About us
Two perspectives. One purpose: helping people feel more possibility in their body.
Why Shankar and Antréa do this
Two personal changes became a shared commitment to understand more.
For nearly two decades, Shankar lived with pain associated with ankylosing spondylitis. While Shankar and Antréa were traveling in Indonesia, he experienced a rapid change after a brief session with a UK-based physician. Antréa experienced a personal change of her own: Antréa reports that the chronic dysmenorrhea she had lived with also resolved as they explored the approach together. These individual experiences led them to study the process and understand what had changed.
Together, they undertook the apprenticeship with that physician in the UK, with Antréa participating throughout. They spent the following year traveling internationally and helping people without charging, using each experience to refine their observations and learn how people responded.
Today, their shared commitment continues through Go Pain to Power and complementary collaboration around MD Spine: listen closely, establish a baseline, repeat the same test, and compare what people notice in everyday life.
Shankar Poncelet — Functional Neurologist
Shankar is a functional neurologist and co-founder of Go Pain to Power. His work explores relationships among movement, nervous-system regulation, posture, stress, protective patterns, and lived experience.
Antréa Ferguson — Functional Neurologist
Antréa is a functional neurologist and co-founder of Go Pain to Power. Her work contributes an integrative perspective to body awareness, stress, emotional patterns, and the personal experience of change.
Why Go Pain to Power exists
We created Go Pain to Power for people who want an individualized, respectful place to explore persistent body patterns without being reduced to a diagnosis or pushed into a generic protocol.