Move Freely... With Less Pain!

The Gentle Movement Strategy to Boost your Mobility, Balance and Freedom to Move.

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Is reduced range of movement preventing you from participating in simple daily activities?

Is your world getting smaller because you’re moving less and less? Do you want the freedom to enjoy moving until you want to stop, rather than your pain telling you to quit now?

THE MOVE FREELY PROGRAM

A transformative program to reduce pain and increase motion

Discover the movement freedom that is possible for you.

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Identify Habits

Identify movement habits that limit how you move and may lead you to feel pain.

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Explore Range

Explore functional movement habits to move more efficiently, easily, with better balance.

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Apply Daily

Apply and rehearse functional movement habits in daily activities.

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Improve & Refine

Learn how to notice and improve your own movement so you can continue to refine your movement habits after working with me.

What to expect with the 3 session package:

 

SESSION 1

1. Identify your goals.

2. Discuss your personal movement history.

3. Assess how you move.

4. Identify a focus for the session and use a combination of movement explorations and light touch to create more functional movement habits.

SESSION 2

1. Assess your progress and learn from your movement experience.

2. Build on the movement habits created in Session 1 to continue movement explorations and light touch needed to reach your goals.

3. Grow your ability to learn from your movement.

SESSION 3

1. Review your goals.

2. Consolidate what you have learned.

3. Build on the movement habits created in prior sessions through movement explorations and light touch to expand your repertoire of functional movement habits.

4. Identify your personal recipe for what you will pay attention, how to continue learning from your movement and ways to track your progress.

After each session I give you:

1. A personal checklist of movement habits to monitor.

2. Movement homework to wire in new movement habits.

3. Curated information to support your learning include personal videos you can download and keep.

4. You finish the Move Freely Package with a clear sense of how to move more freely.

MOVE FREELY 10 SESSIONS

How the 10 session package works:

Depending on your goals, you may need 10 sessions to dive deeper into learning more functional movement habits and unlearning dysfunctional ones.

With this personalized program you get:

1. Tracking of your progress including pre- and post- videos of your movement and a progress map showing your progress.

2. A customized checklist of what to pay attention to as you move.

3. Personal homework to improve the quality of your movement – you will have a personal library of movement explorations, curated information and micromovements to support your movement life.

4. A personal Move Freely recipe to support your movement freedom.

5. Ask Me Anytime – you can send a voice or video message to me with any questions – I will respond as soon as possible.

SESSION 2

1. Assess your progress and learn from your movement experience.

2. Build on the movement habits created in Session 1 to continue movement explorations and light touch needed to reach your goals.

3. Grow your ability to learn from your movement.

SESSION 3

1. Review your goals.

2. Consolidate what you have learned.

3. Build on the movement habits created in prior sessions through movement explorations and light touch to expand your repertoire of functional movement habits.

4. Identify your personal recipe for what you will pay attention, how to continue learning from your movement and ways to track your progress.

ABOUT CHERYL

As a functional movement specialist, I help people move better so they can stay active and enjoy the activities they love with those who matter most

 

As a certified Feldenkrais practitioner, I support my clients to learn from their movement, un-learning habits that create pain and improving movement habits to move freely, efficiently, often with less pain.

When I talk to people who first come to work with me, they are frustrated and can feel like failures because what they have tried hasn’t worked. Specialists say they can’t do anything more to help. These people are not ready to throw in the towel on living a full life but don’t know what to do next.

Other ways to work with me:

Besides individual sessions, you can improve your motion by watching my free videos, take a course or join a weekly class.

 

Free Videos

 

My YouTube channel of hundreds of videos featuring movement explorations inspired by work with my clients.

You may find the exploration that works for you – please leave a comment if you find something that supports you to move freely!

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Self-Paced Courses

 

Prefer to work with guidance on your own? Check out my growing list of courses.

Better Fitness through Tai Chi (taught by Brad Schultz).

Sit to Death (taught by Cheryl Whitelaw).

Start a Course

Weekly Class

 

Weekly 45-minute class (online or in person) of gentle, guided movements.

Full class audio recordings and short video highlights.

Curated information to support your process.

Join the Class

TESTIMONIALS

Here’s what others say about working with me

Three use cases of how we built back the range of movement by identifying and addressing each client's core concern through a personal movement strategy designed just for you. 

IMPROVED BALANCE

“Fall mitigation has been my goal for the last 2 years but I still have issues with balance"

We addressed more in these few weeks working with Cheryl than I have working the last couple of years with trainers and the walking process. You have to have balance when you are moving. It is ok to work on balance when you are standing but that is not when you fall.

Marlene

AWARENESS OF MOVEMENT

“I fell a few times catastrophically after having chemo"

Working on my journey to regain the muscle mass and a lot of strength I lost at that time. What I was surprised with – the outcome was different than the goal. My goal was to be better balanced. I met my goal but that became almost secondary. I needed to be more aware of how I was moving. This has become for me, some me-time, an hour just to focus on learning to slow down and move properly.

Dawn

NO LONGER FEELING POWERLESS

“I am working through a medical diagnosis for a chronic condition"

I feel uplifted and hopeful after working with Cheryl. She has this way of offering possible paths of relief while accepting my physical reality. Using a wine metaphor, I’d describe Cheryl as hopeful with an aftertaste of pragmatism. She respects my need to be in charge of my life and my abilities to handle the situation. Together we explore what might be possible. This is really helpful to me – it is easy to feel powerless, to believe my condition will only get worse. I may have what I have, but I feel like it doesn’t get to have me.

Sharon

FAQs

Learn how to move with less pain and regain the freedom to live life fully, on your own terms

 

I am in a lot of pain – how can I learn about movement when it hurts this much?

I work with very small, gentle movements to create positive changes in your brain and nervous system.  This approach can reset your internal pain system.

I’ve been told that I can’t expect to improve any further – why would this help?

I support you to use your personal learning tools: your attention, curiosity, senses and self-visualization to learn from and improve your movement.  These practical neuroplasticity tools helped you learn to walk, to learn a sport, a new language or any new activity you didn’t know how to do.  Many therapies leave out this learning process and focus on your physical movement alone.

My knees joints are damaged or my neck vertebrae are fused – how could this help me?

I support you to find your best possible movement, with whatever structural conditions or limitations you have.  We can’t change what has happened; we can work together to learn how you can move to function better in your daily activities.