manual medicine Modalities
These modalities require months if not years of additional training and focus on specific layers of restriction or congestion known to have a significant impact on the other systems in your body, including muscular tension and joint issues. Several of these modalities can be performed with clothing. Most likely, you've already experienced many of these techniques blended into a session you've had before.
Cranial Sacral Therapy
This gentled subtle work is a comprehensive and profound way of releasing stored tensions, energy, fluid, or myofascial restrictions anywhere in the body. It addresses embryological underpinnings and appreciates that some issues were inspired at very early stages of development along tissue fields that developed at the same time.
The techniques may focus on global and significant patterns that originate in the skull and brain, recognizing that some of the cellular, bony and membranous connections there impact the entire system. Cranial work can be done with clothes on or off, as a session on its own or integrated into other forms of massage and bodywork. Some of the most deep and subtle areas of restriction will only respond when approached most slowly with patience and gentleness, and, as in neuromuscular work, because it addresses origins in the brain, the results can be most lasting.
Brain/Spine Integration (Neurotherapy)
This subtle style is more detailed than cranial sacral work. It listens for and tracks the fixations in each segment of the spine, reaching down to the meninges, ligaments, and deepest layers surrounding the spinal cord. It's very helpful where there has been birth trauma, surgeries, and whiplash or disc injuries. It works with the brain's relationship to injured or dysfunctional areas, and helps to release shock from the cells. Sleep issues can also be assisted by calming and settling the 'buzzy', over-stimulated areas inside the brain cells, cranial nerves, and the membranes inside the skull.
Lymphatic Manipulation
Lymphatic drainage focuses on gentle techniques that help to flush the lymph nodes of built up toxins and waste. This method has been practiced since the 1930's and is being included in more and more widespread medical conditions and circumstances. Besides the most common benefit of strengthening the immune system, lymph drainage can speed the healing of minor injuries involving swelling, or inflammation, as well as shorten recovery time after surgery. It's being used more frequently to support cancer treatment, can increase vitality and metabolism, improve the condition of the skin, and helps the body to eliminate water weight.
Whole Body Integration
The combination of methods serve to mobilize the joints, release forces in tissue fields and bone, open fascial restrictions, reduce pressure on nerves and blood vessels, and enhance connective tissue communication all while monitoring the body's responses to each technique. This approach is comprehensive and wholistic, addressing the many layers and dimensions the body functions on, allowing their inter-relationships to harmonize and return to optimum motion wherever possible.Everything is connected and interdependent.
NeuroMuscular Reeducation
Based in Feldenkrais and Hanna Somatics, this approach uses the body's relationship with the sensory cells and the brain to ask the muscle to make changes in length, tone, mobility, and range of motion. It helps to reestablish neural connections and aliveness where areas have gone numb or entrenched in patterns that are unhealthy. This approach is gentle and is based on a non-threatening method of rebooting the system, and reorganizing the nervous system using the brain for feedback while creating a healthier pattern. For more detailed information, please visit http://www.neurosomatics.net
Visceral Manipulation
There are as many as 400,000 nerve cells in the gut including the same neurotransmitters that the brain uses. Imbalance in the intestines or internal organs can refer back into the spine in the area of their nerve roots, or via shared nerves or fascia into neighboring joints like the hips or shoulders, creating discomfort in the musculo-skeletal system. It is a vital area to restore and responds well to direct, subtle contact to open restrictions and mobilize organs and restore natural rhythms.
Hanna Somatic Education
This approach uses various treatment sequences that help to undo reflex patterns in the body that have become counter-productive. There is, similar to Feldenkrais work, a hands-on portion that includes table work whereby various movements, practitioner-assisted manipulations similar to muscle energy and positional release are employed to reset cumulative tension patterns. The focus is on communicating with the brain using sensory-motor feedback to correct the patterns from where they are being held. It is gentle and very effective.
Myofascial Release
The fascia is an interconnected web of hydrated, fine strands of tissue that is everywhere in the system, surrounding and permeating even some organs and cells, acting as a superconductor of energy and information. With fatigue, illness, stress, strain, injury or surgery, adhesions can happen that create stickiness that will restrict muscles and joints from moving as smoothly as they would normally. This technique is gentle and seems superficial - working on surface fields of tissue, but because everything is so connected, it has a deep influence on several layers.
Joint Mobilization
Very often the joints are what causes muscles and connective tissue to contract due to compression or malalignment. Having full, free articulation is a huge support for everything else to be able to move better, with less stiffness or soreness because there are numerous joint receptors that communicate to the brain and help reset muscle tension. It's also a very gentle but precise method that is effective and can ward off later issues with degeneration.
Vascular Release
This method focuses on restrictions there may be in blood flow from the core to the extremities. In many cases, when there's been long hours of sitting or repetitive motion activities, some of the blood vessels through the neck to the head or down the arm, or through the abdomen down the legs has been limited. Very often a condition called ischemia - oxygen-deprived tissue - can create tight muscles, numbness or spasms, which this approach is very helpful for.
Cranial Sacral Therapy
This gentled subtle work is a comprehensive and profound way of releasing stored tensions, energy, fluid, or myofascial restrictions anywhere in the body. It addresses embryological underpinnings and appreciates that some issues were inspired at very early stages of development along tissue fields that developed at the same time.
The techniques may focus on global and significant patterns that originate in the skull and brain, recognizing that some of the cellular, bony and membranous connections there impact the entire system. Cranial work can be done with clothes on or off, as a session on its own or integrated into other forms of massage and bodywork. Some of the most deep and subtle areas of restriction will only respond when approached most slowly with patience and gentleness, and, as in neuromuscular work, because it addresses origins in the brain, the results can be most lasting.
Brain/Spine Integration (Neurotherapy)
This subtle style is more detailed than cranial sacral work. It listens for and tracks the fixations in each segment of the spine, reaching down to the meninges, ligaments, and deepest layers surrounding the spinal cord. It's very helpful where there has been birth trauma, surgeries, and whiplash or disc injuries. It works with the brain's relationship to injured or dysfunctional areas, and helps to release shock from the cells. Sleep issues can also be assisted by calming and settling the 'buzzy', over-stimulated areas inside the brain cells, cranial nerves, and the membranes inside the skull.
Lymphatic Manipulation
Lymphatic drainage focuses on gentle techniques that help to flush the lymph nodes of built up toxins and waste. This method has been practiced since the 1930's and is being included in more and more widespread medical conditions and circumstances. Besides the most common benefit of strengthening the immune system, lymph drainage can speed the healing of minor injuries involving swelling, or inflammation, as well as shorten recovery time after surgery. It's being used more frequently to support cancer treatment, can increase vitality and metabolism, improve the condition of the skin, and helps the body to eliminate water weight.
Whole Body Integration
The combination of methods serve to mobilize the joints, release forces in tissue fields and bone, open fascial restrictions, reduce pressure on nerves and blood vessels, and enhance connective tissue communication all while monitoring the body's responses to each technique. This approach is comprehensive and wholistic, addressing the many layers and dimensions the body functions on, allowing their inter-relationships to harmonize and return to optimum motion wherever possible.Everything is connected and interdependent.
NeuroMuscular Reeducation
Based in Feldenkrais and Hanna Somatics, this approach uses the body's relationship with the sensory cells and the brain to ask the muscle to make changes in length, tone, mobility, and range of motion. It helps to reestablish neural connections and aliveness where areas have gone numb or entrenched in patterns that are unhealthy. This approach is gentle and is based on a non-threatening method of rebooting the system, and reorganizing the nervous system using the brain for feedback while creating a healthier pattern. For more detailed information, please visit http://www.neurosomatics.net
Visceral Manipulation
There are as many as 400,000 nerve cells in the gut including the same neurotransmitters that the brain uses. Imbalance in the intestines or internal organs can refer back into the spine in the area of their nerve roots, or via shared nerves or fascia into neighboring joints like the hips or shoulders, creating discomfort in the musculo-skeletal system. It is a vital area to restore and responds well to direct, subtle contact to open restrictions and mobilize organs and restore natural rhythms.
Hanna Somatic Education
This approach uses various treatment sequences that help to undo reflex patterns in the body that have become counter-productive. There is, similar to Feldenkrais work, a hands-on portion that includes table work whereby various movements, practitioner-assisted manipulations similar to muscle energy and positional release are employed to reset cumulative tension patterns. The focus is on communicating with the brain using sensory-motor feedback to correct the patterns from where they are being held. It is gentle and very effective.
Myofascial Release
The fascia is an interconnected web of hydrated, fine strands of tissue that is everywhere in the system, surrounding and permeating even some organs and cells, acting as a superconductor of energy and information. With fatigue, illness, stress, strain, injury or surgery, adhesions can happen that create stickiness that will restrict muscles and joints from moving as smoothly as they would normally. This technique is gentle and seems superficial - working on surface fields of tissue, but because everything is so connected, it has a deep influence on several layers.
Joint Mobilization
Very often the joints are what causes muscles and connective tissue to contract due to compression or malalignment. Having full, free articulation is a huge support for everything else to be able to move better, with less stiffness or soreness because there are numerous joint receptors that communicate to the brain and help reset muscle tension. It's also a very gentle but precise method that is effective and can ward off later issues with degeneration.
Vascular Release
This method focuses on restrictions there may be in blood flow from the core to the extremities. In many cases, when there's been long hours of sitting or repetitive motion activities, some of the blood vessels through the neck to the head or down the arm, or through the abdomen down the legs has been limited. Very often a condition called ischemia - oxygen-deprived tissue - can create tight muscles, numbness or spasms, which this approach is very helpful for.
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San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 457-0283