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Karyn Clark  Evolve Life Sensory Motor Amnesia alters the way one not only moves, but how one experiences him/herself from within, their SOMA-tic experience.

Help for ongoing pain, tension & recurring injuries
When nothing else has quite worked
Rehab•Movement • Clinical Somatics • Lifestyle Medicine
📍 Bedfordshire + Online | Start here: The Tightly Wound Body ↓ Clinical Essential Somatics is Neuromuscular movement re-education that teaches people to regain voluntary control of muscles that have become involuntarily and chronically contracted due to a

daptation to accidents, injuries, surgeries, major illnesses or on-going/repetitive emotional or physical stress. Thomas Hanna (Hanna Somatics) termed this state of chronically tight muscles that can't let go as Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA) and described SMA as the root cause chronic pain. By improving the connection between the brain and the muscles people learn to regain sensation and motor control of muscles and movement. Chronically tight muscles affect physical structure and alter posture and movement. Examples of Sensory Motor Amnesia include:

• chronic back pain
• sciatica
• leg length discrepancy
• hip pain
• altered gait
• plantarfasciitis
• piriformis syndrome
• TMJ/TMD
• neck/shoulder pain
• scoliosis

Those suffering from SMA lose their ability to release and relax muscles and move freely. Clinical Essential Somatics is taught in 1:1 session with hands on work with the practitioner, focusing on the clients patterns of restricted movement and SMA. Groups classes, are weekly classes that teach Somatic movements and are suitable for those new to Somatics and those whom have undertaken clinical sessions.

'Essential Somatics' builds on the work of Thomas Hanna (Hanna Somtics), as well as bringing in the work of new pioneers in the field of Somatic Movement.

03/08/2026

When you come on any of the Strong Foundations ladies lifting courses it doesn’t stop there!

We have a community what’s app group you can join and get if I see you in the gym I will always give you a hand too.

came on the course and like many people struggled to feel the right connection with her glutes/hamstrings and felt it a lot more in her back.

I saw her at the gym doing single leg RDL’s and my first questions was “how do they feel” because quite frankly what’s more@important than how it looks from the outside is how it feels to that person, there is too much unsolicited advice on technique out there. She told me she wasn’t feeling it, and what’s I was seeing g was what she felt, so I showed her this, in less than 2 minutes, her technique changes, she was feeling a connection and the peaches were firing up.

Practice these on their own and also using them before picking up the bar. If you train at home, you just need some bands.

And ladies if you don’t feel confident in the gym, that doesn’t mean it’s not for you. Our goals is to help you develop confidence and competence and it’s excalty where you should be! 💪🏻

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01/08/2026

WIN A YEAR OF PILATES AT THE PILATES CORNER 🎉

We're giving one lucky winner a full year of Pilates at The Pilates Corner - worth up to £897.

12 months of small classes, brilliant instructors, and a community you'll actually look forward to.

Entries close 31st August 2026, with the winner announced on 1st September 2026.

👉 Enter now: https://competition.thepilatescorner.co.uk/win-a-year-26

For a long time I thought admitting I was struggling would undo my credibility.Turns out it’s the opposite.The last 8 mo...
28/07/2026

For a long time I thought admitting I was struggling would undo my credibility.

Turns out it’s the opposite.

The last 8 months have held grief, navigating old family patterns and starting to rebuild new ones, finishing my MSc, and a body and mind going through more change than I expected.

I kept showing up. I kept training. I kept teaching.

Most people would never have known.

I coach women who think it’s easy for me. It isn’t. It’s the same for me. I see the same thing in the men I work with too, just held differently, and it matters just as much. But I’m speaking as a woman here, because this is the layer I’ve lived, not just watched.

I asked for help when I needed it. It helped. It also cost me something. I found my way back, just a version of myself who’s finally willing to take her own advice.

August, I’m taking off. To rest properly, and to build the next chapter of this work from steadier ground.

There are lots of new and exciting things on the horizon for me and you which o can’t wait to share.

And a both thank you to all of my patients who when I told really supported my decision to take sometime out and were pleased for me, I am so grateful to you all. 💕

And of course I will still be in here, posting away and maybe even a little bit more.

Take care and enjoy the summer!

Kx

What a fab day with this one! 💕The wildlife was out in force so many dragon flys, herons, swans and Moore hens with babi...
24/07/2026

What a fab day with this one! 💕
The wildlife was out in force so many dragon flys, herons, swans and Moore hens with babies.

I’ve been a kayaking and SUP instructor since I was 19, being out on the water, coaching her as she wants to be an instructor was fab!

The furthest she’s ever done at about 7 miles and using my own kayak that I learnt in too 🙌🏻

Think someone might ache tomorrow!

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23/07/2026

No words really!!

21/07/2026

Isolate and hit those hamstrings!

Struggle to really connect with the hamstring, limited machines, hypermobile knees?

This is for you.

Ok it’s not easy to get into place, but it’s worth it, and really reduces recruiting other muscles.

12/07/2026

RDL technique, one of the things we teach in the ladies Strong Foundation course

A lot of people get back pain due to poor technique and often being hypermobile. Understanding why and how to rectify this is a game changer.

Using a belt really helps with stability no matter how much you lift, we aren’t sucking the abs in when we resistance train ever, that’s a poor cue often used we actually push out and the belt gives us something to push/stabilise against which really helps wobbly bodies like mine.

Wraps mean we aren’t relying on grip strength and can lift heaving and actually using the correct muscles, the back of our body.

Your first lift is important. Don’t just pick the bar or DBs up and then figure that out. Neurologically it’s probes your brain and muscles ready for the task ahead. Lift, reset, and now you’re ready to go!

Hip hinges take time and practice, the movement is keeping the spine straight, flexing at the hips with a slight bend in the knees that allows that movement to happen, thinks backwards not down.

Imaging your trying to work the bar around your thighs, your squeezing under your arms and keeping that chest high and locked, this all helps to stop you round your back and taking the weight all on your arms. This is a posterior chain, back of the body, movement.

The weight should be through your heels, the bar right against your things and your shins, and the drive is through your hamstring and glutes to push the hips towards and engage the glutes at the top of the movement.

Your upper back is working a lot too, so this can be in both a lower or and upper training day.

Re rack, belt off, breathe and repeat!!

Questions, want to learn more, hypermobile? Here to help, comment below or join our next course!

Sunday was the first Strong Foundations ladies lifting workshop at muvegym Biggleswade.We had 12 amazing ladies join us,...
08/07/2026

Sunday was the first Strong Foundations ladies lifting workshop at muvegym Biggleswade.

We had 12 amazing ladies join us, and to be honest it didn’t go quite as expected planned!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

We totally ran out of time!! 😂

We had so much to share, a great engaging group of ladies, with great questions, great journeys of their own to share, that the afternoon just flowed!!

We picked up on technique issues, help ladies to feel and learn how their own bodies moves and why. How we are all different and once size doesn’t fit all, we need to learn and tweak accordingly!

We learnt about habit stacking to make simple daily changes to improve mind muscle connection and mobility, and how those daily small changes can fuel our goals and training.

We learnt that this course is only just the start, that it is so needed and we can’t wait to help more women to find their place in their training and the gym.

So if you are ready to become to become confident and competent with your lifting and meet other like minded awesome women, come join us in September!

Thank you to the ladies that joined us and shared in the start of this journey together 💪🏻

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04/07/2026

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