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by: Manny Aragon Session 1 of 10: Welcome: Horizontalize the Pelvis, prepare the body to receive the following sessions in the series with efficiency. This session makes the remaining sessions more effective. The first session is an introductory session and is a longer session than the rest of the sessions in the series. This is…

by: Manny Aragon This is an excerpt from my recently completed Client Manual for the Basic 10 Session Series of Structural Integration in which I explain what to expect and, in this case, common problems that may arise and time tested resolutions to these problems. General advice: 1)Sometimes clients report lingering muscular soreness for a…

by: Manny Aragon   A couple of weeks ago my wife announced to me that she was taking the whole week of her birthday (august 14th) off and that she would like to take a vacation. After rejecting her initial suggestion of San Diego (we have been there a few times recently) we settled on…

by Manny Aragon Last week I shared three of my favorite breakfasts. This week I’m going to share some variations of the breakfast shake I shared last week. These can be made and consumed in place of a meal or as a post workout recovery drink, between meal snack, etc. Shakes are fast and convenient…

by: Manny Aragon   I live a very active lifestyle. Most days I’m up early, running, biking, or swimming before I come home to wake my kids up, and make breakfast and lunch for everyone. It usually takes my body about an hour to cool down from intense exercise and I use that time to…

by: Manny Aragon   In last weeks email, I told the story of how I injured my neck and caused 2 bulging discs complete with excruciating pain, arm tremors, fireworks, etc. In my last email I covered primarily the origin of my injury as well as the clinical pathway I took to resolve the injury…

by: Manny Aragon In December of 2011 I got an intriguing offer from a close family friend. He invited me on a private mountain bike ride on the Irvine Company’s private open space preserve (for those not from Orange County, CA, the Irvine Co. was a former land grant ranch bought by the Irvine family…

by: Manny Aragon Recently a client came into my office with a common complaint: “my lower back hurts and its causing spasm in my buttocks”. “ At this point, ive tried everything and cant figure out whats actually going to help”. After looking at this clients body, it was pretty clear what was going on.…

by Manny Aragon Years ago, I trained in a martial arts dojo five days a week, 3-5 hours a day. I was sore. I was tired. In the morning I had trouble getting out of bed. My life revolved around my next double depth charge (coffee with two shots of espresso), carb laden pasta with…

by: Manny Aragon Recently an article was published in the NY Times entitled Breeding The Nutrition Out Of Our Food .It caused many folks in the nutrition community to blink not because it goes against anything we have been saying in the recent past, rather, because it further validates the common refrain coming from my lips “…