What is ELDOA?

ELDOA is a revolutionary stretching and strengthening technique for the spine and joints of the body. These exercises create space between every level of your spine, your hips and shoulders, to alleviate back pain and improve your overall posture.

Created by world-renowned Osteopath, Guy VOYER, DO the ELDOAs were created to target every level of your spine to create space and normalize the tension around each vertebrae. The result is postural normalization and a renewed strength and balance throughout your body.

The Benefits of ELDOA

ELDOA connects your body, mind and spirit through a series of techniques designed to have a calming effect on the nervous system.

When we stretch the fascia that surrounds all the muscles, organs and nerves in our body restrictions are freed and a calm, balanced feeling takes over. You feel revitalized with more energy, and your body feels aligned with a cleansing feeling in your deep body tissue.

You will find that this profound experience is a way of life – and not just an exercise method. Perhaps you'll see it as meditation for your spine (especially if you can't sit still). Within the action of an ELDOA you will find stillness - it's profound and gets into every fibre in your body.

ELDOA will help you:

• Hydrate your spinal discs

• Provide support for degenerative discs

• Increase blood flow to spinal joints, hips, shoulders

• Decrease or alleviate back/neck/shoulder pain

• Alleviate sciatica

• Decrease inflammation leading to arthritis in hips or spine

• Improve your athletic performance (ie- better rotational capacity!) and recovery time

• Remove restrictions breathe better

• Fix slow digestion

• Reduce joint inflammation

• Battle depression and a lack of energy

• Stop suffering from back, & neck pain, poor posture

• Avoid surgery!

• Age well!

ELDOA Talks
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Find out about ELDOA and what it can do for you!

As we age, if our spine is not aligned gravity pulls us forward and down (ie-forward head posture). ELDOA keeps you aligned and healthy at any age and helps beat the pull of gravity (or let’s say brings you into alignment to withstand the forces).

It’s all about the ungluing of a compressed joint - joint decoaptation - which means less pressure on the joints of your spine and pelvis. The result is back pain relief, a re-hydration of spinal discs, a decrease of arthritic and neurological conditions, an increase in well-being and a self-induced calmness of the mind and body.

If you want to avoid surgery, ELDOAs are one of the BEST tools to have. If you have “DDD - degerative disc disease” it will be your BEST friend (we all have it to some extent). If you want to feel calmer an ELDOA will give your nerves their space space back.

We could go on and on! Come experience it through a group class or private sessions.

“I spread the gospel of ELDOA to everyone I know. I’m hooked – I’ve noticed a huge difference in my mobility. It has literally changed my life. We did the SI joints and OMG is was amazing”

- Renee D.

I simply LOVE ELDOA. I feel a genuine deep stretch all the way into my core, really almost like deep body tissue maintenance. My Muscles feel more toned, my posture is better, my neck is stronger. Definitely recommend it. 

- Deb F.

ELDOA has changed my life…my knees and feet have become stable and supportive, my back no longer aches…a gently profound experience.

– Mimi M. 

In the 1970s Guy VOYER, DO, spent the decade researching manual and physical methods that helped back pain. He chose the most poignant principles and applied them in a unique way thereby developing his own method of relieving back pain, which treated the cause, not the symptoms.

Initially the focus was mechanical - how to fix the back pain through bones, connective tissue, muscles - but it became quite clear early on - after many clients reported a relief from sleeping issues, lessoning of menstrual cramp discomfort, clearer eye sight, mental clarity and overall sense of wellbeing - that the organs, the nervous system, the hormonal system, the circulatory system, were all being effected by the ELDOA as well.

ELDOA has spread in popularity over the past 20 years and today it is approaching mainstream stardom (YAY!!). It started with Osteopaths giving their patients an ELDOA or two to help assist the results of their treatment, then personal trainers working with top athletes in all sports especially hockey and golf (Tiger Woods), and many other movement educators, such as pilates instructors, teaching privates and group ELDOA classes. The word has spread through the results achieved!

Born in Marseille, France, Guy VOYER is internationally known for his osteopathic expertise and his ability to treat and prescribe movement accordingly within his unique osteopathic paradigm, which addresses the fascial and musculoskeletal system.

Guy VOYER passed away suddenly June 2024. We lost a brilliant mind. His life’s work will live on!

Guy VOYER, was an accomplished athlete (Olympic Judo champion), and physiotherapist with 4 Osteopathic degrees, an Orthopedic MD, and PhD in Pedagogy. After truly understanding the global continuity of the body/fascial system, he taught exercise as the foundation of all permanent change to the body for function, health, recovery and treatment. Many performance therapists and trainers around the world utilize his SomaTraining & SomaTherapy principles in the treatment and rehab of professional athletes and the conclusion of complex cases.

“After years of study and clinical practice, it became clear that giving patients the tools to correct their own back pain was far more effective than treating the symptoms of their pain”

For that reason, the philosophy of the ELDOA as per Guy VOYER:

“You Are Your Own Best Therapist” 

• Somatherapy through the treatment of fasciae, viscera, pelvic axes, hormone chains, pumping and sensory organs. More information: www.somavoyer.com

• Somatraining through physical and sports training based on back techniques (ELDOAs), myofascial stretching (MFS), analytical muscle strengthening and targeted proprioception. More Information: www.somavoyer.com