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About Stretch Therapy
About the Founder – Kit Laughlin - 17 December 2015
Links - 17 December 2015
Frequently Asked Questions | Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
How Stretch Therapy Evolves - 17 December 2015
Monkey Gym | the strength and coordination part of Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
Deep Well Being | the meditation and relaxation part of Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
RollStretch | the explicit fascial part of Stretch Therapy - 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
Seated hip for piriformis - 12 August 2021
Floor relaxed lunge with heel-to-buttock - 12 August 2021
The diagnosis “scoliosis” - 15 March 2021
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
How to perform a forearm back bend - 16 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
The Relaxation Script - 1 July 2003
Sleep preparation 1 – lying version - 5 December 2002
Sleep preparation 2 – seated version - 4 December 2002
Seated meditation 1 - 3 December 2002
Seated meditation 2 - 2 December 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
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
Email Newsletters
ST website sale ends midnight Mon 29 Nov … Would you like a pancake with your order? - 28 November 2021
A note from a student – with Kit’s responses – and the ST website sale ends midnight on Monday - 25 November 2021
Where does tension come from? - 15 November 2021
The ST Relaxation Wiki is live! - 1 November 2021
Hands and forearms, mainly 😻 - 25 October 2021
Releasing chest, arm, and forearm muscles - 18 October 2021
Opening the chest and shoulders - 11 October 2021
The Comeback, 1981, directed by Kit Laughlin – a blast from Kit’s past - 4 October 2021
What you should know about hip flexors and back pain - 27 September 2021
Lateral flexion of the spine - 20 September 2021
Spinal rotation - 13 September 2021
Spinal flexion - 6 September 2021
Spinal extension – active poses - 30 August 2021
Spinal extension – passive back bends - 26 August 2021
What gets stretched? - 23 August 2021
The Secrets of Stretching​ - 19 August 2021
Working with fascia - 16 August 2021
Daily practice - 12 August 2021
How does that feel? - 9 August 2021
Techniques in Stretch Therapy - 5 August 2021
Relaxing is letting go​ - 2 August 2021
Limbering, stretching, and mobility​ - 29 July 2021
Why being able to relax is THE most important skill one can learn now - 26 July 2021
About Stretch Therapy (“ST”, for short)​ - 22 July 2021
Kit and Olivia welcome you all to the Stretch Therapy Community! - 19 July 2021
Exercise Techniques
Arm across body – standing version - 11 October 2021
Shoulder pull-down - 23 August 2021
Combination quad–hip flexors - 19 August 2021
Seated hip for piriformis - 12 August 2021
Floor relaxed lunge with heel-to-buttock - 12 August 2021
Limbering, stretching and mobility - 28 July 2021
Stretching techniques and intelligent ways of teaching - 5 July 2021
SledgeHammer Stretching - 25 March 2021
SledgeHammer Stretching – calf sequence in detail, with full demonstration - 25 March 2021
What stops people from becoming more flexible? - 10 March 2021
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 | Stretch Therapy - 3 June 2020
Pancake moving sequence - 14 May 2020
Long-held hip flexor and quadriceps sequence - 11 May 2020
Solo floor biceps and forearm stretch - 7 April 2020
Partner floor forearm stretch - 6 April 2020
10 free Stretch Therapy videos over 10 days - 4 April 2020
Using a stick to stretch hands, wrists, forearms and biceps - 4 April 2020
Floor front arm stretch - 26 March 2020
Wall front arm stretch - 22 March 2020
A complete sequence for stretching your neck muscles - 17 March 2020
How to perform a forearm back bend - 16 March 2020
Standing back bend - 27 February 2020
Piano stool back bend - 20 February 2020
Coffee table rotation - 9 February 2020
Partner shoulder depress - 9 February 2020
The Pancake: reflections on mastering the essential anterior pelvic tilt - 18 July 2018
Combination lunge, spinal extension, and spinal rotation - 19 April 2018
How to do an arch body hold (ABH) properly - 12 February 2018
What gets stretched? - 26 May 2017
Sensible Eating; a chapter from Stretching & Pregnancy - 15 April 2017
Do you want to diet? Don’t! Detailed analysis of why diets fail, and what to do instead. - 15 April 2017
Maintaining the scholar; a presentation given to the Graduate Program, - 15 April 2017
The downside of the high heel (what your Jimmy Choos are doing to you!) - 15 April 2017
What makes a good massage good? Interoception, proprioception, and touch - 15 April 2017
How can I improve my golf? The key sense of proprioception - 15 April 2017
Staying agile and pain free as you age (written for “The Retiree” magazine - 15 April 2017
Unlocking the Yoga Poses, or what stops you doing a pose perfectly? - 15 April 2017
Stretching brachialis - 3 October 2016
Questions from a dance teacher, who works with children - 28 July 2016
Spinal movements follow-along class - 20 May 2015
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
Partner back bend over support - 1 February 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
Myofascial
RollStretch for thoracic fascial release - 10 July 2020
RollStretch upper traps release (heaven after computer work; let the ball do the work!) - 27 June 2020
RollStretch for the lower back - 29 March 2020
RollStretch for the middle back - 18 March 2020
RollStretch techniques for the forearm - 8 March 2020
RollStretch techniques for soleus - 5 March 2020
RollStretch techniques for releasing sub-occipitals and back of the skull - 2 March 2020
RollStretch side-lying release for neck and jaw muscles - 17 February 2020
RollStretch techniques for rotator cuff muscles – long and short sticks - 13 December 2011
Philosophical
A note to a colleague – What does “stored emotion” mean? - 29 October 2020
The vexed question of “enlightenment” - 10 October 2018
This or that? The question of whether binary is the only (or optimal) option - 9 May 2017
Choices and consequences; how this life is organised - 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
Piriformis
Long-held piriformis stretch - 13 May 2020
How to perform a standing piriformis stretch at home - 10 April 2020
Floor piriformis stretch (plus partner assist) - 14 February 2011
Low back pain: Review and Prescription - 1 July 1990
Relaxation, Meditation, and Mindfulness
Relaxing is letting go - 2 August 2021
Stretch with Mindfulness: What stops people from becoming more flexible? - 30 March 2021
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 | Stretch Therapy - 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? - 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 do an arch body hold (ABH) properly - 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 - 14 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 | Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
How Stretch Therapy Evolves - 17 December 2015
Monkey Gym | the strength and coordination part of Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
Deep Well Being | the meditation and relaxation part of Stretch Therapy - 17 December 2015
RollStretch | the explicit fascial part of Stretch Therapy - 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