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31/08/2026

The moment discomfort shows up, most people have the same reaction: muscles harden, breath shortens, the whole body tightens around the sensation, an automatic, unconscious defense almost nobody would name as a choice.

Except it isn’t protecting anything. That hardening is what actually holds pain in place, the bracing becomes its own source of tension, layered on top of whatever was there to begin with.

Noticing the bracing is the real turning point. Once it’s seen, it’s something you can start to let go of on purpose, instead of holding it by accident.

This is the kind of thing we teach, how to find where you’re holding, and how to let it go. Come have a look around , and follow along if you’d like to learn it.

This Tuesday, September 1st: A free online seminar for psychotherapists and mental health professionals.Join Avi Grinber...
28/08/2026

This Tuesday, September 1st: A free online seminar for psychotherapists and mental health professionals.

Join Avi Grinberg, founder of the Grinberg Method, for Reframing Trauma Through the Body — an introductory seminar exploring how fear, pain, and intense experiences can continue to shape attention and behavior, and how involving the body can support recovery and change.

The session will include practical theory, guided exercises, and a live demonstration, with concrete perspectives for professionals working with trauma, anxiety, and chronic distress.

Tuesday, September 1st
6:00–8:30 pm CET
Online via Zoom
Free

For psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists, social workers, coaches, and other mental health professionals.

Registration is now open —> reserve your place through the link:

https://www.grinbergmethod.com/reframing-trauma-through-the-body

24/08/2026

An old fear can stay stuck in the body long after the moment that caused it is over, and the body can’t fully heal while it’s still holding on. Breath is one of the ways we find it: not by breathing with extra effort, but by using breath to release it.

The diaphragm moves up and down every time you breathe, carrying things up from the belly toward the chest. When the breath stays shallow, that movement doesn’t happen, and whatever is sitting below in the belly stays there, unmoved.

Here the client has been carrying an old fear since she was very young. As she breathes more fully while remaining effortless, there’s more flow, and as it starts to move, her mind becomes naturally more quiet, she’s able to be more present, and to settle into a very peaceful state.

This is the kind of thing we teach, how to breathe in a way that actually reaches what’s stuck. Come have a look around , and follow along if you’d like to learn it.

17/08/2026

Courage isn’t about not being afraid, it’s about being brave enough to not resist the fear.

In this clip, a client is guided through exactly that: fear rising, legs shaking, energy moving through her belly. She’s told not to hide it, not to fix it, not to react. Just let it be seen.

In the Grinberg Method we call this allowing the fear, not suppressing it, but letting it flow through you.

Most of what feels unbearable isn’t the fear itself. It’s the fear of fear, the orders we give ourselves not to show it, not to feel it, not to like it.

Agree to the fear itself, relax into it, and it transforms into something pleasant and empowering.

14/08/2026

If your chest feels tight and you can’t seem to take a full breath, most of us only ever breathe forwards but never out to the sides.

After the last reel on chest tension, a lot of you asked what you can actually do about it. So here are two exercises.

1) Hands behind your head, elbows open and in line with your body. Breathe into the sides of your ribs, not the belly, not the front. A long breath, hold, then let it out. Each time you inhale, feel the ribs widen sideways.

2) One arm up and over your head, and stretch that whole side long. Breathe into the side you’re stretching, hold, and release. Then the other side.

A full breath moves in six directions at once: high and low, forward and back, left and right. Most people only ever use two of them. The small muscles between the ribs were built to stretch and contract with every breath, and when they’re never asked to, they shorten. The ribs draw closer together and the cage stops moving.

So the instruction isn’t “breathe deeper.” It’s breathe to the sides. Not because sideways is special, but because it’s the direction most people have stopped using. Do it as often as you like. The measure isn’t how big the breath is; it’s whether you can feel the ribs move and expand in a new way.

This is the kind of thing we teach, how to find where you hold, and how to let it go. Come have a look around , and follow along if you’d like to learn it.

If chronic pain, an old injury, or a symptom that won’t fully go away has you feeling like your body is working against ...
14/08/2026

If chronic pain, an old injury, or a symptom that won’t fully go away has you feeling like your body is working against you: here’s what’s actually happening:

Pain isn’t the body fighting you. It’s read as the body’s own effort to heal. A message, not a malfunction. Most of what gets labeled a chronic condition is actually a healing effort that kept getting denied.

In the Grinberg Method we call this letting the body work, agreeing with what it’s already trying to do, instead of controlling it or medicating it away.

It starts with noticing where you’re bracing against a sensation instead of letting it move, and finding out what happens the moment you stop fighting it.

This is the kind of thing we teach, how to read what the body is doing, instead of fighting it. Come have a look around Grinberg Method | Learn through your Body, and follow along if you’d like to learn it.

12/08/2026

In the Grinberg Method sessions, pain isn’t something to work around, it’s what leads the body back to healing itself.

An area with numbness can be a sign that something there isn’t okay, so the work goes toward finding the pain, right around it, until the pain wakes up the area.

From there, the body starts to move on its own. In this case, the whole leg starts to shake.

We call this letting the body work. These kinds of movements can’t happen through control, or through the mind telling the body what to do — the mind can only get in the way. What actually helps is creating the right conditions: touch, attention, allowing.

No rabbits pulled from a hat. Just the body taking care of itself, once it’s given the correct conditions.

This is the kind of thing we teach, how to find where the body is really working, and give it the room to do it. Come have a look around , and follow along if you’d like to learn it.

If you’ve been trying to control anger, fear or pain, pushing a feeling down until it goes quiet, you’re aiming at the w...
07/08/2026

If you’ve been trying to control anger, fear or pain, pushing a feeling down until it goes quiet, you’re aiming at the wrong target.

Pain, fear and anger are natural movements of the body. They can’t be stopped, any more than breathing or a heartbeat can be stopped. They can only be fought, and the fighting is what ends up doing the damage.

So what is there to stop?

Somewhere early on, most people learn that certain feelings are the bad ones, and a block gets built against them. The feeling doesn’t leave. It stays stuck, and it accumulates.

That block is the actual target. In the Grinberg Method we call it stopping a pattern and the aim isn’t to fix the pattern, solve it or heal it. It’s to release it, so the feeling can finish moving.

The body has a part that feels and senses, and a part that wants to control. Control begins the moment feeling gets converted into doing.

The feeling doesn’t need help to move. It needs to stop being blocked.

This is what we teach, and what SMOVE trains: interrupting the repetition, releasing the habitual pattern, staying soft when the movement stops. SMOVE Teacher Training runs 20–24 November 2026 in Alcalà, Spain; registrations are open in the link in our bio.

31/07/2026

If your chest feels tight and your breath stays shallow, the holding is often in the small muscles wrapped around your ribs.

Touch someone (or yourself) gently between the ribs and most people will flinch, it’s surprisingly sensitive. Those small muscles that link one rib to the next stay quietly contracted, day after day, and over time they shorten. People lose a centimetre or two of height, and the whole torso narrows.

In the Grinberg Method we call this an internal corset. Nobody put it on us, we built it, out of our own muscles, and then forgot we’re the ones holding it tight.

What changes it is a skill, not a fix. The same muscles that learned to grip can be trained to let go, notice the tightness, breathe wide into the chest on purpose, and the ribs slowly learn to open again.

Tell us in the comments - did you try it? How does it feel this area for you?

If a difficult feeling shows up - anger, fear, sadness - and your first instinct is to fix it or work out what’s wrong w...
27/07/2026

If a difficult feeling shows up - anger, fear, sadness - and your first instinct is to fix it or work out what’s wrong with you, the fixing is its own kind of effort.

The feeling itself is only sensation moving through the body. It isn’t the problem. The problem is what we add on top of it, the judging, the analysing, the quiet work of trying to control it and make it go away.

In the Grinberg Method there’s a blunt name for that reflex: making a problem. Not having the feeling, but making a problem out of it. And making is an activity. It’s something you’re doing, which means it’s also something you can catch yourself doing and stop.

This is the kind of thing we teach: how to feel what you feel without fighting it. Come have a look around Grinberg Method | Learn through your Body, and follow along if you’d like to learn it.

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