Free The Body.
The Mind Will Follow.
Life works better when you come from a position of strength. Let's break down how to get there - physically, mentally, emotionally - on all levels. This best positions the pursuit of you life in thought, ambition, and plans.
Do you want to do more than you can right now?
You have one body, one mind, one life. The more they harmoniously exist, the more you can too. Here's how I can help.
You possess an inborn instinct to stretch, remain flexible, and regain proper alignment. Learn the language of movement and what exercise really involves, then apply this throughout your life. For the rest of your life. You become your own personal trainer.
A measure of self-reliance generates confidence regarding your own efforts and abilities. Your not a “something” (extroverted, neurotic, ambitious, etc.) Your a “someone” with a unique life story, daily program and overall life plan. You become your own life coach.
My massage therapy method replicates the movements of daily life to release stress and restore your body’s flexibility and range of motion. As your body naturally realigns, your overall posture improves. Your body works more efficiently with less pain.
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My Approach In Working With You.
What motivates you to examine your life? Over the past thirty years, I developed Vitalogy by working with hundreds of clients. It has been an honor to listen to their stories. Their intimate sharing, through their own words and as manifested in their bodies, became essential for interpreting my own journey. Along the way, I gained perspective on our collective story as well. I became a massage therapist and created Bio-Somatic Therapy to facilitate that.
We each determine what progress represents to us. Progress that can be measured. And managed. An excellent starting point: knowing the impact of our life experience; what our human needs are; having willingness to take ownership for all of this. This forges great understanding of our own behavior and the behavior of those closest to us. With enough practice, or “time-on-task” as I like to say, we appreciate ourselves and others more fully. This inspired me to create the VitalMind Course and become a life coach.
Our mind’s connection to our body echoes another critically important and intimate relationship. Fortunately, our body already knows what it loves and needs. By helping it manage the impact of technology, we have potential for sustaining our physical prime of life longer. For these reasons I created the VitalBody Course and became a personal trainer.
With my personal training, massage therapy, and life coaching programs, this may be the body, mind, and soul solutions you’ve been looking for, all in one place. Operate in your prime. Live the difference for decades to come.
Will Nelson:
Massage Therapist - Personal Trainer - Life Coach.
Mind & Body Self-Reliance Advocate.
I utilize an Eastern mindset and Western work ethic to create a synergy where you allow rather than force. My aim involves coming alongside you, guiding you in your process, not in front leading you nor behind pushing you.
“I seriously appreciate the insight & wisdom you’ve given me over the past 2+ months. It feels like I have unbiased, real guidance for the first time in my life and I can safely say that you’ve changed my life. In hindsight, I think I was on the fast track to completely running myself into the ground without even realizing it.” – NJ Client
I practice from my studio in Buford GA or via Zoom, phone calls, texting and emails.
Course materials will be emailed prior to sessions.
Discover the New & Improved YOU 2.0.
For Your Mind. For Your Body. For Your Life.
“Will’s unshockable about your thoughts or your body. He doesn’t judge. You can be yourself and be totally honest. You can show him your worst mess and he won’t flinch — but instead cuts to the core of the problem and stays until it’s fixed. And the ‘fixing’ doesn’t mean that he fixed the problems, rather you and he figured them out with a way for you to manage for yourself.” – CA Client
I Work Best With Those Who:
- Conduct themselves in life based on doing their own thinking.
- Want to grow beyond their own self-imposed barriers.
- Function as their own decision-maker in life whenever possible.
- Value self-reliance expressed through a DIY mindset.
- Seek a heightened understanding of their body, themselves, and their life experience.
- Are interested in skill-sets that extend the mental and physical prime of life.
- Recognize the importance of uniting the various moving parts of their life.
- Have a hunger to express their creative abilities and manifest productive outcomes.
- Enjoy clarifying their targets and goals into a proper sequence, then launch actionable steps.
- Seek greater self-reliance regarding mind/body self-care, lifestyle management, creative expression, and personal productivity.
- Welcome accountability and enhanced support to develop solutions to specific work/life issues.
- Can easily self-correct thoughts, behaviors, and actions, beginning with more effective communication with themselves and others.
- Carefully choose their habits and disciplines and employ them wisely.
- Because a clearly defined investment in yourself never stops paying dividends.
Where Success Is A System. Not A Secret.
The Self-Help industry perpetually keeps you coming back for more. We don't. They often deal in vague concepts that can't be measured. We believe if you can't measure it you can't manage it. Saying "everything happens for a reason" is useless if you never discover why. It's time for a new approach.
Vitalogy embodies the new study and practice of life everyone needs. It's a fresh "new" concept that completely goes against the grain of mainstream solutions ("quick fixes" -- prescriptions, fad diets, life hacks, weed, etc.) and is a call to face/get over your issues through pro-activity, self-awareness, self-reliance - stopping issues before they get worse, etc.
Our mission is guiding people to look after themselves easier and more effectively. To build a lifestyle of their own choosing with confidence in themselves and clarity regarding their choices.
To maximize mind and body self-care to free up time, energy, and resources for creative and otherwise enjoyable and productive pursuits.
We value creativity and productivity, self-knowledge and skill-set acquisition – to better facilitate being participants in life, rather than merely spectators.
Over 50 years ago, a young boy witnessed both a problem and its solution. His parents’ illnesses demonstrated the irreplaceable value of physical and mental health.
His elderly Aunt, generations ahead of her time, saw the future – drinking pure water, eating organic food, exercising regularly, and more.
A school teacher remarked, “He disdains idleness and inertia. He longs for active use of his mental and physical capacities.” Thus began Will’s life-long passion for mind and body self-reliance.
- To teach you how to become your own personal trainer.
- To teach you how to become your own life coach.
- To get your body working more efficiently with less pain.
- To get your mind more organized with better self-talk.
- To extend the physical and mental prime of life.
- Vitalogy: A Physical & Mental Model of Self-Reliance.
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Will Nelson advocates for people dedicated to extending the physical & mental prime of their lives. For 30 years, he has contributed to the health & wellness industry and continues to innovate with thought leadership today.
As a young adult, he studied the human potential and took internships with doctors and health care providers. He supplemented his hands-on and clinical education by becoming a Licensed Massage Therapist, a Certified Exercise Physiologist, and earning a BA in Psychology. He has extensive training in Non-Violent Communication (NVC), permanently sustainable agriculture (Permaculture), and the creative process.
Subsequently, Will practiced in five different states, gaining a broader perspective of the American People, while pursuing writing, music and engaging others interested in the notion of “self-reliance.” He developed his own life management courses, VitalMind and VitalBody along with Bio-Somatic Therapy, a restorative movement approach to massage therapy. All together they combine to provide Vitalogy’s foundation.
His panoramic perspective of the human experience stems from hundreds of sessions in private, corporate, and clinical settings. The application of his skill-sets leave a life-long impact on anyone that takes his words & work to heart.
“You are a dynamic individual – creative, alive, and passionate in your work and life. It’s amazing how nimble your body is – like watching a teenager in a much older person’s body. What a privilege to work with you and receive the acceptance you offer. I love to speak my truth with you. I feel accepted and valued, grateful for your deep and rich contribution to my journey.” – NC Client
“Mr. Nelson assisted our staff regarding how their strengths contributed to running our daily business operations. He developed a procedural manual so people knew exactly what to do without reinventing the wheel each day. This clarified our mission and purpose, while recognizing the boundaries in which we could work productively and effectively as a team.” – MI Client.
Education & Career Achievements.
- A.A. Exercise Physiology – B.A. in Psychology
- American Massage Therapy Association – Licensed Massage Therapist
- American College of Sports Medicine – Certified Exercise Physiologist
- Published “The Real Truth About Health,” in 1987, used to train nurses and those seeking mind/body self-reliance.
- Maintained a private practice in five different states, working with hundreds of clients in homes, businesses, and clinical settings.
- Established the “Gymnasia,” a gym and healthcare facility in Costa Mesa, CA.
- Seminar presenter at Continuing Education and Community Education conferences.
- Published VitalMind, a written course used in conjunction with my life coaching. First edition 1995. Revised in 2005 and 2019.
- Published VitalBody, a video course used in conjunction with my personal training and massage therapy. First edition 1997. Revised in 2006 and 2020.
“Committed, generous, caring and fun, Will Nelson is committed to seeing his clients fully bloom. While his work is grounded in the physical, it also impacts and clears emotional and mental occlusions. Will works in a heart-centered way that resonates as deep truth in the uniqueness of the ‘we’ space.” – MI Client
Will’s unique method of massage therapy, “Bio-Somatic Therapy,” treats the body by improving posture and physical flexibility and the mind by addressing manifestations of core life issues held in the body. His 30 years of experience combine intuitive ability with unique movement and flexibility techniques.
At “Solid Ground,” his Buford GA urban homestead, music studio, and client/student training facility, he teaches VitalMind and VitalBody techniques of self-reliance, along with the creative process, kitchen management, and urban homesteading (Permaculture). He grows food to facilitate his environmental consciousness, composes music, stays curious, and strives to live his best life.
“Will Nelson’s advocacy guided me through several challenges. We examined some self limiting thoughts and their origins. Will’s calming presence gave me direction, clarity, and strategies with regards to several business decisions. I highly recommend Will’s services to help you find clarity.” – CA Client
Clients Working With Will.
“After working with Will Nelson, I can honestly say nobody has ever had my back like him. His willingness, inspiration, and help is always there. The way he affirms and guides makes me feel and believe that I am capable. I can do my life, my way, every day.” – FL Client.
My Life Coaching Blends Eastern & Western Techniques.
Blending the Eastern mindset and Western work ethic establishes a peaceful and tranquil inner life with a focused and productive outer one. You allow rather than force, while eagerly pursuing matters of life.
- Discover techniques that facilitate a feeling of being carried along in your journey rather than constantly pushing.
- Establish and maintain a consistent inner mindset that energizes your daily disciplines.
- Create a smoother work/life flow requiring less energy expenditure when taking action.
- Arrive at decisions with less worry, deliberating, or over-analyzing.
- Improve recognition of life’s possibilities and capitalize on them.
Share Your Success. Own Your Failure. Pressure is a Privilege… and an Opportunity.
I practice live from my Buford GA studio or via Zoom, phone calls, texting and emails.
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We Believe:
- Fulfilling your life’s potential requires a steady mind and well-functioning body.
- Maturity embraces continuous evaluation and self-correction of your thinking and behavior with as many chances as necessary.
- Self-reliance supports sustainable evolution better than temporary or situational measures.
- That “Life Resolutions” are longer lasting than “New Year’s Resolutions.”
- That asking good questions establishes greater context, clarifies points of reference, eases resistance, and facilitates receptivity.
- In comparing yourself only to yourself – from yesterday, last month, or last year.
- That unresolved physical and emotional issues can worked on and worked through.
- Your body contains a built-in instinct to stretch, stay loose, self-adjust your posture and maintain a robust physical presence throughout life.
- Technology has forever changed the essence and manner of our life experience. Models of psychology that don’t account for technology’s influence contain timeless elements but are otherwise obsolete.
- Modern living and social media bombard us with sensory and information overload, causing chronic overwhelm. Information itself has become a form of pollution. Maintaining equilibrium requires vigilance for prioritizing the excessive input of daily life.
Enjoy Life More.
Work At It Less. Manage It Easier.
Believing in yourself without depending on the world's reinforcement. Generating self-love for its own sake and intrinsic value. Striving to access more of your potential. Life Coaching doesn’t assign you a destination. You decide that. What you will get is a framework or ‘vehicle’ that you’ll use to finally gain traction.
Your Life Story
Your life story reflects your life viewpoint, how you react to events, and beliefs about your fit in the world. We all have a “story” – more identifying than fingerprints.
When focusing on the better attributes of your story, life reflects that back. But if you are “invested” in the negative attributes, life continually reflects that back as well.
Your Program
Your daily program connects your story with your life plan. Here you develop daily habits and routines to achieve your targets and goals. What have you been faithfully doing the last five years? Contemplate that.
You’ll understand why you have the life you do. Let me help take you from, “Will I or won’t I?” to, “How will I make it happen?”
Your Plan
Your life plan results from clarifying the passions and purposes behind your life’s vision. Your plan beautifully develops when supported by your story and daily program.
But if you’re stuck in your “story” or your daily program doesn’t handle what you need it to, your life plan will never properly unfold. Little will change. Ever.
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This transformative blend of Eastern and Western thinking works as a human operating system upgrade. Welcome to You 2.0, where you’re empowered to write a new story of compassionate success for your own future.
Go Beyond Self-Responsible to Self-Reliant
Self-Reliance generates confidence regarding your own efforts and abilities. You can better strive towards goals when knowing your life’s priorities. A pathway forms. You breed the confidence to make better decisions, enjoy better relationships, and use better self-talk to ward off negativity.
Sustainability implies clarity of purpose, with quality time-on-task supported by an ever-expanding knowledge base. This generates a daily living program that facilitates your overall life plans.
Functionality identifies your behavior patterns, connects them together, then you determine their influence – good, bad, or otherwise. Get started on an enlightening exploration where things you discover about yourself will genuinely resonate. Use this short-term process to lay the tracks for the long-term journey that is the rest of your life. Free yourself of whatever’s blocking your life energy and your potential.
“If you become Will’s client, be prepared for a life transformation of the best kind. He maintains excellent boundaries, along with the ability to deeply connect through the trust he facilitates.” – GA Client.
Your the Architect of Your Life. I Provide Construction Tools:
To refine your vision and create the pathway.
To shift your attention toward exploring life and not having to control, fix, or change everything.
To consume less of your time, energy, and resources on survival based activities of daily life.
To become more the sponsor of your own success and less the architect of your own adversity.
To remove barriers (perceived and real) and self-limiting beliefs to more easily generate self discipline and self-expression.
To extend the physical and mental prime of life.
To strengthen your intuition and capacity to explore your own creative process.
To temper life’s demands to reduce stress and disorder as you self-correct thinking and behavior.
To manage technology’s impact, keeping it your servant, not your master.
To improve connection with others along with what you contribute and what you receive.
This is Your Life. This is Important.
Purge the ‘poor internal programming’ you’ve been carrying around. Replace it with an optimized approach to a sustainable life. Learn how.
Doing it yourself (DIY) doesn’t mean all by yourself. Even high-achievers have blind spots preventing them from resolving long-term issues – and from aspiring to be something more. That’s where I come in – keeping the mental rabbit-holes and daily distractions from draining your energy and sabotaging your journey toward a higher purpose.
You can’t trust your process if you don’t have one. Live your life from a position of strength – without compromising your body, mind, family, career, or finances.
We call that “Compassionate Success.”
“There’s a ‘whatever it takes’ attitude — he quickly gets you where you want to be. He can envision your path to your goal, traveled your way, not his.” – CA Client.
Discover Your Creative Process - Jump Start Your Productivity
Many find the creative process illusive, inconsistent, and wrought with mythology about the “artistic lifestyle.”
This leaves people haphazardly navigating execution of daily activities and creative pursuits.
How about we destroy the myths, reveal true and stable principles, and keep you connected with your creative process.
- The process works the same whether conceptualizing an oil painting or building a business.
- Shifting between “creative and spontaneous” or “analytical and structured” helps immensely.
- True productivity lies in easily shifting among tasks and leaving them ready for the next time.
- Learn how some thoughts are generated. Others are received. Both aid immensely.
- Recognize why task and vision cannot be separated.
- Cultivate your unique mindfulness to make merging with your creative process easier.
- Develop more ability to focus on one direction, task, or thought at a time.
First we become INSPIRED. Then we develop COMMITMENT. Followed by DEDICATION. And ultimately DEVOTION.
Clean Out The Closet In Your Mind With My Life Coaching.
When you can identify and connect the patterns of your life together, your life will make sense like never before.
VitalMind does exactly that – without you spending years “fixing yourself.” An adaptable system that manifests mind and body self-reliance, regardless of changing circumstances, done in a self-directed, self-paced manner.
A novel approach that transforms your daily “to do” list into having the right items on your list to reach your life targets.
Streamline your physical and mental self-care by managing life issues and conflicts with less stress and drama.
Strengthen your ability to focus and maintain attention longer.
Update Yourself, Not Just Your Technology.
The identity you hold, based on the life story you tell yourself, drives your actions... and your results.
“VitalMind provided the framework to go deep into myself and take a real inventory of who I am. I created sustainable new habits of caring for myself. I loved the accessibility and pacing of the course. VitalMind inspires and invigorates while simultaneously having my edges pushed.” – NC Client.
“Motivational seminars never helped me long-term. VitalMind illustrated why I had lived my life the way I had all these years. I basically came clean with myself then declared my own rules for living. Best of all, it’s one all-inclusive course, not one in a long series that I’m still working on and paying for years from now.” – CA Client
My Life Coaching Style Utilizes:
30 years working with people with unique interests, using my VitalMind and VitalBody courses to further develop mind/body self-reliance.
Highly developed listening, memory, and perception skills. I hear what you are saying, and often what you are not saying.
Asking the right questions to quickly understand the essence of your life, getting us up to speed and moving forward faster.
Taking you right where you are, right now, by identifying what has impacted your life path, shaped your beliefs and outlook, and influenced your development.
A greater focus on activity management to eliminate busy but unproductive activity.
Opportunities for you to “vent,” given the reality of unforeseen events and situations, before delving into your accountability in them.
I provide life coaching live from Buford GA or via Zoom, phone calls, texting and emails.
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What Constitutes Personal Growth?
My Life Coaching process utilizing VitalMind defines and quantifies six proofs of growth.
- Making new mistakes instead of endlessly repeating old ones.
- Having better quality problems, i.e., where to invest your money versus how to pay this month’s bills.
- Developing a self-empowered mindset so life no longer falls apart when matters don’t go your way.
- Maintaining better boundaries with yourself and others.
- Creating more supportive and connective relationships.
- Improving “self-talk” to maintain a more peaceful state of mind.
Define & Follow Your Yellow Brick Road.
Others Discuss the Benefits of VitalMind:
Most behavior has discernible origins. Many people fail to connect the pieces together. They lack an underlying structure to provide context and discernment which makes deciding what’s best and what’s next in life easier.
Instead of telling you how to think, VitalMind encourages the exploration of your own unique decision making process. You learn about yourself in profound ways. Now you can fully possess yourself… and your life.
Life requires serious exertion at times, to generate greater levels of energy and willingness. This “waking up” summons the strength to confront and resolve. Adversity’s beauty lies in our navigating out of it.
Join The "New Movement" Movement!
Interaction with your body echoes a critically important and intimate relationship. By working with it instead of on it, you instill harmony and sustainability in your approach.
Learn the language your body speaks. You have an inborn instinct to stretch, stay loose, remain flexible, and above all, move about pain-free. Our VitalBody personal training program teaches that. And a whole lot more.
Release
VitalBody releases the stressful impact of modern living: excessive sitting, contracted posture, limited random movement, and sedentary jobs. A world steeped in technology requires little of the body… eyes on a screen, fingers on a keyboard, thumbs for texting. You can’t live well without the skill-set of releasing stress today.
Lengthen
More so than muscles and bones, it’s your connective tissue that holds you up. Loose and pliable connective tissue demonstrates the hallmark of youth. Knowing the proper procedure for lengthening your connective tissue will lengthen the physical prime of your life.
Realign
Rediscover your human instinct to stretch – a great ally in daily service to you. Self-adjusting your alignment and posture are part of this instinct. You naturally become fully operational with proper application. You’re as young as your spine is flexible. Otherwise, when the pain starts, the activities stop.
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My Approach To Personal Training
Understanding movement makes for proper movement. Without that, you can’t exercise safely, effectively, and most importantly, sustainably. We learn the alphabet, the building blocks of words, so we can read and write. The elements of movement form the building blocks of exercise… and all other physical activity.
Developing “movement literacy” involves axiomatic truths with universal applications. Those represent the foundation of my personal training program. Additional principles relate to your age, body type, personality, and aspirations for your body; fitness and otherwise.
Next is developing a relationship, a bonding with your body. As a friend. Not an adversary. This involves listening to your body to work in harmony with it. How would you care for your car if you only got one your whole life? Well, you only have one body and its requirements change from day-to-day.
I teach a basic movement menu, then add complexity depending on your interest and effort levels. Now you’re exercising from a position of knowledge and confidence. This applies throughout your life, for the rest of your life. If you move like no one else now you can move like no one else when you’re older.
With Joel Crosby, "The Barefoot Bullet."
You Can Train Yourself Once You:
- Obtain the education to master the practice of movement and exercise.
- Can create beneficial movement and exercise anywhere, anytime.
- Generate loose and flexible movement in just a few minutes.
- Turn what’s readily available in your own home into exercise equipment.
- Understand the keys for sustaining your physical prime longer.
- Learn specific applications at home, work, outdoors, on vacation, or the gym.
- Build confidence in your body’s capabilities while respecting its limitations.
- Develop a healthy and realistic relationship with your body.
- Halt the negative impacts of technology on your body.
- Seamlessly integrate physical self-care into your daily life.
- Pro-actively align your body to maintain youthful posture.
I provide personal training live from my Buford GA studio or via Zoom. Schedule a No Cost, No Obligation 20 Minute Consultation.
“I have more flexibility, freedom of movement, and connection with my body. By just applying the principles and moving a few minutes with intention, I restore pain-free movement myself now when my body becomes stiff or painful.” – MI Client.
Managing Technology Starts With Your Body.
“I’ve been incredibly pleased. The very portable nature of the movements go well with the other things I do. I would give VitalBody an A for transferability to different surroundings, sustainability over time, and effectiveness in small spaces.” – CA Client.
Technology over-stimulates the mind and under-stimulates the body while steadily creating more repetitiveness. You end up skipping actions your body needs, like random movement: the foundation for sustainable movement and exercise.
Prolonged sitting creates a myriad of structural problems. Movement becomes difficult, inefficient, and ultimately painful. Considering today’s reality, technology leaves us getting precious little physical activity. If you prepare and train your body for sitting, you’ll tolerate sitting and other sedentary activities for longer periods with less pain, stiffness, and injury.
Through my VitalBody personal training program, you discover a whole world of movement; available and waiting using your desk, chair, a doorway, counter top, etc. (even a stick!). These principles apply everywhere you are. With everything you do.
Now step it up – dumbbells, balancing discs, exercise balls, push up bars, furniture – whatever you have available and are inclined to use.
A VitalBody functions relatively pain-free, without excessive maintenance, exhibits a youthful persona, and moves fluidly, without stiffness. There exists an energy and responsiveness to meet life’s demands. Plus a joy of expression. A body in harmony and alignment with you, the owner.
VitalBody Personal Training Has Four Pillars:
Pain Free - Posture - Pliability - Performance
Physical activity hindered by poor alignment, tight connective tissue, and compromised movement results in injury, discouragement, and inactivity. Proper form when exercising reflects the quality of your posture.
Let VitalBody improve your posture while showing you how easily movement and exercise can be incorporated into your day,
VitalBody physically releases daily stress. Your body naturally lengthens and restores flexibility. With this renewed flexibility, your body can re-align itself to improve overall posture – a natural process just like breathing and digesting food.
Your body stays warmed up and ready for the activity of living. Release. Lengthen. Realign. VitalBody goes with you 24/7, without expensive equipment, and adjusts to your ability level.
“As a computer programmer, I developed pain in my back, neck, and wrists. This seriously impacted my performance and livelihood. Within weeks of practicing VitalBody, I noticed a tremendous difference. Now it’s been several months, and I have incorporated the entire program into my daily life. All my pain has subsided. I work in total comfort for as long as I need.” – GA Client.
VitalBody personal training techniques are successfully used in home, office, and clinical settings. Go beyond "getting in shape." Learn to prepare and maintain your body for the demands of daily living. And have fun doing so.
First Know What You're Looking For.
- What changes do you seek with your body?
- How much time will you reasonably have available?
- What outcomes do you want to create?
- What kinds of support do you require?
- What resources do you have available?
- How would you describe your relationship with your body?
- What physical activities are fun and enjoyable?
- What detrimental beliefs about your body need addressing?
Explaining How VitalBody Works.
Finally: A Once and For All Approach To Exercise.
Clients Share Their Stories.
You set your own bar. I’ll provide the educational and motivational support to match it. Let’s consider your situation – age, lifestyle, chronic conditions, passions and interests – then foster a program based on:
- Understanding your posture – how your body holds itself upright and how walking reflects your posture (and personality) in motion.
- Checking in with your body to recognize its changing movement/exercise capacity at any time, and how to adjust accordingly.
- Repeatable actions that return your body to a state of equilibrium.
- Expanding the variety and types of movement you employ.
- Accomplishing short-term targets and long-term physical capacity.
My Personal Training Style Utilizes:
- 30 years experience from managing the needs of Olympic and professional athletes to fitness enthusiasts and those simply desiring pain-free physical functionality in daily life.
- Highly developed skills for combining all four elements of exercise – strength, cardio, range of motion, and balance and coordination, simultaneously.
- Asking the right questions to quickly determine the most sustainable exercise program for you.
- Taking you right where you are and using sequenced steps. Make every moment spent on movement and exercise count.
- My knowledge of massage therapy to recognize problem areas and how to improve them.
- Techniques that keep you sustainably engaged with exercising.
- The Eastern approach: interacting and working in harmony with your body, so you work with it, not on it – the internal aspect to my approach.
- The Western approach: “Being in shape” reflecting a focus on creating targets and goals – the external aspect to my approach.
- Connecting your prior training and life experiences with your beliefs about your body right now.
“As an office worker, I had poor posture from sitting all day. VitalBody prompted me to start exercising in earnest, become more aware of my posture, and take effective breaks from my computer work. VitalBody allows me to work much longer, more productively, and still have something left at the end of the day for myself.” – FL Client.
Benefits of Increasing Your Range of Motion.
Proven to Keep You Movin' for Life.
Stand and extend your arms out – first to each side, then overhead, then in front and behind you. Do the same with each leg. Finally, draw an imaginary circle around that entire area. This reflects the volume of space your body can utilize. Moving your body well means effectively using that volume of space. Measurable improvement = more value of space utilized = more range of motion (ROM) and connective tissue pliability.
Hands-On Work Done With Precision.
The way we move our body speaks volumes about our comfort - with our body, and ourselves. Bio-Somatic Massage Therapy focuses on making the outer body more comfortable and sustainable, while making the inner self more accessible and expressive.
Releasing Physical Stress
Bio-Somatic therapy starts by releasing physical stress from your body. As you become less stiff, your body begins to lengthen out. Flexibility returns. After your body is loose and flexible, it naturally wants to re-align itself.
Without your body’s full range of motion, and pain-free at that, you begin to lose the ability to do things you like. That’s when you start to “live a little,” or essentially have no life at all. Feel the difference. Live the result.
Realigning Your Posture
Everything regarding movement starts with posture. Good posture maintains physical potential. But compromised posture ruins the bio-mechanics of your movement. That’s when the pain starts and activities stop.
Willingness without knowledge cannot undo that – just like no amount of exercise can make up for a poor diet. I’ll help realign your posture to minimize physical problems. Then teach you how to maintain it.
Supporting Your Life
After all, who knows your body better than you? And, who knows you better than your body? Your body doesn’t lie.
I “listen to your body,” sensing through your posture, alignment, and quality of movement how and where your body carries stress. I initiate dialogue between you and your body, creating emotional release through your body. When you free the body, the mind will follow.
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My Approach to Massage Therapy
I’m good with my hands and clear in my intention. Your body possesses a built-in instinct to stretch, stay loose, and self-adjust. This reflects a vibrant expression of your physical identity. My job is to help you access that.
Bio-Somatic Therapy simultaneously lengthens out your body while activating greater movement. This restores flexibility and range of motion. Literally hundreds of various movements are employed in each session. I start by slowly moving your body in relation to mid-line, an imaginary line dividing you into front/back and left/right. All movement starts at mid-line. Expanding movement away from mid-line loosens up your body. That’s how you get comfortable. With less stiffness and restriction more physical ease and energetic flow emerges.
Clients dress in loose fitting clothing, keeping their body covered while allowing freedom of movement. Your body will be lifted, lowered, shaken lightly, and gently stretched out, without excessive force or sudden, high-impact movements. Your body literally realigns itself to better accommodate the increased variety of movement.
At times, your body is held in specific positions or “poses,” exposing points of muscle tension which limit range of motion in some capacity. Your body relaxes, lets down, releases tension, and lengthens back out. A greater variety of movement becomes possible again. A measure of mental clarity emerges from physically releasing stress.
I Work Best For Those Looking To:
- Reestablish youthful range of motion and vitality.
- Release the compensation resulting from old injuries.
- Facilitate your natural instinct to stretch and stay loose, on demand.
- Restore movement without excessive or high-impact force.
- Reverse the negative impacts of constant sitting.
- Immediately expand range of motion and pain-free movement.
- Loosen tight joints.
- Address both the physical and emotional stresses of life.
- Master the ability to remove stiffness and restore mobility yourself.
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“I had a rotator cuff problem that was always painful, drastically limited my movement and caused depression and anxiety. After several sessions, I’m pain free with almost 100% movement back in my shoulder. I also processed and released the associated anxiety. I’m in touch with my body like never before.” – GA Client.
I provide massage therapy from my Buford GA studio and occasional house calls.
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Other than eyes to view a computer screen or TV, a hand to manipulate a mouse, and thumbs for text messaging, life today doesn’t much need our bodies.
Consider life like a range of motion. The more physical (and mental) range of motion you develop and maintain, the more you can do and experience. Putting your body through a range of motion, is a major principle of VitalBody and my massage therapy. This work comes from a more encompassing perspective than simply being able to touch your toes or do sit-ups.
“I had several sessions with Will Nelson but I didn’t just receive treatment. I became educated and developed a relationship with my body. I came away with tools, knowledge, and a plan. No gimmicks, no fads, just straightforward teaching and an incredibly effective form of hands-on mind/body integration I can maintain myself.” – TX Client.
The Emerging Science Linking Movement & Behavior.
Your body communicates both your general disposition and how you have stored past traumas and experiences. These are reflected through style of movement, pain levels, and physical tendencies in response to heightened states of stress.
Your body reacts to the dictates of your mind. Fear constricts. Hate tightens. Shock freezes. The body’s reaction to stimuli represents a natural occurrence. Not letting them go, physically or mentally, leaves them lodged in your body, sometimes for years. This illustrates how you literally and physically carry your past around with you.
Living with repressed emotions and unresolved traumas resembles driving a car with the emergency brake on.
“By experiencing relief and freedom in my body, I finally “got” the connection between releasing the body and the effects on my mind. My life issues had literally lodged themselves in my body, dooming me to carry them around every day. I’ve connected with myself, in a way I had never experienced before.” – MI Client
The Mind Dialogues with Language, the Body with Movement.
The body’s intelligence goes beyond equating fatigue with “doing too much.” When your body tightens, you are holding something or reacting to something externally. When someone exclaims, “It doesn’t feel right in my gut,” they are referring to a bodily reaction they felt. The body serves as the site where transformation manifests in physical reality.
Traumas impacting long-term behavior result from “unprocessed memory” – memory you appear stuck on or stuck with – as opposed to the memory of events that pass on by. If you live in reaction to the trauma, the trauma becomes “hard-wired.” The unprocessed memory becomes part of your body and part of you.
Once you “embody” enough stress/trauma, you begin manifesting pain. Sometimes pain acts as a catalyst for you to confront specific issues. Sickness also acts to improve “physical morality,” i.e., taking better care of your body and working within its limitations.
“As a man, I got conditioned to living with and ignoring pain, and not listening to my body. This work, along with Will’s unwavering guidance, convinced me otherwise. Pain is not a badge of honor, rather a destroyer of quality of life. Little did I know all this when I first came in for shoulder stiffness.” – CA Client
- Science recognizes “body memory” – contained in the body’s musculature and activated by movement.
- Body memory triggers experiences from throughout your life based on specific movement patterns.
- The absence of movement patterns between the brain, nervous system, and muscles of the body is also noteworthy.
- In essence, body memory represents your life history, stored in the physical structures, accessed by movement.
When You Free the Body, the Mind Will Follow.
Intuition represents your “sixth sense,” manifesting through unique feelings or gut reactions. Your intuition skillfully guides forward progression of your life, including where and how to move your your body.
With 30 years of training and hands-on experience, I facilitate and interpret dialog between you and your body. This “energetic vibration” often reveals where you chronically carry stress and its sources.
To fully resolve an issue in your life means the associated movements, postural alignment, and cellular muscle memory must also be resolved.
It is uniquely validating and affirming when someone outside your inner circle quickly “gets your story” – without extensive dialogue and intellectualizing. By “cutting to the chase,” we can connect various life themes together. This represents true holistic treatment.
I provide massage therapy from my Buford GA studio and occasional house calls.
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While moving your body in various directions, at certain moments I will feel a “glitch.” Here, your body redirects the movement, taking back conscious control. You and your body stop being the observer of the movement. Avoidance of an exact position of your body has been uncovered, because there exists discomfort or pain. This often reflects your body’s positioning at the time of a mental trauma or physical injury. You “embody” mental traumas just as you can physical injury.