Stephen is a wealth of knowledge and wisdom and finds the right balance between giving you a lot without overwhelming with too much information.

An all body and core workout as a fun time? I had to see it and after that had to try it.  Crawling around the floor in various animals poses is as much fun as it was in my youth, but now it's good for me, too! My goal is to build strength and body awareness so I can run farther and longer with less risk of injury.  Stephen's method intrigued me. It's tough physically and mental as I'm not uber coordinated. The workouts go fast and my focus is deep, leading to just the kind of awareness I wanted. Serious and goofy rolled together with deep core and breathing makes it something I look forward to. Always more likely to do the fun than the dull!  I see this developing into a good habit.

I liked that you emphasized taking care, and not hurting yourself.

I had some training sessions with Dr. Stern, and he is so enthusiastic about this type of training that his mood is contagious. It is fun and educational working with him as he is able to give new and different insights than I was ever able to get from other routine forms of exercise that I had learned in the past.  It is a pleasure working with him; I only wish that I could do it every week!

15 years ago as a healthy 40 year old with an active lifestyle and a strong workout discipline I abruptly ruptured my L4-L5 disc, extruding the nuclear material 3.5" down my spinal column. This was a debilitating injury, making sitting nearly impossible for months and forcing me to stop any impact-based activity. After going to an orthopedic back surgery specialist at NE Baptist who recommended I avoid surgery if at all possible, I started to see Dr. Stephen. He worked through multiple aspects of the injury - disc damage, spinal misalignment, inability to follow my previous sports and workout routines. His unique sensitivity and his gift to establish a profound awareness of my back's state - its energy - and my own overall state enabled him to innately make adjustments as needed and guide me to heal and rebuild myself. After reaching the point where his work brought me to where I could resume some sports and workouts, he helped me with opening my horizons to activities that helped me heal, build my core to compensate for my injury and help prevent future injury. While returning to a steady routine of running and indoor soccer were not sustainable, I was able to go back to more sustainable activities like swimming, and elliptical training. Through Dr. Stephen's treatments and workout guidance I was able to heal and build back to where I could return to weight lifting and volleyball, and with Dr. Stephen's guidance incorporate Animal Flow movements into my strengthening routine. In 2014 I trained for and ran a Spartan Race. While I still have to be disciplined in approach and posture when I challenge my back, I consider myself nearly fully healed, and in many ways through Stephen's guidance I am stronger, more flexible and more capable than I...