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Why Does Sitting Hurt Me So Much? 3 Tips to Help You Stop Pain When Sitting

Why Does Sitting Hurt Me So Much? 3 Tips to Help You Stop Pain When Sitting

by Carol Montgomery | Jun 15, 2020 | General

If you feel pain when sitting for an extended period, your body is signaling to you that something is wrong. Here are some tips to help you find relief. At Montgomery Somatics, I want to provide more than just information. I want to help others learn something that...
For Clients with Mobility Issues, Transforming Sitting into Walking Could Be Key

For Clients with Mobility Issues, Transforming Sitting into Walking Could Be Key

by Carol Montgomery | May 29, 2020 | Integral Human Gait, Mind Body Spirit, Physical Therapy, Somatics

How many of your clients want to keep up with their grandchildren but can’t because of mobility issues? The pain that these clients feel is not only physical but also emotional and spiritual. Part of the joy of grandparenting is playing with the little ones, and when...
What to Know about Feldenkrais Awareness Summit 2020: Move Better, Feel Better

What to Know about Feldenkrais Awareness Summit 2020: Move Better, Feel Better

by Carol Montgomery | Apr 20, 2020 | General, Somatics

With everything that has been going on, it’s time for some good news. At the beginning of May, I will be participating once again in the Feldenkrais summit, which features 35 experts in movement and wellbeing on various topics. This year’s conference is titled “Move...
3 Feldenkrais Exercises that Will Keep You from Falling as You Get Older

3 Feldenkrais Exercises that Will Keep You from Falling as You Get Older

by Carol Montgomery | Mar 24, 2020 | General

Try these three Feldenkrais exercises to improve your balance. The older you get, the more likely you are to fall and hurt yourself. Statistically speaking, it’s just a fact. And falling while turning is much more likely to lead to a hip fracture than falling when...
How Emotional Vulnerability Can Help You Live a Fuller, More Fulfilling Life

How Emotional Vulnerability Can Help You Live a Fuller, More Fulfilling Life

by Carol Montgomery | Feb 15, 2020 | General, Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit, Research

Madeleine L’Engle, author of acclaimed children’s book A Wrinkle in Time, once wrote, “When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up, we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be...
How Can I Be More Aware and Present in Life? 5 Tips for Better Awareness

How Can I Be More Aware and Present in Life? 5 Tips for Better Awareness

by Carol Montgomery | Jan 17, 2020 | Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit

Awareness is a state of being that requires practice every day. True awareness takes in everything—the most insignificant interaction with someone you don’t know and the most important choice that you have to make in a given day are equally understood when you...
Stress Is Inevitable, Anxiety Is Optional: Here’s How to Cope with It in Your Life

Stress Is Inevitable, Anxiety Is Optional: Here’s How to Cope with It in Your Life

by Carol Montgomery | Dec 13, 2019 | General, Mind Body Spirit, Somatics

Do you have the stress relief techniques you need to reduce and recover from the impact of busyness and stress? Moshe Feldenkrais once said, “Know what you are doing so that you can do what you want.” When it comes to stress, that means knowing what your body is doing...
Your Body Language Can Change Your Brain

Your Body Language Can Change Your Brain

by Carol Montgomery | Nov 11, 2019 | General, Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit, Research

What is body language, and why does it matter? Body language, or non-verbal communication, is essentially how we carry ourselves, how we move, our facial expressions, our gestures. It is an essential part of how we interact with one another. It affects how we perceive...
Awareness Creates Freedom

Awareness Creates Freedom

by Carol Montgomery | Oct 22, 2019 | Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit, Physical Therapy, Somatics

I want to share with you a story of a woman I have been working with that illustrates relief from chronic physical and emotional suffering is just literally an “Awareness” away.  Now, I am sure if you are anything like my client, when you hear that statement, you say...
Somatic Therapy: Understanding the Wholeness of the Body

Somatic Therapy: Understanding the Wholeness of the Body

by Carol Montgomery | Sep 13, 2019 | Physical Therapy, Somatics

Every single one of us performs a role. In society, we all contribute something of value. Some teach future generations. Some lead. Others provide nourishment, joy, healing, or encouragement. What each of us provides to society makes everyone stronger. Yet each person...
Functional Movement: How We Move Is an Expression of Our Response to Life

Functional Movement: How We Move Is an Expression of Our Response to Life

by Carol Montgomery | Aug 21, 2019 | General, Mind Body Spirit, Somatics

For every action, there is a reaction. This statement is true in both physics and in life. When it comes to movement, how you express yourself is a physical demonstration of your lived experience in your environment. When you embody healthy, functional movement, what...
Tapping Your Potential Energy for Positive Change

Tapping Your Potential Energy for Positive Change

by Carol Montgomery | Jul 8, 2019 | General, Mind Body Spirit, Somatics

In physics, potential energy refers to the stored energy in an object because of its position relative to other objects or its state. An example might be a ping-pong ball rolling toward the edge of the ping-pong table. While the ball has kinetic energy by virtue of...
Our Movements and Choices Reflect Our Emotional Maturity

Our Movements and Choices Reflect Our Emotional Maturity

by Carol Montgomery | Jun 11, 2019 | General, Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit, Physical Therapy, Somatics

What is emotional maturity? Is it the ability to understand and control your emotions? If that is true, then what, if anything, does emotional maturity have to do with the choices that we make in our daily, habitual movements? Every person has a different emotional...
Creatures of Habit: How Emotion and Motion Are Linked

Creatures of Habit: How Emotion and Motion Are Linked

by Carol Montgomery | Apr 15, 2019 | General, Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit

Our bodies and brains have a reciprocal relationship. Dysfunction in the body often leads to dysfunction in the brain and vice versa. Let’s say you’re feeling sad. Take a moment to become aware of your posture. Are your shoulders slumped forward? Is your trunk...
Sensing Your Body’s Support Can Improve Strength

Sensing Your Body’s Support Can Improve Strength

by Carol Montgomery | Mar 28, 2019 | General, Somatics

The way we support ourselves in our posture and movement says a lot about what is going on in our nervous systems. Many of our habits form on a subconscious level, which can make it difficult to change them. Some of those habits take away our ability to fully utilize...
Imagination and Our Concept of Embodiment

Imagination and Our Concept of Embodiment

by Carol Montgomery | Feb 26, 2019 | Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit, Somatics

Whether you think about it consciously or not, your nervous system creates a mental “image” or idea of how your body moves. Walking, standing, sitting, and other everyday movements and postures are pressed into the totality of your body’s essence, forming a complete...
Understanding the Levers in Your Body Can Help You Move More Efficiently

Understanding the Levers in Your Body Can Help You Move More Efficiently

by Carol Montgomery | Jan 15, 2019 | General, Somatics

Want to move more efficiently? You need to learn about levers. In the third century BCE, the Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes is said to have uttered the phrase, “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth.” No, he was not claiming to...
The Problem of Perceived Weakness: How Awareness Can Improve Self-Image

The Problem of Perceived Weakness: How Awareness Can Improve Self-Image

by Carol Montgomery | Dec 11, 2018 | General

The ideas of self-image and self-esteem are largely considered within the realm of mental application. In other words, how we view ourselves — positively, negatively, or somewhere else on this conceptual continuum of self awareness — has an impact on our mental...
Your Skin Can Make You Fall: 3 Reasons to Care

Your Skin Can Make You Fall: 3 Reasons to Care

by Carol Montgomery | Nov 26, 2018 | Research, Somatics

Peripheral neuropathy changes your skin. Nerves that carry sensory information are supposed to look like a fist-full of uncooked spaghetti—a long cord with hundreds of small cords inside. At the ends of the small cords are sensors or receptors with different jobs:...
What Moshe Feldenkrais Understood about the Body Can Ease Your Pain

What Moshe Feldenkrais Understood about the Body Can Ease Your Pain

by Carol Montgomery | Nov 26, 2018 | General

We overexert ourselves. We strain and we ignore the messages our bodies send to us to the detriment of our health. Moshe Feldenkrais understood this. We live in a culture that prizes the ability to grin through the pain. Our heroes are those who can put mind over...
Differentiating the Self and the Spirit

Differentiating the Self and the Spirit

by Carol Montgomery | Jul 30, 2018 | General, Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit

By Andrew Heimann Spirituality is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to flourish because of it. To avoid conflict and chaos in life detracts from the human experience, which is what ultimately helps our spirit and spirituality blossom. We become our...
How the Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Education Create Possibility

How the Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Education Create Possibility

by Carol Montgomery | Jun 12, 2018 | Integral Human Gait, Somatics

Moshe Feldenkrais once said, “If you don’t know what you are doing, you can’t do what you want.” Perhaps no other phrase so captures the challenges that the Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Education, such as Integral Human Gait™, help students overcome. Phrased...
The Feldenkrais Awareness Summit: Resiliency, Freedom, and Evolution

The Feldenkrais Awareness Summit: Resiliency, Freedom, and Evolution

by Carol Montgomery | May 1, 2018 | General, Holistic Wellness, Mind Body Spirit, Somatics

We see every day that technology can be used for ill both unconsciously and consciously. But technology can also be used for good. This is definitely the latter. The Feldenkrais Awareness Summit: Resiliency, Freedom, and Evolution—sponsored by Future Life Now OnLine...
Feldenkrais:  How Mind and Body Awareness Can Provide Natural Pain Relief

Feldenkrais: How Mind and Body Awareness Can Provide Natural Pain Relief

by Carol Montgomery | Apr 26, 2018 | General

For many people, pain is part and parcel of day-to-day existence. The way they experience life, comfort is the exception, not the rule as it should be. But what many of those people don’t realize is that drugs—like those causing the opioid epidemic—and invasive...
Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 4

Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 4

by Carol Montgomery | Mar 5, 2018 | General

This is the fourth part of a four part blog post on the standing forward fold yoga therapy pose. If you haven’t yet, please go back and read parts one, two, and three. Standing Forward Fold Yoga Therapy Pose Cue 4: Arms Move at the Same Level as the Head If starting...
Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 3

Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 3

by Carol Montgomery | Feb 1, 2018 | General

This is the third part of a four part blog post on the standing forward fold yoga pose. If you haven’t yet, please go back and read parts one and two. By following the first link, you can read more about disengaging the toe pads. The second link contains information...
Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 2

Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 2

by Carol Montgomery | Jan 2, 2018 | General

This is the second part of a four part blog post on the standing forward fold yoga pose. If you haven’t yet, please go back and read part one. Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose Cue 2: Pelvis Sways behind the Heels and Feet Most instructors cue “exhale forward hinging at...
Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 1

Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 1

by Carol Montgomery | Dec 6, 2017 | General

Searching the internet, one can find many videos and detailed lists on how to correctly perform the Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose or Uttanasana. Seeing how popular yoga has become, that should come as no surprise.  According to the 2007 National Health Interview...
Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose: Practical Yoga Therapy, Part 1

Celebrating National Yoga Month: The Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose

by Carol Montgomery | Sep 21, 2017 | General

Searching the internet, one can find many videos and detailed lists on how to correctly perform the Standing Forward Fold Yoga Pose or Uttanasana. Seeing how popular yoga has become, that should come as no surprise.  According to the 2007 National Health Interview...
Bones for Life ® and Senior Citizen Day Somatic Education for the Elderly

Bones for Life ® and Senior Citizen Day Somatic Education for the Elderly

by Carol Montgomery | Aug 8, 2017 | Bones For Life, General, Holistic Wellness, Osteoarthritis, Physical Therapy, Somatics

Bones for Life and Senior Citizen Day On August 21st, Americans have an opportunity to celebrate the wisdom and achievements of their elders, as well as advocate for the rights of older people all over the world. Senior Citizens Day, which was originally celebrated on...
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