How to help your clients get free from persistent pain

Whether you’re a bodyworker, a PT, a Pilates teacher, or any other kind of practitioner, you are GREAT at helping your clients reduce and resolve chronic pain.

But there are some clients who can’t seem to find lasting relief, even when you apply all the tools you’ve got.

You care so much and love what you do - which makes it all the more frustrating when it feels like it’s not working.

For some folks, the key to unlocking lasting structural change and reducing pain lies in understanding the difference between MECHANICAL patterns and SOMATIC patterns.

Both types of patterning can lead to pain and discomfort, and manifest with similar symptoms.

But MECHANICAL patterns follow predictable physical principles, like a faulty hinge.

Whereas SOMATIC patterns are the body's intelligent response to a past experience, not necessarily located in the affected area.

When you apply mechanical principles to clients whose pain is primarily somatic in origin, their pain tends to persist.

In order to support these folks in feeling maximum freedom in their bodies, you need to learn the art of discerning between mechanical and somatic issues.

And that’s EXACTLY what we’re going to teach you to do in…

Unveiling Somatic Solutions

Offered Quarterly - Next Workshop - Sat Sept 14, 2024, 11am-3pm

We cannot wait to help you elevate your practice and transform your clients’ lives!

P.S. This workshop is limited to eight participants to maximize attention from your teacher

Martine Dedek

OWNER; SPRE® EDUCATIONAL FOUNDER, PRACTITIONER TRAINER & PRACTITIONER, SHE/HER

Martine enjoys the diverse learning opportunities studio ownership has allowed her. She began her career in the field of movement and bodies as a Pilates Instructor in 1999. Soon after her original Pilates certification, Martine pursued numerous other certifications and sought to bring her client offerings and business acumen to one place in the founding of Studio Evolve, Pilates, Gyrotonic & SPRe® Bodywork.

Along her journey, Martine partnered with Jill Ableson for the development of the SPRe® Practitioner Training Program. Together they have brought the SPRe® Training Curriculum to its current evolution as a licensed Somatic Education Training Program and WA State Vocational Training School.

Working with Martine is both grounding and expansive. She enjoys the practice of energetically, verbally and somatically attuning with and guiding clients. Her use of SPRe® Bodywork, as well as her curiosity and engagement leads to delightful moments of clarity and greater physical comfort for her clients.

Martine feels an essential component to building a strong partnership with her client is a foundation of trust, openness and curiosity. This allows for the safe and supportive exploration of whatever difficult, confusing or conflicting emotional and somatic experiences arise in the journey they take together. Ready to take the first step? Martine is currently seeing SPRe® clients online and in person and looks forward to hearing from you.

Education & Training:

Queen's University, BA Honors, Psychology & Sociology 1995

Stott Pilates Certification 2001

Yamuna Body Rolling Certification 2002

Duggan French Approach Certification 2003

Founded Studio Evolve, Pilates, Gyrotonic & Bodywork 2006

Advanced Myofascial Techniques, Til Luchau 2008-9

Anatomy Trains Workshop 2009

Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Continuing Education Certification 2010-12

Gyrotonic Expansion System Instructor Certification 2011

Co-created SPRe® Practitioner Training Curriculum with Jill Ableson 2011-2013

Qi Gong for Movement Professionals 2016

Reiki Level 1 2019

She also co-teaches the SPRe® Training Program and runs Studio Evolve. More information at sprebodywork.com.

https://www.studio-evolve.com/
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