Neck pain is rarely a neck problem on its own. Something in your mid-back or shoulder blades has gone quiet, and your neck 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 neck muscles are working overtime to hold your head in position because something below them has shifted. When that support goes quiet, your neck is left doing a job it was never built for.
Your neck is working overtime because your mid-back has rounded forward and your shoulder blades have drifted out of place. For every inch your head sits in front of your shoulders, it adds roughly ten pounds of load on your neck. Most people are two to three inches forward without realizing it.
Releasing the tight muscles in your neck and upper traps feels good in the moment. But those muscles are tight because they're overworking. If what they're compensating for never changes, they tighten right back up within a day or two.
Manual therapy and hands-on work can bring real relief. But if the pattern pulling your head forward hasn't changed, the load returns 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 mid-back and shoulder blades are carrying their share again, your neck 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 mid-back, shoulder blades, and neck are sharing the load, not just where it hurts. That's usually the pattern behind years of neck pain.
Using a yoga block or gymnastic rings, Garrett guides you through positions matched to your specific pattern. You're moving, not lying on a table.
Most clients feel their neck loosen and their shoulders drop before the session ends. The muscles 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 neck pain. Garrett watches your posture and movement over video and guides you through the same protocols in real time.
I finally understood why my neck kept hurting. That was worth more than any treatment I'd tried.Tyler · Photographer
If something isn't here, ask on a free discovery call. Garrett answers everything before you book a paid session.
Chronic neck pain, even decades-long, almost always has a pattern that can be improved. The muscles and joints may have been out of position for a long time, but the underlying pattern is still correctable. Many of Garrett's clients had been managing neck pain for years before someone finally looked at what was driving it from below the neck. How long you've had pain doesn't predict the outcome. The pattern does.
Yes. When the muscles at the base of your skull are overworking to hold your head up, they compress nerves and restrict blood flow. That's the most common cause of tension headaches and headaches that start at the back of the skull. Correcting the pattern that's overloading those muscles resolves the headaches alongside the neck pain.
Yes. Neck misalignment commonly causes pain that radiates into the shoulders and upper arms, and in some cases numbness or tingling down into the hands. When the cervical spine is compressed, it can irritate the nerves that run into the arm. Addressing the pattern creating the compression reduces these secondary symptoms too.
Almost certainly contributing to it. Prolonged desk work rounds the mid-back, collapses the shoulder blades forward, and pushes your head into a forward position. The issue isn't sitting itself. It's what sitting does to your body over time. The protocols in the Amari Method are designed to counteract the effects of desk work and restore what sitting disrupts.
Most approaches treat the neck in isolation. Cervical stretches, chin tucks, and strengthening routines address where the pain is, not where it's coming from. Garrett looks at the whole pattern: mid-back mobility, shoulder blade mechanics, and how your head is positioned relative to the rest of your body. The result is lasting change, not ongoing management.
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