Paul Warner, MPT

My journey into exploring the human body began over 30 years ago when I tore both of my calf muscles training to be a smokejumper for the Bureau of Land Management. The event was an awaking, painfully showing the connection between the body and mind. My desire to better understand how the body worked led me to study massage and bodywork. The power of touch to bring a person into the present moment and be with a given sensation led me to meditation. Meditation led me to yoga which broadened my understanding and experience of awareness and mindfulness into movement. I wanted to ground these parts, and in 2006 I graduated with my Masters in Physical Therapy. Since then, I have continued to learn, utilizing hands-on and motor control techniques to foster change in a person's structural and movement patterns. There is a moment where the person I'm working with experiences a change--a shift-- and that moment is full of possibility: the possibility of being pain free; the possibility of throwing a ball with their child or getting down on the floor with their grandchild. The body is made to move. Dysfunctional patterns of movement lead to pain and pain limits the body's ability to move. Identify and address the dysfunctional pattern, remove the pain, and the body has the opportunity to come into a new relationship with itself and its environment.