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Moving Freely in Your Body
Moving Freely in Your Body
A Different Way to Move, Feel, and Live in Your Body
For people who are tired of treating their body like a problem to solve.
You may have spent years trying to understand why your body feels stiff, tense, uncomfortable, or unreliable.
Perhaps you've tried stretching, strengthening, treatments, exercises, or correcting the way you sit, stand, and move.
Some things may have helped. Others may have left you wondering why the same difficulties keep returning.
But what if there were another way to approach your body?
Not by finding one more thing to fix.
But by becoming curious about how you move, how you organize yourself, and what you might discover through your own experience.
That's what Moving Freely in Your Body is about.
A New Chapter Is Taking Shape
I'm preparing something new for January 2027.
Moving Freely in Your Body is evolving from a guided eight-week course into a more accessible, ongoing community.
A place where we can continue exploring movement, asking questions, sharing discoveries, and learning together.
I'm especially excited about creating a space where learning doesn't have to end when a course is finished — and where what members notice, wonder about, and experience can help shape what we explore next.
I'll share more about the new community as we get closer to January.
For now, I'd love to introduce you to the approach behind this work and what I'm hoping to create.
What If Your Body Isn't the Problem?
When something feels uncomfortable, it's natural to focus on the part that bothers you.
Your back, neck, hips, shoulders, or knees.
But movement is never just about one body part.
When you walk, reach, turn, or stand up from a chair, different parts of your body participate together, often in ways you don't consciously notice.
Over time, your nervous system develops familiar ways of organizing these movements.
Some patterns may be useful. Others may involve more effort, bracing, or protection than you realize.
Rather than immediately trying to correct those patterns, we can become curious about them.
What happens if you move a little differently?
What changes when you sense more support?
What might become possible when you stop trying so hard to move correctly?
Through gentle movement, attention, and experimentation, you can begin discovering answers through your own experience.
Learning Through Your Own Experience
In Moving Freely in Your Body, I guide people through movement explorations that invite them to notice themselves from the inside.
Sometimes we explore how the floor or chair supports us.
Sometimes we notice how our head, eyes, ribs, pelvis, feet, and breathing participate together.
Sometimes we discover that a familiar movement involves much more effort than we realized.
And sometimes the most meaningful discovery is simply recognizing a habit we've never noticed before.
There's no perfect movement to achieve.
No ideal posture everyone must adopt.
And no single way that everyone should experience a lesson.
What matters is what you discover through your own experience.
These discoveries can gradually influence how you walk, sit, reach, exercise, rest, and participate in everyday life.
They can also change how you relate to yourself when movement feels difficult or uncertain.
How This Learning Becomes Personal
Imagine that walking feels uncomfortable or restricted.
Before a movement exploration, you might walk a short distance and notice where you feel effort, how your feet meet the ground, or whether you're holding your breath.
Then we explore a few gentle movements, perhaps lying down or sitting.
They might involve your pelvis, ribs, feet, head, eyes, or breathing.
When you walk again, something may feel different.
Perhaps your weight shifts more easily. Perhaps more of your body participates. Perhaps you simply recognize a familiar way of bracing that you hadn't noticed before.
And sometimes, nothing immediately changes.
That's part of learning, too.
The same approach can be relevant when exploring standing up from a chair, reaching, turning your head, bending, or another movement that matters in your life.
The exploration is shared. What you discover is personal to you.
More Than a Course
Until now, Moving Freely in Your Body has been offered as an eight-week guided learning journey.
That journey has given people a way to explore movement, recognize familiar patterns, and discover possibilities through their own experience.
But I've been thinking more deeply about what helps this kind of learning continue.
Because learning doesn't end after eight weeks.
New questions arise. Our experiences change. And something that seemed familiar yesterday might reveal an entirely different possibility tomorrow.
I also believe there's something valuable about exploring alongside other people.
Hearing someone else's question may help us recognize something in ourselves.
Sharing a discovery may open a new direction for exploration.
And sometimes, the most interesting learning comes from something none of us had planned.
That's the kind of community I want to build.
A welcoming place where you might:
Join live movement explorations and conversations.
Bring questions and curiosities from your everyday life.
Return to guided lessons whenever they're useful.
Share discoveries and connect with others.
Participate at your own pace, without feeling you have to keep up.
I don't want this to become another place where I simply give people more content to consume.
I want it to become a living community, shaped not only by what I share, but also by what we discover together.
Some people may enjoy participating actively.
Others may prefer to listen, observe, and explore quietly.
There won't be one right way to belong.
That's the direction Moving Freely in Your Body is heading, and I'm looking forward to seeing what we create together.
What This Kind of Learning Can Open Up
“When I lifted my shoulder to air dry my hair I realized that the rest of my body could also move at the same time. I found that by doing so it was less tiring for my neck and shoulder. When I wipe my counter I also use my trunk and not only my shoulders.”
France Madran
Moving Freely in Your Body Participant ・Canada
France’s Experience with Moving Freely in Your Body · 1 min
“Since starting this course, I’ve noticed how much I brace most of the time. One example is when I walk. When I slowed down, kept breathing, and allowed more support, the pain in my knee left and I felt extremely comfortable in my body and breath. This has been so helpful to me.”
— Dawn Williams
“Just hearing Taro express that there is no correct way to breathe, stand, or move was very freeing. As a perfectionist, I was always trying to correct my breathing. Letting that go gave me a sense of the intelligence within my own body, along with safety and calm. Control is not optimal — letting go leads to more freedom.”
— Tinku Basu
Each person's experience is different.
These stories reflect individual experiences with my existing movement-learning approach. They're not promises of what everyone will experience, or testimonials about the new membership before it has opened.
But they offer a glimpse of what can become possible when people begin exploring movement and themselves with curiosity.
Hi, I'm Taro
I'm Taro Iwamoto, a nervous system movement coach.
My background includes exercise science, kinesiology, rehabilitation, athletic training, martial arts, somatic movement, and the Feldenkrais Method.
For more than 20 years, I've been fascinated by how human beings learn to move and how movement influences the way we feel and participate in life.
Today, I'm particularly interested in helping people develop a more curious, trusting, and less corrective relationship with their bodies.
I believe our bodies can continue learning throughout our lives.
And I believe there's something deeply meaningful about discovering that for ourselves.
I'd Love to Hear From You
I'm looking forward to sharing more about this next chapter of Moving Freely in Your Body as it takes shape.
My hope is to create a welcoming community where people can continue exploring movement, learning from their experiences, and discovering new possibilities together.
If this direction resonates with you, or if you're curious about what's coming, I'd genuinely love to hear from you.
Perhaps you have a question about the new community.
Perhaps there's something you've been exploring in your own movement that you'd like to share.
Or perhaps you'd simply like to know more about my work.
You're always welcome to reach out.
I'm planning to open the community in January 2027, and I'll share more details as we get closer.
If you're already a Moving Freely in Your Body student, your existing course access remains intact. I'll communicate directly with you about the upcoming changes.
Stay Connected
If you'd like to hear more as the community develops, you're welcome to join my email list below.
I also share movement explorations, new videos, and occasional reflections about moving, feeling, and living with more ease.