Helping Active People in Southern Oregon & Northern California Quickly Recover From Pain & Injury so they can Keep Enjoying a Healthy Life, Exercising & Exploring the Trails
Health, Fitness & Performance
What is your endeavor?
Recovery from Injury & Pain – Physical Therapy +
Recover, Restore and Regain your capacities and functions by focusing on the whole body and breath’s role in healing rather than just on pain relief for results that count.
Hikers, Backpackers & Trail Runners –
Performance
What does your adventure require of you? What do you want to achieve? Training to your specific needs is possible with a targeted program.
Firefighters
Search & Rescue –
Health & Fitness
Tactical Athletes require special services to be at their best with every call. Health and Fitness requires good mobility, breathing & recovery.
Hi, I’m Shawn M. Flot, MPT, Oxygen Advantage Instructor, &
Functional Movement Specialist
Who I am, and why I want to help you heal and live&play with your greatest capacities.
As a physical therapist for 30 years, I believe I can offer you the best tailored program that is meaningful, progressive and successful in achieving the goals you are setting to heal, upgrade your fitness or accomplish what you desire. It takes someone to champion what you want, belief it’s possible, and have the experience and wisdom to give you the skills and progressive means to succeed.
I believe the capacities to heal, further fitness ranges and perform at high levels is all within everybody. Often these are hidden, and just takes the right ways to open those doors so you can walk over the threshold into new possibilities. Let’s see if we can work together to get you where you want to go!
To experience your greatest range of possibilities
Achieving YOUR Goals
Performing at your best in life does not have to be an extreme event.
It’s about being your best with the capacities you develop and
build up with a healthy foundation in breathing and movement.
ARTICLES & INSIGHTS
Discover the ancient practice of Nasal health that will allow you to breathe easier and at greater capacity – Nasya Nasya is a daily practice of introducing natural medications through the nose. Ayurveda states the nose is the doorway to the brain and the path to our inner pharmacy. Both a cleansing and supportive care […]
Explore this essential value from someone who has been around a while. I’ve been around a while in the arena of health, fitness, performance, and wellness. And I’ve come to realize many things. HealthSpan is the time having the capacity of wholesome balanced body and mind that is maintained over a period of time. Often […]
The diaphragm is the most important muscle in our body. We can’t live without it or mechanical means are necessary to keep you alive. And the diaphragm can perform the important respiratory, or breathing, function with our volitional, or conscious, control and non-volitional, unconscious function (especially during sleep). How your diaphragm functions in the day […]
If the well is distant, its water does not quench the thirst of the pilgrim – Chinese Proverb Your health is being flexible, and your flexibility is not about how your stretch……it’s about how you descend to harness fluidity in your tissues and your mind. Just like in the desert, or in the mountains, the […]
The Talus is the keystone bony structure in the body!All vertical support balances on it,AND all fluids are regulated by it. Where is the Talus bone located? The Talus is situated between the foot and the lower leg bones, considered the “top of the foot.” It’s half-dome surface articulates with the tibia and fibula, lower […]
Don’t get me wrong. Physical Activity and Exercise have incredible benefits…..when done in synch within your capacities to respond and adapt positively to a demand, or load (used in scientific literature as a measure of “workload”). The benefits of physical activity and exercise are well documented as investigators compare these to inactive, or sedentary, lifestyles. […]
It’s a given, backpacking and thru-hiking in the wilderness requires a level of being physically fit to feel capable of accomplishing your dream adventures on the trails. Your adventures also require some mental fortitude. Not the attitude to just keep pushing beyond yourself; that’s violence to one self, and you and your hiking partners will […]
What do you want to do?
Climb to new heights with your health.
Find out how mobility, movement and breathing
can elevate your capacity to do what you want to do!
Here’s why you’ll love working with Shawn
30 years of clinical experience.
37 years of exercise science & physiology, health physiology
A dedication to provide the best possible care to each person who wants his assistance.
With these credentials:
Beyond his Masters in Physical Therapy, he is certified in two distinctive systems founded in the principles of health and the body’s capacities to heal, sustain balance and adapt in performance. These organizations have existed for over 20 years with humble and honest founders who are first and foremost practitioners in their expertise. They strive to use science, be tested by science, and hone their craft to evolve the potential of human capacity. I feel very fortunate to be certified in these sound methods and practices to support my client’s heal, access their health and expand their horizons of fitness and performance.
The Oxygen Advantage
Functional Movement Systems
Here’s what people are saying
Whether you are seeking help with your pain & injury recovery, your practice of exercising your capacities, or class/course/workshop opportunities, there are many avenues you can explore your potential and benefit from working with me.
“Throughout the years I have seen Shawn as a Physical Therapist for many challenges within my body and mind. What I loved about our recent time together was the profound benefits of including the Oxygen Advantage concepts into my practice, exercise and daily routine that have released tension patterns that kept me from my true power.
Meixa
“Shawn commands a profoundly deep knowledge of the body, in both, Western and Eastern Medicine and how it works with the body, breath & mind. These, coupled with his grounded presence and compassion makes him, in my opinion, the best PT in the area.”
Lynnea Forderer
Dr. Scott Blossom
Proudly serving active people in Southern Oregon & Northern California
Ashland | Talent | Phoenix | Medford | Roseburg | Jacksonville | Central Point | White City | Eagle Point | Grants Pass | Merlin | Rogue River | Gold Hill | Cave Junction | Klamath Falls | Mount Shasta City | Yreka | Etna | Scott’s Valley | Montague