We use a number of advanced techniques to eliminate pain, improve performance, and restore healthy movement.
If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
— Bruce Lee
Here's how it all began. . .
I was born and raised in the inner-city of Los Angeles, California. It was both as good and as bad as that sounds. The benefits of a large urban world were always within reach; but so were the problems of city life. Luckily, my family had a garden in our backyard, so we always had fresh food. This was in the 1980s, mind you; we were way ahead of the micro-farming revolution of this past decade. My dad owned a Mexican restaurant, where I helped out after school.
Life is full of learning. . .
I never felt that I was that good at school. It wasn't until I was in my early 20s that I realized why: I have ADHD, and teachers at that time weren't trained to help students who had different learning styles than the norm.
So, formal education hasn't been my thing. But I've always been good at problem-solving, about thinking through challenges: Poking, pressing and pulling – then stepping back and seeing the big picture, rethinking things – and then trying again, until a solution is found.
And of course, I've had my share of challenges: football-related injuries of all kinds, especially. I've come back from two spinal surgeries, three hand surgeries, and two shoulder injuries. I won't go into all the details, but let's just say I learned a lot about the human body through the years, how it works, and what happens when parts of it snap or stop working.
These personal injuries, however, have lead me to where I am today. For example, after a spinal surgery, I discovered Nuerokinetic Therapy (NKT), which was a breakthrough moment for me, and something I've been happy to share with others as I've learned more over the years, and developed my own skillset in healing others, as well. Why was NKT so pivotal for me? Because for once, the therapy and notions surrounding the human body seemed less theoretical and academic, and more practical, more down-to-earth and understandable, while at the same time employing a problem-solving approach.
What I've learned in life is that we never stop learning. But that's the only way things get better.
My goal has always been to help people, to help discover with the client what their issues are, and then to overcome the pain, which is temporary and doesn’t have to be chronic. In life, sometimes we hear people tell us to live with the pain, to just get used to it. My response is, don't quit. Don't accept the pain. Learn. Heal. Grow. Repeat.
There is a limit to how bodywork has become stagnate. As we learn more about ourselves with science, in this information age. This field just been crawling to catch up. I have spent the last 10 years learning from the best to find what works to help others as well as myself. We work on getting the client moving pain free. Not just on the table but in life.
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I’ve learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?
— Soledad O’Brien
