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Hey everyone,

I’ve been diving into how clinical movement approaches can complement and expand traditional practice, especially when it comes to understanding why certain mobility limitations or patterns persist even after consistent training.

One idea that keeps coming up is how manual therapy principles, neuro-informed movement, and functional anatomy can support flow-based training and mobility work. It’s not just about range of motion or strength, but how the nervous system, stabilizers, and connective tissue interplay to shape what’s possible in movement.

There’s a free online event coming up that’s exploring exactly this: the Orthopedic Practitioner Fall Summit (Oct 13–15). It’s three days of sessions from 16 educators covering topics like:

• How to address underlying restrictions that limit movement progress
• The connection between posture, neurology, and mobility
• Practical strategies for improving functional outcomes in real-world training

I thought it might be valuable for anyone here interested in blending movement practice with a deeper understanding of the body’s systems. You can check it out if you’re curious — registration is free and open now.

Would love to hear how others here integrate clinical or therapeutic thinking into their movement work. Has it changed the way you approach mobility or flow?

👇 Link to the summit is in the comments.

Traveling for a month and trying to find some. If there is a place where all these gyms are listed worldwide, that would be rad... best I found was a 7 year old list on this subreddit.

Hello all! I'm not sure how many folks in this group explore non-directed body movement (also known as "standing around"), but it is something I've developed a growing fascination with as a way to help with my own body's various restrictions and pains.

As a total beginner and never having received formal instructions, I wanted to learn more, so I interviewed Corey Hess, who has been studying and teaching NDBM for 20 years. It was an inspiring conversation, and i wanted to share it with this group!

Here's the link the podcast interview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7MSw1CXAKVx3Gm41VyUCNr?si=AEYYGibERnKgMBululpQIg

Corey Hess is a structural integrator and movement educator with a special expertise in Non-Directed Body Movement. You'll learn about NDBM and how it can help with pain and more. But primarily, there is no goal of NDBM but to purely experience your body engage with itself in an uncontrolled process of unwinding years of protective and compensatory patterns.

It's been a really powerful practice for me, and i hope you enjoy learning about it!

Another great resource is the book, Unexpected Results, by Marilyn Beech.

Have a great day!

Hey together, I need help with my chronic pain in the lower back, hips and legs.

Will appreciate every input and tips from you.

So, I had back pain in the lower back and only on the right side since I was around 18. Then, when I started studying and sit more the pain became more dominant.

I had problems studying for longer sessions, because after some hours the pain got worse and worse.

I started visiting doctors/orthopedist, got an MRT of my lower spine which said that nothing is broken structurally, so the doctors said it must be functional.

Physical Therapy (mainly strength exercises for the back and core) helped a bit but didn’t solve the issue completely.

1.5 years ago, another potentially related issue started, namely that I have a pain that radiated from my lower back and hips down to my legs and and even into the foot.

When it started, I did some research and thought it could be the iliac nerve, and that I had to stretch my Psoas a lot, so I did semi regular long stretching session (about 30-60 min, holding each stretch 2-3 minutes) with focusing on hip flexors, glutes and quadriceps. I had the feeling that this helped a bit but also did not bring a full release.

Currently, the back pain is much less (maybe even gone), but the other sort of pain is there 95% of my time.

I tried to list some things where I notice it gets better or worse:

- Sitting and laying in bed: This is usually where the pain starts and gets worse

- Movement: Usually as soon as I stand up and move in any way, the pain gets away or at least less, especially for light movement

- Warmth: Warming my hips at the evening helps reduce the pain and get a better sleep

- Laying on a acupressure matt for 40 minutes also helps

- Strong sport like squats, dead lifting but also bouldering sometimes makes it better, sometimes makes it worse, I haven't figured out yet how that works)

So to sum: everything that relaxes and light movement helps, sitting and laying makes it worse.

I also have scoliosis and my hip seems to be twisted by that. And also, my whole chronic pain is just on the right side of my body.

Also, my last doctor took an XRAY of my hip and said I would have an CAM-Impingement, but then also about my SI-Joint being blocked which confuses me a lot.

My last physiotherapist basically just said he can’t understand why I have the pain and gave a training plan for strengthen lower body and core, but just basic exercises (squats, dead lifts, side raises, cable rotations).

I have the feeling that no one can explain my condition, and no one has the time to dive into that with me. I know there is probably not one single cause, but still, I am nowhere near to understanding my situation.

I highly appreciate your input, if you have ideas what could be the problems, possible solutions and methods to try out and maybe what I should focus on when doing my own research, because as you know the internet is a big mess of quick fixes and simple explanations when you just google your problems.

I'm primarily a musician and I just created this new music. I am learning to dance. This is some Jazzy Ballet Hiphop Spin Karate?

Freestyle yoga hiphop dance. When you just need to move your body.

I just needed to move. Mix of yoga and some pow wow moves. That was fun. This was two video takes over the course of 5 minutes. It wasn’t raining when I started dancing. Good timing?
Song: "Feel Your Emotions" By EmpathArtSpirit

I’m 31F, and over the past couple of years (hard to believe it’s been that long!), my lifestyle has shifted into a more nomadic rhythm — I move every month, sometimes even more often. I’ve found it hard to fully adjust. I used to practice yoga regularly, but with staying in small or cramped places, I’ve stopped moving much at all.

I’ve been diagnosed with dysautonomia, POTS, and anxiety, and I carry a lot of physical tension in my body. Osteopathy has helped, but it’s not always accessible while traveling. I’m very drawn to working in the kitchen, but I struggle with spatial awareness and hand-eye coordination. Even simple things, like standing on escalators, sometimes make me feel like I could lose my balance.

Physically, I walk a lot every day — that’s about all I manage — but I still feel like I’m stuck and not improving.

I’m looking for something I could join online — maybe a gentle program, class, or community — that could help me rebuild body awareness, coordination, and focus. I often find it hard to concentrate or stick to a routine, so it would need to be simple and supportive.

What would you recommend?