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Posts
About Stretch Therapy
- About the Founder – Kit Laughlin - 17 December 2015
- Links - 17 December 2015
- Frequently Asked Questions - 17 December 2015
- How Stretch Therapy Evolves - 17 December 2015
- Monkey Gym - 17 December 2015
- Deep Well Being - 17 December 2015
- RollStretch - 17 December 2015
- Techniques in Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
- Principles of Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
- What is Stretch Therapy? - 17 December 2015
Back Pain
- Stretch Therapy cues (makes understanding the videos easier!) - 29 April 2020
- Three piriformis stretching exercises for every body - 28 April 2020
- Wall quad hip flexor: if you do only one stretch today, this is the one - 27 April 2020
- Emmet Louis and Kit Laughlin discuss injuries and how to work with them - 25 April 2020
- Solo backbend: open your chest and straighten your upper back - 11 April 2020
- Hanging side bend variations for trunk pain relief - 23 March 2020
- Elephant walk: best lower back and hamstring stretch - 10 September 2017
- Piriformis stretch variation, for sciatica - 10 September 2017
- A day in the life of The Snootch (Suu Kyi) - 17 November 2013
- Floor piriformis stretch, for piriformis syndrome and hip pain - 27 October 2013
- Kneeling side stretch: back pain relief - 3 August 2013
- Undo the damage of sitting! Floor upper and middle back stretch - 4 December 2012
- Standing lower back stretch | Simple, powerful, and effective: Do this now! - 4 December 2012
- Dave demos elbow back bend - 13 July 2012
- Effective solo hip flexor stretch - 12 July 2012
- Cherie demos chair piriformis l Hip pain and sciatica self-treatment - 12 July 2012
- Lower back stretching exercises with chair I Simple lower back pain relief - 30 November 2011
- Using table support to stretch piriformis; sciatica solution - 29 November 2011
- Chair rotation, excellent for back pain - 24 November 2011
- Assessing structural leg length difference - 24 November 2011
- “Three Amigos” upper back stretch, computer middle back pain - 23 November 2011
- Glute activation in three steps | How to switch your glutes on! - 9 February 2011
- Drawing with the feet! Improve your balance - 20 January 2011
- Bent-leg hamstring stretch I Best hamstring exercise - 20 December 2009
- Practitioner hip flexor stretch - 20 August 2009
- Pro-Active Occupational Health and Safety - 15 November 2003
- Seated meditation (v2) - 1 July 2002
- Seated meditation (v1) - 1 July 2002
- Piriformis and its role in sciatica - 19 March 2001
- Hidden causes of back problems - 1 March 2001
- Hidden muscular causes of neck and back pain - 1 November 1999
- The role of iliopsoas in neck and back pain & its treatment - 26 October 1998
- The Relaxation Script - 1 July 1998
- Neck and back pain: are conventional treatments effective? - 26 June 1997
- Getting back to work with back pain - 30 October 1990
- Low back pain: Review and Prescription - 1 July 1990
- Integrating diagnosis and treatment for massage - 26 July 1989
Exercise Techniques
- How to supercharge hamstring stretching, the Stretch Therapy way - 7 November 2020
- How to do a bench backbend stretch - 15 July 2020
- The Secrets of Stretching - 3 June 2020
- Pancake moving sequence - 14 May 2020
- 10 free Stretch Therapy videos over 10 days - 4 April 2020
- The Pancake: reflections on mastering the essential anterior pelvic tilt - 18 July 2018
- How to properly do an arch body hold - 12 February 2018
- What gets stretched? - 26 May 2017
- Sensible Eating - 15 April 2017
- Do you want to diet? Don’t! - 15 April 2017
- Maintaining the scholar - 15 April 2017
- The downside of the high heel - 15 April 2017
- What makes a good massage good? - 15 April 2017
- How can I improve my golf? - 15 April 2017
- Staying agile and pain free as you age - 15 April 2017
- Unlocking the Yoga Poses, or what stops you doing a pose perfectly? - 15 April 2017
- Questions from a dance teacher, who works with children - 28 July 2016
- What use is stretching? - 6 June 2014
- How to sit in full Lotus (Padmasana) l But should you? - 14 March 2014
- I grind my teeth and have jaw tension—what can I do? - 22 February 2014
- How does that feel? - 12 February 2014
- How and why we do things in Stretch Therapy the way we do - 6 February 2014
- Stretch Therapy fascial release for pancake/straddle | How to get down in the pancake - 27 January 2014
- Stretch Therapy™ Fascial Release technique for pancake/straddle - 27 January 2014
- 5 x 10″ free handstands today: a watershed, and thanks Yuri and Charm! - 30 October 2013
- Floor piriformis stretch, for piriformis syndrome and hip pain - 27 October 2013
- Issuing the 90-day goblet squat challenge: notes from Vancouver - 14 September 2013
- “How to get a body like a cat”, and “Becoming a supple leopard” - 16 August 2013
- How choices constrain options: the arrow of time - 23 July 2013
- Regaining side splits and the 90-day blog challenge - 14 July 2013
- The Single Leg Squat progressions - 13 July 2013
- Single Leg Squat progressions | step by step workshop - 12 July 2013
- Speed skater and Cossack squat combination - 12 July 2013
- Sleep positions and the vexed question of the pillow - 11 July 2013
- Become *the* expert on yourself - 20 June 2013
- Principles of Stretch Therapy™ - 3 June 2013
- Why “Stretching Mindfully?”, part two - 24 May 2013
- Why “Stretching Mindfully”? - 23 May 2013
- The title of my next “book”: Stretching Mindfully - 22 May 2013
- Frozen shoulder treatment, supraspinatus impingement, and poor practitioners - 16 May 2013
- The title of my next ‘book’, and the video “What is stretching about, really?” - 11 May 2013
- What is stretching, really? - 9 May 2013
- What is stretching, and what does it really do? Part I - 9 May 2013
- “What is stretching about, really?”, part II - 8 May 2013
- Anti-pronation stretching exercise - 8 February 2013
- Undo the damage of sitting! Floor upper and middle back stretch - 4 December 2012
- Standing lower back stretch | Simple, powerful, and effective: Do this now! - 4 December 2012
- Solo hip flexor stretch standing - 13 November 2012
- Shoulder mobility sequence | Yuri’s band drill - 7 November 2012
- How to stretch fingers, thumb, wrist, hand and forearm - 15 October 2012
- Notes on how to use Stretch Therapy, written for an experienced coach who is a new user of Stretch Therapy (Chris Sommer) - 11 October 2012
- The amazing Vibram Five Fingers - 4 September 2012
- Barefoot walking and running your way to health - 4 September 2012
- Jaw-neck stretching exercises | TMJ exercises and pain relief - 31 August 2012
- Foot awakening sequence (suitable for pronation, overly high arches, foot and ankle mobility) - 29 August 2012
- Effective solo hip flexor stretch - 12 July 2012
- Lower back stretching exercises with chair I Simple lower back pain relief - 30 November 2011
- Easy-to-do effective neck stretches | flexion and extension (perfect for computer and phone users) - 30 November 2011
- Rotator cuff series; subscapularis (internal rotator) - 29 November 2011
- 3 point spinal alignment drill guide - 17 February 2011
- Glute activation in three steps | How to switch your glutes on! - 9 February 2011
- RollStretch assistance technique to improving side or middle splits - 19 March 2010
- RollStretch: a new way of working with fascia - 19 March 2010
- Bent-leg hamstring stretch I Best hamstring exercise - 20 December 2009
- Practitioner hip flexor stretch - 20 August 2009
Philosophical
- A note to a colleague – What does the expression “stored emotion” mean? - 29 October 2020
- The vexed question of “enlightenment” - 10 October 2018
- This or that? - 9 May 2017
- Choices and consequences - 11 August 2016
- On the eve of going live with the new site - 19 January 2016
- Feeding the Beast (how to survive the pressure of the internet in the 21st century) - 17 January 2016
- Where are the wise? - 6 February 2015
- Do some good, have some fun, make some money - 20 March 2014
- The genie is out of the bottle, and she ain’t going back any time soon - 4 March 2014
- How and why we do things in Stretch Therapy the way we do - 6 February 2014
- Why I read - 16 November 2013
- How Microsoft’s Albert Carter took control of Olivia’s new MacBook Air, and deleted stuff… - 2 September 2013
- Has anyone heard of this scam? Mark Cole, and buying a car from Rio De Janiero… - 31 August 2013
- “The new attitude is gratitude” - 26 June 2013
- “Encatment”; the noun form of ‘encat’ (v., Eng., forward formation) - 21 June 2013
- Closing the MG at the ANU, part III - 17 June 2013
- What is love, actually? - 7 June 2013
- Closing the MG, part II: the final Advanced Stretching (“P&F”) class - 5 June 2013
- Closing the Monkey Gym at the Australian National University, part I - 1 June 2013
- The 90-day blog challenge and the 50-year test - 18 May 2013
- A note about “Supervenience” - 12 May 2013
- The virtues of the squat toilet, and why we need not be deprived in the West! - 3 May 2013
- Supervenience, massage and stretching - 15 April 2004
Relaxation, Meditation, and Mindfulness
- How to meditate instructions (20 minute tutorial) - 1 October 2020
- Why your meditation practice is not working – Kit Laughlin with Yusef Smith - 1 October 2020
- Begin Meditation - 28 July 2020
- Kit Laughlin and Thomas Emerson on cultivating awareness - 14 July 2020
- Breathing - 3 March 2018
- Why living longer is a *potential* benefit to all - 17 February 2014
- Where does tension come from? Revision I - 21 November 2013
- More on sleep and relaxation, and Yoga Nidra - 5 July 2013
- Sleeping, useful tension, and the breath - 4 July 2013
- Anger (or whatever one’s default reaction is) - 23 June 2013
- “How’s that workin’ for ya?” - 2 June 2013
- Talking about meditation practise, and relation to daily life - 1 June 2013
- Emotional generosity, and “checking out” - 31 May 2013
- Doing the best you can - 29 May 2013
- “Taking care”, “mindfulness”, and “being angry, for two or three heartbeats” - 28 May 2013
- “Be Here Now” (Ram Das), and the ‘Five minute consult’ (ex. MAD TV) - 27 May 2013
- The title of my next “book”: Stretching Mindfully - 22 May 2013
- Watching how mindfulness disappears and reappears II - 21 May 2013
- Watching how mindfulness disappears and reappears I - 20 May 2013
- Working the sounds of an excavator scraping rocks into your meditation - 14 May 2013
- Sleeping and dreaming that you are meditating - 13 May 2013
- Why does mindfulness need attention? - 5 May 2013
- Noting mindfulness in daily life (especially first thing in the morning!) - 2 May 2013
- Mindfulness in daily life - 1 May 2013
Stretch Therapy Method
- Olivia Allnutt on the Range of Strength podcast with Lucas Aaron and Jeffrey Wolf - 24 July 2020
- Range of Strength podcast – Kit Laughlin with Lucas Aaron and Jeffrey Wolf, Part Two - 23 June 2020
- Range of Strength podcast – Kit Laughlin with Lucas Aaron and Jeffrey Wolf, Part One - 23 June 2020
- The Bodies Built Better podcast – Kit Laughlin with Jackie Tann, Part 1 - 4 June 2020
- The Bodies Built Better podcast – Kit Laughlin with Jackie Tann, Part 2 - 4 June 2020
- How to properly do an arch body hold - 12 February 2018
- Ready. Aim. Empire! – Olivia Allnutt with Lise Kuecker - 23 November 2017
- PropanePodcast | The Return of Kit Laughlin 2017 - 12 November 2017
- Anchors of Health – Kit Laughlin with Coach Bill Choi - 5 September 2017
- PropanePodcast 58 | Interview with Kit Laughlin Part 2 - 20 November 2016
- PropanePodcast 57 | Interview with Kit Laughlin Part 1 - 20 November 2016
- Questions from a dance teacher, who works with children - 28 July 2016
- About the Founder – Kit Laughlin - 17 December 2015
- Links - 17 December 2015
- Frequently Asked Questions - 17 December 2015
- How Stretch Therapy Evolves - 17 December 2015
- Monkey Gym - 17 December 2015
- Deep Well Being - 17 December 2015
- RollStretch - 17 December 2015
- Techniques in Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
- Principles of Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
- What is Stretch Therapy? - 17 December 2015
- Dave and Kit’s Coffee shop conversations #1 - 20 May 2015
- Wellrounded Athlete – Kit Laughlin with Justin Goodhart and Sean Maples - 15 July 2014
- Stretch Therapy fascial release for pancake/straddle | How to get down in the pancake - 27 January 2014
- What is stretching, really? - 9 May 2013
- Notes on how to use Stretch Therapy, written for an experienced coach who is a new user of Stretch Therapy (Chris Sommer) - 11 October 2012
- RollStretch assistance technique to improving side or middle splits - 19 March 2010
- RollStretch: a new way of working with fascia - 19 March 2010
Technology
- On the eve of going live with the new site - 19 January 2016
- A (brief) introduction to video, for stills photographers - 9 September 2014
- Behind the scenes on the “How to sit for meditation: setup exercises” shoot. - 26 March 2014
- Photography 101 in (hopefully) digestible instalments, Part Two - 11 February 2014
- Photography 101, in digestible instalments. Part one. - 10 November 2013
- How Microsoft’s Albert Carter took control of Olivia’s new MacBook Air, and deleted stuff… - 2 September 2013
- Has anyone heard of this scam? Mark Cole, and buying a car from Rio De Janiero… - 31 August 2013
- Pro video cameras are dead - 29 June 2013
Workshops
- Monkey Gym Workshop - 9 December 2019
- Discounts policy – ST workshops - 24 March 2018
- Deep Well Being: an Introduction to Meditation and Spiritual Work - 17 December 2015
- Stretch Therapy Teacher Intensive Program - 9 December 2015
- Overcome Neck & Back Pain Workshop - 9 December 2015
- Stretch Therapy for Performance Workshop - 9 December 2015
- Deeper Into the Stretch Workshop - 9 December 2015
- Into the Stretch Workshop - 8 December 2015