About Anna
For Dr. Anna McConville, physical therapy was never the destination. It was the beginning of a much longer inquiry into why certain bodies are perpetually failed by the systems meant to care for them.
After 35 years at the intersection of physical therapy, biofeedback, and somatic nervous system work, Anna has arrived at something the medical world is only beginning to catch up to: that hypermobile bodies don't need to be pushed harder. They need to be understood differently.
Her clinical practice is grounded in a nervous-system-first, movement-informed model that integrates physical therapy and functional movement, biofeedback and somatic regulation, polyvagal-informed care, and breathwork as clinical foundation.
Today, Anna works with clients across the United States navigating some of the most complex and underserved conditions in modern medicine: mold toxicity, MCAS, chronic Lyme, hypermobility spectrum disorder, and other debilitating invisible illnesses. Her coaching and consulting work meets people where conventional medicine has repeatedly fallen short. Because when you've met one person with invisible illness, you've met one person with invisible illness.
She speaks internationally on self-regulation and nervous system health and convenes practitioners through the Minnesota Holistic Medical Group in service of a more integrated model of care.
Ways to Work Together
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The Lumina Series is designed as a group journey — but not everyone is ready for a group, and not every body needs the same thing at the same time.
If you are looking for something more personalized, Anna offers private virtual classes tailored entirely to your body, your nervous system, and where you are right now. No group pace to keep up with. No generalizing. Just you and the work.
She also offers specialty virtual classes for those ready to go deeper into specific practices:
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Block Therapy
A decompression practice using a therapeutic block to release fascial restriction, restore circulation, and reconnect with areas of the body that have gone quiet from years of guarding and compensation.
I am one of (2) instructors in MN. We have adapted the class for hypermobility safety
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Floor-based movement for hypermobile bodies. Learn how to use the ground as your greatest tool for proprioception, support, and nervous system regulation.
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All Lumina Series classes are recorded and stored in your own private library with a personal access link. Watch as many times as you need, at your own pace, on your own schedule. The learning doesn't stop when the class ends.
These classes are available individually or as a complement to the Lumina Series. Reach out to find the right fit.
If cost is a barrier to your care, reach out before you walk away. We'll figure it out together.
The Lumina Series was built from the ground up - drawing on the Ehlers-Danlos Society's Finding Functional Foundations framework, 35 years of neuroplasticity and somatic movement work, Pilates, Feldenkrais, trauma-informed care, and a foundational training in physical theater and professional Mime performance that taught Dr. McConville to read a body long before she had clinical language for what she was seeing.
This is not a generic movement class adapted for hypermobility. It was designed by healthcare professional who lives in a hypermobile body and has spent decades learning what actually works.
The Approach
This work begins with listening. Not the kind that fills out a form and moves on — the kind that understands your story, your sensations, and your pace as clinical information. Because when you've met one person with invisible illness, you've met one person with invisible illness. There is no protocol that fits everyone. There is only the work of actually seeing the person in front of you.
The goal is never to push through. It is to understand what is actually happening in your system and give it what it needs to reorganize. When you learn how your nervous system works, you stop guessing and start building something real and lasting.
This is what it looks like to stop outsourcing your healing to systems that were never designed to see you clearly.
What Anna Brings
Neuroplasticity principles and how nervous systems actually rewire. Trauma-informed movement where safety always comes first. Fascia and nervous system strategies for hypermobile and sensitive bodies. Cannabis education for pain management and nervous system regulation. Forty-eight years of meditation and embodiment practice. And a body that has taught her everything the textbooks left out.
This is the art and science of sustainable healing.
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