PNF Stretching
You push gently against the stretch for a few seconds, then let go, and the muscle lets you go further. Over the sessions: more mobility, more flexibility, more range of motion. How PNF works
How this usually goes
The same practitioner each time, the same hour each week. It starts with one visit.
Start here
First visit
Foundation visit
$9960 min Book →Ten minutes to read how you move and set a plan, then fifty minutes of stretching.
Longer, as a single session
Weekly assisted stretching in your home, with the same practitioner and progress followed over time.
Tight hips, stiff neck and shoulders, a spine that will not turn.
What feels locked is rarely one muscle. It is a front shortened by sitting, a back that stopped moving, shoulders that crept up to the ears, and a body working around all of it. What I look for first.
HipsHip flexors kept short by the chair, deep rotators and glutes, opened slowly, one side at a time
HamstringsThe back of the leg that picks up what the hip stopped doing
Neck and shouldersThe neck taken gently through its range, the shoulders drawn back and down where the desk left them
Spine rotationThe turn through the mid-back and hips that driving and screens take away, given back a few degrees at a time
Over the weeksMore flexibility, more mobility, and a range that holds from one session to the next
In your home, or out in the open.
You stay dressedSoft clothing you could train in, nothing tight at the waist or shoulders
I bringEverything the session needs
You prepareA space where you want to be stretched. A room, a garden, a park, a hotel terrace
The Mobility MapA practical read of how you move, not a medical assessment
Assisted stretching, the questions people ask.
Is assisted stretching worth it? +
If you train and feel tight rather than sore, or sit for a living and have lost the easy reach behind you, yes: someone else takes you further than you go alone, and the gain tends to hold from one week to the next when the sessions are regular. If you are after a passive hour, the massage is the better fit. The Foundation visit at $99 is the honest way to find out.
Is assisted stretching better than massage? +
Different, not better. Massage works into tissue; assisted stretching takes a joint through its range and asks the muscle to let go on the way. Tight and dense: massage. Tight and short: stretching. Many of my clients have both, on the same table, in the same hour.
What is assisted stretching called? +
Assisted stretching, stretch therapy, partner stretching, table stretching, or PNF when the contract-and-release method is used. From your side it is the same thing: you lie on the table, dressed, and I do the work.
Does stretch therapy really work? +
For range of motion, yes, and you feel it in the first session; most people notice the range they reached is still there the next morning. Whether it lasts depends on regularity, which is why Le Rythme exists. What it does not do is treat an injury or a condition: this is bodywork, not treatment, and I do not diagnose.
How do you loosen tight hips? +
Slowly, and from more than one angle: the front of the hip, the deep rotators, the hamstrings behind, the back that compensates. Alone on the floor most people stop at the first resistance. On the table I take you a little past it, with your breath, then hold. Tight hips, explained.