Thoughtful education for living well in your body
Stretch Chi offers courses and resources designed to help you better understand you body, work within your individual capacity, and build sustainable practices that support everyday life.
Understanding your body changes the way you live in it.
Stretch Chi began with movement and a simple idea: when you pay close attention to how your body responds, you can make better decisions about what it needs. Over the years, that idea has expanded far beyond stretching. It now shapes the way I think about energy, rest, capacity, recovery, and the everyday practices that help us live more sustainably.
Everything you’ll find here grows from that same curiosity. Some resources explore movement and flexibility. Others focus on pacing, nervous system support, or learning how to recognize your own patterns. The subject may change, but the process remains remarkably similar: notice what is happening, understand what your body is telling you, and use that information to make thoughtful choices about what comes next.
FEATURED COURSE
Breaking the Push/Crash Cycle
A self-paced 30-lesson foundation course for people living with ME/CFS and related fatigue-limiting illnesses.
Living with unpredictable energy can make even ordinary decisions difficult. Breaking the Push/Crash Cycle guides you through a practical approach to pacing, helping you recognize your own patterns, establish a more sustainable baseline, and build routines that work with the life and capacity you have today.
As you move through the course, you’ll create a personalized journal documenting what helps, what tends to lead to setbacks, and which pacing strategies work best for you. The thirty lessons can be completed at your own pace, and you’ll have lifetime access whenever you want to return.
$149 • Lifetime access
Three Ways to Learn with Stretch Chi
Stretch Chi brings together different kinds of education with one shared purpose: helping you understand your body and make choices that support the life you want to live.
Pacing & Energy
Learn practical ways to understand your capacity, recognize patterns, and create more sustainable rhythms for everyday life.
Movement
Explore resistance stretching, flexibility, strength, and body awareness through Stretch Chi’s library of guided video courses.
Workshops & Professional Training
Stretch Chi workshops and professional certification training are available periodically for individuals, groups, and organizations.
THE ORIGINAL STRETCH CHI
Nearly two decades of movement education
Stretch Chi began with resistance stretching, and that work remains an important part of what we do today. Over the years, I’ve taught this approach through private sessions, workshops, professional trainings, and a growing library of online courses designed to help people explore flexibility, strength, and body awareness in their own time.
The online Stretch Chi library lets you learn from home and return to the material whenever it’s useful. Whether you’re completely new to resistance stretching or revisiting work you’ve studied before, the courses offer a practical way to explore movement with greater attention to how your own body responds.
MEET CARRIE
A teacher first
I’ve spent much of my adult life teaching people how to better understand their bodies. Stretch Chi began in 2007 with resistance stretching, and over the years that work expanded into workshops, professional training, online education, and a broader interest in how people learn to recognize their own patterns.
My own experience with chronic illness changed the questions I was asking. I became much more interested in capacity, pacing, recovery, and the small decisions that shape how sustainable a day can feel. That experience eventually led to Breaking the Push/Crash Cycle, and it continues to influence the way I think about every course I create.
The subject matter has changed over the years, but the part I care about most has stayed remarkably consistent: helping people pay attention, understand what they’re experiencing, and make choices that feel more informed and more their own.
Explore the Library
Stretch Chi has always been built around teaching. If you’d like to spend some time exploring before choosing a course, you’ll find years of articles and videos covering movement, body awareness, pacing, and the ideas that have shaped Stretch Chi along the way.
Read
Explore articles from the Stretch Chi library, including movement education, practical wellness ideas, and new writing about pacing and sustainable living.
Watch
Browse guided resistance stretching, educational videos, conversations, and other resources from the Stretch Chi YouTube library.
WORKSHOPS & CERTIFICATION
Learn in person
Stretch Chi workshops and professional training are still available on a limited basis. I occasionally teach resistance stretching workshops, assisted stretching education, and certification training for individuals, groups, and organizations.
Because these opportunities are scheduled selectively, there may not always be a current date on the calendar. If you’re interested in hosting a workshop, arranging a training, or learning about future certification opportunities, you’re welcome to get in touch.
Stay Connected with Stretch Chi
I send occasional notes about new courses, practical resources, things I’m learning, and what’s happening around Stretch Chi. If you’d like to hear from me as the work continues to grow, you’re welcome to join the list.