Drake Advanced Myofascial Bodywork

Drake Advanced Myofascial Bodywork 30+ years experience including Certified Advanced Myofascial Techniques
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Registration is open for our fall ScarWork class! Message us for details to join us in small class-co-host style learnin...
05/13/2026

Registration is open for our fall ScarWork class! Message us for details to join us in small class-co-host style learning.

Registration is open for our October 2026 ScarWork class. Learn this gentle fascial approach informed by the Rolfing Met...
04/26/2026

Registration is open for our October 2026 ScarWork class. Learn this gentle fascial approach informed by the Rolfing Method and focused on reintegration of movement and ease into the body wide fascia web. Easy to give and easy to receive, resting into our right brain, and haptic learning.

Four full days with Osteopath and Certified Advanced Rolfer, Ron Murray exploring “A Deeper Understanding of the Pelvis”...
04/21/2026

Four full days with Osteopath and Certified Advanced Rolfer, Ron Murray exploring “A Deeper Understanding of the Pelvis”. I’ve always been drawn to the themes in Osteopathy that I’ve been exposed to over the years and these days offered a deep dive. Hands on therapists can get so side tracked with “muscles” amd the ever requested “deep tissue”. What does it mean to go deep? It’s absolutely not what most people think it is. Light work in the most superficial layers can touch so deeply when we can tune in to deep listening. Through another lens, can we listen in to the bones? Can we know our anatomy and learn skills that support bringing consciousness to bones and supporting people at deeper, more elemental layers?

Interested in learning advanced work in small cohorts? That’s what we do. Check the website for details about Ron’s fall 2026 class and other upcoming offerings.

04/09/2026

Hands-on work might seem simple at a glance, but developing our tactile sense is an enormous skill that can just continue and continue to grow for practitioners over a lifetime. At the foundation , solid left brain knowledge of anatomy and knowing our palpatory anatomy-“where things are” is a critical foundation. Like any expert, over time we might “forget” those details and begin to operate from a different place. We haven’t forgotten anything. It’s become so innate, that we don’t have to hold it front and center. At this stage it’s less about scales and music begins to emerge.

Working with scar tissue and fascial restrictions, really is best served when we get to this place. We can allow our mind to move a little sideways and feel in-through the three dimensional aspect of the human being. Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork really cultivates this state. So grateful for this work.

02/08/2026

If we can already get up and down and down and up, we might wonder why we should bother over the details?

Underneath the threshold of effort, and working with what is easy in a range that is easily reversible-will immediately begin to offer improvement to the areas that are less easy.
This is a difficult approach for many people to accept because going hard into the hard place is a treasured cultural belief that is nurtured often from our earliest beginnings.

To refine your movement is to change your brain. When we explore this approach, we begin to see the truth of preferentially attending to what is easy as a door into healing what is difficult.

It’s not a “belief”. It’s science. It’s the nervous system. It’s the laws of the universe acting on us in every moment. Whether we choose to know about them and work within those laws, is another question entirely.

Body workers, humans, trauma therapists all..consider learning the Movement Intelligence work of Ruthy Alon this year, as a deepened door into your personal development and a profound body-centered discipline to offer your clients in their healing journey. ❤️‍🩹

02/08/2026

What is our path from standing to sitting? Standing to the floor? Lying down to standing and all the transitions of position?

The integrative quality of whole body spiral movements have tremendous potential to restore easy, pain free movements that that we might have “lost”.

I’m working on the final requirement to become a trainer of teachers in Ruthy Alon’s Movement Intelligence program. Drawn on her life long experience as a Senior Trainer and teacher of the Feldenkrais Method, Ruthy contributed a body of her own work to the movement disciplines. Her work is direct and curious. It offers practical applications to real life. First-organize the system! Ideal organization, means immediately we have profound strength.

Three years, personal consultations, case consultations, one to one and group mentoring sessions, 9 modules of 4-7 days ...
10/23/2025

Three years, personal consultations, case consultations, one to one and group mentoring sessions, 9 modules of 4-7 days with groups of other human beings that were as large as 60 or so people at a time…and this step is completed. Somatic Experiencing Practioner 🙏🙏❤️‍🩹 . I learned so much over this program that a post doesn’t really seem to hold, and yet we still need to say something! 😊 I’m not a fan of praise or accolades, not because I dislike standing in a little light-but because I feel so strongly as a practitioner, that each person has incredible personal potential to expand far beyond what we can sometimes imagine. If it could be possible, I’d only offer this inner light, the power of agency and capacity to each person who reached out to me. Just a little, I feel like “yes, these years were a definite thing”. A commitment, a humbling of myself, not only to learn but to try to show up and help others on the same journey of life. Peter Levine’s work , is deeply valuable work for our world. I encourage practitioners to explore this work and humans everywhere to know that body-centered trauma work holds promise for transformation. Wherever you are in the world, you can search the international directory or simply search “somatic experiencing Practioner near me”. Thank you to my teachers, mentors, clients, and colleagues that continue to support me along this way.

Registration is open for this April 2026 seminar with Advanced Rolfer and Osteopath, Ron Murray. Unique, advanced learni...
08/14/2025

Registration is open for this April 2026 seminar with Advanced Rolfer and Osteopath, Ron Murray. Unique, advanced learning for the serious student. Contact us directly for information on how to register for this class. Class limit 12 students. Message us for details of see the information page on our website found in the profile.

Join us on Mondays 3:30-4:30 PM Eastern time-beginning August 11th for a revolving virtual series of movement explorati...
07/16/2025

Join us on Mondays 3:30-4:30 PM Eastern time-beginning August 11th for a revolving virtual series of movement explorations from Ruthy Alon’s Movement Intelligence work. Why take this class? It’s a long list. Although Movement Intellgience is a Feldenkrais (R) informed discipline, it can be incredibly helpful in many ways. Here are a few!

❤️ Pain Relief
❤️Functional and Structural Integration (improved movement and posture)
❤️Nervous System regulation (trauma recovery as complex as PTSD or as “simple” as the overwhelm of living day to day)
❤️Specific body pain solutions (low back, neck, feet, etc, etc)

I’ll bring almost 40 years of body centered education and experience to our Monday sessions. I’d love to see you there. Registration link on the front page of the website, top right under “classes”. 🙏 🏃 🧘

Sometimes it seems like the modern world is too much to naviagate with all our many problems and other times it feels li...
05/26/2025

Sometimes it seems like the modern world is too much to naviagate with all our many problems and other times it feels like there isn’t enough lifetime to live to learn all the possible things we could learn. I’m so grateful to have spent a lifetime learning from so many people, in disciplines that support and help the world 🌎. In June I’ll be headed right back out for a week in Elkhart, Indiana to learn BoneWork with Rolfer, and ScarWork creator, Sharon Wheeler. Deeply attuned and oriented toward offering what is good.

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3939 Campus Ridge Road
Matthews, NC
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Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
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