Bravo Functional Therapy was born from a simple idea:
offering clients a better way to return to movement that just works. To help make the body and human movement make sense again.
Becka met Christian Bravo at Soma, a Clinical Manual Therapy school in Chicago in 2004. They quickly became soul mates, they slowly fell in love. Together, they built a practice and a life. After working together in conventional wellness for years, they grew tired of fixing symptoms but not addressing the reasons. As in life, if you continue to address the same problem with the same solutions, you can expect the same results. And they found the results insufficient.
Taking a biomechanical approach,
we move beyond simply fixing the thing that hurts and offering a new perspective - why did it need fixing to begin with?
On the table, we address adhesion and fascial connections using proven clinical techniques like myofascial release and red light therapy. We address what hurts, find some things you likely weren't aware of; off the table, we explore how it feels when alignment comes first through alignment and mobility techniques, functional yoga, and Functional Range Conditioning©. New patterns are reinforced and alignment becomes embodied so that systemic change becomes attainable.
WHAT BEING BRAVO MEANS
The Foundation of the Bravo Method™️
STANDING ON SCIENCE
After more than two decades working with the human body, the dysfunctional movement pattern that emerges most often became glaringly apparent -
we have to go back to the feet.
When your literal foundations are straining under the pressures of modern living, how can we expect anything above to function optimally?
Using the Bravo Method™️ you start to realize how ignoring the feet ignores how you ended up in most of your dysfunctional movement patterns to begin with. Using external supports like orthotics and braces may help you to feel more supported while your wear them, but you've now told your feet to stop being, well, feet.
And when we lose movement somewhere in the body, it has to show up somewhere else - somewhere not built for it. And you'll get away with it - until you don't.
QUOTE
"Your body isn't broken. It has adapted to what you asked of it.
Ask better questions."
— Becka Bravo, LMT, 500 E-RYT