There can be a lot to unpack with this one. But, generally, my feet start to get sore when I wear flip-flops too much, exert myself far beyond my strength threshold and lose focus that prevents me from being present to my functional movement. Without the mobility and integrity of the hip and spine, the feet will carry imbalanced and undue pressure. Yet without the intentional connection and activation of the feet; the hips and spine struggle to be strong. They either work well together...or they don't. So when I start to feel my feet get tired and sore, I know they're tight...and likely my disconnect from the present moment is causing me to compensate in my body. My breathing mechanics become faulty, I over tense in my hips and as well...I don't use the hip stabilizers in the way I need, to support my feet. Resolving the soreness in my feet involves spending time releasing the tightness and using that time to reconnect to the sensations in my feet. It's important to know the feeling of your feet being pliable, yet steady and engaged with the earth. It's the base of the kinetic chain, and how it interplays with the ground has a profound effect on how the rest of your body behaves. You've heard of the tennis ball releases for the foot and maybe you have spent some time trying to release them in this way, But, have you spent the time to deeply feel sensations as you stay present through the discomfort? And do you know how to engage your feet so you have the greatest stability and function you can in your body? When I teach this in conjunction with hip mobility and awareness, it has profoundly changed my clients patterns of pain. Would you like to learn more? Please schedule with me here if this feels resonant with you. Wishing you well :)

I've been asked this question along with why it presents in your body. Long story short.... When an offending event enables you to fight or run to get away from real or perceived danger, the likelihood of trauma getting stuck and creating reactive patterns diminishes significantly. When you are defenseless against the potential harm, you freeze and store that energy of trauma within you unknowingly. It creates patterns of reactivity and posture that block you from moving forward until you feel the pain of it and choose to liberate it. Trauma is truly a broad reaching word for an experience of being threatened...with physical safety, unmet needs or rejection of belonging. And the post traumatic pattern develops when there's no awareness that this energy has set up camp in your body. There are absolutely individual variations of the affect on people, but essentially... Trauma event or series of events > successful fight and flee or knowing that one is ok > energy liberated Trauma event or series of events > trapped in physical or lack of knowing that one is ok > energy stuck in the body This is why being threatened as a child can hook us into body and mind patterns that sabotage our life. We don't have the stature or the analytical capacities to empower our circumstances. We can release this energy in several ways. When we completely liberate this energy it's a process called "cycling". Massage, movement and somatic presence can all start to move this, but staying with the feelings and sensations until it is transmuted, changes the patterns. The physical tools are powerful, but the somatic presence along with it gets at the root of the pattern so it can move on. Please join me Live on Friday to see how this works. It still astounds me how powerful it is. Wishing you well :)