The Root of Motion

12/31/2025

Happy New Year!

We are at the start of my 20th year of practicing Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) in St. Louis!

Check out my video with my clients at The Root of Motion.
💗I’m stoked to have you take a peek into what I’ve been creating.

Thank you Brandon Sloan for great video capturing my work at The Root of Motion.

https://www.therootofmotion.com/overview-of-services

Have a safe and Happy New Year’s!
💗
Rachael Durnell at The Root of Motion

Specializing in Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT), MATRx, and sports massage to create and enhance optimal muscle function as well as using Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) enhancing general wellness.

12/16/2024

Buy a GC from The Root of Motion and get 20% next purchase!

12/16/2024

11/15/2024

Inviting you to read my Manual Lymyphatic Drainage (MLD) article I posted on Medium.

I started practicing this along side massage and MAT this year and am really loving the results clients are experiencing.

Let me know what you think? Have you heard of MLD? What were your results?

Listen to this and try this on.

09/30/2024

Exhale! Finally got the corner of the room with all the study materials and plants nicely placed.
Happy Monday coming into a picked up and together office. Thank you .durnell.5 for helping me out.

07/20/2024

Taking a break and wanted to share my room for the weekend.
I’m treating United Brachial Plexus Network (UBPN) camp attendees that are working with Brachial Plexus injuries this weekend. I will be treating 56 people in this great community and assisting them in gaining more use of their shoulders, elbows, wrists and hands.
Awesome photos snagged from Tyler Johnson

04/03/2024

Want a Tax Break?

Offerings in the Month of April:

*a free massage with the purchase of either of the MAT packages

*20$ off massages

*Buy three MAT session get one free

It’s a good time to treat all your adulting you’ve been doing. Give your brain a rest and your body some work.

03/05/2024

Thank you for your feedback David!
You Rock! Glad you’re feeling better.

03/04/2024

MATRx up to patterns 6-9 today.
Shoulder depression
External rotation of the shoulder
Back extension
Hip extension

=All Squats, deadlifts, getting of chairs, up stairs, power and control

This was a great session to continue to open up the posterior chain in time for getting back into the gym, ensuring neuromuscular integrity in his back and glutes.
It’s not how strong you can make your body that sets you up for success in the gym. You’re only as good as the sum of your parts and they all have to function together.
Muscle Activation Techniques prepares your body for what you ask of it by getting the brain and the muscles talking better for the best results and tolerating YOU without breaking down from your workouts.

How can you increase your gym readiness?

*Start slow and build as your body can handle the stresses, and increase the resistance slow.
*Pay attention to your form-it shows you what joint(s) are having a difficult time in stress.

Knees and ankles will affect you hip hinge more than you think.

See and feel what’s happening vs “what had happened was”

To me this is being more proactive than reactive to the forces that we are asking out structures to tolerate.

Don’t wait for a tweak before you address the creak.

Want a strong foundation? Or want to know what that can feel like?

Seek out a bodywork that ensures each muscle has the connection.
Muscle Activation Techniques MATRx