Foot pain has a way of showing up uninvited. One day you're walking comfortably, and the next you're dealing with heel pain, arch discomfort, numb toes, or stiffness that makes every step feel uncertain. Many people try supportive shoes, orthotics, stretching, or foot pain exercises, yet the discomfort often keeps coming back.

In a conversation for the Move Better, Feel Better Summit, physical therapist Carol Montgomery and Cynthia Allen explored why chronic foot pain is often about more than the foot itself. Drawing from the Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and decades of clinical experience, they discuss how the nervous system influences posture, balance, walking, and the way your feet function.

Whether you're dealing with plantar fasciitis symptoms, heel pain, ankle stiffness, bunions, or recurring foot discomfort, this conversation offers a fresh perspective on finding lasting relief. Discover how improving movement awareness can help you walk with greater ease, improve balance, and support healthier, more comfortable feet.


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Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

Larry Wells is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and social work professional who helps people improve mental and physical wellness. He has supported individuals facing challenges such as cancer, chronic pain, infertility, PTSD, and surgery.

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What if walking with a walker could feel lighter, smoother, and more connected throughout your whole body?

In this final part of the series, Cynthia Allen brings everything together — helping you explore how your torso, ribs, pelvis, shoulder blades, and legs work together during walking.

These subtle movement explorations can help reduce unnecessary strain on your:
✔️ Shoulders
✔️ Hands
✔️ Neck
✔️ Low back
✔️ Hip joints

You’ll explore:
✔️ How rotation improves walking efficiency
✔️ Why your shoulders may hurt when using a walker
✔️ How to stop over-gripping with your hands
✔️ The connection between your upper and lower body
✔️ Small movement cues that create easier walking

Rather than forcing a “correct way” to walk, this lesson helps your nervous system discover more comfortable and efficient possibilities.

Practice only what feels helpful for you.
Go slowly.
Pause often.
And then take your walker for a walk and notice what changes.

👉 If you missed Parts 1 and 2, start there first to get the full benefit of this series.

Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

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What does it mean to have strong, healthy bones? Is it different at age 13 than age 30 and yet again at age 80? Let’s dive into osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, posture, vitality and fall risk using the latest scientific findings along with principles and lessons from Bones for Life.

In a conversation for the Move Better, Feel Better Summit, Lavinia Plonka and Cynthia Allen explored the connection between bone health, posture, balance, osteoporosis prevention, and the work of Ruthy Alon, creator of the Bones for Life® program.

Whether you're looking for Bones for Life exercises, exploring posture classes, or searching for ways to improve balance and reduce fall risk, understanding how movement affects the skeleton is an excellent place to begin.


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Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.


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Walking with a walker should not feel like dragging yourself forward with your arms.

In Part 2 of this series, Cynthia Allen helps you explore how stepping, weight shifting, and using your legs more effectively can make walking feel lighter, easier, and more stable.

If you’ve already explored Part 1, you may already notice:
✔️ Less gripping in your hands
✔️ More upright posture
✔️ Reduced strain in your shoulders and back

Now we build on that foundation.

In this lesson, you’ll explore:
✔️ How to prepare your body before taking a step
✔️ Why weight shifting changes everything
✔️ How to help your legs support you again
✔️ The role of the foot, hip, and pelvis during walking
✔️ How to reduce over-reliance on your walker

These gentle movement explorations are designed to wake up natural walking patterns — not through force, but through awareness and coordination.

Take your time, pause the video often, and explore what works best for your body.

👉 Be sure to watch Part 1 before this video if you haven’t already, and subscribe so you don’t miss Part 3 of the series.

Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

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Most people are never taught HOW to actually use a walker.

So instead of feeling supported… they end up with more back pain, hip pain, shoulder tension, wrist strain, and exhaustion while walking.

In this first video of the series, Cynthia Allen guides you through gentle movement explorations to help you find a more upright, supported, and comfortable standing position at your walker — without forcing yourself to “stand up straight.”

You’ll explore:
✔️ Why your posture at the walker matters
✔️ How to reduce strain on your low back
✔️ Why your hands may be gripping too hard
✔️ Small adjustments that can make walking feel lighter
✔️ Simple movement cues that improve comfort and stability

These are not exercises based on force or correction. Instead, they help your nervous system discover easier and more efficient options for walking.

Pause often, explore slowly, and find the cues that work best for YOU.

👉 Don’t forget to subscribe for the next videos in this series, where Cynthia will guide you into easier stepping, better weight shifting, and more natural walking mechanics with your walker.

Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

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In North America, we are surrounded by a culture that centralizes a uniform aesthetic as commercially acceptable. We are bombarded with physical and medical ways to ‘fix’ or ‘correct’ any misalignment or perceived imbalance. To untangle this bias within oneself requires a deep unraveling of personal and medical labeling. An externalized classification defines an internal identity, and completes a self-image so ingrained that reimagining oneself as whole with imbalance rather than broken or not working is transformative.

In a conversation at the Move Better, Feel Better Summit, movement expert Andrea Tutt and Future Life Now partner Cynthia Allen explore why embracing asymmetry may be vital to healthy movement.

Using the Bones for Life® method, rooted in Moshe Feldenkrais work, we can begin to rethink how we view our bodies and bones—moving away from the “broken machine” model toward a more organic approach to posture, vitality, and long-term mobility.

If you are looking for posture classes, support for scoliosis, or ways to improve bone health without painful correction, this shift in perspective may be for you.

Join our Bones for Life Online Classes here: https://futurelifenow.com/op/bones-for-life-vip-access/


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Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

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Discover how the neuroplasticity of the brain can help you solve old patterns through the Feldenkrais Method.

In this conversation from the Move Better, Feel Better Summit, Aliza Stewart and Cynthia Allen explore how gentle movement, awareness, and curiosity can create new options for stress, pain, and habitual patterns.

✨ Learn how to reconnect with your body, improve coordination, and build lasting change


Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

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Bladder leaks, incontinence, pelvic pain, and weak control are often treated as isolated issues—but they’re rarely just about one muscle. Your pelvic floor is deeply connected to your breath, posture, movement habits, and nervous system regulation.

In this video, we explore a more holistic approach to pelvic health inspired by a conversation from the Move Better, Feel Better Summit featuring Mary Susan Chen and Lavinia Plonka. Drawing from the Feldenkrais Method® and clinical physical therapy, they explain how whole-body awareness can change the way you support and understand your pelvic floor.

Instead of relying only on strengthening exercises, you’ll learn how coordination, awareness, and release can improve bladder control and reduce unnecessary tension in the body.

If you’re ready to improve pelvic floor health, bladder control, posture, and core support, start with Cynthia Allen’s guided Feldenkrais pelvic floor classes:

✨ New 7-Week Live Series Breath, Posture, and Your Pelvic Floor ( Exclusive Your Learning Body Course Open to All)

Learn more and find out here:
https://futurelifenow.com/op/feldenkrais-breath-and-pelvic-floor-health/

Recommended On-Demand Courses:
Mary Susan Chen: Your Pelvic Floor – Solving the Mysteries Down Under https://futurelifenow.com/op/on-demand-course-restore-pelvic-floor/
Cynthia Allen: Pelvic Mobility and Stability Course- https://futurelifenow.com/op/feldenkrais-pelvic-mobility-stability/
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Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

Larry Wells is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and social work professional who helps people improve mental and physical wellness. He has supported individuals facing challenges such as cancer, chronic pain, infertility, PTSD, and surgery.

Visit us at futurelifenow.com

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What if the name of the series is only pointing to something much bigger? 🌿

Breath. Posture. Pelvic floor.
These are the entry points.

But when we begin working with the deeper coordination of the body—the domes, the diaphragms, the way tone is distributed and organized—something more fundamental begins to shift.

Places that have been holding too much start to soften.
Places that have been “asleep” begin to come back online.

And the effects are not isolated.
They ripple through the whole system—breathing, movement, support, even how you feel in yourself.

This is not about fixing one thing.
It’s about restoring how the body functions as a whole.

That’s what we explore in Breath, Posture, AND Your Pelvic Floor, a 7-week live somatic series with Cynthia Allen.

A different kind of experience—one that goes beyond exercises and into how the body actually organizes and responds.

You’re also welcome to begin with the first free class and experience it for yourself.

Visit this link for more details: https://futurelifenow.com/op/feldenkrais-breath-and-pelvic-floor-health/

Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

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How can something as simple as the way we breathe and use the mouth influence the rest of the body? 🌿

It may not look like much at first, but the relationship between breath, pressure, and coordination in the system is always active. And small shifts in how we engage these patterns can reveal something deeper about how the body is organizing itself.

This is part of what we explore in Breath, Posture & Your Pelvic Floor, a live 7-week somatic series with Cynthia Allen.

A space to understand how breath, posture, and pelvic floor function are connected—not as separate parts, but as one integrated system.

This is where we begin. 🌿

Visit this link for more details: https://futurelifenow.com/op/feldenkrais-breath-and-pelvic-floor-health/

Cynthia Allen is a Feldenkrais® practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and educator with over 25 years in holistic practices, healthcare, and organizational consulting. She offers workshops and has collaborated with hospitals, universities, and corporations.

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If you’ve been thinking about joining NLP Success 2026, this is your moment.

We often think of “trance” as something unusual.
But the truth is, we’re in and out of different states all day long.

Sometimes it’s worry.
Sometimes it’s stress.
Sometimes it’s self-doubt, fear, or even overthinking.

And other times, it’s ease, clarity, and confidence.

The question is not whether you’re in a trance.
The question is… can you manage the state you’re in?

In this video, Larry Wells shares a simple but powerful idea:
what if you could learn how to shift the internal state you live in, so you can experience life the way you actually want to?

That’s what we explore inside NLP Success.

Not just ideas, but practical tools to:
✨ Recognize the patterns shaping your experience
✨ Shift from reactive states into responsive ones
✨ Create more choice in how you think, feel, and act

Because real change doesn’t come from trying harder.
It comes from learning how to work with the structure of your experience.

💛 Enrollment for NLP Success 2026 closes tomorrow.

If you feel called to step into more clarity, confidence, and control over your inner world…

Get started here: https://futurelifenow.com/sp/nlp-success/

Larry Wells is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and social work professional who helps people improve mental and physical wellness. He has supported individuals facing challenges such as cancer, chronic pain, infertility, PTSD, and surgery.

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Many of us are in helping roles.

We want to support others, guide them, and help them create better lives.

And often, we think the way to do that is by giving more information.
More advice. More explanations.

But what if that’s not what actually creates change?

Real transformation doesn’t come from understanding alone.
It comes from experience.

Not just knowing what to do…
but experiencing something new internally that shifts how a person thinks, feels, and responds.

That’s the difference.
In NLP, we don’t just give people more information.
We help create experiences that allow change to happen from within.

💛 If you feel called to guide real transformation in yourself and others, the NLP Success 2026 Certification Training is now open.

Visit this link for more details: https://futurelifenow.com/sp/nlp-success/

Larry Wells is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and social work professional who helps people improve mental and physical wellness. He has supported individuals facing challenges such as cancer, chronic pain, infertility, PTSD, and surgery.

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