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The only evidence-informed, structured movement platform designed for hypermobility, EDS & chronic pain, using the Integral Movement Method.

01/11/2026

Got questions for our founder Founder & CEO of The Zebra Club | Hypermobility Specialist? We hold live events where our members can get their movement questions answered live.

This month we talked about Hypermobility and building strength: where do you actually start?

Jeannie Di Bon answered the questions our members sent in on stiffness and getting started with strength work. Swipe through for some of her answers.

Save this for the days your body feels stiff or you’re tempted to rush.

Which slide sounds most like you? Tell us in the comments.

The Zebra Club is a movement, education and community platform for people living with hEDS and HSD. Members meet live every month with expert speakers. Join us through the link in bio.

27/10/2026

POTS symptoms: feel worse the longer you stand still, and better once you lie down?

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a type of dysautonomia. It’s one of the most common in hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD). When you stand, your heart rate climbs to keep blood reaching your brain. You might not notice it racing at all. Many people just feel dizzy, foggy, shaky or wiped out when they’re upright.

Swipe to see how POTS is diagnosed, and why a tilt table test that doesn’t show POTS can still point to something else.

The Zebra Club has a POTS and Flares program, the Autonomic Regulation Structured Pathway, supine and seated classes, and audio meditations for days when being upright isn’t an option. Link in bio.

This wraps up our Dysautonomia Awareness Month series. Parts 1 and 2 are on our grid.

Educational content only. Please talk to your doctor about your own symptoms.

symptoms: feel worse the longer you stand still, and better once you lie down?

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a type of dysautonomia. It’s one of the most common in hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD). When you stand, your heart rate climbs to keep blood reaching your brain. You might not notice it racing at all. Many people just feel dizzy, foggy, shaky or wiped out when they’re upright.

Swipe to see how POTS is diagnosed, and why a tilt table test that doesn’t show POTS can still point to something else.

The Zebra Club has a POTS and Flares program, the Autonomic Regulation Structured Pathway, supine and seated classes, and audio meditations for days when being upright isn’t an option. Link in bio.

This wraps up our Dysautonomia Awareness Month series. Parts 1 and 2 are on our grid.

Educational content only. Please talk to your doctor about your own symptoms.

POTS dysautonomia hEDS HSD hypermobility

24/10/2026

“But you look fine.” If you live with hEDS or HSD, you’ve heard it. Probably this week.

Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) can be invisible disabilities. Unstable joints, chronic pain, fatigue, brain fog. Many people also live with POTS or MCAS. Very little of it shows.

Most people who say “you look fine” mean well. It still stings when the people closest to you can’t see what you’re dealing with.

For Invisible Disabilities Week, swipe through to see what might be going on behind the moments people notice.

Save it for the next time you’re asked to explain, or send it to someone who wants to get it.

What’s one thing people don’t see about your day? Tell us in the comments.

The Zebra Club brings together movement, expert support and people who understand hEDS and HSD. Link in bio.

22/10/2026

Dysautonomia Awareness Month question for you: what’s in your toolkit?

If you have dysautonomia or POTS, you’ve probably put together your own kit over the years.

Maybe it’s salt and electrolytes, compression socks, a heart rate monitor, a cooling vest for summer, or a recumbent bike.

Many people with hEDS and HSD manage dysautonomia too, so we know this community has answers worth sharing.

What’s the one thing you never leave home without? And what do you wish you’d found sooner? Drop it in the comments. Let’s help each other out!

Save this for later, and send it to a friend who’s still working out what helps.

The Zebra Club is a movement platform for people with hEDS, HSD, and related conditions. Link in bio.

20/10/2026

Dysautonomia and hypermobility: dizziness when you stand up isn’t “just anxiety.”

It’s Dysautonomia Awareness Month.

If you have hEDS or HSD, you might know the feeling. Your heart races when you get up from the sofa. You go lightheaded in a hot shower or a long queue at the shops and have to sit down before you faint.

Dysautonomia is common in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorder, but it still gets missed or put down to anxiety.

Exercise helps, but standing workouts can set off symptoms. That’s why The Zebra Club has classes you can do lying down. When you’re ready, you move on to seated and then standing work. The Autonomic Regulation Structured Pathway and the POTS and Flares program take you through it at your own pace.

Join The Zebra Club through the link in bio.

Missed last week’s post on the autonomic nervous system? It’s on our grid. Next week we’re covering POTS in depth.

17/10/2026

Living with hEDS, HSD or POTS and stuck in the boom and bust cycle of overload and flares? Our new Overload & Recovery pathway is now live.

You’ve told us about this pattern again and again. You have a good day, do a bit too much, then crash and spend days recovering before you can start again. After a while, it’s hard to trust your body with movement at all.

This structured pathway helps you:

- spot the early signs of overload before a flare builds
understand why symptoms escalate after activity, stress or travel
- cut out unnecessary effort in everyday movement
rebuild tolerance gradually, without repeatedly going over your limit

You’ll keep moving. The pathway helps your body respond to movement more effectively, so the progress you make lasts.

It may help if you notice fatigue or shakiness after exertion, find it hard to stay consistent with hypermobility, or aren’t sure how to restart after a setback.

You’ll begin with a short self-assessment, so you start from where your body is today.

Find it now on The Zebra Club platform. Link in bio 🦓

13/10/2026

Do you get dizzy when you stand up, or feel your heart racing for no clear reason? That could be dysautonomia.

Dysautonomia is when your autonomic nervous system, your body’s autopilot, stops regulating properly.

This Dysautonomia Awareness Month, we’re starting with the basics. The autopilot has an accelerator and a brake:

• Sympathetic nervous system: the accelerator
• Parasympathetic nervous system: the brake, run mostly by the vagus nerve

Dysautonomia, including POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), is especially common in hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD). We’ll cover why in Part 2.

Save this for the next time someone asks what dysautonomia is.

Which symptom took the longest for someone to take seriously? Tell us in the comments.

08/10/2026

Keeping up with movement when you live with hEDS or HSD is rarely about motivation. It’s about whether a routine can flex with how your body feels on any given day.

As Belinda shared: “Sustainability and being able to cater to my day-to-day movement needs has always been an issue when I have worked with coaches, PT and programs over the years.”

If that sounds familiar, you’re not doing it wrong. Your needs change, and your movement should be able to change with them.

Some days are strength days. Some days are gentle days. Some days are “lie on the floor and call it a win” days. In The Zebra Club, all of them count, and there’s always something built for hypermobile bodies to meet you where you are, alongside whatever other support you have.

Join us via the link in bio.

05/10/2026

Does your chronic pain flare in October? Here are 5 senses you can use to calm your nervous system 🍂

If you live with hEDS or HSD, you might notice more pain and symptoms when October brings colder weather and shorter days. The weather is out of our hands. Small cues of safety for your nervous system aren’t.

That’s the idea behind self-soothing: using your senses on purpose. Swipe for cozy ideas for sight, smell, sound, touch and taste, plus two bonus tips for gentle distraction and movement.

On high-pain days, try stacking a few together. A warm drink, a soft blanket, your comfort show and a gentle class can take the edge off.

Zebra Club members say Movement Meditation of Softness and Post Viral Relief are favorites this time of year. Find them on the platform, link in bio.

Save this for your next flare day, and send it to a fellow zebra who feels the weather in their joints.

What’s in your self-soothing plan? Tell us in the comments 👇

30/09/2026

Sometimes the right expert, with the right knowledge, can save you months of searching for answers and spending money and time on approaches that simply aren’t right for you.

Our Expert Masterclasses bring trusted clinicians directly to The Zebra Club, so you can ask the questions that matter and leave with clear, practical guidance you can use straight away. As this attendee shared after Lorna Ryan’s Lorna Ryan | Hypermobility & EDS Nutrition Specialist nutrition session, one hour gave her more useful insight than hundreds of pounds spent elsewhere.

That is the value of speaking to people who truly understand the complexities of hypermobility. And we handpick them and bring them to you.

Bookings reopen in November if you’d like to join our next Expert Masterclass.

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