Movement Detectivery Podcast

Marlo Fisken is a dancer and movement educator that I admire. Marlo is the dance teacher I wished I had as a kid. I am amazed at the crazy moves she can do on the pole, and inspired by the healthy, loving relationship she has with her body, which shows up in her teaching philosophy. I first encountered Marlo online in 2015 through my book and training program, Dance Stronger . I wanted to speak wi...

Movement Detectivery is a listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. So, what do I see as the #1 misconception that keeps people stuck in their patterns and pain? You’ll just have to listen on to hear what I mean ;) hehe. Whether you’re a professional in the movement and manual therapy space, or you’re simply hoping to get...

Nina Chernick is one of my all time favourite craniosacral therapy instructors and I was pumped she agreed to chat with me on the podcast. I first met Nina in 2018. She was my teacher for craniosacral therapy 2 and somatoemotional release 1, and she’s been teaching with the Upledger Institute since before I could write the alphabet. In the chance that you so happen to be studying for your Upledger...

I personally use this system whenever I need to buy a new pair of shoes, and I’m stoked to share it with you in this podcast. Yes, I am the weirdo in the shoe shop doing movement assessments to test how each shoe is actually impacting on my biomechanics. You can be, too. Have you ever wondered if a pair of shoes is contributing to your problems? How do you know what's the best shoe for walking? Ru...

Have you ever struggled to find the talus bone? Either your own, or on one of your clients? On today’s episode of Movement Detectivery I’ll be answering a recent question I received from a listener and Anatomy in Motion student who’s got a case of talus bone palpation frustration. Can you relate? I can. And OH how important it is to be able to understand the position someone’s talus is in because...

Movement Detectivery is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Oh boy, this interview was a long time coming- I am thrilled to have finally interviewed one of the most influential movement educators I’ve had the privilege to learn from on my own personal and professional journey, Gary Ward. Gary is a movement educator...

Jenn Pilotti just wrote a new book called Spinal Intelligence! It’s her 4th book, to be precise, and, like a crazy person, she edited it all by herself. We recorded this podcast the day after her book was released, and I' am really looking forward to learning some of her insights about the spine (some common misconceptions), posture, and how the body is supposed to move based on her decades of exp...

Today’s episode of Movement Detectivery is just me, Monika! No guest. I’ll be answering a recent question I received from a client about the best positions to sleep in. Now just a standard disclaimer that the answers I provide here are not meant to replace personalized advice from a medical or health care professional, and my thoughts and opinions are just that, OPINIONS, and do not constitute a p...

Melissa is a black belt BJJ athlete, registered nurse, osteopath, and now a newly minted PhD holder (we discuss her latest research in this interview). I wanted to speak with Melissa because of how embarrassingly ignorant I am about concussion rehabilitation. Nearly everyone has bonked their head at some point in their life (I ask everyone who comes in to see me…). While not all bonks lead to conc...

Ajna is a South-African born bodyworker who I originally bonded with due to our eerily similar life-paths: We both studied dance, moved to Toronto, danced professionally, got injured, stopped dancing and started studying Thai massage, realized there was more to helping bodies out of pain than working on muscles, and discovered the joy of studying anatomy, movement, and the mind-body connection as...

Thanks for reading Movement Detectivery! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Hello Movement Friends! The video in this post is a lesson I filmed wayyyy back during COVID times for my online community, Movement Detective School (which no longer exists, but all the videos still live in an archive!). As a follow up to my latest interview with Helen Hall , last week I thought...

Helen Hall is best known as a movement coach specializing in helping people improve their running efficiency, but I know her as a movement detective extraordinaire. Helen has a vast toolkit that allows her to observe peoples’ movement problems over the spectrum of their entire movement lifespan. She’s come to understand that our early movement development has a massive, yet underestimated implicat...

In this (solo) episode of the Movement Detectivery podcast I wanted to share a few cases I got to work with recently that I thought were pretty cool examples of how restrictions in the hard palate and cranial bones can have a whole body impact. I share two cases: JJ who had a primary complaint of eye strain and shoulder pain, and Elizabeth, who had left hip pain. In both JJ and Elizabeth’s case hi...

Thanks for reading Movement Detectivery! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Margy Verba is a Californian computer nerd turned pilates instructor who now identifies as a rehabilitative movement specialist. You’re in for a treat because Margy is one of the most knowledgeable people I’ve met in the world of human movement. Margy works with folks in-person in her local commun...

Olivia Michalak is a dance educator in Boston MA. She works primarily in public and private schools, in addition to dance studios. I wanted to speak with Olivia because of her own experience of movement detectivery, conducting investigations with her own body. Olivia epitomizes what it means to engage in a process of deeply connecting with her body with the goal of understanding how things got the...

Corey Hess is a a structural integrator and movement educator in the Seattle area. Corey spent his twenties doing intense internal healing and embodiment work in a zen monastery in Japan, and came back to the US with unique insights to share about healing, pain, meditation, movement, and the internal energetic process. Originally trained as a Structural Integrator, Corey went on to study SourcePoi...

Jordan Terry is a licenced massage therapist in Santa Cruz CA, but just don’t call him a massage therapist… He prefers “Human Helper, Movement Detective, Body Listener and eternal Student”. Jordan blends multiple modalities such as craniosacral therapy, PDTR, NKT, Anatomy in Motion, Polarity Therapy, and more to work with a wide variety of clients experiencing pain. Jordan also teaches his own cou...

Thanks for reading Movement Detectivery! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Today’s interview is with the incredible Dave Hedges: Coach , martial artist, and injury management specialist. You can also listen here on Spotify: One of the reasons I wanted to speak with Dave is because of his intimate, complex, and thoughtful relationship with movement, his body, and how he w...

Thanks for reading Movement Detectivery! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Jen Price is back for part 2! If you haven’t yet listened to part 1, check that out HERE . I got some lovely feedback about our first conversation, and I didn’t even get through half of what I wanted ask Jen about. In this second conversation I wanted to ask Jen about some ideas and concepts that...

Esther Juon has an incredible story. She fractured her spine at age 18 in an accident in the dance studio and was told she’d never walk again. As a lover of movement, this was an unacceptable prognosis, and she went on not only walk, but to dance ballet again, and is still going strong today at age 71! Esther’s back injury changed the course of her life, and, in her words, “It has become my ‘unive...

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First, a small rant. Anatomy in Motion is NOT just about the feet. An assumption often made about the world of Anatomy in Motion is that everything we do is about working with the feet. The feet are the root of all problems and all we do is get people to pronate and magically they become pain-free. Wrong. Not problem is a foot problem. Well, not 100% wrong. Every problem is in some way related to...

Another day another gait video. If you’re a fellow gait geek, movement detective, or Anatomy in Motion learner I hope you’ll enjoy following along with this gait analysis. Meet Our Lovely Gait Model This video is from Haider, a student who joined us in my Toronto Flow Motion Model course last November 2024. We filmed his video to use as a potential gait analysis to look at as a group, but in the e...

I love me a good gait analysis. If you do too, you’ll love this post. Gait mechanics won’t necessarily tell you what’s wrong with someone, but assessing gait will guide you to where to investigate further to get to the root of their problems and unravel them joint by unruly joint. Today we must thank Xsenia for donating a gait analysis video. Her video is a good example of a person’s body adapting...