Drew Ricciardi — Therapeutic Movement Coach

@themonkeybody

🐒 Hypermobile solutions in 20 min/day 🦍 Living with hEDS, MCAS, and POTS 🦧 HSA/FSA eligible via Truemed Here’s how to get moving ⤵️
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Getting started with themonkeybody™ is simple. If you’re tight, unstable or always popping out of place, I can help your body trust its own strength again. Here’s what’s included: ✔️ 1 year membership ✔️ 20-min daily therapeutic flows ✔️ Weekly live classes ✔️ 1 year of course modules ✔️ Q+A sessions ✔️ Office hours ✔️ Video reviews ✔️ Class archives ✔️ Ongoing support Comment or DM “GROUNDED” for my FREE 5 Exercise Master Class and let’s get you moving 🐵 hypermobility | EDS | hEDS | POTS | MCAS
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7 months ago
What you’re hearing isn’t scripted — it’s lived. These are real stories from real people whose bodies finally felt safe enough to move again after working with themonkeybody™. Each person came to me at a different point in their story. Most had already tried everything. And every one of them is proof of what happens when the body is met with safety instead of force.

What we did together wasn’t about chasing relief; it was about rebuilding trust. I’m grateful every day to get to do this kind of work. And to help people listen to their bodies in a way most of us were never taught to. That’s what we teach at themonkeybody™ — movement that reconnects you to what your body already knows. 📺 Watch full stories on YT @themonkeybody 📩 DM “GROUNDED” for the free master class
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6 months ago
🎉 BIG NEWS: your themonkeybody™ payments could be eligible for HSA/FSA reimbursement! Exercise is medicine and can often count for tax-free spending — saving an average of 30%. We’re partnering with @truemedpayments who will handle all the intricacies of using HSA/FSA funds on your behalf, making the reimbursement process seamless and hassle-free. If you have an HSA/FSA — or plan to contribute for next year — hit the link in bio to qualify. 🦧
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1 year ago
Once hypermobile bodies experience real support, it’s hard to go back. 🐒
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8 days ago
If pelvic contouring feels hard to control or everything shifts when you move, it’s usually because there’s no clear base through the foot. Using that “book on the foot” creates a fixed plane as a reference point so you can keep the foot level, hug the leg, and lengthen while maintaining the contour — creating a resisted spiral through the body instead of everything collapsing. This is especially helpful during a Modified Happy Baby 🐵
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15 days ago
themonkeybody™ came from me trying to understand my own hypermobility first. Once I figured out what actually helps the body feel more connected and supported, I started building something around it. Now I use that understanding to work with others dealing with the same patterns. And I’m so grateful for how far it’s come. 🐒
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17 days ago
On abdominal diastasis, exercise progression, and building up to more advanced rolling 🐒
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22 days ago
There’s a point in the body where no pull or push has happened yet. For hypermobility, that’s a useful place to start from — before tension, before compensation. Finding that starting point changes how everything organizes from there. A lot of themonkeybody™ work comes back to that. Shoutout Joanne Bosch, @thedavidweck + of course @tombrady 🐒
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29 days ago
If you’re hypermobile, feeling stable usually takes effort. When your body doesn’t have to fight for that stability anymore, everything else gets quieter. Movement feels more coordinated, less forced and it’s a very different baseline to live from. And with themonkeybody™, it’s trainable 🐒
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1 month ago
Sacrum. Sternum. Occiput. When those three align, the body finally has something to organize around. If you’re hypermobile, you know what it feels like to constantly try to stabilize and still feel loose. This is where that starts to change — and it’s the foundation of themonkeybody™.
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1 month ago
Turns out “core strength” means something different when you’re hypermobile. It’s less about doing more and more about learning how to actually support your joints — that’s where themonkeybody™ comes in 🐒
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1 month ago
How to do seated oscillations in the shower for nervous system regulation in hypermobility — and if it feels like too much to stay at the edge of the chair on your sitz bones, just lean back and let the chair support you 🐒
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