Middleway Method
Health Education
While Massage Therapy, Chiropractic, and Physical Therapy work with muscles, tendons, and bones, Middleway Method works with the nervous system to effect change at the fundamental level. Middleway Method also incorporates strength training and nutritional coaching as a comprehensive approach to wholistic healthcare.
Middleway Method is somatic education, similar to Feldenkrais Method ®, Ortho-Bionomy ®, Hanna Somatics ®, Traeger ®, Craniosacral Therapy ®, Alexander Technique ® and Muscle Activation Technique ® (MAT). Middleway Method is complimentary to Naturopathic, Acupuncture, Physical Therapy, and Osteopathic medical care.
Middleway isn’t life-changing because the practitioner does something magical to you – it’s life-changing because the practitioner teaches you how to change your own life. Once you do it, you realize it’s just common sense. – J.L.
Kriya Pranayam Breath Workshop
May 27 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Intense energetic and physical clearing with Yogic breathing and meditation.
This one day workshop introduces a rigorous and focused breathing practice.
The holds, locks, and compressions invigorate the organs, move stagnant energy, increase breath capacity, and induce clear meditative states.
Self-Care for Low Back Pain
Part I: Positions of Comfort and Reset Activation
June 10 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
A series of three half-day workshops for people experiencing low back pain, disc degeneration or herniation, sciatica, SI joint pain (sacroiliac joint), etc. Open to people with pain, and therapists who help people with pain. Part I: Positions of Comfort and Reset Activation Starting with positions that relieve discomfort and facilitate rest, we add activating movements that stabilize the core and reset joint position.
Anatomy Refreshers for Massage Therapists
Part I: The Upper Quadrant
June 11 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Using hands-on palpation, movement exercises, cadaver dissection videos, and group discussion, we will review the muscles, bones, joints, tendons, and ligaments of the forearm, arm, shoulder, and the thorax and neck as they relate to the shoulder. Along the way, we will introduce techniques for working with synergists, antagonists, joint and tendon reflexes.
Middleway Method Sessions
with Tobin Rangdrol
Specializing in somatic education for injury recovery, deep relaxation, and lifestyle optimization.
Services
- Injury assessment, recovery, and rehabilitation
- Deep relaxation – Intuitive and personalized
- Neuromuscular repatterning – For shifting chronic dysfunction
- Lifestyle coaching – For whole-person wellbeing
- Somatic insight – For deep personal change
- Energy work – Using your natural body energy for healing
- Sports optimization – Pre and post event, with muscle activation
Our Blog
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It’s a Feeling
Middleway Method is for those of us who aren’t interested in believing in other people’s ideas. It is for people who recognize that methods, philosophies, religions, fads, and trends are usually forms of popular consumerism, dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, designed to retain users in order to extract money from us. Middleway Method […]
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Oh, That Feels Good
When we feel hungry, we have no doubt about what we are feeling, and how to respond. When we have to go pee, we have no doubt about what we are feeling, and how to respond. When we hold our breath for a long time, we have no doubt about what we are feeling, and […]
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Tobin Rangdrol, Founder of Middleway Method
Tobin Rangdrol Founder of Middleway Method My training in the field of somatic education is in the Old World tradition of one-on-one apprenticeships. My primary mentor is my mother, Shari Sunshine, who has been a somatic educator since 1978, when she was a student of Judith McKinnon, founder of McKinnon Body Therapy Institute. Shari was […]
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Middleway Method is Somatic Education
Middleway Method is in the field of health education that uses touch, words and directed movement to deepen awareness of existing patterns of movement in the body as well as to suggest new possibilities of movement. Similar practices include, but are not limited to the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education, the Trager® Approach to movement […]
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Relaxing Meditation
Relaxing meditation is quite simple. All we do is get as comfortable as possible, breathe with awareness, and relax our bodies as best we can. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. No matter how many words we use to describe it, there is never anything more to it. Get comfortable. Breathe. Relax. You […]
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You Can’t Steal My Chocolate
Sometimes when I am at home alone, I turn up the music really loud and dance like a madman in my living room. Yesterday while I was dancing, my phone rang, and I didn’t hear it. The music was too loud, so I missed the call. We’ve all had experiences like this. When the ambient […]
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Sujata’s Gift
In the life story of Siddhartha Gotama, just before his enlightenment he is skeletally thin and barely alive, having deprived himself of sustenance to the point of starvation. A young woman named Sujata gives him a bowl of rice and milk. Understanding that deprivation is not the path to awakening, Siddhartha gratefully accepts Sujata’s gift, ending his six-year experiment with rigorous asceticism. Enlivened by […]
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Against The Wall
When we injure our bodies, we feel physical pain. If we didn’t feel physical pain, then we would keep using the injured part, and make matters worse. We don’t like physical pain – when we feel it, we want it to stop – but we can rationally appreciate that it is a useful sensation because it gives […]
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Thought Samurai
To do the exercise, you’ll need to completely clear your schedule for a half an hour. A completely clear schedule means no chores to do, no emails to write, no phone calls to make or answer. Nothing to do at all except this practice for a half an hour. Next, you’ll need a warm, pleasant space, […]
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How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Three or four times a week I go to the gym to exercise for an hour. I work hard. I sweat. It isn’t easy, but I really enjoy doing it. My body has changed significantly since I started exercising this way. I’ve gained weight, my muscles have gained tone and definition, and my posture has changed. I can […]
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Refresh Your Browser Frequently
All too often, we confuse meditation with concentration. Specifically, we attempt to lock our attention into a fixed, non-thought position. While there are meditation techniques that include one-pointed concentration on an object – the breath, a candle, a visualization, etc. – these techniques are mental exercises and alone do not constitute a complete path. Due […]
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Mostly Silent
Each winter, I spend about ten days in solitary meditation retreat. I stay in a cozy little cabin in the wilderness, at the banks of a rain-swollen river. There is something about the depth of the silence there that permeates my awareness until I become truly quiet. Residing there day after day creates a lasting […]
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Conscious Awareness
“I know what I know. I’ll sing what I’ve said. We come and we go. That’s a thing that I keep in the back of my head.” – Paul Simon Looking back at my life, I can’t remember having had any experience that took place outside the realm of my own body-centered, me-centered perspective. I […]
