Building Bulletproof Backs Ep 2 - Fun & Fascia with Alexa Nehter

04/06/20 • 29 min

Welcome to the Second episode of Building Bulletproof Backs podcast.

This podcast aims to empower listeners with HOPE that healing is possible when you know how. We discuss strategic tools addressing mental, physical and emotional Health.
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I am your host, Marion McRae, a physiotherapist & movement addict on a mission to see the existing model of treating back pain evolve. The current model is broken. It focusses almost entirely on the physical body, neglecting the fact that we are all both thinkers and feelers. When the thoughts in our head, and the the emotions in our bodies are less than optimal, we fail to thrive.

Our Guest for this episode is my colleague and friend, Alexa Nehter. Alexa is a brilliantly passionate, “leading edge” teacher and body worker who discusses with us her wholistic approach to back pain. We discuss structural integration, fascia, self awareness, breath, mobility exercises, and the importance of loving yourself.

We discuss the existing back pain model, time limits on practitioners, the importance of self responsibility and the need to work with a practitioner you trust to facilitate your process of healing.

Alexa’s tools:

Structural integration - a form of body work developed by Ida Rolf which aligns and integrates Fascial Lines
Movement re-education
Healthy lifestyle choices - breath work, loving and listening to yourself.

Alexa’s Top 3 tips

Find a holistic practitioner whom you trust to facilitate your healing
Love yourself, so you will take the actions required to heal yourself.
Learn quality movement practices

Links :

www.alexnehter.com

www.bodytuneup.com.au

Time stamp :

Alexa tells us about a holistic approach [4:42]
Including all the human facets linked to healing: movement awareness and mental self awareness [5:30].
We talk about structural integration [6:17] and all its elements, in addition to delving into the role of breathing and fundamental mobility exercises.
The importance of the emotional system for recovery [10:00]
The role of thoughts in the healing process [13:25].
Suggestions for the evolution of the health system model in the treatment of back pain [16:50]
The importance for our life of incorporating a body approach, movements that heals, healthy decisions and personal responsibility [19:00]
Alexa’s top 3 tips for healing: Love yourself [22:50]
Listen to yourself

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Welcome to the Second episode of Building Bulletproof Backs podcast.

We discuss the existing back pain model, time limits on practitioners, the importance of self responsibility and the need to work with a practitioner you trust to facilitate your process of healing.

Alexa’s tools:

Structural integration - a form of body work developed by Ida Rolf which aligns and integrates Fascial Lines
Movement re-education
Healthy lifestyle choices - breath work, loving and listening to yourself.

Alexa’s Top 3 tips

Find a holistic practitioner whom you trust to facilitate your healing
Love yourself, so you will take the actions required to heal yourself.
Learn quality movement practices

Links :

www.alexnehter.com

www.bodytuneup.com.au

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Building Bulletproof Backs Ep 1 - Ascend the Pain with Kay Savory

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Episode 1: Ascending the Pain Podcast : Building Bulletproof backs

Show notes:

Welcome to the First ever episode of Building Bulletproof Backs podcast.

I am your host, Marion McRae, a physiotherapist & movement addict on a mission to see the existing model of treating back pain evolve. The current model is broken. It focusses almost entirely on the physical body, neglecting the fact that we are all both thinkers and feelers. When the thoughts in our head, and the the emotions in our bodies are less than optimal, we fail to thrive.

Our Guest for the first episode is my long term physiotherapy client, and now friend, Kay Savory - who shares her story of how her decision to “not suffer” led her to find her greatest salvation tool - Ascension Meditation.

In this podcast episode, she shares with us how she clawed her way out of the rut, and is now able to co-exist with reduced pain, has withdrawn from some of her prescription medication, and has found inner joy and peace - regardless of her pain status.

Kay’s tools:

Use Mental strategy to redefine your relationship with the pain
Stop labelling things, so that the relationship with it also drops.
Start meditating -Kay’s preferred method - Ascension meditation. Goto https://www.thebrightpath.com/ to learn more.
A core belief which serves her well “The body reacts to the mind and the mind reacts to the soul”

Kay’s Top 3 tips

Research as much as you want to, but within a limit.
Find a meditation practice that works for you.
Go on a journey to find a different way. Be open to knowing there is one.

Links :

Ascension Meditation - Bright path website -https://www.thebrightpath.com/
Marion's Book and Courses - Building Bulletproof Backs

Time stamp :

The source of kay’s back pain[ 0:58]
Kay, a beautiful bird caught in her own body's trap[4:35]
Kay’s search for the key to open the trap door, shift in mindset [5:25] Mental strategy to redefine the relationship to the pain [6:45]
The mental redefinition of disease as just a label [7:24]
Using Ascension Meditation as a new

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Building Bulletproof Backs Ep 3 - Swim into your next Chapter with Louisa Cruz

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Welcome to the Third episode of Building Bulletproof Backs podcast.

Our Guest for this episode is Louisa Cruz. An inspiring young mother of two, ex yoga teacher and now endurance ocean swimmer who has kindly agreed to share her back pain story and winning outcome.

We discuss

Louisa’s tools:

Multiple Mental Strategies, a Mindset she attributes to YOGA
Movement - Pilates and Swimming

Louisa’s Top 3 tips

Mental - See the Pain as an opportunity to Learn and Grow. Do not Label it.
Do not be discouraged by extended healing time frames.
Trust you will come out the other side and it may look different, but better.

Time stamp :

Louisa Shares her back pain story [2.48] including balancing motherhood with a yoga practice. The realisation that a spine pre-birth is different to a spine post-birth [4.01] Flexibility was more dominant than strength. Lack of sleep was also part of the equation.
Louisa pushed through symptoms for approx 6 wks [6.04] before the body said "NO".
We discuss the yoga approach to Pain [6.46] and whether it is useful, unified, and open to interpretation. Is it joint opening? or Damaging.
Louisa Shares her lack of hope about returning to yoga [8.18] as a teacher and how she faced the loss of control of hers own destiny.
[10.20] Grief as Louisa realises yoga was not the way of her future.
[10.56] The benefits of Pilates for subtle strengthening, leads to swimming. Initially for pain relief and soon to become a new addiction.
[13.19] 20 kms of swimming, over 6 + hours is a testament of a bulletproof back.
[13.48] The mindset to heal was in place before Louisa's injury and attributed to yoga. Including the idea that everything is transient. Nothing is permanent.
[15.15] The power of 3 - mental, physical and emotional strategies seem to be required to shake off a stubborn back story, yet can you learn them ? A wholistic approach is required. [16,46] Expectations for healing tim

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Building Bulletproof Backs - Building Bulletproof Backs Ep 2 - Fun & Fascia with Alexa Nehter

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welcome TTO building bulletproof backs where we redefine the mainstream medical approach. Teo Healing stubborn back pain joint physiotherapist and movement addict Mariam McRae on a mission to end the back pain epidemic. Building bulletproof backs requires mental, physical and emotional strategy. Hope is not enough. Listen now, as she interviews rial life back pain sufferers who have found a way out of the nightmare and introduces you, tow leading edge teachers