Open Potential Bodywork

Your body isn’t built to march like a toy soldier. It’s built to spiral 🌀

Every step is meant to be a conversation between opposites: right arm and left leg, left arm and right leg. As one side reaches forward, the opposite shoulder and hip draw toward each other across your front, then unwind, wrapping gently around your spine like a towel being wrung and released.

That’s contralateral movement. It’s how your fascia stores and returns energy, how your spine stays supple, and why good walking feels less like effort and more like flow.

When we lock that spiral down (stiff ribs, arms glued to our sides, swinging the same arm and leg together 🤖), walking turns into a stack of separate parts doing their own thing. Hello, tight hips and cranky low back.

Try this on your next walk:
✨ Let your arms swing loose from the shoulder, not the elbow
✨ Feel your ribs gently rotate over your pelvis
✨ Imagine your opposite shoulder and hip greeting each other with every step

No forcing. Just let the spiral come back online. 🌀

Save this for your next walk and tell me what you notice 👇

Want to go deeper into softening how you move through the world? The Softening Project is linked in my bio 🤍

I thought I was scared.

In a recent hypnotherapy session, I went back to an old memory, one I’d always filed under “fear.” But when I slowed down and listened to the sensations in my body, I found something underneath it: rage. 🔥. thanks Moyra Michelle , I’ll be back for more!! 🙌 ✨

That’s embodiment. It means being present in your body, and letting it tell you what’s true even when your mind has a different story.

Embodiment is a skill. Nobody arrives perfectly attuned. The more you practice noticing, the easier it gets to hear what your body has been saying all along.

If you want to build that practice, The Softening Project is my 10-week course on coming home to your body. Link in bio. 🌿

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I’m so over hack culture.

The 5am ice baths. The 12-step morning routines. The “optimize everything” exhaustion that leaves you feeling like your body is a problem to be solved instead of a home to live in.

Here’s what I actually want for you: your body becoming your best friend.

Not through another rigid protocol you’ll abandon by Thursday — but through tools. Real ones. The kind that fold into your actual life. That you reach for in the car, at your desk, in the three minutes before sleep. Tools that build a relationship with your body instead of a war against it.

That’s what The Softening Project is. Ten weeks of learning to listen to, move with, and trust the body you already have.

I have a goal: 1,000 women learning these life-changing tools by fall 2026. I want you to be one of them. 🤍

Link in bio to start.

In my early 20s, I couldn’t do this. My hips were locked, my ankles wouldn’t bend, and I thought “tight” was just my body’s personality. 🐈‍⬛

Turns out it wasn’t a personality trait — it was a lack of practice. The deep squat isn’t a flexibility lottery you either win or lose. It’s a position your body remembers how to find when you give it small, repeatable reasons to.

Here’s the progression I used (and teach in the Rolfing office):

1. Squat to a chair. Touch down, stand up. Let your body trust the depth before you ask it to live there.

2. Drop the chair. Go as low as you comfortably can — no chasing, no forcing. Lower comes with time.

3. Test your end range. Settle into your deepest point and hold for 30–60 seconds. This is where the change actually happens. Breathe into the stretch. Let the tissue soften (Sunny agrees — You got this!🐾).

Why bother? This one position gives you:
→ open hips + mobile ankles
→ a happier low back + decompressed spine
→ stronger pelvic floor + easier digestion
→ the ability to get off the floor with ease at 80

You don’t need an hour. You need 60 seconds, most days, repeated. That’s the whole secret. Consistency is quieter than intensity — and it wins every time.

Could you sit here for a minute today? 👇

Think of your pelvis like the pedals in a car. 🚗

It has two settings, and neither one is “wrong” — they’re just for different terrain.

Brake = posterior tilt. Tailbone tucks slightly under, like you’re easing down a hill. Controlled. Grounded. This is what catches you when you need to slow down and stabilize.

Gas = anterior tilt. The front of the pelvis tips forward, like you’re leaning into speed. This is the spring in your step, the lift that carries you forward.

Here’s the thing most of us get wrong: we pick ONE and white-knuckle it all day. Stuck in the brake = that heavy, collapsed, tucked-under feeling. Stuck in the gas = the low-back arch that never quite lets go.

Good posture was never about holding still. It’s about being able to shift — to feel the road change and respond. Downhill, you brake. Picking up speed, you give it gas.

Your pelvis already knows how to drive. The work is just letting it move again. 🌿

Which pedal do you live in — gas or brake? Tell me below. 👇

Slug days are real. And sometimes the answer isn’t more willpower — it’s being with your body in THIS moment 🐌

Here’s my 8-minute jiggle plate sequence when my body feels heavy, stiff, or just… blah 😑 . The vibration sends waves through your fascial system — waking up tissue, moving lymph, and telling your nervous system it’s safe to shift gears. Or maybe just be glad that you did a bit of movement and didn’t become a couch troll 🧌 right away!

The seven moves 👇
1️⃣ Stand & squat — whole fascial web activation
2️⃣ Squat hold — hydrates fascia through load
3️⃣ Plank — connects core to fingertips
4️⃣ Plank with knee ups — unsticks the hips
5️⃣ Arms on board into child’s pose — thoracic release
6️⃣ Seated, breathing into back ribs — lymph + lung expansion
7️⃣ Seated hum — vagus nerve reset, nervous system softens

Which one have you never tried? 👇
And if you have a jiggle plate fave that’s NOT on this list — I genuinely want to know. Drop it below. 🌿

(I use the Life Pro Jiggle Plate — not sponsored, just genuinely in my rotation.) I did write a blog on it- see link in bio if you’re really curious👌 🤓

Everyone’s teaching you how to land your foot. 🛬

But landing takes care of itself when you learn how to leave the ground. ✈️ ✨

The cue that changes everything: peel your foot off the floor — heel, ball, toe — like Velcro lifting off felt.

When you do that, something almost automatic happens. Your knee extends. Your hip opens. Your low back lengthens. And your stride finally matches the height you actually are.

This is one of the most overlooked patterns in how modern humans move — and once you feel it, you can’t un-feel it.

Drop a 🤙 below if this is the first time you’ve heard walking taught from the lift instead of the landing.

Pull over. Your fascia needs this.

After an hour in a car, your front fascial line is compressed — hip flexors, chest, even your jaw. It needs length, not just a quad stretch against the bumper.

This is what I call Becoming the Rainbow 🌈 🙌

Here’s how:
→ Stand at the back of your car
→ Anchor one foot, opposite arm reaches palm-up, back, and down behind you
→ Let the arch follow — you’re opening the entire front of your fascial web from foot to fingertips

Hold it. Breathe into the stretch. Feel it unzip.

Do both sides. You’ll get back in the car feeling like a different person.

📌 Save this for your next road trip

Your hips aren’t tight. They’re stuck in fascia.

Most hip “stretches” pull on muscle — but if the fascia isn’t moving, nothing changes. This drill works differently.

↓ Here’s what we’re doing:

Knees side to side → hydrates the hip joint capsule + wakes up the fascial web

90/90 pelvis lift → loads the glutes through the fascia, not just the muscle belly

Do this slowly. Feel the drag before the release. That’s the fascia letting go.

📌 Save this for your next warmup or desk break.

Your shoulders are tight because you’re stretching passively — holding a stretch and waiting. But fascia (the connective tissue that wraps every muscle, joint, and structure in your body) is hydrated through movement, not stillness.

These two active shoulder mobility drills push fluid through the tissue the way a sponge gets wrung out and refilled. Do these between sessions and your body will actually hold its work longer.

Save this. Your bodywork thanks you. 🙌