Writers’ Workout — Relieve Tension

Simple Physical Exercise Workout to Do Between Paragraphs

Old type writer with a pocket watch on the keyboard. Photo by Cliff Johnson on Unsplash.

You may not be the same as me, but when I get into writing mode, I become focused. I mean focused.

I also don’t move. I sit there and type.

The body, though, it’s made to move. It wants to move, and I want to move it, but it’s so easy to just sit there, doing nothing but thinking and typing. After all, that’s what writing on a computer is. Thinking and typing.

A Simple Exercise Routine For Writers

So I thought I’d put together a simple exercise routine for all you writers out there. It’s easy to get caught up in what we do, and to lose ourselves to it. To become absorbed is a fantastic and healthy thing, it just needs to be balanced with absorption into other fantastic and healthy things. Things like movement.

This routine is a simple one. It’s meant to help you reset your mind and get your body feeling a little more alive. It’s not designed to get your muscles bigger or to rehabilitate injury. If you need to do those things, please see a relevant health, exercise or medical professional.

The following article has the exercise routine and it has an explanation of some important things that will help you to decide if this is the workout for you. As a result, it’s longer than it would be if it were only instructions about doing the exercises. It will help you to decide the benefits of doing a workout like this (or another one!) so that rather than just watching my videos and reading my instructions, you have thought a little deeper about it. This will help you to make a more firm decision to make this change. After all, we’ve all made decisions that kind of fizzled after a while, and I want you to thrive.

The better your body feels and functions, the better you think. The better you think, the better you write. The better you write, the more likely I am to enjoy my membership on Medium — hah! But seriously, by going through the thinking I outline below prior to the actual workout, you will increase the likelihood of benefiting from the workout and of sustaining the habit of doing the exercise.

These exercises can all be performed in one sitting or you can choose to spread them out throughout the day or throughout the week — whatever works for you. I’ve included my suggestions for how often to do them in the week. You need to work out what’s best for your routine.

So please, consider how important this change might be and read on. It can be worth it. This is not just another “how to” article, or a list of exercises, or a motivational speech. It’s an opportunity to really own your decision to do something wonderful for yourself, to feel a little more comfortable in your body and to clear that head of yours to think a little grander.

Important Note: Please seek out medical or allied health professional advice before embarking on an exercise program, including this one. In Australia, I recommend seeing an Accredited Exercise Physiologist or Accredited Exercise Scientist for an initial screening and goal setting plan, as they are most educated and equipped to screen for risk from exercise and prescribe the right kind of exercise for your goals. They can determine when you need to be referred out to a GP for further management. They can work with your GP, physiotherapist or personal trainer to tailer your program perfectly and safely for your goals.

Goals

Before doing anything, it’s important to define our parameters. In the case of exercise, we need to establish some quality goals. These goals will help us understand both how hard to exercise (intensity) and how frequently to exercise.

So, for the purpose of this Writers’ Workout, the goal is to feel a little better at the end than you did at the start. But what, exactly, does ‘better’ mean?

It’s a hard thing to define, really. The human body is made to adapt, and the central nervous system craves novelty without too many extremes. It is designed to adapt to repetitive novel stimuli if they are not too taxing on the body’s resources. Most injuries occur because the body is put under too much stress or strain, either too suddenly (in the case of a hamstring tear, for example) or too frequently over time (in the case of cartilage damage in the hips of professional athletes). That is, if the repetitive stimuli are too taxing on the body’s resources, it will end in injury or persistent pain and discomfort. We don’t want that. We want to feel better; we want our exercise to feel good and our body to feel good.

Goal: To feel better at the end of the workout than you did at the beginning.

If we go beyond our healthy capacity — if we go outside of the extreme ranges of our capacity, especially too often, the body will feel discomfort, pain, nausea, fatigue or some other sense of unease. When the body is right within the happy zone, however, it will feel very different things. It may feel nothing in particular (which can be a good thing), elation, comfort, warmth, looseness or just a sense of ‘wellbeing’.

Feeling better: You may feel nothing in particular or you may feel other sensations such as elation, comfort, warmth, looseness or just a sense of ‘wellbeing’. It means you don’t feel worse than you did at the start.

With regards to exercise, the key is not how you feel at the beginning of the workout but how you feel after the workout. You don’t have to know how you feel when you start. You simply have to know how you feel compared to when you started. And you’ll only know that by doing the exercises!

So, aim to feel better at the end than you did at the start. There is no space for feeling ill from exertion or having increased pain or being too fatigued to go back to your writing. We’re not trying to become an elite athlete. We’re trying to increase our health and wellbeing just a little more and be able to keep writing, and maybe even improve our writing a little, just because our brain is a little clearer and our body a little more comfortable. In other words, this little baby is all about incremental change. So get on that bandwagon and enjoy the sensations.

And I invite you to remember: change may not occur immediately. In fact, you never know when it will occur. For me, I often feel the change part way through the exercise routine. Other times I feel it after I’ve finished. And other times it take a few weeks. There’s no rule. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

How long will I exercise for?

This is a deceptive question, I think. It says that the most important thing in deciding to do this workout is how much time you’ll have to commit to it. I invite you to think of it a little deeper.

Really, what we’re asking is whether taking time out to do this workout will be worth it. Will I benefit enough from using up some of my precious time to do these exercises? I think this leads to the revelation that what we’re really suggesting is that everything we do has value — we’re just not sure that doing this workout is more valuable than doing something else. That’s it, really.

Seriously. That’s really what we’re asking.

So how do we decide on that?

1. Firstly, and I’ll be totally honest with you (I think I’ve been nice up until now, so I can get away with a wee bit of confrontation): It doesn’t really matter, does it? Seriously. I mean, let’s face it, you’re reading this, so you have some kind of interest in this workout. Or at least in the idea of moving a bit differently to how you currently do. Isn’t that the first step to change? Becoming aware of the need to change something? And if doing a regular routine makes your body more comfortable, your brain more focused, and gives you other great health benefits, isn’t it worth the time? Imagine if your productivity as a writer went up simply because you proved to yourself that you can sustain a basic, enjoyable exercise program regularly. How might that change your life for good? These things are worth it, aren’t they?
2. Secondly, and this is an important point, before you make any change to your routine, you have to count the cost. Really. Think about it. Every change you make costs you something. This change will cost you a little bit of time and a little bit of effort. Simple really. But it’s more than that because you have to compare the costs and benefits of changing with the costs and benefits of not changing. Weigh them both up: if you don’t change, what will that cost you? What will that benefit you? If do change, what will that cost you? What will that benefit you? Once you know that the benefits of beginning this program outweigh the costs of not doing it, you can be prepared to make the change and do it. Why? Because you know what to expect and you’ve worked out how to budget for that.

It’s important to be honest in your assessment. What will it really cost you? What will it really benefit you? If you’re not honest, you’ll always know it and your deicison may feel false. But if you’re honest, then you’re going to be in a position to stand by your decision.

What kind of costs can you expect?
What will it cost you to do a little work each day?

Time. Somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes. Let’s call it 17.5 minutes, just because we can. That’s not a great cost in time.

10- 30 minutes is not very long at all, all things considered.

Remember that you’re a writer, so the time you spend exercising is time you’re not writing. That’s a cost. You must take that into consideration. If the benefits are worth it, though, what’s a little time when it means you feel better and enjoy moving more and can think a lot clearer?

Effort. Yep, you have to get up off the chair and move your body in new, possibly challenging ways. But we already knew that, didn’t we?

DOMS. Delayed onset muscle soreness. If you’re not use to doing these things, then the first week or two could result in some weird muscle soreness and aches. Nothing too crazy but maybe a little discomfort. Twisting around to reverse the car might feel a little stiff or painful. But it will pass. It really will. Surely that’s something you can handle for a few days.

Shaky muscles. Yep, they can shake during or after a new workout. Maybe even for a day or two after it. Pouring a glass of water or putting the keys in the car door could be a little compromised. But not much and only for a couple of hours. Not a great cost.

What kind of benefits can you expect?
Psychological: Mental clarity, increased concentration, increased mental energy, a sense of personal achievement and satisfaction (do not doubt the power of this one to transform your life. It is immensely important), a sense of control over something worthwhile, reduced effects of stress, maybe becoming motivated to pursue other exercise and even finish other tasks. Also, mood can shift dramatically in a good way.

Creative: Coming back to your work after this kind of workout often results in seeing things differently. I know for me, when I exercise I have so many great ideas and so many issues just resolve themselves. I see the world clearly and when I return to writing, I am able to see the words a little differently.

Physical: Increased comfort in your body, reduced aches and pains, increased endurance in extended postures, more energy, increased enjoyment doing other physical tasks like shopping and spending time with family.

Productivity: This one is the strange one: take time out from writing and become more productive. It’s not a guranatee but it’s highly likely. All the psychological benefits mean that you’ll be able to focus your attention longer, think more creatively, develop solutions more easily and edit your words with greater clarity.

You want to do this cost-benefits process not just for doing the workout but also for not doing the workout. What will it cost you not to do it? What will it benefit you not to do it? Be honest.

Once you know, you will make a decision one way or another. That will then give you a deeper reason to reach your goal: To feel better at the end of the workout than at the beginning. Why? Because you will now know how much it will cost you and be able to resource yourself to meet the cost, and you’ll know what it will benefit you. Each workout will be an opportunity to remember those benefits and the feeling of achieving them.

So what do you say? Shall we get on with it? It’s your choice.

Beginning

If you’ve been sitting all day, it’s important to slowly introduce your body to the concept of moving again. Slow, simple, and high quality movement is the key.

The goal of this workout is to feel better at the end than you did at the start, right? If you’ve been sitting down for a while now, then you’ll find that your body won’t want to dive straight into the harder stuff. It will prefer to be eased into movement. Moving your body is a bit like making toffee. You have to draw the hot sugary goodness out slowly to get the best result. Once it’s good to go, then you can make it work harder. But to start with, we want to get the body into that place where it can’t help but want to do more exercise.

And that’s the key: Take away the barriers, make it so that the body can’t help but do the exercise. Give yourself every opportunity to enjoy it. Feel the movements, feel how your body responds to them, and settle into the groove of simple, fluid motion.

Remember, there’s no need to rush anything. In fact, there’s every need to do these very slowly. Your mind has been engaged in writing, typing and thinking and we need to change gears and introduce it to moving with an awareness of how that feels. So, let’s change gears a little …

Below I’ve included a short video of how to do each exercise. The videos are just to give you a visual of the exercise and they don’t go for the prescribed times. Below each video is a description of the key instructions, the cues, for how to do the exercise. Please take the time out to read the cues and follow them carefully. Only use the videos as a reference to make sure you understand the written instructions.

Arm Shakes and Shrugs

Yeah, I know, really creative titles. Two things I do terribly: titles for articles and titles for exercises. So now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s see what this exercise looks like.

So the cues for this exercise are:

1. Stand or sit comfortably with your feet placed evenly apart. Feel the strength of the ground pressing up into both feet evenly.
2. Allow your arms to hang softly by your side, like towels on a clothesline.
3. Shake your left arm softly and loosely for 30 seconds. Do the same with the right arm. Use a timer, if possible, because then you can focus on the exercise, rather than the time.
4. Keep your arms soft and hanging by your side, and gently shrug your shoulders up and down. Do this for 30 seconds. As you increase the vigour, you might feel the shrugging action lift the elbows up to almost shoulder height, like a marionette puppet being carefully guided from above.
5. Allow your elbows and wrists to be moved by the actions. Allow them to feel smooth and to glide like air through a bird’s feathers.
6. Relax.

So remember:
Time: 30 seconds for each phase (left, right, both together).
Key phrase: Like air through a bird’s feathers.

Leg Shakes and Bounces

So we’ve done the arms, now to the legs!

The cues for this exercise are:

1. Stand tall on the right leg, with the left leg outstretched to one side. The left foot should be raise slightly from the ground.
2. Hold on to a wall or a tree or something that won’t move.
3. With a gentle looseness, shake your left leg for 30 seconds. If you wish to, spend 10 seconds shaking it toward the front, then 10 seconds toward the side, then 10 seconds toward the back.
4. Do the same with the right leg.
5. Stand evenly on both feet, and feel the strength of the ground pressing up into both feet evenly.
6. Gently, like a merry-go-round horse, begin bouncing up and down. Slowly increase the speed of your bounce, allowing you arms to hang loosely and gently by your side. Do this for 30–45 seconds.
7. Relax.

So remember:
Time: Minimum of 30 seconds for each phase (left, right, both).
Key phrase: Like a calmly controlled merry-go-round horse.

Reach Up and Side Bend

This one is designed to get your spine moving ever so slightly to each side in a direction it normally doesn’t go. More importantly, it helps to regain shoulder mobility and function, something we writers need more of!

The cues for this exercise are:

1. Stand or sit comfortably with your feet placed evenly apart. Feel the strength of the ground pressing up into both feet evenly. Have both arms relaxed down alongside your body, like the branches of a healthy willow tree beside a flowing river.
2. As you slowly and gently inhale, slide your left hand up along the ribcage, across the front of your armpit, past your ear and up toward the sky. Keep you left shoulder down, away from you ear.
3. As you reach up, turn the palm out to the side, such that the palm faces out to the left and the thumb faces straight ahead.
4. Lean your body ever so gently and slightly to the right. Allow your right arm to slide down the body like a weighted pendulum on a string.
5. Imagine your head is attached to a series of helium filled balloons, and allow it to return with ease to the starting position, standing upright.
6. Repeat on the other side, lifting the right hand up toward the sky.
7. Allow this movement to occur, side to side, for 30 seconds. No need to count the number of side bends. Set a timer and focus on perfect, simple, and slight movement.

So remember:
Time: 30 seconds, side to side.
Key phrase: Imagine your head is attached to a series of helium filled balloons.

Middle

Now, in the middle, with the nervous system all geared and prepared to move, and the muscles a little warmer and full of rich, oxygenated blood, let’s move on to some slightly (ever so slightly!) more complex movements.

Remember: Aim to feel better at the end that you did at the start.

Heel Slide

This is one is about separating movement of your hips from movement of your spine. When we sit all day, the two body parts are kind of stuck in the same position. It’s easy for the body to think that’s normal.

Then, when we go to do a movement that typically involves using these body parts separately, the poor old body doesn’t know what to do. We go to pick our child up off the floor and the body can’t separate the movement of the hip from the movement of the back and — ping! — we get sharp zippity zaps of sensation, which are great, because they tell us the body is looking after itself. While it’s a normal, protective thing, we can help our body to move in ways that don’t involve as many zippity zaps. I should write a song for Disney.

The cues for this exercise are:

1. Lie down on your back with both knees bent, feet flat on the floor.
2. Gently tighten your waist muscles, like a belt all around your belly and back. Maybe draw the belly button in slightly, drawing it down away from the sky. Keep your chest lifted toward your chin.
3. Keep your pelvis still. Do this by using the abdominal muscles to hold the front of the pelvis up toward the front of the ribs, like a spring connecting the ribs to pelvis.
4. Slowly slide your left heel away from your left buttock, and keep the pelvis still — don’t let it move at all — until you can’t keep the pelvis still any longer.
5. Keep your waist muscles on, and slide the left heel back toward the buttock, bending the knee once again. No moving the pelvis.
6. Do this for 30 seconds. Then do the same with the right leg.

So remember:
Time: 30 seconds on each leg.
Key phrase: Remember the spring connecting the ribs to the pelvis.

Hip Lift (Supine Hip Bridge)

This one helps to open up your hips in the opposite direction to how they sit all day long. It also gives your waste and thighs a bit of work. It’s common to feel some cramping in your hamstrings the first few times you try it … just go easy, do less for shorter periods of time, and your body will adapt.

The cues for this exercise are:

1. Lie down on your back with both knees bent, feet flat on the floor. Place your feet about arm pit width apart.
2. Tighten your waist muscles like a belt around your belly and back. Keep them on throughout the lifting and lowering parts of the exercise. they can relax in between lifts.
3. Squeeze both buttock muscles (glutes) together nice and tight … perhaps imagine you’re trying to make your butt into a credit card swiper. You know what I mean.
4. At the same time, press your heels down firmly into the ground, until you can’t help but lift your pelvis off the floor. Squeeze your butt and press your heels until your hips are fully open and your pelvis is raised up to knee level.
5. Slowly and gently allow your hips to return to the floor — keep the waist muscles on.
6. Once back to the returning position, relax your waist and butt muscles. Repeat the whole exercise.

So remember:
Time: 45–60 seconds. You heard me.
Key phrase: Credit card swiper.

Happy Cat Stretch

My favourite animal is the tiger. What a beautiful creature! Power, grace and majesty all rolled into one. Amazing. If I could be like any animal, it would be the tiger.

The happy cat stretch may just be the closest I ever get to that dream. To be powerful and limber all at once is wonderful. This stretch is designed to help your back free itself up and feel a little more liberated. Please do it gently, slowly and with the highest quality you can.

The cues for this exercise are:

1. Rest your body on your hands, knees and feet, in a crawling position. Have your hands directly under your shoulders and your knees directly under your hips. Make sure you look at them. Are they in the right spot?
2. Allow your back to gently and softly bow down under the gentle pull of gravity. Lift your head up and look to the sky and imagine your back taking the same shape of a gently purring, happy cat.
3. Draw your belly button in toward your spine and exhale as you press firmly into the ground with your hands and knees. Feel your back gently and firmly arch up the other way, as you look with your head under your body and between your thighs. Your back should now be arched up the opposite way, as if your spine is trying to kiss the stars.
4. Slowly and gently return your body back to the start position.
5. Repeat this exercise for 30 seconds.

So remember:
Time: 30 seconds.
Key phrase: Arch like a happy cat, then kiss the stars with your spine.

End

And now, to finish it all off, some simple and gentle exercises to give your body a new sense of movement and wellbeing. These don’t have to be done straight away (although it may be best). They can be done at the end of the day to reset your body back to a more neutral sense of self. Regardless, when you do them slowly and with great attention to detail, you will feel some new sensations and begin to notice the changes over time.

Kneeling Lunge On A Chair

This one is intended to help open up your hips and to allow your thighs to feel a sense of doing something more. It is also common for people to feel their lower back freeing up after a time of doing this one. Please be gentle.

Oh, also, I cut my head out of the frame to get the legs in the picture. Sorry about that, but my space is only small, so it’s hard to get the whole body in.

The cues for this exercise are:

1. Sit across a chair in the position shown. Have the right leg out in front and the left reaching back beside the chair. Have a cushion or pillow (or any kind of thick padding) under the left knee. You’ll probably need to watch the video to understand this one.
2. Lift your chest tall and squeeze your left butt cheek by tucking your tail under like a wheel rolling backwards; keep your chest tall. At the same time, tighten your tummy muscle by drawing the lower abdominal muscles in slightly.
3. Reach your left leg back a little further — it may even be helpful for you to lift the left knee off the ground and press the heel back, while keeping the left toes on the floor like a hinge.
4. Hold this position for 6–10 breaths. Yes, it’s common to feel this is a little difficult to do at first. Yes, it’s common for it to become easier with practise.
5. When done, repeat with the other leg back.

So remember:
Time: Is immaterial. Allow your body to remain there for one breath longer than you think you need to. It really is that subjective. Enjoy the experience.
Key phrase: Tuck your tail under like a wheel rolling backwards; keep your chest tall.

Shoulder & Spine Stretch

This one might help to reverse some of that forward bending feeling, and help your shoulders — in fact, your whole arms and hands — to feel a bit more connected and free. It’s common to get some interesting feelings down your arms with this one. You can gently stop doing the stretch if you are concerned by any of the sensations — perhaps next time you can try it without going so far into the stretch.

The cues for this exercise are:

1. Rest your body on your hands, knees and feet, in a crawling position. Have your hands directly under your shoulders and your knees directly under your hips. I invite you to look at them. Are they aligned well?
2. Now, move your hands forward, away from your body, away from your head, about 20–30cm away from your shoulders. They might be about shoulder width apart. Keep your elbows comfortably straight throughout this whole exercise.
3. Imagine your palms are glued to the floor. Gently and slowly slide your body back and allow your hips to point up in the air — allow your butt to reach for the stars! Slowly draw your shoulders back away from the hands and allow them to sink gently toward the ground a little. From your hips to your head, the body might make the shape of a gently curved children’s playground slide.
4. You may feel a stretching sensation in your shoulders, chest, upper arms or abdominals. Some people feel a sensation in the back of their spine. Hold this position gently (force nothing!) for 6–12 slow and gentle breaths.
5. As you breathe, imagine your breath filling your lungs out to the side and back. Slowly slide back, allowing your hands to move back along the floor until you can rest your hips softly on your heels for a few breaths. I call this final position, Heaven In A Ball.

So remember:
Time: Is immaterial. Allow your body to remain there for one breath longer than you think you need to. It really is that subjective. Enjoy the experience.
Key phrase: Allow your butt to reach for the stars!

Seated Forward Bend

This one is the reverse of the previous one. It’s designed to bring that soft and gentle sigh of content to your body.

The cues for this exercise are:

1. Sit firmly on a chair, with your hips resting at the back of the seat. It may be a good idea to have a large couple of books or bricks on the ground in front of you, between your feet.
2. Allow the weight of your body to sink through your hands, with outstretched arms rested on your thighs just above your knees. Breathe in and on the breath out, allow your head to float down. You may imagine your chin floating down to reach toward your chest.
3. Slowly transfer the weight of your body to one elbow and then the next. Stay in this position for a couple of slow and gentle breaths.
4. On the breath out, lower one hand down to the block between your feet and take your weight on that straight arm. On the next slow breath out, bring your other hand down to meet it. As you exhale, allow your head to gently hang down, like an empty child’s swing resting quietly on a sunny Spring day.
5. Continue to support your weight on your hands, and remain here for 6–10 slow and gentle breaths.
6. To come out of the position, act slowly and with control. Inhale and hold your breath as you reverse the process by using the strength of your arms to lift yourself. Avoid using the strength of your back muscles — you might think about allowing your arms to be strong for you.
7. Lift your chest high and look to the sky for a couple of slow and gentle breaths. Never in a hurry.

So remember:
Time: Is immaterial. Allow your body to remain there for one breath longer than you think you need to. It really is that subjective. Enjoy the experience.
Key phrase: Never in a hurry.

How Often Should You Do This?

You can do this most days of the week. I’d suggest at least three days of the week. The movement stuff at the beginning can be done two or three times in a day, if you wish. Just don’t do too many or go too hard. It’s about easing your body into the space where it can’t help but feel better.

Don’t do the Middle exercises more than once per day … probably 3–5 days per week is enough. Make sure you find the time to rest and recover … and I invite you to simply enjoy the last two exercises.

Note: You don’t have to do them all at once! I know it can seem like a lot of work if you’re not use to it and that’s okay. Maybe you could try doing two or three of them at a time, throughout the day, or on different days. The key is to simply get your body moving in ways it’s not use to.

Days: 3–5 per week
Minutes: 10–30 minutes

What About Those Strange Sensations?

We live in a world obsessed with aberrations. We think aberrations are, well, aberrant. But the reality is, with the human body, that aberrations are often simply differences. Deviations from the norm. Standard deviations, if you will.

While exercising, listen to your body. If something is concerning to you, slowly stop what you’re doing. And remember, listen to your body. If something is concerning to you, ask the question, “Why?”

Why does this feel odd? What is it about this that feels strange? Does it feel strange because it is dangerous or because it is new, different, something I’m not use to?

And finally, maybe you will discover some pleasantly surprising discoveries by effortlessly noticing the places of comfort and ease within your body. As you do these movements, where does it feel comfortable? What is easy to move? How might it feel in other parts of your body when they, too, feel a similar comfort?

Movement, you see, is as simple as moving. And the comfort we feel is the ease with which we discover moving. The best way I know to find movement easier is to move with high quality, gently moving toward your boundaries while keeping your movements as perfect as you can.

Movement, you see, is as simple as moving. And the comfort we feel is the ease with which we discover moving.

Well Done!

You’ve come this far. Sometimes, just reading about exercise can be exhausting. I’m not joking! So well done in coming this far.

In the future, I hope you find the time to discover the joy and pleasure of moving. You know, it doesn’t have to be this kind of movement, either. There are so many different ways to move! I think your mind and body will thank you for it and your creativity might just get that little spark back, too.

Maybe go for a short sprint. Just to the end of the street and back. Go for a walk at night under the beauty of the stars. In Australia, I love to go walking in the bush or a local park with a beautiful river and huge ancient trees overhead; maybe you could do that. Or perhaps just do this exercise routine for a few weeks and see how you feel.

I’d love to hear how people go with the exercises — or some other exercise plan — in the comments. Other people may benefit from your experience, so share the love! Don’t hog the greatness. Offer other people the opportunity to move and let’s see if we can’t make writers some of the most beautifully mobile people in our world.

Or, well, at least in our own personal office space.

I’m an Accredited Exercise Physiologist, which usually means nothing to most people. I love to help people remove the barriers to moving well and enjoying moving in their body. I love to see people moved from here to there, to reach a previously unreached goal and to begin to tell a new story about themselves. How’s that for a nebulous, broad description of what I do that could mean anything at all? You’re welcome.