Active Balance

15/02/2026

15/02/2026

Pain isn’t random. It’s mechanical.💥🩻

When a joint is out of alignment, circulation is impaired.
Toxins don’t clear properly.
Muscles get stuck in contraction instead of flowing between contract and relax.
That congestion leads to strain.
Strain leads to inflammation.
Inflammation irritates the nerves.
And that’s what you feel as pain 💥

Pain is a system.
Reverse the mechanics… and you change the outcome.🏃‍♀️

This is exactly what we dive deeper into in the full podcast episode 🎙️

Active Balance isn’t just a treatment — it’s a complete system.
✔ Learn how to treat yourself
✔ Find a practitioner near you (listed on our website)
✔ Or train with us and help others

Perfect for personal trainers, massage therapists, reflexologists, acupuncturists — or anyone wanting better results or even a brand new career.

Watch the full episode and start seeing pain differently. 👇🏽sign up to our mailing list for more information

12/02/2026

Want to Age & Move well?

What if balance and mobility had less to do with strength…
and more to do with your nervous system? 💥🩻

This is a short clip from last week’s free Active Balance live session with Dennis. 🎥

What keeps us upright isn’t strength — it’s neurological organisation.
When that system becomes “noisy,” the body adapts… and over time we can feel stiffer, less balanced, less agile.

If you’d like to watch the full free session, you can access it by signing up to our mailing list via our website (link below).👇🏽

Dennis is also starting a live Body Alignment & Age-ility class next Tuesday at 4pm.
Introductory price

A gentle, practical approach to improving balance, mobility and ease of movement — especially as we get older.

08/02/2026

If yours struggling with stiffness, aching joints, or feeling less mobile than you used to?

Dennis Bartram is teaching live Body Alignment & Age-ility classes — simple, safe techniques to help your body reset itself.

🧘 Live
💡 Practical
🏠 Do at home

If you want to age well and move well, this is for you.
Join us live, link in comments 👇🏽

08/02/2026

He unfurled a parchment Ishiro once handed him, its ink faded but unmistakable.

“To protect the body,” Ishiro had said, “is not merely to shield it from harm, but to know how to tend it — like a garden.”

He taught Rowan that the highest art wasn’t striking, escaping, or even healing someone else. It was knowing how to look after oneself so deeply that your presence made others feel safer, stronger, seen.

“In my master’s time,” Ishiro once said, “men learned how to stop a sword. But now, we must learn how to stop the slow blade — the one called stress, confusion, loneliness, poor food, and poor sleep.”
Rowan read aloud, translating:

“A true practitioner knows their environment. They feel the weather in their joints. They know the herbs in their hedgerows. They can calm a child’s fever, ground their partner’s anxiety, ease a pain before it hardens into suffering.”

Kai listened, absorbing each word.

“This,” Rowan said, “was the School of Protection of the Body. A medicine born not in hospitals, but in fields and quiet rooms. Passed not in clinics, but over fires, through movement, and in silence.”

From ‘The Secret of the opening flower’ book 🌱

08/02/2026

Struggling with stiffness, aching joints, or feeling less mobile than you used to?💥

Dennis Bartram is teaching live Body Alignment & Age-ility classes — simple, safe techniques to help your body reset itself.💪🏽🩻

These gentle self-help procedures are designed to:
• restore movement
• reduce strain and stiffness
• support long-term joint health
• help you age and move well

Dennis explains why the body locks up — and how to help it reset.

🧘 Live
💡 Practical
🏠 Do at home
💷 introductory price

If you want to age well and move well, this is for you.
Link to join in comments 👇🏽

08/02/2026

07/02/2026

Most people don’t realise how much the feet affect the rest of the body!🦶🏽

Your Feet are the Foundation! The small muscles and connective tissue in the feet help support the arches — and those arches influence what happens at the knees, hips, lower back and even the neck.🩻

Old ankle sprains, years of tight footwear, standing all day or training on top of imbalance can quietly change the shape of the foot. Over time, that alters posture and load through the whole body.💥

This is one of the ways we work with the feet to release tension, stimulate the deeper support structures, and help restore better alignment through the body.

Take it slowly, stay within comfort, and notice what feels different afterwards — not just in your feet, but higher up too.

01/02/2026

The power of treating the WHOLE body not just the Symptoms 💥

01/02/2026

🌿 Become an Active Balance Level 1 Practitioner 🌿

Learn how to reset the body from foot to head
If you want to understand the real root cause of pain, restriction, fatigue, and imbalance in the body — this is for you.

Our Active Balance Level 1 Foundation Course teaches you how to restore alignment and function from the feet to the head, helping the body return to its natural balance.

✨ What you’ll learn:
• Key areas to rebalance muscles, fascia, ligaments & joints
• How to clear nerve restrictions & energy blockages
• How to improve organ freedom within the skeletal structure
• How to regulate the nervous system
• How to reduce pain, inflammation & headaches
• How to improve mobility, energy levels & natural movement

We don’t chase symptoms.
👉 We treat the root cause of pain and restriction in the body.

🧠 Our work is based on over 50 years of research by Dennis Bartram, drawing from:
Osteopathy • Chiropractic • Applied Kinesiology • Touch for Health • Reflexology • Sacro-Occipital Technique • CMRT • Cranial & Visceral Osteopathy • Neural Manipulation
Amatsu principles (from 35+ years of study under Masaaki Hatsumi, with records spanning 3000 years)

👣 In Active Balance, we always work foot to head
Restoring alignment, resetting the body, and allowing proper joint and organ function to return naturally.

👥 Who is this course for?
✔ Anyone who wants to help their family & friends
✔ Massage therapists, PTs, reflexologists, acupuncturists
✔ Bodyworkers who want deeper, longer-lasting results
✔ Anyone serious about understanding the body properly
🎥 Video shows Charlotte, one of our newly trained practitioners, performing a full foot-to-head Active Balance reset.

👉 Want to learn Active Balance?
📩 Drop us an email at active-balance@outlook.com or check out our website for more information

👉 Or want to receive a ‘Balance’ yourself?
📍 Contact one of our trained Active Balance practitioners and find your closest therapist in your area.

31/01/2026

Thank you for this fantastic review about our new book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The book contains lots of information on why you might be experiencing pain and what you can do to help with this including interactive videos and follow along activities to help get your body back into alignment ⚖️

The book is available as in both hard copy and ebook, links to buy in our profile or download Now as EBOOK 📖

31/01/2026

The human brain is remarkably fatty, composed of approximately 60% lipids. Because it cannot produce certain essential fats on its own, it relies on your diet to maintain its complex machinery. Healthy fats serve several critical roles:

🗂️Building and Protecting Structure

📑Cell Membrane Integrity: Healthy fats, particularly DHA (an omega-3), are primary structural components of brain cell membranes. They ensure these membranes remain fluid and flexible, which is vital for neurons to communicate effectively.

📑Myelin Insulation: Fats are used to create myelin, a fatty sheath that wraps around nerve fibers. This “insulation” allows electrical impulses to travel quickly and efficiently, facilitating everything from fast thinking to physical coordination.

🗂️Supporting Brain Communication

📑Neurotransmitter Synthesis: Essential fatty acids act as messengers and help synthesize neurotransmitters, the chemicals that transmit signals between brain cells.

📑Synaptic Plasticity: Fats like DHA stimulate pathways that promote neuronal plasticity, which is the brain’s ability to form new connections—a process essential for learning and memory.

🗂️Protection and Maintenance

📑Anti-inflammatory Effects: Omega-3 fatty acids help reduce neuroinflammation and oxidative stress. High levels of inflammation are linked to cognitive decline and mood disorders.

📑Blood-Brain Barrier: Healthy fats help maintain the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, the defense system that prevents damaging chemicals from entering your brain.

🗂️Alternative Energy Source

📑Fueling Neurons: While the brain primarily uses glucose, recent research indicates that neurons can tap into fat droplets for energy when glucose levels are low. Additionally, ketones (produced from fats) can serve as an efficient fuel source, particularly during infancy and in certain therapeutic diets like the ketogenic diet for epilepsy.

PMID: 20329590