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I had a client come in the other day who has been operating an excavator, full time construction for 27 years. He was in so much pain he was angry. He was mad about parking, he wasn't sure if he was in the right place when he got here. He said he had been in so much pain for so long that yes he was angry.

It was palpable. So during the session I asked him to feel his anger. It was a struggle for him. He didn't want to, because it hurt worse. And so I used the techniques I have learned from Lee ...

Do you have pain or discomfort? Have you had an injury, surgery or trauma that has shifted the way that you walk or stand? Are you able to sit comfortably for long periods? Does your computer work round your shoulders forward and leave you hurting? Do you have mystery pain: unexplained pain that travels and moves around to different areas of your body? If you are in pain, if you have inflammation, tingling, numbness, bumps, lumps, if your tissue is hard, hot, or tender to the touch… these are al...

I have a client who has had a history of accidents and illness. She is a wonderful soul. She has a lump in her left side after having surgery and colon cancer removed. On the same side she had surgery and she also had a full hip replacement. Her left side has had knee and ankle pain pretty consistently. She had broken her left ankle. Her leg length has been very different and she is unable to stand on the much shorter left leg without bending the right knee which is bent 4 inches in front of the...

What happens when things get out of balance? Naturally your spine has an S curve. It’s supposed to have a curve. We also want a vertical line from the ear to heal that is vertically integrated, where each segment of the body is not far from this vertical central line. So that our body can stack and build itself in balance. A good central line creates a functional relationship with gravity. Postural deviations and spinal disorders can form when your vertical (your natural S curve from the side vi...

Fascia is a relatively newly discovered system of the body. Scientists are still trying to understand the mechanics of fascia, because our bodies continually change shape, the connective tissue takes on different forms and shapes dependent upon the action and shape your body makes with its posture. 

The doctors called it a packing material, comparing it to the styrofoam in the box of our body. Research on fascia was done on cadavers up until 40 years ago. Until then, fascia was studied in the n...