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BIODYNAMIC CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY - 90 Minutes

What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?

It's a gentle touch modality that takes you from the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) to the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest). The transition from fight-flight to rest-digest is essential for healing. Without that transition, the body is unable to go from maintenance mode to repair mode and therefore is unable to heal. When you are ill you are resting and sleeping all the time because that is the only state that will allow for healing to happen. During a session, you rest fully clothed on a comfortable table. The BCST aims to create a calm and supportive environment. The guiding principle for a session is that your body is always moving toward health. Through a light touch, the BCST assesses compensatory patterns of injury/trauma that may be present, and assists your body in accessing internal healing capacities.

How does the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (BCST) take the body from the sympathetic state to the parasympathetic state?

Since the nervous system of every living thing is built to detect what is going on in its external environment, it is also able to detect other nervous systems nearby. Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapists are trained to put their own nervous system into the parasympathetic state and maintain that state at will. The client’s nervous system, inherently evaluates the state of the practitioner’s nervous system due to proximity, will eventually begin to calm their nervous system. An easy way of explaining how this is possible is by comparing it to how our mood changes when we are around happy, sad, or angry people. If we are in the presence of a sad person, we find ourselves feeling a little sad after a while. If we are around a happy person their happiness is often “contagious” and will leave feeling upbeat. If you are near another person who is calm (in the parasympathetic state), you too will feel calm despite having had a stressful day.

 

How it is possible to have such deep healing happen when the BCST sits next to the client in a session?

The answer is in the subtle mechanisms of the nervous system. Practitioners are trained to facilitate the resolution of conditions resulting from stress, overwhelm, and injury. No manipulation or deep pressure is necessary when you tap into the parasympathetic state and afford the body the time and space it needs to start repairing the damage that has built up over weeks, months or decades. Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is not esoteric. It is based on the principals of physiology. It is a gentle, light-touch, non-invasive therapy that helps restore and maintain health in the human body. While not a manipulative therapy, it has its roots in osteopathy and has evolved to include advances in neuroscience, human development, pre and perinatal psychology, and trauma resolution.

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POLARITY - 90 Minutes

What is Polarity Therapy?

It's a system of energy based bodywork that aims to balance the body's electromagnetic field, based on the premise that we are energetic beings, with currents flowing through our bodies much like electricity through a circuit. These currents are thought to flow between positive and negative poles, hence "Polarity" Therapy. It works on the physical body, recognizing we have multiple layers of energy fields, including mental, emotional and spiritual levels. By addressing all the levels, polarity therapy aims to create a state of total balance and harmony. We know our bodies generate electrical and magnetic fields, we use this knowledge in medical tests like EEGs, MRIs. Polarity Therapy takes this further purposing that these energy fields extend beyond our physical bodies and can be influenced to promote healing. The idea of an energy field surrounding and permeating the body is found in many healing traditions around the world, from Chinese concept of Qi to Indian idea of Prana, the notion of a life force energy is universal.

 

One of the unique aspects of Polarity Therapy is its incorporation of the 5 elements = Ether, Air, Fire, Water, Earth, they represent different qualities of energy and are associated with specific parts of the body and aspects of our being. Polarity Therapy Practitioners aim to restore balance and harmony to all aspects of a person's being. The elemental approach provides a framework for understanding the complex interplay of energies within us. It's a bit like having a map of the body's energy system - it helps practitioners navigate and balance these subtle energies more effectively.

 

Some of the benefits of Polarity Therapy are: reduction of stress and anxiety; improvement of sleep, better digestion; enhancement of immune function, reduction of pain and inflammation, increase emotional balance, increase energy and vitality, etc.

 

Dr. Randolph Stone, doctor of Osteopathy, Naturopathy and Chiropractic developed Polarity Therapy over a 60 year period of study and practice that begun in 1912 and ended with his retirement at the age of 83. It represents a synthesis of the health wisdom from the West and the East. Dr. Stone studied the Ayurvedic system of India and folk health practices of many cultures including homeopathy, and Oriental Medicine. From these systems he extracted the essential principles of healing and incorporated them into a simple, clear and universally applicable approach to natural healthcare called Polarity Therapy.

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CHAKRA BALANCE WITH REIKI/ PRANA HEALING - 30 Minutes

Working with the major energy centers (chakras) in the body, the chakras are cleared and re-energized bringing an overall feeling of balance and well-being.

PRANA HEALING

Prana means life force. This vital energy keeps the body alive and maintains good health. Prana Healing balances, harmonizes, and transforms the body's energy processes.

REIKI

Rei means universal spirit and Ki means vital life force or energy. It is an energy healing technique that promotes relaxation, reduces stress, anxiety, and improves the flow and balance of your energy to support healing.

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COMBINATION OF MODALITIES

​A combination of modalities are often applied in a session.

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YOGA

 

Chakra Yoga FLOW Classes - Send Me a Message if You're Interested

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This is a gentle form of Chakra Yoga that focuses on the 7 main energy centers (chakras). Specific yoga poses correspond to certain chakras, by bringing our awareness and breath to these energy centers, it helps liberate and balance the flow of the chakra system.

 

These classes are for those that are interested and can bend, kneel, twist, sit, stretch without the use of a chair.

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The seven main Chakras (energy centers): Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye, and Crown are combined with gentle yoga poses, guided meditations, and breathing to bring us back to balance.

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