What happens next is remarkable

Stride opens. Posture lifts. Breathing deepens. The runner’s body suddenly looks — and feels — lighter, smoother, more powerful.

It’s not training or stretching. It’s not traditional PT or chiropractic. This work reaches beneath those layers — into the nervous system, fascia, joint alignment, and energetic space — where the body organizes movement and self-healing.

The science and the spark

When joints and tissues regain optimal space and alignment, the body releases instantaneous packets of energy — what literature sometimes calls “quanta”. Those quanta create a soft internal rebound: the joint system puffs up, stores elastic energy, and returns it on each stride. Imagine the benefit of a super shoe — except distributed throughout the athlete’s whole body.

Local proof — and a human example

I’ve filmed before-and-after sessions with local runners — the slow-motion video shows the changes clearly. And my son Ben is one living example: when people watch him run they can see how open, light, and powerful his stride looks. That’s what we’re aiming to create consistently for all athletes: effortless propulsion and sustainable resilience.

The Big Idea

What if we brought this approach to the local middle-school and high-school teams, the Fairhaven Runners community, and — by invitation — to elite programs like NAU and the Nike Swoosh team in Flagstaff?

We’re proposing a small collaborative effort — a local mastermind of coaches, therapists, parents, and athletes who want to test, measure, and refine this approach together. The goals are simple:

• Catch subtle alignment & energy issues before they become injuries
• Improve stride efficiency and elastic rebound without adding training load
• Share learnings across coaches and programs so the whole region benefits

An open invitation — join the mastermind

If you coach, parent, or work with runners and would like to be part of a small, practical group testing Helix Biomechanics, I’d love to talk. We’ll start with a short meet & greet, show slow-motion demos, and offer a limited number of pilot sessions (free or subsidized) for school and club athletes. From there we’ll collect results and iterate together.

See the full article and demo video here (video at the bottom of the post):

Read & Watch: Running Form Optimization

Short message you can share

“We’re forming a small local mastermind to explore Helix Biomechanics — a hands-on method that helps runners move freer, recover faster, and access a natural elastic rebound. Interested? See the demo and join the conversation: RalphHavens.com/RunningFormOptimization”

Contact & next steps

If you’d like to join or refer athletes, email me directly: ralph@ralphhavens.com or call the clinic and ask about Helix Biomechanics pilot sessions.

Beyond Limits Physical Therapy
1134 10th Street, Fairhaven — Bellingham, WA

The Essence

When the body has space, energy rebounds. When energy rebounds, motion becomes effortless. When motion is effortless — that’s where flow lives.

— Ralph Havens, PT, IMT