Moving Into Harmony
MOVEMENT & BREATH: HEALTH - FITNESS - PERFORMANCE
PHYSICAL THERAPY +
RECOVERY FROM INJURY OR PAIN IS THE BEGINNING OF DOING WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!
EXERCISING YOUR CAPACITIES FOR TRAINING FITNESS & PERFORMANCE IS WHAT’S POSSIBLE BEYOND PAIN-FREE
SHAWN M. FLOT
Masters in Physical Therapy
Certified Oxygen Advantage® Advanced Instructor
Functional Movement Systems Specialist
Mobility is fundamental to the movements you use for daily movements & exercise.
Good mobility and stability are required for ease of coordinated functional movements.
Exercise is challenging how well you move to efficiently change what you need to accomplish your goals.
A tailored program is designed from screening and evaluating your mobility, movement and breathing to target what you want to achieve in your life.
To experience your greatest range of possibilities
CONSULTATIONS WITH SHAWN FLOT
IN-PERSON CLINICAL CONSULTATIONS
I specialize in tailoring a care plan and program for you. With 30 years of clinical experience, I appreciate being able to screen and observe breathing dynamics, mobility, fundamental movement and whole body functional movement – to understand what is possible for healing.
The gift of being in-person is I get to confirm what I see with a manual, hands-on assessment. We are integrative whole human beings, and often the source of your pain is not where it’s bothering you. And this in not limited to seeing me in-person – a good screen and keen observation can be the source of support online.
The keys are breathing well and moving well as promoters of healing and health. I enjoy this process of working with people 1:1 and help you discover your patterns and habitual holding tendencies that are inhibiting your success and building upon this with exercises and practices that access your health and capacities for living life beyond pain. their access to their health.
I work with you and your individual patterns, based on what you want (not on a diagnosis) to return to in your life that has been limited due to imbalances, pain, immobility, inefficiencies. To regain your capacities to move beyond your current limitations into more of who you want to be.
I respect everyone’s desire to return to feeling healthy and well, and bring together your patterns, conditions and the things you have struggled with to give you the best tailored program and care I can.
ONLINE 1-ON-1 CONSULTATIONS
YES it is true, you can accomplish your goals without direct hands-on intervention. Over the years I have realized the best medicine is your ability to access your healing and performance potential through Mobility, Movement and your Breath.
Tailored solution based programs are developed through a thorough consultations that includes screening, testing and keen observational assessments. I can address a great deal of what is needed for your recovery and for your progress toward doing what you want to do in your life. And the greatness of screenings backed with science is the reliability and informative feedback they offer for a successfully individualized developed program.
The ability to see your whole body, to screen and assess specific functional movement and breathing patterns is a gift I’ve cultivated when it was required during the pandemic. I stepped up and brought together the best technology and setting for effective online guidance.
The beauty is together we can identify the key ingredients in the program that will fit you the best, I point you in the right direction, demonstrate (and record for your review), and offer the efficient follow-up as you explore and progress on your terms. Motivated clients I’ve helped have found this option to be beyond their ideas of what’s possible and appreciated the ability to address their needs from home.
Let go of the false belief that you need someone to put their hands on you for your best healing, and give me an opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of an online session. It will be worth the time you spend to achieve great things.
This page will give you more information if you need.
To experience your greatest range of possibilities
The methods are based in a foundation of connective physical and physiological activities inter-related to balance tensions and pressures in your body’s dynamic movement patterns. There are no direct references (some have said it’s like craniosacral; it’s not) besides the words of the founder of classical osteopathy, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still. The approach is palpable, the experiences are profound change you can feel, and the results are life giving to help you move in a direction with greater potential for recovery, healing and beyond.
As a dedicated practitioner in the healing arts (Physical Therapy being one of those), in person movement and breath assessment, and hands-on methods address:
- * the body’s multi-system functions – “what is affecting what.”
- * mobility – connective tissue (fascia), joints, limbs and spinal function.
- * movements you feel limited in, and exploring movements to uncover your potential.
- * breathing patterns that may be limiting your healing, and those that can support your healing.
- * avenues of resilience and adaptability that give you options and possibilities to achieve your best outcomes.
These skilled complementary interventions are clinically tested over 30 years. The healing art of physical therapy is to work with you and your entire breath-body-mind functions to support the return of what you’ve lost touch with – your own healing and performance capacities.
Once the painful limitations have been addressed life can really take off! I suggest people explore beyond their rehabilitation success into how to up-level their capacities. It is the best way to prevent setbacks and repeated experiences of that painful region. Many stop when the pain is “bearable” or is not limiting their movement in daily activities or exercise. I encourage you to not normalize pain. If you re-experiencing pain, especially during exercise, then something is off. Then once the pain is not signalling, move more and move often in new patterns and loads to build capacity. This is the BEYOND! Go BEYOND what you thought was possible with the proper guidance in a program to accomplish being at your best…..BEYOND the status quo of just being pain-free.
I always educate my clients that any external assistance (my skills, massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, counseling, etc.) is only as effective as how you can own the new freedoms to move and breathe with what changed.
The best service gives back to your ability to integrate the changes through a meaningful and tailored mobility, movement and/or breathing program.
A NOTE ABOUT MEDICAL HEALTH INSURANCE
Physical Therapy is a well-supported service within most health insurance benefits and may be covered under your out-of-network rehabilitation benefits. Feel free to contact us with your specific questions once you have reviewed your policy, so we can help you understand the financial necessities of the care you want. We do offer additional and optional programs that can help you return to your best.
Other ways to support your endeavors to be the best you want to be include: