Workshops by Alignment Rescue

Move Your DNA Workshops – returning soon online!

Movement for all bodies, all the time! You will gain a deeper understanding of how to personally apply the exercises in the book “Move Your

Healthy Moving for Bunions

I have a workshop hosted on HealthyMoving.com called Healthy Moving for Bunions. This is a two hour online workshop that you buy and can watch

Walking Well: A Stepwise Approach to an Everyday Movement

September 27, 2020

In late 2019 two teams of movement teachers gathered (in pre-pandemic innocence) in Los Angeles to brainstorm and rehearse new content from two well known

POWER+Challenge for Movement Teachers

May 25, 2020

I was recently the guest speaker, along with RES colleague Katy Lush (Chicago) on Core Academy run by Core to Coeur- host of my online

Have a Happy Pelvis

March 25, 2020

The more I learn about the pelvis (pl. pelves) the more I am impressed by it. If it was designed by a celestial designer, that

Help! My Hamstrings are Tight!

November 13, 2019

Lots of people are under the impression that their hamstrings are too tight, like a pair of pants that shrunk in the wash. These muscles

Foot Exercise Library

September 8, 2019

I’ve got a LOT of videos of foot exercises in various places, and I thought I’d make it easy for you to find the exercise

5 Tips to Better Hiking

May 22, 2019

I went for my first difficult hike after breaking my ankle in July ’18. And I noticed some interesting things that I might never have

Testimonials

I came to Carol’s classes with so much knee and hip pain I had to use a cane. I could not sit on the floor or get up properly. But after a few months this completely changed. I am forever grateful to her for my continued mobility and independence. It was gentle, non-intrusive, and wonderful class.

Your insight into movement is so clear; you present things in a non-threatening, understandable way, yet you are able to keep the complexity, not selling short the beauty and amazing gift that movement is.

Feedback on the Healthy Moving for Bunions course: “Carol, it’s BRILLIANT! Clarity in the information you provide, practical, well paced, not overwhelming, nice linking of the concepts, really fab video. I will be watching it again but found the first time through to be really informative and I now feel better equipped to work with bunions. The visible change in your feet by the end was also incredible to see.”

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8 thoughts on “Home”

Lejla Blazevic
July 14, 2014 at 9:17 pm

Hi,

I am interested in a Restorative Exercise private session.

How much is it and where would I have to meet you?

I have just purchased Katy Bowman’s 2 books and several of the DVDs. Should I start with these and wait a while before I see you? How many sessions with you would I need?

Thank you.
Carol
August 2, 2014 at 10:53 am

Hi Lejla, where are you located? There is a list of certified RES on Katy’s site here: http://www.restorativeexercise.com/our-program-graduates/
If you are in Toronto feel free to get in touch via email
Eugene
September 18, 2014 at 10:48 am

Will this help me. Have some serious problem in psoas I think which does not allow me to sit/stand/walk for long.
Carol
September 18, 2014 at 11:10 am

Your best bet is to find a RES™ close to you. Check the Restorative Institute website for program graduates. Good luck.
Mikael
July 23, 2015 at 6:25 am

Hi, I really liked the picture with the stretched foot – I do a lot of yoga-BARRE and wonder if you have any suggestions how I can even further extend my feet – it is a great feeling that goes all the way up to your hips and back if you do it correct.

One that love feet and stretched feet.

Mikael
Carol
July 25, 2015 at 2:17 pm

Hi Mikael, I’m not familiar with yoga barre or why you would want more range of motion of your foot. The function of plantar flexion is to push off in gait and climb, so be careful not to over do it, the ligaments can be overstretched leading to a very unstable foot.
Sarah Parkinson
May 11, 2016 at 11:18 am

Dear Carol,
I have just read your article on this week’s Pilates Intel and followed the link to your website. Loved the foot exercise to correct bunions. I have a bunion and so do many of my Pilates clients. I have just tried the suggested exercise and my big toe won’t move at all! Any suggestions on how I can do some prep work for this exercise?
Best wishes,
Sarah
Carol
May 26, 2016 at 9:18 am

Sorry Sarah for my delay – I didn’t get a notification for this comment for some reason.
I would manually (with my hands) move the big toe and manipulate it in different ways, carefully! Also press the metatarsal head in towards the rest of the foot and then move the big toe. The muscle is not only weak/atrophied, it is also in the wrong alignment to product abduction. I am working on getting a course out on bunions so I hope you’ll stay tuned!