What is the OOV?
Why We’re Bringing the OOV Into Your Sessions
Have you noticed a new; and delightfully playful, element mOOVing into your sessions with us lately? That’s the OOV! And we couldn’t be more excited to share why it’s become such an essential part of our approach to movement, control, balance, and lasting change.
A Fresh Perspective on Manual Therapy + Neurosomatic Work
While our practice has always combined skilled hands-on techniques with cutting‑edge neuroscience, the OOV takes that synergy even further. In the past, we focused on consciously altering posture and movement patterns. Today’s research reminds us that true, lasting change often lives below the level of conscious thought, and that’s exactly where the OOV shines.
Rediscovering the World Our Bodies Were Meant For
Modern life has an understated cost: we’ve traded the unpredictable textures of nature for flat floors and paved roads. Even our shoes; those well‑meaning “foot prisons”, limit the sensory feedback our nervous systems crave. When deprived of that rich stimulation, our balance, tone, and stability begin to suffer.
The OOV delivers a sensory feast. By introducing varied surfaces, angles, and challenges, it reawakens neural pathways dulled by uniformity, tapping into the very foundations of how we humans were designed to move.
Tapping Into Subconscious Control
Consciously, our minds can process only a handful of the millions of sensory bits streaming in every second. Yet beneath awareness, our nervous system hums with potential. The OOV bypasses that narrow conscious doorway, engaging the “reptilian” and subconscious brain centers that govern stability, breath, and automatic patterning, so that real change can take root.
Injecting Play into Powerful Change
What if the key to rewiring old movement habits is simply play? By placing your body in fun, dynamic, even unpredictable scenarios, the OOV ignites deep motor‑feedback loops. Each wobble, reach, or twist becomes a tiny lesson in balance, internal control, and breath coordination. Over time, these lessons stack up, creating more integrated posture and movement patterns that last.
Meet the Mind Behind the Magic
The OOV was created by Daniel Vladetta, neuroscientist, prosthetic engineer, and osteopath. Who designed it as the perfect playground for subconscious motor reprogramming, axial decompression and diaphragmatic breath. In Daniel's vision, a simple foam-tool transforms into a portal for neurosomatic breakthroughs: shifting breath patterns, fine‑tuning stability, and unlocking the integrated control we all carry within us.
Why It Matters for You
When you move with the OOV at our practice, you’re not just going through the motions, you’re tapping into an intelligent system of sensory feedback and neurological engagement. You’ll feel subtle shifts in tone, notice improvements in balance, and discover new freedom in your breath. Best of all, these changes aren’t fleeting; they’re built on the deep, subconscious level where lasting transformation lives.
Ready to play, learn, and grow? Ask your therapist about how the OOV might fit into your next session. And prepare to meet your body in an unforgettable new way.
