Movement is medicine, part 1 (Solving the Problem of Pain)

exploring self-help medical massage approaches to address musculoskeletal pain

Welcome to the first issue in the new series, Solving the Problem of Pain. In it, I’ll be exploring self-help medical massage approaches to address musculoskeletal pain. This series is a special thank-you for paid subscribers to the newsletter, whose support and appreciation make it possible. To see all the articles, you can visit the series homepage.

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In Qoya, the intuitive movement classes that I teach, I say “movement is medicine.” In that context, I mean that movement helps us to connect to our bodies, and in so doing to connect to our emotions as well. We can find powerful emotional healing through movement.

But it’s also true that movement helps us to find physical healing as well.