The CANTIENICA® method was developed by the Swiss Benita Cantieni. She herself writes on her Website: “The CANTIENICA® method strengthens your deep muscles, precisely aligns your posture and, when practiced regularly, can relieve chronic pain. (…) The training aims to strengthen and stabilize the body’s core – in particular the pelvic floor, the deep muscles and the spine. This core stability improves posture and lays the foundation for smooth, pain-free movement in everyday life.”

It can provide relief from a range of ailments – provided you exercise regularly:

• Poor posture and its consequences
• Tension
• Incontinence (bladder, bowel)
• Headache, migraine, tinnitus
• Hollow back, hunchback
• Pelvic obliquity, bow legs, knock knees
• organ prolapse, prolapse, slackening of the pelvic floor muscles
• Hemorrhoidal discomfort
• Enlarged prostate
• Erectile dysfunction
• Foot deformities, hallus valgus, heel spur, splayfoot
• Osteoarthritis, joint problems
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Scoliosis
• Herniated discs
• Diffuse anxiety and depressive moods

Read more at: https://cantienica.com/en/get-well/

CANTIENICA® training empowers you to become part of the solution yourself. My own experience illustrates this perfectly: following ankle surgery – which was absolutely necessary and prevented further damage to the cartilage – both the surgeons and the physiotherapists were at a loss at one point as to what to do about my persistent foot pain. The idea that it is possible to relieve joint pain by training the deep muscles helped me to believe that I could ‘wrap’ my ankle with muscle in such a way that the joint space remains wide and the pressure on the foot cartilage is kept to a minimum. It works: I am almost always pain-free!

Regular practice is key here. There are many other examples of significant pain reduction or even complete freedom from pain, or breakthroughs – for instance, in regaining awareness of the pelvic floor after pregnancy and childbirth! The wonderful thing about CANTIENICA® training is its long-term, lasting effect: once you’ve grasped the principles, your body will almost ‘demand’ them. You’ll even be able to help yourself in some acute pain situations, because CANTIENICA® training gives you the tools to better understand your body—that biomechanical masterpiece—and use it in accordance with its design.

The ten session pass is valid for twelve weeks from the date of purchase – to be precise, the weeks in which classes are held. This means you can attend ten times within those twelve weeks and still miss a session or two if life gets in the way. 

Two words: my dedication and enthusiasm. I enjoyed my first session in November 2022 and was immediately hooked. By the time I’d taken two lessons on consecutive days and felt the healing, focusing and liberating effect on my mind, I knew I wanted to incorporate the CANTIENICA® method into my life as much as possible. I love working with people; everyone is unique and multi-faceted. This keeps things varied and very fulfilling: I’m just as delighted as my participants themselves when they have an ‘aha’ moment or a physical ‘breakthrough’.