More ease. More options. More of you.
Learn how your body, nervous system, and compensation patterns work together—and discover what can change when your system has more options.
Meet Susan + Be Activated
Hi, I’m Susan Bartley, a Be Activated practitioner and the founder of Activate & Elevate.
I’ve spent the last 10 years studying Be Activated with its creator, South African physical therapist Douglas Heel, and what began as something I wanted to understand for my own body has become a huge part of how I move through the world, teach, and work with other people.
Be Activated is a body-based system that uses breathing, movement testing, and simple activations to explore how your body is organizing itself. We look at where you may be compensating, holding tension, or working harder than you need to—and then give your system different information and see what changes.
What I love most about this work is that you don’t have to take my word for anything. We test. We do something. We retest. You get to feel the difference in your own body.
Through this newsletter, I’ll be sharing ideas from Be Activated, practical ways to explore your own body and nervous system, stories from my work with clients and students, and new resources designed to help you find more ease, capacity, choice, and possibility in the way you move through your life.
If that sounds like something you’d like more of, you’re in the right place.
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