Articles and Resources
Welcome to the Bendable Body Articles and Resources page where you'll learn about our stretching method - resistance stretching - and get answers to your questions about fascia, pain and stiffness, strength and flexibility and how it all ties together. Most articles provide you with stretches to try out and experience the method. Search the Category topics below to see what's available. We continue to add new articles regularly.
What's resistance stretching? What's your fascia and how does it impact flexibility and strength? Discover the true source of pain points (it'll surprise you) and how the TCM Meridian System relates to stretching.
Learn why joints are most suseptable to pain and injury and discover what muscle-fascia is causing pain in specific joints. Try stretches using resistance to alleviate pain and remove joint strain.
The tightest and stiffest areas in your body are directly related to the accumulation of dense fascia over time from trauma, injury and repetitive movement. Try stretches to change your hard-worn fascia.
Plantar fasciitis, labral tears, herniated discs, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow... no matter what injury you have it can be traced to a muscle that stopped working from an accumulation of dense fascia.
No matter what you love to do: hiking, biking, swimming, tennis, yoga... Bendable Body stretches will make it better. Discover the one exercise method that's truly reparative and performance enhancing.
Bendable Body stretches align with meridian channels according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. So while you are getting more flexible when you stretch, you are also directly impacting organ function and physiological health.
Did you know stretching impacts your emotional and psychological states? It is common knowledge that the body and mind are connected. However at Bendable Body we can map it out specifically for you. Stretches for depression, grief, anger... and so on.