Karyn Clark Evolve Life

Karyn Clark Evolve Life Sensory Motor Amnesia alters the way one not only moves, but how one experiences him/herself from within, their SOMA-tic experience.

Help for ongoing pain, tension & recurring injuries
When nothing else has quite worked
Rehab•Movement • Clinical Somatics • Lifestyle Medicine
📍 Bedfordshire + Online | Start here: The Tightly Wound Body ↓ Clinical Essential Somatics is Neuromuscular movement re-education that teaches people to regain voluntary control of muscles that have become involuntarily and chronically contracted due to adaptation to accidents, injuries, surgeries, major illnesses or on-going/repetitive emotional or physical stress. Thomas Hanna (Hanna Somatics) termed this state of chronically tight muscles that can't let go as Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA) and described SMA as the root cause chronic pain. By improving the connection between the brain and the muscles people learn to regain sensation and motor control of muscles and movement. Chronically tight muscles affect physical structure and alter posture and movement. Examples of Sensory Motor Amnesia include:

• chronic back pain
• sciatica
• leg length discrepancy
• hip pain
• altered gait
• plantarfasciitis
• piriformis syndrome
• TMJ/TMD
• neck/shoulder pain
• scoliosis

Those suffering from SMA lose their ability to release and relax muscles and move freely. Clinical Essential Somatics is taught in 1:1 session with hands on work with the practitioner, focusing on the clients patterns of restricted movement and SMA. Groups classes, are weekly classes that teach Somatic movements and are suitable for those new to Somatics and those whom have undertaken clinical sessions.

'Essential Somatics' builds on the work of Thomas Hanna (Hanna Somtics), as well as bringing in the work of new pioneers in the field of Somatic Movement.

23/09/2026

How have I never heard of this?” and “how can something so gentle possibly be effective?”

Honestly, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked those two over the years.

Introducing someone to Clinical Somatics is still a bit nerve wracking, even now, because I always find myself hoping they’re going to have the same experience I had when I first came across it.

And you can usually see it happening in the room. The movements are slow and gentle and you only repeat them a few times, but people get this look of intrigue as they start to experience themselves in a completely different way.

The gentleness really is the point. Moving slowly and with awareness brings the movement into your consciousness, whereas when we move quickly we just drop into our subconscious habits and do it the same way we always do, without ever realising it. We also move in a very particular way, using something called pandiculation, where you contract a muscle deliberately, release it slowly under your own control and then pause. It’s quite different from stretching, and it’s what makes the work so specific.

Most people have tried everything before they get to me anyway, some of it doing nothing at all and some giving relief that didn’t last.

With Clinical Somatics though nobody is doing it for you, it’s movement is education, so you learn how to do it for yourself and you always have to hand when needed!

19/09/2026

Whopp, whoop, 120kg RDL 💪🏻

I’d only done 110 the week before, so a bigger jump than I’d normally make, but I really wanted it and had decided I could do it 😄

Here’s the bit I’ve been thinking about though. I’d not long had my MSc results. Something I’d wanted for years and put off for years, because I wasn’t sure I was up to it.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the 120 came not long after.

Strictly speaking it should be. Confidence is meant to be specific to the thing you’re actually doing, and a distinction in pain management has nothing whatsoever to do with a barbell.

But what carries over isn’t really the confidence, I think it’s the willingness to have a go. You do something you’d written off as beyond you, and for a while afterwards everything else feels a bit more available. You attempt things you’d normally talk yourself out of. And attempting things is how you end up with proof.

I’ve watched this my whole working life, in outdoor education and in clinic. Someone gets up a climbing wall they were frightened of, and it isn’t the climbing that changes them. It’s that they go home and apply for the job.

So no, I didn’t think my way to 120kg. What got me there was 110 the week before, and a few weeks of feeling like someone who does hard things.
You don’t talk yourself into confidence, you collect proof.

And I’ve experienced it myself many times before. Clinical somatics taught me there were things I didn’t know about myself, and getting into strength training and then bodybuilding taught me it again. We are all far more possible than we realise, on so many levels, and maybe, just maybe, one day it’ll stop taking me by surprise 😄

Three years ago, nineteen years into practice, I went back to university because I wanted to go deeper into pain. What w...
18/09/2026

Three years ago, nineteen years into practice, I went back to university because I wanted to go deeper into pain. What we know, what we think we know, and how much we still don’t.

This week I got my results. MSc in Clinical Pain Management from the University of Edinburgh, with Distinction.

Those three years weren’t just about study. I wrote assignments sat by hospitals beds with Dad, I renovated a house and relocated the clinic. I kept training, kept seeing patients, and I was still Mum through all of it. The assignments got written around patients and the papers got read in whatever gaps were left.

What it gave me was more than letters after my name. It changed how I talk to people in pain. I’m less certain now about what’s “wrong” with a body and far more curious about what that person has been living through. It also meant letting go of some things I’d believed and taught for years, which wasn’t comfortable, but it was honest.

Many of you have been part of this journey for years. You’ve seen how the way I work has changed, and you’ve supported me through it. Thank you.

Now I’m going to sit down with a cup of tea for a bit, and figure out what’s next. Whilst planning for a trip to Edinburgh to graduate 👩🏼‍🎓

Something people ask me a lot, usually before we’ve even met, is “so what would you actually do?”And the honest answer i...
16/09/2026

Something people ask me a lot, usually before we’ve even met, is “so what would you actually do?”

And the honest answer is… I don’t know 😅

I know that’s probably not what you’re supposed to say, or what people want to hear. But it’s the truth, and it’s kind of the whole point of how I work. Until we’ve met, until I’ve listened to you and we’ve had a look at what’s going on, your body, your history, your life, what you’re hoping for, I genuinely couldn’t tell you. It depends on so many things. And whatever we do, we decide it together, based on you, not on some fixed process I put everyone through.

Some people know me as a McTimoney chiropractor, and yeah, that’s maybe part of it. But between that, my MSc in Clinical Pain Management, and the years I’ve spent across movement, clinical somatics, rehab and strength training, I tend to see things a bit differently.

I’m interested in the whole picture, how it all connects, and how to help you feel better and trust your body again. That might be hands-on work. It might be movement, or strength, or learning to settle a nervous system that’s been stuck in high alert for years. Most of the time it’s a mix, and it changes as you do.

The people I work with have so often been passed around, had one little piece of them looked at at a time, and never really been seen as a whole person. That’s the bit I care about most.
..You’re not a list of separate problems. You’re one whole human, and there’s always a way in, wherever you’re starting from.

Of course the Strong Foundations courses follow a structure, and if you come to a group clinical somatics class then that has its shape too. But even then, I’m always adding in whatever I realistically can for the people in front of me, because that’s just how I work. You always get all of me. I don’t turn different parts of myself on and off depending on what you’ve booked 😊

So if you’ve ever thought “I don’t even know what I need, I just know something needs to shift” that’s honestly the perfect place to start. Give me a shout and we’ll figure it out together. No pressure at all.

From pain to possible.

One journey, any starting point, no limits.

Clinical Somatics Taster classesTuesday 22nd and 29th September 11.45am and 1.00pmLocation Mycore Pilates Hitchin Hitchi...
14/09/2026

Clinical Somatics Taster classes

Tuesday 22nd and 29th September
11.45am and 1.00pm

Location Mycore Pilates Hitchin Hitchin

Max 12 places per class

£15 investment

Booking via link in bio
Any questions drop me a message!

K💫

What a lovely and emotional day at the Launch a Memory event in Poole today, to see my Dad’s name on the incredible all...
12/09/2026

What a lovely and emotional day at the Launch a Memory event in Poole today, to see my Dad’s name on the incredible all weather Shannon Class that serves out of Swanage.

We met so many wonderful volunteers and staff including one of the Coxswains Swanage.

I am so proud to support the RNLI particularly as I love watersports and know exactly how even with the best laid plans the Sea will always be in change.

I am even more proud to know that my Dad will be going on in spirit with that boat to Save Lives at Sea.

12/09/2026

Join me Tuesday 22nd or 29th September Hitchin for a taster Clinical Somatics class

Maximum 12 per class

Time: 11.45am or 12.00pm

Book via profile or drop me a 🙌🏻 for more details.

11/09/2026

I am really excited to be bringing In person Clinical Somatics classes coming to Hitchin from October! 🤩

🗓️ Weekly classes will be Tuesdays 11.45am or 1.00pm

😊 Maximum 12 per class

💻 required via website: https://www.evolvelife.co.uk/book-class

These classes are suitable for everyone whether you’re new to Clinical Somatics or have taken classes before, I’d love to see you there!

03/09/2026

When I am fitter, stronger, slimmer!

When I have more time, money, motivation!

When I am good enough!

That day will either never come, if you keep telling yourself that, Or that day is today!

The choice is yours!

Ladies STRONG FOUNDATIONS course Sunday 13th September are you ready?

Drop me a 💪🏻 let’s chat!

02/09/2026

Ladies you are lifting everyday!
Your handbag,
The shopping,
A child,
Yourself,
A bag of compost,

And I can tell you for a fact often the bags you lift are heavier than the dumbbells that you’re lifting or are fearful of lifting.

Every exercise relates to a functional movement you already do with your body.

Rehab is doing it following injury
Strength training and “lifting” is doing it to get better at doing it.

Why?

To improve your physical health, strength, mental health, bone density, heart health, confidence the list goes on.

This isn’t about being a body builder, or an athlete (they are options of course) this is about being the best version of yourself that you want to be.

It’s about feeling confident in yourself and the gym!

It’s about being able to do all the things you want to do today, tomorow and in 10+ years time!

I kicked myself into shape when my Mum had stage 3 bowel cancer, because I wanted to make sure I had done everything in my power to be the fittest and healthiest version of myself that I had control over.

We need a why, a reason, and if that reason isn’t for yourself then what can you make it about right now? Mine was for my children before it was for me.

So whatever stage in your journey you are at we’ve got you’ve covered!

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Karyn 💫

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