The MotionMindFlow Approach
designed to build awareness, adaptability, and control
Movement begins with Connection
The MotionMindFlow Approach is rooted in the belief that meaningful movement begins with connection: to your body, your breath, and your center.
Rather than simply teaching your body to perform a movement, we help you feel, sense, and intentionally guide it. Through guided exercises, breathing strategies, sensory feedback, and individualized cues, you build the awareness that leads to more efficient movement and lasting motor control.
The Principles Behind Our Approach
MotionMindFlow brings together a set of interconnected principles designed to build awareness, adaptability, and control.
Connection
Building awareness of the body's center as a foundation for movement
Centering
Moving freely while maintaining appropriate support and control
Regulation
Reducing unnecessary tension to create a more receptive starting point for movement.
Adaptability
Adjusting the intensity of movement to match the demands of the task
Elongation
Building continuous, coordinated movement rather than relying on force or momentum.
These five principles are integrated throughout our programs. The goal is to move with greater awareness, control, confidence, and ease.
A Mind-Body Approach to Hypermobility
For people with hypermobility, movement can feel unpredictable. Joint instability, pain, muscle tension, or a sense of disconnection from the body can make exercise feel overwhelming.
The MotionMindFlow Approach explores the relationship between mobility, stability, relaxation, breath, and intentional movement, helping you recognize when your body needs support, when it can move freely, and how much effort a task requires. We also work with the nervous system directly: creating space for relaxation and reducing unnecessary tension helps the body feel safer and more prepared to move.
Tune into The MotionMindFlow Podcast
Hosted by Dr. Dana Arie and Cecily Wardell Rosen, the MotionMindFlow Podcast brings professional expertise and lived experience together to offer practical guidance for navigating hypermobility, EDS, and chronic illness.
Explore our Services
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1:1 Physical Therapy
We combine medical Physical Therapy with Pilates-based movement, specialized in hypermobility to give you holistic care and tangible improvement to your quality of life.
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1:1 Pilates Sessions
Our 1:1 Pilates reformer sessions, specialized for hypermobility combine pilates-based movement with personalized flow and coaching support to empower you on your healing journey.
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Group Pilates Classes
We offer small group Pilates classes and open level drop-in group class combining pilates-based movement and mindfulness for those with hypermobility.
