About Stretch Therapy
Teaching restoration and sustainability in posture, breathing and alignment.
Stretch Therapy is, essentially, Postural Rehabilitation. Dr. Farnham will assess your postural distortions and instruct you in a sequence of stretching and strengthening exercises coordinated with specific breathing techniques to help restore and maintain healthy, functional posture.
Posture, breathing, and alignment are all interdependent. Dis-ease of many variations are intimately connected with the epidemic of postural distortions that are ever-increasing along with the use of technology and sedentary lifestyles. Re-learning and sustaining healthy, functional posture is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. By changing your posture, you change your life.
Dr. Farnham is a certified yoga instructor in the YogAlign method.
The fundamentals of Dr. Jeffrey Farnham’s Stretch Therapy and Postural Rehabilitation consist of:
- Unique breathing techniques to promote core stability and alignment.
- The contract-relax method of stretching- using your own nervous system to rapidly increase flexibility.
- A whole body approach to stretching and strengthening.
- Increased proprioception- awareness of your own body.
- Self-massage to promote tissue healing and body awareness.
- Teaching basic knowledge of fascia and anatomy.
