Natural back care and spine health

Exploring the body’s capacity for release and realignment through the Buttafly Technique

What if caring for the spine is not simply a matter of stretching, strengthening, manipulating or correcting the body?

In this talk, Loulou James will offer a different perspective on back care and spinal health, drawing on more than 40 years of clinical experience and what she has learned through developing the Buttafly Technique.

We’ll explore the body’s own capacity for adaptation, release and realignment—and consider how we can create the conditions that allow its natural intelligence to respond.

Loulou will introduce the principles behind the Buttafly Technique and, where practical, guide the group through some simple experiential explorations, bringing the ideas to life within the body.

The talk is suitable for anyone interested in understanding their back and spine differently.

About Loulou James MCSP

Loulou is a Spine Health Specialist and the founder of the Buttafly® and the Buttafly Technique. A retired physiotherapist with more than 40 years’ clinical and teaching experience, her background also encompasses yoga, Lifestyle Prescriptions® health coaching and abdominal massage.

Throughout her career, Loulou has been interested not only in relieving symptoms, but in understanding why the body responds as it does—and what becomes possible when we learn to listen to it. Her work brings together clinical understanding, movement and embodied awareness, grounded in a deep respect for the body’s intelligence and its capacity to adapt, release and find its way back towards balance.

Through the Buttafly Technique, her teaching and her individual work, Loulou invites people to move beyond seeing the body as something that must constantly be corrected, and towards a more curious, trusting and collaborative relationship with themselves.