Michelle Edmison

Michelle Edmison I believe MOVEMENT is your best therapy and most powerful tool.

07/28/2026

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✨Prioritize rotation✨

If you want your “GLUTES” to work…
( there are a lot more things back there than just glutes)

✨Prioritize rotation✨

⚠️💯 I believe a lot of pathology (back, hip, knees, feet, pelvis alignment ) stems from poor muscle control in this area.

💡ROTATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MOTION of the hip joint.

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The Study :
(Rossi A & Grigg P. Journal of Neurophysiology June 1982. Vol 47(6):1029-1042)

The most important movement of the hip is internal/external rotation, which activates receptors
of the posterior & anterior capsule.
Abduction and adduction is also important because they
activate receptors of the inferior & superior portions of the capsule.
Less than 3% of the capsular
receptors are found to be excited by flexion and extension of the hip.
* from Myokin manual

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“Muscle is a stupid piece of meat.
The intelligence is in the structure.”
-Dr Guy Voyer

We LOVE MUSCLE but muscle only does what nerves tell it to do.

Movement is not about muscle.
Movement is a sensory motor process.

If you want to get a muscle to work :
▶️you need to stimulate the receptors in your joint capsule.
▶️you need to sense and feel things. ▶️You need a clear brain map of the area. Cortical representation 🙌

That is why I love

🧠Top of mind is sensory input, joint position and the global pattern.

That is why I love my daily CARs routine - it nourishes my joints and let’s me know EARLY if I have aberrant joint function. ( then I can apply my Kinstretch end range techniques or PRI repositioning techniques to restore joint health and function).

You can find classes on demand for each of these disciplines in my membership and always lots right here on my page 🙌

Love human movement❤️
-Michelle

07/28/2026

mvmt.101
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20-25 000 breaths in a day

⚠️Many of us breathe WRONG

❌ The OPPOSITE of how we were designed = PARADOXICAL BREATHING

✅ The right way :
Inhale expand
Exhale activate

THIS is how breathing works ⬇️

When you breathe in your diaphragm descends ( flattens)
✅ this decreases pressure above pulling air intro your lungs
= EXPANSION
✅ this increases pressure below that you cylinder ( abdominals, pelvic floor , etc) has to manage
= EXPANSION
IAP - intrabdominal pressure
IPP - intrapelvic pressure

THIS is how we SUPPORT ourselves.
Connect our ribcage and pelvis.
Upright out spine.
Create stability.
Breathe.

💡Core and breathing is about MANAGING our INTERNAL PRESSURES .

Without it you will have a tight neck, feel disconnected, a stiff ribcage, pelvic floor issues , struggle with posture and have tension in your body.

I HIGHLY recommend taking a course to understand this.

Think of :
▶️filling your pelvis first
▶️sitz bones getting wider
▶️breathing into your back pocket
▶️breathing into your underpants
▶️breathing into your bu****le

If you are struggling... PLAY WITH PROPS
*you can’t integrate something into the movement system until you can feel it

❌That is why we DON’T START WITH A KEGEL

Be brilliant at the basics 🙌

Check out my FREE class PELVIC FLOOR 101 at the link in my bio 🔗




07/28/2026

💡are you missing this ?

⚠️ YOU need this .
▶️ Because It’s the TENSION in the FRONT that creates that EXPANSION in the back.

🔗 This is a missing link in most modern day humans.

❌ Instead, we are closed up, cinched down and compressed IN THE BACK.

That tension in the FRONT needs to be HEALTHY tension
= A coordinated muscular effort

It’s a team of muscles 💪

✅ If you want to feel good in your body GET GOOD AT THIS.

If you want HEALTHY TENSION try the FREE class at the link in my bio

▶️The stack - better CORE & BREATHING

Be brilliant t the basics 🙌

michelle
9w

07/28/2026

Link 🔗 in bio ⤴️ for FREE classes.

🥇This is my #1 way to unlock FOOT STRENGTH and CONNECT your foot to your BODY

✨We all need to be better at feet🦶

⚠️Foot deformities and pathologies are an epidemic these days.

❌ bunions
❌ bunionettes
❌ hammer toes
❌ fat pad migration
❌ plantar fasciitis
❌ stress fractures
❌ neuromas
❌ achilles pathology

📌this is a great place to start because it TARGETS all of the often neglected but IMPORTANT areas for your foot and is EASY to do.

It targets your :
✅ arches ( longitudinal, and transverse )
✅ calf ( when you rise up)
✅ foot core ( when you press the toes down )
✅ tibialis posterior ( the most powerful and dynamic stabilizer of your arch)) ( when you crush the ball)
✅ peroneus longus ( when you root the big toe down )

SET UP :

1 - PRESS your toes DOWN to the floor ( keep them long flat and wide, no clawing )
2 - place a ball on the ground between the back of your heels and CRUSH the ball between them
3 - rise UP
⚠️ pro tip
✨crush even more as you go up
✨make sure you are still pressing through your toes

TOE SPACERS & TOE BANDS





These are a game changer if you have a bunion, bunionette, hammer toes, have lost your forefoot splay or just want to get more out of the exercise.

🧠Better ALIGNMENT = better motor output
🔥Better sensory input = better motor output

WEDGES

When you extend your toes ( 25 degrees is optimal) studies have shown you get 4x the strength gains

However…

The real MAGIC HAPPENS when you get your body parts working together.
Your pelvic floor and foot core and directly related to your foot.

💡When you press your toes down, activate your pelvic floor and breathe OUT.
BONUS if you press your tongue to the roof of your mouth ( these are your 4 domes )

💡pelvic floor activation = KEGEL

Enjoy!





shinsplints
bunion

07/27/2026

Original audio

💡Do you have a BIG TOE ?

You may have one … but are you using it?

Is it lifeless?

🧠 Your body needs you to to
FIND, FEEL, PRESSURIZE …. GROUND through your big toe.

It provides IMPORTANT stability and IMPORTANT information that your entire body needs.

⚠️ Your big toe has enormous GLOBAL postural effects.

✅ If you feel like your big toe is LIFELESS, the simplest, fastest, easiest way I know to get it back, is to use a WEDGE.

I love these ones from
( discount with code : movement101)
They bring the ground UP under your toe and are textured for maximum sensory input.
You can also use a doorstopper, squat wedges, etc ….

🎉It is WILD how much more STABLE, ENGAGED and SOLID my foot/hip/body feel when I add it.

Try adding it to a :
▶️ squat
▶️ split squat
▶️ reverse lunge
▶️ propulsion drills
▶️ heel raises
▶️ even just standing when you brush your teeth 🙌

Studies have actually shown that adding a wedge like this can increase your strength gains ( foot core) by 4x. This makes sense because your toes are designed for push off (propulsion) and that is the position that they are in when you add a wedge.

THE STUDY : Goldmann J, Sanno M, Willwacher S, et al. The potential of toe flexor muscles to enhance performance. J Sports Sci. 2012;31:424-433.

🔥 Your power comes from the ground.

If you aren’t feeling POWERFUL … check in on your big toe 🤜

- Michelle

07/27/2026

Mountain life ❤️

The good and the bad 😝

First time on little burn, big burn ….
and heartburn 😳

07/26/2026

Original audio

⚠️ This is where so many people get STUCK.

shoulder blades
shoulder blades
shoulder blades

📌 One of the game changes for improving shoulder pain, mobility, posture and breathing is …

✨GETTING YOUR SHOULDER BLADE TO MOVE.

🔥 Free it up

💡It needs to be able to SLIDE and GLIDE 360 degrees around your ribcage

1️⃣ Get GOOD at this.

2️⃣ THEN teach it to work with your shoulder.
⚠️ Having a shoulder blade that does not come back when your arm comes back is a FAST way to tear a rotator cuff, macerate your long head of bicep, trigger a frozen shoulder, etc…

3️⃣ Lastly, teach it to work with your RIBCAGE
add pulling, pushing, pressing
from all different angles
CONGRUENT MOVEMENT
❤️Your body craves alternating reciprocal movement like this.

Motion is lotion.
Movement is medicine

BUT … you have to move well 🙌

Enjoy!
-michelle

P.S. you can find a whole class on shoulder blades in the shoulder chapter of my membership 🙌

07/26/2026

Online Classes

🔥Want to feel the power of your feet?

Try this Human Toe Spreader Challenge

This literally takes 1 minute and CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

🧠 You need forefoot splay in order to use your foot the way it was designed.

Test it for yourself.

if you do not have space between your toes…..
▶️ you will not be in your power position
▶️ you will not be ready for push off
▶️ you will not be in high gear

⚠️ WARNING : This can be EXQUISITELY painful if your toes have been squished together for a long time.

However….

There are 2 reasons why you should put yourself through this :

1- splaying the forefoot stimulates mechanoreceptors that ACTIVATE FOOT CORE. It’s really hard to activate foot core without it!

2- splaying the forefoot is what initiates the TIE BAR mechanism of your foot. This is responsible for 40%+ of the stiffness or stability of your foot at push off.

✅ Both are FREE STABILITY

✅ Both get you ready for PUSH OFF.

BOTTOM LINE you will feel DRAMATICALLY MORE STABLE and connected to the GROUND when you have forefoot splay.

❌ If you don’t have forefoot splay you won’t be ready for push off.

❌ If you don’t have forefoot splay you will be asking other muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones to work harder than they were designed.

Want to get serious about improving your forefoot splay?

▶️ do the human toe spreader challenge daily
▶️ treat yourself to TOE spacers ( I love the ones from )
▶️ treat yourself to shoes with a wide toe box that respects the anatomy of your foot and aren’t designed based on outdated notions of foot function.( I like )

🙌 now that you have stimulated your foot… It’s time to strengthen. Coming up three of my favorites.


mobility stability physicallongevity
physio rehab prehab pilates yoga
12w

07/26/2026

🏅 THIS is one of my most VALUABLE RELEASES
( for myself and my patients)

WHY?

2 reasons :

1️⃣ It’s a mobilization + movement

Releases often aren’t high value if your body can’t figure out how to USE that new motion.
✅ EDUCATE your BODY

2️⃣ It creates SPACE for your HIP JOINT

Your hip is one of your 4 primary centres of rotation.
It is the star of the show for “hip shifting”
BUT … you can’t MOVE where you don’t have SPACE.
🔐 UNLOCK it.
Motion is lotion
Movement is medicine.
✅ FEED your BODY

When your HIP can’t move there will be compensations up ⬆️ and down ⬇️ the kinetic chain.
❌pelvis
❌low back
❌knee
❌foot
…jaw!

🙌 If any of these areas are talking to you…
tuck this technique into your toolbox and try it.

🧠 Educate your BODY
✅ Feed your BODY

❤️ LOVE human movement
-michelle

PS more details on this technique coming up in my next post🙌
11w

07/26/2026

When you walk….do you get your leg behind you?

✨If you do that is 10,000

✅ psoas stretches
✅ Calf stretches
✅ big toe mobilizations
✅ Hip extension mobilizations
✅ Glute activations
✅ Hamstring activations

💡Make sure you have sufficient stride length ….

❌Or you’ll have to carve out a lot of time for mobility

✨The little things we do all the time matter more than the big things we do every once in a while

Move often .
Move well .



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