The X factor your body needs to feel fit
Searching for workout classes to lose weight and get in shape this new year?
Want to get a head start to “fix your body” and force it to behave?
Here’s a perspective shift for you.
Our bodies don’t respond well to pressure. When we push harder with aggressive workout routines or diets, the nervous system often pushes back. It’s the body resisting and saying, “You won’t get cooperation through force.” And that pushback tends to create more bracing, false starts and less progress.
The X factor that helps you feel stronger and in shape
So what does create progress?
Progress in our bodies is created through microbites of digestible information.
Those precious microbites can’t be accessed with traditional stretch or strength training routines.
They need an unlikely X factor…
Curiosity.
Curiosity is what opens the gates to information.
When curiosity comes online, you stop overriding your body with effort.
Instead of operating from your mind trying to control your body like a machine, curiosity “plugs” your mind into direct body experience, called somatic feeling.
Somatic feeling is not just sensation. It’s sensation with meaning.
It’s getting skilled at sensing information like:
where your jaw is gripping and where there’s space
how your ribs fold and open like an accordion when you breathe and move
how your eyes easily take in some parts of your visual environment and habitually strain in others
how your feet meet the ground in ways that help one leg feel stronger and limber than the other
Curiosity helps you become smarter at listening and responding to body sensations
Instead of confusing muscle tension with muscle activation like most people in the gym, giving themselves an ego boost from doing mind numbing reps
OR feeling like a helpless victim of tightness and pain…
…you begin putting movement through the lens of your own somatic feeling.
You stop asking “am I doing it right?” You begin to experiment and trust your sensation to tell you what’s right because it feels light, fluid, strong, connected, grounded, calming.
You stop mechanically repeating movements like exercise. You seek out and chase after sensations of ease and strength because you become a blackbelt at listening and responding to subtle feedback signals that are invisible to most western athletes.
Curiosity interrupts the loop of:
Try Harder→ tighten → disconnect → fail → try harder again
…and replaces it with:
NOTICE → experiment → connect → adapt → improve
This is the difference between forcing change and letting your nervous system find a better option.
Curiosity helps build connections.
And connections build coordination.
You begin to sense that movement is a conversation between parts. You experience the biological connections of how your:
eyes influence your neck, your jaw, and your balance
jaw affects the shape of your spine
shoulders affect (and are affected by) how you use your hands
hands affect how you balance on your feet — a dominant hand can pull you too far away from one foot and too much onto the other
balance on your feet affects your hips… and on and on…
When curiosity helps you bridge those connections, coordination improves naturally.
And coordination creates…
✨ better movement
✨ less strain
✨ more power
✨ faster recovery
✨ improved responsiveness to your environment
Healing and performance aren’t separate.
They’re both side effects of a nervous system that can organize and adapt to a changing environment.
The part most weight loss conversations miss
When you feel lighter and more at home moving in your body, you naturally get drawn to being active in ways you actually enjoy. You feel good, so you don’t need food for reassurance. You build stamina without forcing it. Weight loss becomes less about willpower and more about being out in the world, moving, living, and feeling like yourself again.
Which is why it’s worth saying this out loud: that tummy tuck you naively think makes you look thin is likely disrupting core sensation and coordination more than you realize.
How to access curiosity?
Curiosity isn’t something you try hard at.
It’s something that happens when you consistently create the conditions for it.
Not intensity.
Not perfect practice.
Not hard work.
A consistent environment where it unfolds out of you naturally. Where mistakes are treasured as the path to discovering better organization.
When you show up consistently for a somatic practice, your nervous system starts to re-map your body function and sharpen your mental agility in a way it can digest.
The practice weaves in awareness and helps you build connections that create:
trust
improved proprioception (body awareness)
better coordination
better performance agility and adaptability
improved healing capacity
It becomes less like “training” and more like a gentle rewiring process.
Consistency is the container that turns curiosity into change.
This is exactly what we do inside The Sensory Movement Club.
It’s where curiosity becomes a weekly practice, a workout for your mind through your body. And that consistency creates a compounding effect.
That’s why I call curiosity the Healing & Performance Multiplier.
Sensory Movement Club 4.0: What we’re exploring this quarter
I’ve been running Sensory Movement Club for 3 years. It’s wild that I’m announcing the launch of Sensory Movement Club 4.0!
In Sensory Movement Club 4.0, we’re starting where coordination begins:
👁️ eyes
😬 jaw
…and we’re building upward and downward into foundational movement patterns including:
squatting for lifting weights and everyday life
shoulder stand prep
better posture with standing desk and without and more
This quarter is designed to help your nervous system build the kind of integrated coordination that supports both healing and performance.
If you’ve been stuck in the “try harder” loop, this is your invitation to try something more effective:
curiosity + consistency = progress
…in cultivating a body that powers your life and passions.
This time I introduced a couple options to make it accessible and easy for you. You could sign up for the yearly memberhip here
OR sign up for the individual workshops below:
Awaken the Hidden Gifts in your Eyes
Unlock Your Jaw
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Is this approach still effective if I’m trying to lose weight or “get in shape”?
Yes, in a way that’s far more sustainable than forcing workouts or counting calories.
First, when your nervous system moves with better coordination and less tension, you experience fewer setbacks, flare-ups, and pain cycles. That means you can stay consistently active in ways you enjoy like walking, hiking, lifting, gardening, dancing without stopping to recover or manage discomfort. Consistency, not intensity, is what truly supports long-term fitness.
Second, this practice has a naturally calming, grounding effect on your system. When your body feels regulated instead of stressed or overwhelmed, the urge to use food for comfort decreases. You feel more at home in yourself, more emotionally steady, and more uplifted and that reduces the emotional eating patterns that make weight loss feel like a battle.
So yes, this approach can support weight loss and getting in shape by restoring the internal conditions that make healthy choices feel natural rather than forced.
Here’s a testimonial from a tri-athlete and iron women:
”I struggled with weight loss and as a long time triathlete, also eating well. Being overweight just didn’t make sense!
Few months into this work, I started to loose weight and. it was surprising. Now I can see it was a result of being more regulated in my nervous system that it happened without trying hard.”
2. I’m used to high-intensity workouts. Will this feel too slow for me?
It will feel like a different kind of workout: a workout for your mind, not just your muscles.
Many athletes push their bodies hard while their brains go offline. The reps become mindless. And while it may build fatigue (and ego), it doesn’t necessarily build better function. Without the brain’s engagement, you can get stronger at doing the same inefficient pattern over and over again.
This work brings your nervous system back into the center of the training equation.
Instead of forcing effort, you’re sharpening the coordination, timing, and efficiency that make real power possible. When you upgrade the way your brain organizes movement, every form of training becomes more effective. You hit the ground with better alignment, recover faster, use less strain, and access more precision.
Think of it as developing the operating system that your athletic performance runs on.
Slow doesn’t mean easy. Slow means intelligent. And intelligent movement is what makes everything else you do stronger, safer, and more sustainable.
3. Can this help with chronic pain or tension even if I’ve tried Physical Therapy, stretching, or massage before?
Yes, because this work operates at the level where habits are formed: the nervous system.
Physical Therapy, stretching, and massage often address muscles directly. Somatic learning changes the patterns that keep those muscles overworking in the first place. By improving how your jaw, eyes, spine, breath, and feet coordinate, the system reorganizes, and pain patterns can finally unwind instead of returning.
It’s not about fixing a part, it’s about upgrading the whole system so the part no longer needs to scream.
