looking to heal from the inside out?
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Body
A combination of manual therapy on the feet and fascia, health coaching, and energy work.
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Exerting pressure on different sections of the feet is most likely the world’s oldest and most pervasive form of reflex therapy. The foot, as well as the hands and ears, has many receptor zones that mirror the entire body in a micro/macro system.
In treatment, specific points are pressed and held with the thumbs and fingers. This manual and energetic manipulation of the skin and tissue on the foot activates vegetative receptors and nerve fibers to respond all the way up to the pre- and post -ganglion synapses in the brain. Fasciae, which communicate throughout the body with one another, are also stimulated in this technique. In short, the effect is systemic and many-fold:
This method may help to determine weaknesses in specific organs, nerves, and muscles; the autonomic nervous system can be regulated, resulting in improved blood circulation to the heart and lungs; this renewed equilibrium can increase the effectiveness of other therapies.
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I work with the Fascial Distortion Model (FDM), an anatomical perspective originated by US physician Stephen Typaldos, D.O.. In this medical model the underlying cause of virtually every musculoskeletal injury (and many neurological and medical conditions) is one or more of six specific pathological alterations (or distortions) of the body’s connective tissues, or fascia.
Each of these six principal types of fascial distortion has its own body language and signature presentation. Some common injuries that are easily resolved with FDM manual treatments include: pulled muscles and muscle tears, sprained ankles, shin splints, headaches, shoulder pain, plantar fascitis, sprains, strains and tendonitis, and low back pain. Chronic pain can also be successfully treated, but results typically take a bit longer.
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As a health coach, I am here to encourage you to explore your vision of a healthy life and understand the deeper meaning it has for you. Together, we translate that vision into action, step by step, making it a reality. Each session and the timing of every step toward change is client-driven.
I am happy to work with the implementation of health plans prescribed by other practitioners.
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More in the realm of experience than words, energy work is the focused transfer of a wide band of high vibratory energy from the healer to the client. It works with entrainment through the hands and heart of the practitioner and is a neutral exchange intended for the client’s highest good.
Mind
Stilling the mind and expanding experience to enrich and broaden perspective.
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One of the hallmarks of my methodology is to encourage the client to take an active role in his or her healing. Recognizing attitudes and life patterns which can put the body under unnecessary strain is an important part of this process.
Moving from recognition to active change can be complex, requiring gentle and consistent inspiration and intelligent reflection to help the client return his or her life and body to a state of equilibrium.
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Meditation can be an enormous support in returning to equilibrium. It reshapes the experience of stress by focusing and organizing from the inside out. Overwhelm reduces as the present moment with its depth and potential becomes more important than the past or future. In this clarity of the now, wisdom and knowledge from the past become a neutral guiding force, and wishes for the future transform into gentle discipline..
Meditation has been shown in clinical studies to relax the heartbeat, deepen breathing, and relieve muscle tension. This results in the following:
• lowered blood pressure
• more restful sleep
• reduced back pain
• improved concentration and productivity
• a greater sense of confidence, self trust, and enjoyment of life
In addition, meditation has been shown to regenerate important areas of the brain.
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Supporting meditation, this form of concentration work done with the eyes open engages a gentle discipline that accesses profound and constant inner strength through an intense experience of the present moment and the expanse behind or through it.
This inner strength is a carrier, transforming concentration into something all-embracing, and discipline into a form of wisdom full of lightness, dynamic, and clarity. One no longer struggles and grasps, but is carried or supported to focus through a point, and from that point into an immense and calm opening. This opening, in turn, carries the concentration and discipline.
Spirit
Affirming the loving presence of direct consciousness.
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The spirit healer works as a catalyst to make the universal power of heart and its higher vibration consciousness available to the client. When this power is present, its expansion can work through the physical body to fill it with the broad intelligence of trust and balance.
Spirit healing asks that the client affirm the presence of a spirit, of love, in the higher sense--the sense of a direct consciousness. An opening to the personal understanding of this force, to the experience of it reaching far beyond the intellect to extend perception and create healing through that extension, is essential.
