Pain doesn’t have to stop us from moving. We also don’t need to push through it. Through gentle, accessible movement practices, we can respect our physical limitations and find ways to move that feel good.

When pain limits mobility and you have difficulty doing what you love, that loss ripples through life in profound ways. None of us particularly enjoy limitations. And yet there’s so much to learn from these experiences. When we stop fighting pain and restriction and start learning from them, we open up horizons that weren’t visible to us before. Based in Corvallis, OR, Confident Ground helps people navigating pain and mobility loss reclaim their physical capacity.

There's plenty of messaging out there telling you pain means something is wrong with you. And that’s not completely untrue. Pain is the body’s way of asking for our attention. It tells us something is off. When we’ve distanced ourselves from our physicality for a long time, we miss the more subtle cues the body gives us. Pain becomes the one messenger that can still get our attention. It’s time to expand our experience of ourselves. It’s time to relearn how to move.  

Because movement is not just for athletes. Or professional dancers. Or young, skinny bodies in tight clothes. Movement is for you. Movement is what bodies are born to do.

Even if you’ve been in chronic pain for a long time. Even if you feel overweight, out-of-shape, and possibly even hopeless. What I want you to know is that regardless of how much pain or discomfort may be rattling around inside, bodies by their nature are phenomenal in their capacity for change. Bodies are resilient. Bodies can heal. Far more is possible than what you have likely been taught to believe.

The path to wherever you want to go starts here. With you relearning to fully inhabit the body you are. When pain creates physical restrictions and limits mobility, it’s easy to feel fatigued, stuck, and frustrated. These are normal and understandable responses. But this isn’t where we stop. This is where we begin. Awareness of physical sensation is the basis for healthy movement. Grounding the nervous system in the physical body is the first and often missing step to restoration.

Once we reorient toward the wide array of sensations and layers of tissue in the body, we can more precisely pinpoint what movements generate pain and what possibilities exist within and beyond it. Through consistent practice, private coaching, and deep encouragement, you too can rediscover how it feels to move well in your body. When you regain trust with yourself and feel confident in your movement, it changes you. And you become a person capable of making change. 

Are you ready to join me? It's a BIG adventure. And bodies like doing things together.