Lower back pain is rarely a back problem on its own. Something in your pelvis or hips has gone quiet, and your low back has been picking up the slack ever since. Garrett finds where the load shifted and teaches you how to move it back where it belongs.
Book your first sessionYour lower back is absorbing force that should be shared across your pelvis and hips. When one part stops doing its job, another part works overtime, and that overwork becomes the ache you feel every morning.
Your lower back is carrying weight that belongs somewhere else. When a muscle that should support your spine goes quiet, a different one takes over, and it isn't built for that job. Most treatment goes straight at the back without asking why it's under so much load in the first place.
If the parts creating the imbalance are still out of position, stretching and strengthening can lock the pattern in place. You end up with a stronger version of the same compensation, and the pain returns because the cause never moved.
Manual therapy, massage, and injections can bring real relief. But if the mechanical pattern loading your spine hasn't changed, the relief fades on its own schedule. Garrett works both ends of the problem at once. What's overworking releases. What went quiet wakes back up.
The body wants balance, not pain relief. Once your pelvis and hips are carrying their share again, your lower back stops absorbing everything by itself.
Full assessment, guided protocols, and a take-home practice. About 60 minutes, in San Francisco or over video.
Garrett assesses how your pelvis, hips, and spine are sharing load, not just where it hurts. That's usually the pattern behind years of back pain.
Using a yoga block or foam roller, Garrett guides you through positions matched to your specific pattern. You're moving, not lying on a table.
Most clients feel less compression and more ease in their low back before the session ends. The parts that were overworking start to let go.
You leave with a short practice for what you worked on, about five minutes on your living room floor, to keep the change going between sessions.
Virtual sessions work well for lower back pain. Garrett watches your posture and movement over video and guides you through the same protocols in real time.
I thought the best I could hope for was less pain. I've never felt this at home in my body.Sara · Low Back Relief
If something isn't here, ask on a free discovery call. Garrett answers everything before you book a paid session.
Chronic back pain, even decades-long, almost always has a pattern that can be improved. Your body has been out of balance for a long time, but the underlying pattern is still correctable. Many of Garrett's clients had been managing pain for years and found significant relief after someone finally addressed the root cause. How long you've had pain doesn't predict the outcome. The pattern does.
Not necessarily. Disc degeneration is a normal part of aging, and many people with disc changes on an MRI have no pain at all. What matters is the forces loading those discs. By correcting the balance in your pelvis and reducing the compression on your spine, it's often possible to reduce pain significantly even with structural changes present. The goal isn't to reverse the degeneration. It's to stop aggravating it.
SI joint pain typically shows up as deep, one-sided pain just below the belt line, sometimes extending into the hip or upper thigh. It's caused by uneven loading, one side of the pelvis bearing more force than the other. Correcting the balance and restoring symmetrical loading resolves SI joint pain without injections or manipulation.
In most cases, yes. Sciatic symptoms are usually caused by compression of the sciatic nerve, either from disc pressure or tightness in the hip. Both originate from the same pelvic imbalance. Correcting pelvic position and releasing the structures compressing the nerve reduces irritation at the source. Most clients with sciatica notice leg symptoms improving alongside the back pain.
Almost certainly contributing to it. Prolonged sitting changes the balance between the front and back of your hips and pelvis, which changes the forces on your lumbar spine. The issue isn't sitting itself, it's what sitting does to your body's balance over time. The protocols in the Amari Method are designed to counteract the effects of desk work and restore what sitting disrupts.
Book a session with Garrett. If you don't experience noticeable relief, he keeps working with you until you do, at no additional charge.
$225 · First session · San Francisco + virtual