How is RE:TRAIN different from other training options?

At RE:TRAIN, we support clients who, despite trying various training, rehabilitation, and treatment programs, continue to experience pain, stiffness, imbalance, and difficulties with daily mobility. Our specialized methods focus on uncovering and correcting underlying movement patterns that are often missed.

We work with clients who are no longer seeking quick fixes but are ready to put in the commitment and work for long-term, sustainable change.

We use movement-based rehabilitation techniques to address the root causes of your pain and dysfunction, ensuring long-term recovery and resilience. Our focus is on improving mobility, stabilizing the nervous system, and restoring trust in your body. Once safe movement is established, you’ll progress to rebuilding resilient strength to meet everyday challenges. Our Restore -> Rebuild -> Redefine system creates a strong foundation for living pain-free with renewed energy and confidence in your movement.

Core Components

We develop tailored recovery and exercise programs for your individual needs and goals. Components include:

• Targeted and Functional Movement: Exercises are selected to restore functions needed to achieve your personal rehabilitation, fitness and wellness goals. This includes correcting compensations patterns (link to faq) that may have developed due to stress, poor posture, injury, and aging.

• Progressive Loading: Intensity, speed and repetition of exercises are gradually increased as the body adapts and grows stronger, building resilience while preventing re-injury.

• Mind-Body Connection: Incorporating mindful techniques such as specific breathing rhythms and weighted breathing to enhance body awareness and control, and build deep pressure stimulation to help calm the nervous system and manage pain. We take you from fight-or-flight response to a rest-and-digest state.

• Integrated Care: Hands-on, manual therapy for joint mobilization and soft tissue work, where appropriate, to prepare the body for better motion.

• Patient Education and Self-Management: This is the most crucial element of our program and what truly sets us apart, we empower you with the knowledge and tools to manage your health on your own. We help you build better body awareness, curiosity, and the confidence to experiment with different approaches and exercises to continue your healing and strength building journey.

If you are tired of hype and quick-fixes that don’t last, and ready to put in the work, schedule a consultation to get your journey started.

The RE:TRAIN Approach

What you will learn:

• Ease is efficient: Excessive effort is not required. Moving with ease enhances efficiency, reduces strain and stress, and supports long-term results.

• Foundations of Recovery: Working with your nervous system and rebuilding trust in your body lays the groundwork for recovery, resilient strength, and pain-free movement.

• Less is more: Strategic, purposeful movement yields better results.

• Understand the impacts of stress, injury, and aging on movement.

Daily stress, injuries, and aging can significantly impact the way you move. These factors can lead to the development of compensation patterns -- ways of moving that originally meant to protect you from discomfort, but now have become stuck as your default and have resulted in pain and/or further injury.

A simple movement like bending your knee to lower down can become impossible due to injury. This results in the compensation pattern of hinging your hips to lower the torso with straighter legs, and using the reverse motion to lift back up. This can be fine strategy for a long time if needed, but if you don't restore the knee bending eventually, the chance of your hips or back feeling overloaded will be higher, because you're relying on one pattern too much to compensate for another pattern that doesn't feel safe to use.

Simply put, RE:TRAIN is all about making movement patterns feel safe and strong, even if they don't right now. To do this, we build awareness around compensation patterns, and create movement challenges that encourage the less familiar patterns so the work shifts to where it's needed, instead of the same old aches and pains getting worse.

Methods

RE:TRAIN is the product of many years of learning while helping individuals in rough waters. Symptoms like severe nausea, migraines, chronic fatigue, and joint pain preventing them from participating fully in a normal life or any kind of traditional workout routine.

Even before the end of my Kinesiology degree at Simon Fraser University in 2017, I knew there was lots I needed to learn to become an excellent trainer. My own issues with injuries and imbalances made me curious about all the ways the health and fitness industry suggested I tackle these problems, and it's led me to study from many incredible teachers and systems, including Nathan Nussbaum (MovMed), Adarian Barr, Eric Arceneaux, Functional Patterns, David Grey, and many more.

My training methods can vary depending on the case and include strength training, mobility, functional movement, breath work, circulation restoration, nervous system regulation, and skill-specific training. I continue to stay on the cutting edge of innovation in the field, doing the research so my clients can reap the benefits with ease.

Many individuals who have worked with me have already seen physiotherapists, chiropractors, and various specialists, but still felt they needed help getting past a plateau, and we were able to find a smarter way to integrate fitness and wellness into their lives.