Open Potential Bodywork

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. 🙌

*one last blooper at the end 🤣 *

Red light? Bathroom break?

That’s enough time for this. 👇

Tongue up. Down. Left. Right.
10 seconds each position. Twice a day.

Your jaw tension, TMJ pain, and sleep quality are all connected through one continuous band of fascia — and you can start working with it today.

No appointment needed. No gear. Just 2 minutes.

There’s no excuse not to start. 💪

Your body is smart. When tension has been there long enough, your nervous system stops seeing it as a problem — it starts using it as structure.

That gripping in your hip, the chronic hold along one side of your spine? To your body, that might be load-bearing.

So when it releases in a session, you don’t automatically feel better. You feel… uncertain. Like the floor shifted. Like you don’t quite know how to walk.

That’s not a bad session. That’s your nervous system realizing it needs a new plan.

This is why Rolfing® Structural Integration goes further than releasing tension — we differentiate the structures that have gotten stuck together, then we integrate them back into whole-body movement. Your body isn’t just looser. It knows what to do with the space.

The results last because we’re not just treating symptoms. We’re helping your body find a better way to organize itself.

📩 Know someone with one-sided back pain who’s tried everything? Send this to them.

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2 steps to start getting rid of “duck-foot” 🦆 🦶
Send this to someone who needs to know ✨ 🙌 There’s hope for them before the low back, hip and knee pain sets in!! If it’s already started… come get Rolfing or find a Rolfer near you *follow link in bio*