Fish in Water

Sometimes we don't even notice our compensation patterns because they are so deeply ingrained; just like a fish doesn't notice the water.

A lot of our clients come in with movement patterns that are so deeply ingrained, they don’t even realize they’re happening. We often call this the “fish in water” effect.

Take your lower back, for example. If we ask your hips to do some work, your lower back might automatically tighten, not because it needs to, but because it’s been compensating for so long that your body doesn’t know any other way. It’s like blinking your eyes, it happens so frequently, you stop noticing it.

That’s why slowing things down matters.

We simplify exercises on purpose. We remove distractions. We teach you how to feel what your body is doing, in real time. Because becoming more kinesthetically aware, learning how to feel what’s actually happening in your own body, is the key to changing old neuromuscular patterns.

If you’ve had a chronically tight back (or neck, shoulders, or anything else), chances are you’ve developed these automatic responses. You go to move one area, and something else jumps in to help, even when it’s not supposed to.

What we do in posture therapy is help you recognize those patterns and rewire them.
It’s not fast. But it works, and it builds a new, more functional way of moving that doesn’t keep looping back into the old pain cycle.

Serving Colorado from our centrally located office in Westminster and seeing clients from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, Denver and Boulder, we can also help globally via WebCam such as Zoom or FaceTime.

Anu Lawrence owned Egoscue Method clinics for over a decade before moving to private practice in 2022 and is a certified master instructor in the Egoscue Method, having learned the craft from Pete Egoscue directly.