Embodied Physio Pilates

Embodied Physio Pilates Vancouver based Physiotherapy & Pilates practice. Booking online with Janeapp

Women often face unique challenges: symptoms dismissed, pain underestimated, or access to care limited. These experience...
03/08/2026

Women often face unique challenges: symptoms dismissed, pain underestimated, or access to care limited. These experiences are real, systemic, and impact health outcomes.

Acknowledging these disparities is the first step toward change, for equitable, respectful, and informed care for all.

Has someone ever told you “you aren’t trying enough” in regards to your persistent pain?People rarely avoid movement or ...
03/06/2026

Has someone ever told you “you aren’t trying enough” in regards to your persistent pain?

People rarely avoid movement or trying new therapies because they don’t care about improving. More often, avoidance reflects fear, past experiences, or a nervous system that is trying to protect them by getting them away from something possibly dangerous.

Folks avoid them because they’ve learned: when pain hits me, my life gets smaller.
So they stay with what feels safest:

⚫ less movement
⚫ fewer plans
⚫ the same routines
⚫ avoiding anything unfamiliar

The problem is that fear of a flare can become the thing that keeps the pain cycle going.

In private sessions, we don’t tell you to “push through” but we build a plan that reduces the risk of flares by making changes small, specific, and testable:

✔️ what to try first
✔️ how much to try
✔️ how to back off without quitting (with a safety net)
✔️ what to do if symptoms rise

Want to learn how to break the cycle and have a bigger life.

Private sessions are available now with Catherine (PRT-educated) or Katie (physio).

A lot of people arrive having collected explanations that don’t exactly match their day-to-day experience. The goal isn’...
03/04/2026

A lot of people arrive having collected explanations that don’t exactly match their day-to-day experience.

The goal isn’t to pick one “correct” story and ignore the rest. It’s to make a map that fits what you’re actually living: when symptoms spike, what they respond to, what helps, what makes things worse, and what your brain has learned to predict.

Private sessions can be a good starting point if you want something structured, paced, and individualized, without pushing through.

Book a private session with Katie (physio) or Catherine (PRT-trained PTA) to make a plan for your specific symptoms.

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Endometriosis is often misunderstood or dismissed, leaving many navigating pain without validation or support. Awareness...
03/02/2026

Endometriosis is often misunderstood or dismissed, leaving many navigating pain without validation or support. Awareness is the first step toward understanding, care, and relief.

If you experience persistent pelvic pain, know that your symptoms matter, you deserve attention, answers, and a plan that supports you.

Healing in chronic pain isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing what feels possible, consistently.Those small wins matt...
02/26/2026

Healing in chronic pain isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing what feels possible, consistently.

Those small wins matter because they teach your nervous system it can trust movement and experience again.

Before Catherine was helping clients move better in the studio, she was moving audiences on stage…Here’s a peek into her...
02/25/2026

Before Catherine was helping clients move better in the studio, she was moving audiences on stage…

Here’s a peek into her choreography and performances from back in the day. Her understanding of movement doesn’t just come from studying bodies, it comes from living it.

📸 Photographer: Andrew Kushnir
💃 Dancers: Denise Solleza, Brittany Duggan, Catherine Murray

In practice, chronic pain treatment is often about gently turning down DIMs and intentionally turning up SIMs, one at a ...
02/23/2026

In practice, chronic pain treatment is often about gently turning down DIMs and intentionally turning up SIMs, one at a time.

It’s not about forcing the body to adapt into a new pretzel shape with every therapy under the sun (you shouldn’t be that shape anyways).

It’s about giving it enough safety to change.

02/20/2026

Go Team Canada!

02/20/2026

A little peek inside the Repattern workbook 👀

This is what participants are working through over 6 weeks, reflection prompts, education, and guided movement that supports rebuilding trust with your body (not pushing through it).

Repattern combines Pain Reprocessing Therapy with movement to help you find more ease, strength, and confidence again.

The current cohort kicked off Jan 21, and we’ll be sharing details for the next round soon.

The brain is capable of generating any physical sensation in any part of the body: pain in your back, your neck, your ey...
02/18/2026

The brain is capable of generating any physical sensation in any part of the body: pain in your back, your neck, your eyes, even your teeth.

Muscle pain, shooting pain, sharp pain, dull pain. Tightness, tingling, burning, numbness. If you’re experiencing an unpleasant sensation somewhere in your body, and your healthcare team has ruled out structural causes, it is quite possible that it’s neuroplastic (reminder neuroplastic refers to the way our brains pick up habits of pain).

Because all pain feels like it’s coming from the body, it can be difficult to distinguish between pain that’s structurally caused and pain that’s neuroplastic. All that we feel is pain in the body that is our only experience either way.

And yes, It is possible that pain that begins due to a structural issue, such as a sprained ankle, could eventually turn into neuroplastic pain.

Pain is complex, and everyone’s story is different.

Interested in learning more? Follow us and let us teach you more about pain.

Looking to learn more about pain science from trusted voices? 🎧 These podcasts offer evidence-informed perspectives, sto...
02/16/2026

Looking to learn more about pain science from trusted voices? 🎧

These podcasts offer evidence-informed perspectives, stories, and strategies for understanding chronic pain:

Check out episodes that resonate with you, take notes, and explore at your own pace. A little listening can go a long way toward feeling more grounded and informed.

A different kind of Valentine’s Day message 🤍No fixing.No forcing.No “powering through.”Just learning how to feel safer ...
02/14/2026

A different kind of Valentine’s Day message 🤍

No fixing.
No forcing.
No “powering through.”

Just learning how to feel safer in your body and more at ease in your movement.
That’s the work we care about.

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Vancouver, BC
V6H4A3

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Monday 10am - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 2pm

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