big City Mayor Mandates Breathing in School System The Mayor of New York City has recently mandated a few minutes of breathing for children throughout the city school system. I do think it was a step in the right direction. I’ve heard all kinds of responses, for example…
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Miracle Ball Method Balls

Miracle Ball Method Basics: Why take this workshop?

Miracle Ball Method Basics: Why take this workshop? Why take this workshop? Because it’s not exercise, it’s something most people never experience. If you have tried it, continuing to understand how to do it, improves your body year after year. The Miracle Ball Method is the opposite of…
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TMJ: YOU Can’t Move What You Don’t Feel.

TMJ: YOU Can’t Move What You Don’t Feel. TMJ, commonly called your jaw, is associated with the discomfort this joint can sometimes cause. It stands for Temporomandibular joint. The Miracle Ball Method incorporates this area to improve breathing as well as ease up the stiffness that causes much…
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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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The Miracle Ball Method

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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The Miracle Ball Method

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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Miracle Ball Method Balls

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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A Miracle Ball Method class with Elaine Petrone

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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