Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner in Redmond WA helping with chronic pain
How can we heal if we are made to internalize that something is wrong with us and we need to be fixed?
That we have a weak core/quads, our legs aren't equal length. If we want to ‘improve’, we better be doing our therapy exercises, never mind that they are boring and robotic. Where your ‘physical fitness’ is measured by ‘range of motion’ metrics, not your felt experience. Yet that is what modern medicine does.
Treating symptoms with cortisone shots, kinesiology tapes and doling out formulas and fix-it solutions that disappoint, making us doubtful and despondent about having any solution to our pain.
I am Shrutee Sharma
I am here to show you a better way by:
Caring enough to learn about your body, not anybody.
Getting to the root cause. I zoom in to where you’re hurting and then zoom out to sense how your pain is being created in the context of how you move your whole body, the things you do and want to do. It’s my superpower (my clients tell me I have X-ray vision)!
Empowering you by handing you the ‘key’ to the solution, one step at a time. I invite you to integrate the solutions in your life.
Creating a safe and lighthearted space that kindles your own capacity for healing.
But it took me a journey to get here!
15 years ago, I completed a bootcamp MBA from Carnegie Mellon and began working at Amazon.
I spent many years honing a bias for delivering results and deep diving to understand root causes. I continually raised the bar for what was possible for my customers, no matter the challenge.
After the birth of my sweet baby girl, I found myself with a debilitating pain in my right knee.
I’d limp to conference rooms. Getting dinner on the table took courage to tolerate pain and being opportunistic about what I could get done with my limited leash of time on painkillers. A conditioned overachiever, I thought I could push through the pain.
When my daughter was 15 months old, she was enchanted with the world. Her favorite hangout spot was the ‘ducky pond’, a hop and a skip away from our apartment. But I couldn't be there with her. The 500 yards to the pond was a trek that my tender knee couldn’t bear.
I decided to take the plunge and spend 4 years training in the Feldenkrais Method.
I fell in love with the philosophy of deep nervous system listening as the starting point of healing. I was fascinated with the wealth of cues that became available to me when I took the time to tune into people’s bodies. Instead of fixing them or correcting them, I would layer these cues with my study of movement science and neuroscience to expand the range of possibilities in their body.
Thanks to doing this work, I am fully engaged with my kids. I am also an avid skier and hiker.
The information to heal a person lives within that person. Our job is to create a space where it becomes accessible. Most approaches present the solution as something outside of the person, that is lacking in them.
Every day, I help people like you step out of pain, so they don’t miss out on simple pleasures like sitting on the floor and playing with their kids without suffering in pain OR the more athletic endeavors like skiing, horse riding, hiking, bicycling without re-injuring themselves or being achy afterwards.
My clients often feel surprised and lit up with the change they feel in a short amount of time. They love that they know how to sustain the change on their own.
Here’s what some of them say about working with me-
““Shrutee is an amazing mix of geeked out nerdy, intelligent woman but also has a very caring, loving sense about her.””
I generally don't have pain and I’m very active with mountain biking, hiking and lifting weights. I had some unusual pain in my hip from a free fall on my new hardwood floor. I exacerbated it by having my giant John Deer mower stuck in the mud and having to reef it out by myself. Mostly wasn’t too difficult to live with but would hurt unpredictably. Sometimes sleeping at night or after a long drive, it would go down my left leg. I felt that you identified the problem.You worked really, really, really trying to treat the source. I took my big 20 mile mountain bike ride and I wasn’t in any pain after that!
“I went from unable to put my feet on the floor to walking pain free...in just an hour with Shrutee”
I still struggle to believe that this is possible. In 10 sessions, I went from being in the kind of sciatic pain, I would be crying in pain, getting out of bed to being able to dance and do my life. You have an effect, not just on my body, you link into something else in my life. You reach into you. You have depth & a sparkle!
Debbie Scally, Accountant & Dancer
“If you have a desire to really get to the bottom of your pain…work with Shrutee. It’s like really good chocolate!”
“Sooo much empowerment to know that I can take myself from being super afraid, unsure of what I was going to do, to actually being able to take care of myself, while doing my life!”
Erica Swedberg, Nurse & Lactation Consultant in Redmond WA
What is the Feldenkrais Method, you ask?
The Feldenkrais Method is a powerful approach to relieving chronic joint pain by improving the way you move in your whole body. It is different from approaches like physical therapy that focus on strengthening or stretching muscles around the point where you’re experiencing pain.
A Feldenkrais Practitioner combines their powers of observation honed through 4 years of training in movement science and neuroscience with thousands of hours of hands-on work. They can quickly diagnose how a person's pain is being caused by their habitual patterns of walking, sitting and other day to day activities.
The practitioner gets you comfortable lying down and uses their hands to communicate with your nervous system. They gradually educate you about how your pain is being created and cultivate your participation in actionable steps that feel enjoyable and intellectually satisfying.
Instead of fixing or fighting the pain symptom, we take the time to understand where the strain in your knee or hip or back or shoulder is coming from, hence reaching into the root cause of your pain. The whole body approach + nervous system approach make it effective in recovering from injury or years/decades of pain.
Sound like your cup of tea?