Day One Assessment Well, my Day One assessment was pretty profound. I decided to video myself doing the three-point foot drill because I was curious. Three-point foot drill - I discovered that I tend to lean back slightly while standing. When I settle into the foot tripod, there's more weight on my heels. Interestingly, when I find an even weight distribution through the tripod of my foot, it feels like I'm leaning slightly forward but the video shows that I'm actually standing upright. - My left foot lightly collapses inward. - I was lightly gripping with my toes on the left. - In the video, I noticed that even though I was imagining the string lifting me up, my head was still slightly forward, even when I was standing as tall as I could. That's a lot of new awareness! Single-leg standing - My left side is noticeably weaker. I feel my ankle wobbling and have less balance. Lifting my arm overhead - On the right side, I moved slowly and was very mindful, and my ribs stayed down. - On the left, I moved more quickly and immediately noticed a slight rib flare because I wasn't as mindful.

Hey there! I'm on Day 2 of the 30-Day Program. Movement Mastery was showing up on social media…I was searching for ways to find relief. I had fatigued my abdominals and glutes after building a dry creek bed with rocks in my horse paddock. My body braced and tightened! I tried somatics, stretching/yoga (which actually made things worse), fascia mobility exercises, laying in constructive rest, but nothing….my body was stuck in a pattern. The contraction of my abdominals is releasing at times, my glutes are releasing, and the pulling from my hamstrings on my sit bones is less. Apparently, when I think up, a string lifting my head, breathe expansively, and find a neutral pelvis, my body seems to know what to do. I still have a ways to go, but I’m glimpsing relief.

OMG!! I was exploring some movement this morning with a floor lunge. Although I’ve known this and have tried to stretch it out in the past, today I simply noticed tension and tightness in my right quad. Normally I would have gone straight into trying to deep stretch it out, but this time I just observed it without trying to change it. My right hamstring, glute, and quad are all on the same side where I’ve had dysfunction, and I notice my hamstring can pull on my sit bone. This pattern had become so normal that it just became part of me. Now I’m wondering…where is the real dysfunction, and how will it reveal itself? This is pretty dang exciting! And the isolating the pelvis in arch and flatten is profound and brilliant!

Rotation without engaging hips - improvement with more awareness but I notice that this actually has been an issue during my training previously. Standing a bit of a challenge but more stable on both feet today.

Hi all I thought I'd give an update and my thoughts on the back pain protocol and the pattern decoder programs I recently purchased. As someone who has been experiencing back pain on and off for the last 10 years plus, has purchased every latest gadget, spent a fortune on every specialist i could find and bought countless mobility and strengthening programs I was reluctant to invest again but when I saw Ania's posts on instagram they really resonated with me. I can honestly say this has been the best investment I have made in trying to fix myself, not because I'm healed or even close at this point but I finally believe I've found the right path, what I've learned so far is the key to finally getting to the root of my issues is learning where and what is actually causing the disfunction. I've spent so long just following generic stretching routines which can give relief but never addresses the cause, now I'm just going over and over the protocol trying to find where it is all coming from rather then just ticking the boxes to say I've completed all the movements. If you're anything like myself I really struggled to connect with each movement I'd thoughrly recommend the pattern decoder, I use this to guide my through each exercise to really feel what I need to. I am not in a position to work with Ania on a 1 to 1 basis but she has been very generous with her time, answering questions for me and giving me advice, for which I'm grateful for. I see this as less of a program to follow more as a method to use to heal myself and finally take ownership of my own body rather than getting someone else to solve it for me. Hope this might be helpful to anyone, I'd also be interested in hearing other experiences on the program, here's hoping we all get better!