Practical details
Date: Tuesday 21st April 2026
Time: 18.00 – 19.00 UK time. Check your timezone here
Presenter(s): Eric Franklin
Title: Pain Is Not Just in the Tissue - How the Franklin Method® Uses Imagery to Change Pain, Movement, and the Brain
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Webinar Outline:
Pain is not just a signal from injured tissue — it is a brain-generated experience shaped by perception, expectation, memory, emotion, and movement habits. This is why pain can persist long after tissues have healed, and why purely mechanical or strengthening approaches often fall short.
This workshop explores how imagery — and specifically the Franklin Method® — can directly influence pain by changing how the brain organizes movement, sensation, and muscular tone.
Through Dynamic Neurocognitive Imagery™, participants will learn how mental imagery:
- Reduces unnecessary muscle guarding and protective tension
- Improves joint coordination and load distribution
- Updates the brain’s internal body maps (body schema)
- Decreases threat perception and pain sensitivity
- Restores confidence, ease, and fluidity in movement
Rather than “fixing” the body, imagery works by changing the meaning the brain assigns to movement and sensation, allowing pain to soften naturally as movement becomes safer, clearer, and more efficient.
This experiential workshop combines:
- Embodied anatomy and perception-based cueing
- Practical imagery exercises you can use immediately
- Movement explorations applicable to daily life, exercise, and rehabilitation
- Movement teachers (Pilates, dance, yoga, fitness)
- Physiotherapists & bodyworkers
- Coaches and educators working with chronic or recurring pain
- Anyone curious about a smarter, kinder approach to pain
Presenter Bio(s):
Eric Franklin
Eric Franklin is the Founder and Director of the Franklin Method®. Eric created the Method over 25 years ago, initially teaching it in Switzerland, Germany and Austria before spreading his message to the USA, China, Japan and beyond.
A wealth of experience in education
After earning his Bachelor of Science at the University of Zurich and his Bachelor of Fine Arts at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Eric worked for many years as a dancer and choreographer. After developing his groundbreaking Franklin Method®, Eric then went on to teach at numerous universities and schools around the world, including the Juilliard School in New York, Rutgers University, the University of Vienna, the Royal Ballet School and the Laban Center in London.
Over the years, he also taught Beyonce’s & Celine Dion’s world tour dance companies, and in 1998 he was credited with introducing dance conditioning methodology to mainland China.
Renowned speaker and author
Eric is a regular speaker at international conferences, such as the World Congress for Lower Back and Pelvic Pain, the Pilates Method Alliance and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.
Eric Franklin has also authored 21 books, including Dynamic Alignment through Imagery (2012), Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (2013), Relax your Neck – Liberate your Shoulders (2002), Pelvic Power (2003), Inner Focus, Outer Strength (2006) and Beautiful Body, Beautiful Mind (2009). Eric Franklin’s books have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, French, Czech, Chinese and Korean.
Time/Date of Event
Event type
Zoom
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Online
7 pm BST