TBR Wellness & Rehab

11/12/2025

This is common praise we get with clients who come in with sleep issues coupled with shoulder or arm pain. Once you work the jaw, the body just responds in so many ways! ✨

Your tongue plays a much bigger role in your sleep quality and neck stability than most people realize.

When the tongue rests low in the mouth or falls back during rest, it can disrupt breathing patterns, narrow the airway, and alter how your nervous system regulates rest. This often leads your body to “guard” through the neck and shoulders.

The hyoid bone, which anchors the tongue, sits at the intersection between your jaw, neck, and airway. The hyoid muscles are your tongue 👅 muscles!
It’s position influences the tension throughout the surrounding muscles, affects how calm or alert your body feels, and has a major impact on how the rest of your joints organize and react.

Through fascial and muscular connections, the tongue communicates with both the vestibular system (your sense of balance and spatial awareness) and the vagus nerve (the main pathway of parasympathetic, or “rest and digest,” regulation).

When the tongue is gently resting on the roof of the mouth, it helps stimulate the vagus nerve, promotes better breathing rhythm, reduces unnecessary muscular guarding, and supports deeper, more restorative sleep.

Sometimes, improving shoulder pain or sleep quality starts by simply bringing awareness back to places you never thought of like the tongue and jaw connection 🧠🧠

11/08/2025

Had a wonderful time teaching MMT to the students in Phoenix yesterday!

Thank you to our TAs and our all the students that showed up!

Being able to have this class before level 1 NKT makes understanding NKT so much easier. Such a great course for the students!

Thankful to be apart of this community!

11/05/2025

There’s no “wrong” movement. Maybe wrong for you in the moment, wrong load or wrong tension management.
But the movement itself is not inherently wrong.

Sure there are optimal positions for certain loads but even those are so incredibly individual & change depending on the clients internal & external state.

Your body is a story of what it’s adapted to over time. Every pattern tells a story of how you’ve learned to move, protect, and perform.

The main issue I see arises when your body becomes stuck in one pattern and doesn’t know how to access other options.
The term most often heard is “overused” - however that doesn’t mean the muscle is tight/overactive or even “overuse”- it can also be under utilized because it can’t access its full range of motion.

The coolest part? You can constantly rewrite the story with movement diversity & by challenging your nervous system. Or by coming and seeing us for a Neurokinetic therapy session.

Diversity in movement is what keeps us adaptable, resilient, and pain-free.

11/05/2025

We take about 20,000 breaths a day but how many of those are intentional?
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Shallow breathing keeps us in a state of tension. From tight rib cages and overworked neck muscles.

When you slow your breath, create a 360 expansion through the ribs, and let your exhale lengthen… your body finally gets permission to regulate.
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Breathing less often, but more completely, helps improve oxygen exchange, core stability, and nervous system balance.
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Your breath is adaptable & it changes to the stimuli & tension you’re under most frequently.

What state do you feel your body is under most days?

Learning to use your breath is your most powerful tool for healing and awareness.

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11/03/2025

While my mom didn’t have breast cancer, she did pass away from cancer. That experience forever shaped how I view health, healing, and connection.

This weekend, we’re honored to be part of the Pink Feathered Crawl to support breast cancer awareness and the strength of every woman who’s ever faced this fight.
We’ll be offering chair massages & donating 15% of our proceeds to the Anne Cano Memorial Grant.

View the Facebook event, buy a ticket to the event & sign up for the chair massages using the links in my story!

If you can’t see those story’s by the time you see this! DM us personally & we will send you a link to the event!

11/02/2025

11/02/2025

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11/01/2025

Let's talk about HOW stress can cause constipation.

We're going to start with the Vagus nerve (Pink #1). The Vagus nerve starts in the brain, goes down the neck to help with swallowing and controls the majority of the upper airway. It then crosses across the entire chest to help regulate heart rhythm, breathing, the stomach and the GI tract. The Vagus nerve helps with stomach acid production and is in charge of peristalsis (the movement of food through the intestines). The Vagus nerve is a two-way streak...while the brain sends information to all of those areas, it also receives information from those areas.

Next up, we have sympathetic control of the GI system (Pink #2 + dashed lines). The sympathetic system is the fight-or-flight system. In times of stress (internal or external) the sympathetic system slows down mucus production and decreases blood flow. It's the brains way of saying, "we're under attack so we can worry about p**ping later."

Opposite of sympathetic signals, we have parasympathetic signals (solid lines). These signals are in charge of rest & digest. They are in charge of the tone and motility/movement of the intestines. It's the parasympathetic system that helps us break down, absorb and move food the GI system.

Finally, we have the sacral nerves (Pink #3). These nerves control sensation and motor control of the pelvis, butt, and groin in addition to bladder, bowel and sexual functions. These nerves are sympathetic and are in charge of contracting and relaxing the a**l sphincter (what holds p**p in/let's you p**p).

When you are stressed, your body says "let's keep them safe" by slowing the blood flow to the gut, slowing how fast food moves through the gut, decreasing acid production and mucus to prevent absorption and preventing you from p**ping. It's your body's way of protecting you by allowing you to "run from a bear," even if your bear is stress from a never-ending to-do list or unmet sensory needs.