Reclaim your natural strength, freedom, and ease
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Imagine moving through life with confidence in your own body — grounded, open, and alive.
The Back-to-Strength Journeys descibed in this page will guide you, step by step, to release tension, restore vitality, and reconnect with your body’s innate intelligence.
Each journey invites you to rediscover yourself from the inside out — and together they unlock the full expression of your body’s freedom, grace, and power.​​​​​
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What's inside each journey?
​At its core, the Free Your Spine yoga therapy method is about teaching you simple, safe exercises. When practiced regularly, these exercises have the power to:
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Locate and then deconstruct your deeply engrained muscle tensions.
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Ease tight ligaments and connective tissues that have been blocking better alignment.
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Rebuild your body with better posture and core strength.
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Remove the underlying causes of your musculoskeletal pain, so that it evaporates.
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Return your body to feeling light, mobile and strong again, as muscles that have been under-used or trapped in an endless spasm come back online.​
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Journey 1 — "Passion & Power"
​​Free Your Lower Back​
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Reclaim your natural vitality and strength from the ground up.
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Reconnect with the deep muscles of your lower back and pelvis to release old tension and awaken stability.
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Build the foundation for confident, grounded movement — power that flows effortlessly into everything you do.
What's inside?​
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Release frozen muscles and chronic tension, to reduce pain in the lower back and hips.
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Develop ease of motion and flexibility in your lumbar spine.
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Isolate and activate reflex core strength, including your transverse abdominals and diaphragm, to protect your lower back.
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See the video for some of the key exercises in this journey (no sound).​​
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The journey to Free Your Lower Back is suitable for all able-bodied adults, from yoga novices to movement experts.
​​Journey 2 - "Opening the Heart"
Free Your Upper Back​
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Melt the armour around your chest and rediscover natural openness.
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Cultivate strength through softness — learning to expand without losing your ground.
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Leave feeling lighter, more connected, and able to meet the world with authentic warmth and calm courage.
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What's inside?​​
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Release frozen muscles and chronic tension, to reduce pain in the upper back and shoulders.
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Increase ease of motion and flexibility, including rotation, in your thoracic spine.
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Isolate and activate your multifidus, the deepest muscles in your upper back, for improved posture.
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See the video for some of the key exercises in this journey (no sound).
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The journey to Free Your Upper Back is suitable for all able-bodied adults, from yoga novices to movement experts.
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Journey 3 — "Awaken Your Fire"
Free Your Breath​
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Ignite your inner fire — breathe fully, feel freely, and come alive again.
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Use conscious breath to transform tightness into energy and emotion into flow.
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Awaken vitality, confidence, and expressive freedom — fuel for both body and spirit.
What's inside?
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Release frozen muscles and chronic tension in and around the ribcage, to reduce pain from deep breathing.
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Increase ease of motion and flexibility of whole spine, in back-bending.
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Isolate, release, and activate your intercostal muscles, to develop a full chest breath.
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See the video for some of the key exercises in this journey (no sound).
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Free Your Breath is a more advanced journey. I no longer teach this journey to absolute beginners. It's safer and more effective to have at least one experience of the first two journeys first.
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Journey 4 — "Poise & Power"
Free Your Posture​
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Find effortless alignment — where strength, balance, and elegance meet.
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Stand tall from within, awakening the posture of confidence and calm.
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Move through life with a free spine, a centred mind, and a quiet sense of authority
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Release deeper layers of frozen muscles and chronic tension in the whole back and torso, to further reduce pain.
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Increase ease of motion and flexibility of whole spine, in back-bending.
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Strengthen your core, diaphragm, and postural muscles for all-round resilience.
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See the video for some of the key exercises in this journey (no sound).​​
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Free Your Posture is a more advanced journey. I no longer teach this journey to absolute beginners. It's safer and more effective to have at least one experience of the first two journeys first.
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Journey 5 — "Flow & Grace"
Free Your Spine​
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Rediscover the fluid, graceful movement your spine was born to express.
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Restore suppleness and coordination through mindful movement that integrates strength and ease.
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Experience your body as a single, flowing whole — a living expression of grace in motion.
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Brings together and integrates the previous 4 healing journeys into one single journey.
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Experience deeper release in all areas.
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More ease and flexibility as movement, breath, and posture become whole.
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Develop a deeper strength in your core, diaphragm, and postural muscles, so that you are more ready for life's challenges, and for peak performance.​
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Free Your Spine is the most advanced journey. I no longer teach this journey to absolute beginners. It's safer and more effective to have at least one experience of the above four journeys first.
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Could these journeys actually heal me?
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​​Absolutely, yes!!!! Free Your Spine yoga therapy is for all able-bodied adults, from yoga novices to movement experts.
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What is needed, is your genuine desire for change, and paradoxically, a willingness to befriend your pain first, so that you can finally listen to it's wisdom, and then let it go!
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Most exercises are performed lying on your back! Perfect for when you need to rest and recharge – even during mild illness.
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Private sessions, classes and workshops all normally include the following elements:
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warm-ups
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initial assessment
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pain and tension release work
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restoring easeful movement
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building core/postural strength
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final assessment
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The inital and final assessments are important to measure progress, which will help to cultivate your motivation to keep up your healing work!
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Video: Gina Power
Feeling disillusioned? Or exhausted?
I know how many people are disillusioned about the possibility of change, having tried and been let down by so many false-promises by health and exercise practitioners. Your deepest wounds were not touched or healed by what you've tried. And maybe you've already tried a lot!
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​Or maybe your life is an exhausting schedule full of activities, treatments, massages, and protocols to manage your weak spots and pain, but you've never been able to actually locate or heal the cause.
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A new approach that really works!
So what I want you to know is that this practice is 100% grounded in reality, and that it really works for the vast majority of my students.
And yet, I'm almost certain that you have not tried this approach or anything remotely similar before!
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And so I'm willing to back up these statements by offering you to come to your first class for absolutely FREE, so you can check this practice out for yourself, at zero cost to you.​​​
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​And my promise to you is this – You will know by the end of this FREE first class, whether this approach works for you – because you feel undeniable sensations in your body that prove, beyond any doubt, that immediate improvement happened during the class that you didn't think was possible.
WARNING!!! There is a very real risk of you leaving your first class feeling very inspired about your newly discovered potential for positive change!
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How does it work?
It looks like gentle, restorative yoga, or slow Pilates exercises.
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But it is anything but!
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​It is actually a very powerful yet subtle practice which:
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Locates tension using special props including the Critical Alignment strip and felt roll as well as peanut massage balls. These props help you to find the hidden tension in a similar way to a deep tissue massage.
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Supports your body to feel deeply safe, by resting on these props, so that your body becomes willing to release tension, in a way that faster, un-grounded movement exercises or massage techniques simply cannot deliver.
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Melts away your tension, internal blocks and friction, using props, gravity, breathwork and therapeutic fascial release techniques.
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Fascia-based exercises are the next big thing in movement-based healing – By "talking" directly to the tissues that literally hold our body together, areas in you that have felt stiff, blocked or immobile, sometimes for decades, can release. And often within a single practice session!
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Restores full function to the 11 connections and movement chains described in Critical Alignment Therapy, which is needed in order to recover free and fluid movement and a strong core and aligned, easeful posture.
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​​The power in the Free Your Spine approach comes from the synergy between Critical Alignment's map for healing the body from a muscle and bones perspective, together with the Anatomy Trains and Zoga Multidimensional Movement approaches to healing the body from a fascial network perspective.
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​​​​​In my own teaching practice, it was only when I brought these two therapeutic maps together that I was able to achieve reliable, durable and safe results for the vast majority of my students. Over the last 6 years, I have been refining my teaching methods, mainly by engaging in conscious, compassionate conversations with the pain in my own body, and in the bodies of my students.
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Over time, as I have continued to practice and teach this method, I have developed and refined a number of ”healing journeys“ that I've described above. Each journey addresses a different area of the body, healing the tension, stiffness, misalignment and lack of core strength in that area. At the current time I have developed and refined 5 journeys which when explored, one after the other, have the power to significantly transform people's pain stories into healing journeys.
​​​​In this approach, we don’t fight the pain – we meet our pain with kindness, and we listen to it. In that dialogue, the pain reveals its wisdom, gently guiding us from tension to release, from suffering to healing, and then onwards to ease, strength and wholeness.
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How can I learn this?
If you're excited by the idea that practicing these 5 Back-to-Strength Journeys could actually help you to break free of your chronic pain, and to reawaken your true power, please click on the "Learn" button below.
But if you are feeling ambivalent about whether yet another protocol can genuinely help you, when everything else you have tried has failed you, please click on the "Relief Now" button instead!
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