Balance Bodywork & Yoga

Why are we still having a conversation in 2026 about whether preferring muscle over extreme thinness is just a matter of personal taste?

Women spent two centuries poisoning themselves to look like they were dying. Drinking vinegar. Swallowing arsenic. Going blind from belladonna drops. Compressing their own organs into corsets to imitate a wasting disease.

Muscle mass predicts how long you live. The thin ideal predicts nothing except how well you absorbed a 200 year old disease aesthetic.

That preference was never yours. It has a paper trail and a body count.

Every year you spend chasing a disease aesthetic is a year you are not building the body that keeps you alive longer. DM me READY. 🦓

Why hypermobile people mysteriously “feel stiff and tight” has nothing to do with fascia.

Your nervous system has two ways to protect a joint.

Structural gatekeeping—where it physically limits your range. And pain gatekeeping—where it uses discomfort as the lockdown signal.

Hypermobile bodies skip the first one. The connective tissue laxity bypasses the structural gate entirely.

So you move into range the nervous system never signed off on, for years, accumulating threat signals the whole time.

Eventually it switches to plan B.

That’s not injury or aging. That’s a nervous system that finally ran out of patience.

Loading range is how you give your system a reason to stand down. Not stretching more. Not “releasing.”

LOADING.

Comment READY if you want to talk about what that looks like for your body.