How you move changes how you feel
and that changes everything
Teya Alden has an affinity for helping others apply uncommon common sense to their lives.
Working with clients privately and in classes, Teya serves as a guide to find what form of practice supports people to connect with their deepest truth. Ultimately, people discover: how you move changes how you feel, and that changes everything.
Along with being a Functional Patterns Human Foundations Practitioner, Teya holds certifications as an ACSM Personal Trainer (American College of Sports Medicine), Restorative Exercise Specialist, AiM Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing, and dual credentialed with the Yoga Teacher E-RYT and 500 Yoga Alliance.
She has completed the studies of “The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program” with Dr. John Kabot-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
With Sitara Van Block she practiced a unique form of Energy Healing recognized as effective in the field of Transpersonal Physiology in Sedona, Arizona. And at the National Institute for Behavioral Medicine, Teya explored an in-depth study “Brain Trauma and Neuroplasticity / Mindfulness as Proven Treatment” - how preparing for death can help us participate in life.
Her global aspirations for continued education and enlightenment have led Teya all over the world: from her studies in Toronto and London, to her retreats at Spirit Rock Monastery, Thailand and Bali.
Teya discovered Functional Patterns in 2019, when she was told by medical professionals that her chronic pain was due to Scoliosis from birth, and would only get worse with age. Refusing to surrender to such a defeatist mindset, Teya is a walking testimonial that conventional medical professionals are not always right - people can overcome pain and immobility through the practice of biomechanics.
The pain-free life Teya lives now is the result of her ability to stay present and devote her attention to practicing Functional Patterns. Like everyone who discovers this way of life, she wishes she would have found it sooner.
“I believe we protect what we fall in love with. Nature seduces us to fall in love with its beauty. It is my nature to see the beauty in all people, and find it in every situation. I honor the teachers who have blazed this trail before me, and with my deepest gratitude I walk this path.”
A paradigm shattering missing piece
in the wellness puzzle
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Feet Find Center the Rest is Liquid Geometry
Walking is a whole body movement. When you walk every joint of your body is set in motion. The body can either walk efficiently or not, it’s the not walking efficiently that leads to compensations in your body. The more movement inhibitions, the more musculoskeletal compensations. The more compensations, the more pathology. The more pathology, the more sad feelings.
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I tell my clients in the very first session that if they’re only willing to make one change to improve their overall wellbeing, switching to minimal shoes and spending more time barefoot is it.
Because the more restrictive a shoe, the less it allows the joints in your foot to move and the more other joints will have to move to accomplish the goal.
This is compensation, and can only occur when the body is preforming sub-optimally.
If you are wearing shoes that restrict movement in your feet in order to protect them, you’re putting your feet and other areas of your body at risk.
If any joint limitation is happening in the feet, pain can show up anywhere in the body thats compensating for that limitation. The surrounding muscles can’t experience their full range of motion and will start to become weak and stiff.
