Shoulder pain relief workshop

Are some movements becoming harder to do, especially reaching? 

Are you over 40 experiencing reduced vitality and wellness? 

More aches and pains?  Achieving optimum performance requires discipline and work. But we can start in simple and small ways.

Come try a few hours at a fun workshop!  It is like trying a new restaurant, test driving a new car, or trying on new clothes.  If at any time of your life you are eager for a more vital, active lifestyle, then this is a great experiment to say “yes” to.  The 4.5-hour workshop (1-5:30 pm) is on Saturday, October 4, 2025. Center City Studio, 152 Ashman Court, in Midland, Michigan.

Possible Benefits of the SHOULDER workshop

• Reduce aches and pains.

• Gain enhanced flexibility and natural strength.

• Learn a cutting-edge, science-based approach that you can apply to daily living.

• Maybe gain something you couldn’t do before? 

• Learn a biofeedback way to measure incremental changes in your body after movement or exercise.

• A perk of learning to turn easily also improves your balance!

• Review the keys to learning:  desire, attention, mild alertness, repetition, variation, breaks, mistakes, curiosity, sleep.

Skills needed to improve using your shoulder are broken down into smaller pieces of movement.  Workshop participants will do 4 movement lessons, each 30 to 45 minutes long. The focus of the four lessons is learning the minimal expenditure of effort. 

Each lesson is a sequence of movements focusing on a specific function such as getting up from sitting to standing, twisting, etc.  The lessons unpack gentle, slow, and safe movement lessons designed to wake up your brain to create new neural connections.

Whether you enjoy pickleball, jazzercise, Pilates, yoga, weightlifters, gardening, playing with grandchildren, or a mom juggling many tasks, you like successful performers, at times experience limitations or pain they’d like to overcome. Yet many hours of practice and great efforts often lead to minimal or no additional progress.   Training frequently focuses on your muscles, repetition, trying harder and harder, yet magic can happen by recognizing previously unknown movement patterns.

“A functional movement expert can address inefficiencies.  Unless you are a professional dancer, martial artist, or yoga teacher, you are likely to have movement problems you are unaware of.  As a rule, if you have chronic pain somewhere in your body, it sucks energy from you all of the time.  That energy you could be applying to all other things you want to do.”-from the book Smarter not harder biohacker Dave Asprey

You can achieve new breakthroughs in performance.  It’s not your fault.  We are not taught how to learn. People struggle with learning, especially as we get older.  I ask participants to set aside your beliefs about aging or fitness for a few hours.  Trust the instructors. 

Come to the workshop with an idea to explore new territories and be curious. Learning is a bit of “a game”.  We encourage you to be playful about it. This can improve whatever activities you do or what lights you up.  Often, pain is caused by habits that unknowingly show up.  What is needed is to change these habits is to discover ways to self-correct how we move ourselves so we can move with more ease. 

What would make you or others say “yes” to attend this workshop?

• You are eager to improve or maintain an independent vital lifestyle

• improve whatever lights you up…

• You enjoy testing what capacities you can do with your body.

• You like investing in yourself.

Workshop objectives

• Learn that the human body is more fit when you can move in any direction with practically a minimal expenditure of energy

• Learn the human body is most efficient when it you are capable of turning itself round with the least effort, i. e., the least moment of inertia around a vertical axis

• Learn what movement serves you in a powerful way or doesn’t serve you well (how old injuries, trauma can show up). 

• Learn about neuroplasticity, the brain can change at any age.

• Learn about movement pattern recognition through lecture and slow experimental, safe movement.

The instructors with functional movement expertise

Ray Burns and Laura McCann.

Laura McCann is also an Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® practitioner. Laura has a special needs child which led her to this work. She loves working with children with special needs and adults at any level. She is active in martial arts and enjoys sports including softball and golf.  Laura currently has a practice in Midland, Michigan and is accepting new clients. Visit www.lucrativement.com or call/text 989.330.2561

Registration Details

The workshop early bird rate is $120.  After September 15, 2025, the rate is $135. Go to Laura McCann’s website to register for the workshop.  It is suggested to wear comfortable clothes. The removal of shoes or glasses is required during the workshop.

The workshop is considered educational, and not medical treatment.  If you have questions about your medical condition or are looking for medical advice, consult your medical professional. 

Phasic muscles are available on demand, good at resting, used for large dynamic recruitment, tend to be fast twitch speed power fibers, tend to get weak when not used tend to atrophy lose mass and strength...pectoralis major, middle trapezius, lower trapezius, rhomboids, serratus anterior, triceps, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, deltoid, deep neck flexors, wrist and finger extensors

Postural tonic muscles are for anti gravity, have high resting tone, more slow twitch endurance fibers, hold you upright sensitive proprioceptors, tend to have problems with over-recruitment, levator scapulae, upper trapezius, scalenes, subscapularis, sternocleidomastoid, biceps brachii. wrist and finger flexors.

If you follow Chris O'Dowd's Blast Motion technology or Thomas Summer's Methods, then this workshop could offer unknown hidden value for you.

References

Dr. Vladimir Janda

Body and Mature Behavior. Moshe Feldenkrais.