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Strength training your patients can continue — safely

I'm Tamara Smith, a strength and recovery coach at Solara Studio in Ashland, specialising in women 35+. My training is joint-first: corrective exercise, stability and mobility before load, with programming adapted for peri- and post-menopause, bone density, hypermobility, and patients on or coming off GLP-1 medications who need to protect muscle.

Who I can help you help

  • • Women finishing rehab who need progressive, supervised strength work to keep the gains you've made with them — and the confidence to keep going

  • • Women with bone-density concerns who need consistent, progressive loading in a setting that takes form seriously

  • • Women in peri- or post-menopause whose strength, balance and body composition are changing and who need training built for this season, not adapted as an afterthought

  • • Women with hypermobility who need stability and strength, carefully progressed — not more stretching

  • • Patients on, or coming off, GLP-1 medications who need to protect muscle and bone while their weight changes

  • • Patients whose nervous systems need to come down — stress load, tension, poor sleep (see Aquatic Therapy, below)

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What else is here

  • Assisted stretch therapy — floor-based, hands-on assisted stretching using breath, gentle resistance and guided movement to improve flexibility, restore joint function and ease muscular tension.

  • Aquatic therapy — a float session: an hour of supported floating while I gently move the client through the water. It's closer to bodywork than to training, and it's for anyone whose nervous system needs release.

How I work, and what I don't do

  • • I work within your plan of care — if you're treating them, your guidance sets the boundaries and I programme inside them

  • • I don't diagnose or treat, and I don't adjust, manipulate or prescribe

  • • If something presents outside my scope — new pain, a red flag, a plateau that feels medical — I send them back to you and tell you why

  • • I'm happy to share brief progress notes on shared clients with their permission, and I'd rather have a quick conversation about a patient than guess

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How a referral works

1. You suggest it, or hand them my card — or, with their permission, introduce us directly

2. We start with a Foundations session: movement assessment, history, and your recommendations if you send them

3. They train in small groups (EVOLVE), one-to-one (Thrive), or remotely — every strength session ends with guided recovery

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