Well-being? What Does It Mean?

Let me help you reclaim your sense of well-being.

Well-being meaning that sense of feeling good, your whole being feeling good, physically, mentally and spiritually.  

I find once a body is able to achieve one of those qualities, the rest will follow.  Feeling good brings on positivity, creativity, flexibility, mental stimulation…living, not just surviving or same old, same old.

Give yourself, during this transition into Spring, the gift of feeling good, being active, able to push back time to a place where you feel good again.  I can help you with that.

My door is open for Structural Integration, Reiki and Scar therapy, all of which can help bring your body back to stasis, to that happy place….Remember it?

Feel Good!

The Power of Motion in Structure

While our physical being stands still, the breath still moves, the thoughts still rumble on.  There is a lot of motion with it all, inside and out.  If we stop, all around us does too.  We become stifled, heavy, lazy even. Getting one unstuck from the other is the objective so that all parts of us move in balance, in play with the other aspects of ourselves.

Structural Integration works with the whole entity.  Not just the physical.  Not just parts.  Through the body is how I get to the mind, the emotions.  As per Ida Rolf “this is what I can put my hands on.”  I think of physically moving, balancing, opening the tissue. 

My experience is that changing movement patterns and allowing movement, can help the mind change too. 

Opening the spirit once the negative energy is dispelled.  By opening the tissue, other parts of the psyche open up, able to experience more, pick up momentum.  Move forward.

People often come to me wanting a change.  They discover through a few sessions that their thoughts, lives can change.  This is partly why they continue.  To continue their healing journey.  It just goes to a deeper, more spiritual level.

In essence, you change one thing, you change everything.  There is a chain reaction.  Motion brings things into play, thoughts into action, new ideas, new patterns.  This is living.

 

Structure – building vs. body

The body is a living thing.

It gives, molds, flexes and extends.  It breathes, is fluid filled and has an infinite knowledge.

Buildings a little less so.

Buildings rely on their structure.  The stronger, more aligned, the earth it is on, the atmosphere around it (gravity), the building materials; it can set the building up for a century (or more) and keep it stable and balanced in its environment.

 

Our bodies are similar.  However, instead of just relying on the areas around it, we humans have chemical reactions in our bodies, changing mostly from the inside.  We count on gravity to help support us and use our form and its energy to exist and move within the gravitational field.  We are more capable of controlling our movements, keeping ourselves open and aligned in a fluid state.


Understanding how this is done and maintaining
it is where I can help…by working the fascial tissue.  It is that filler tissue in the body that  surrounds, supports and permeates all of  our structure, even our organs, ligaments, muscles, etc.  I manipulate this tissue so fluids move freely, so that elasticity happens, bringing about freedom of movement and a balanced structure.  A stronger one.

We all need assistance anyway.  Even buildings.  We are a work in process.  There is hope for better.  We do our part and learn our bodies.  This is a great gift.

Just Breathe

The breath is so important.  Breathing, really breathing  in from the top of your head to your tailbone and even to the bottoms of your feet.  Breathing oxygen into your system keeps it alive.  Breathing out moves the co2 from the body.  In between the process of breathing in and breathing out, many things happen. 

It is important to breath in of course and equally important to breathe out.  Don’t hold your breath.  Deep breathing, whole system sustained breathing, carries a wealth of benefits.

Breathing is important in meditation.  Breathe in love. Breathe out hate.  Breathe in peace. Breathe out chaos.  Breathe in energy.  Breathe out tension.  What if however, this process is hindered?  

When I work on the breath of my clients, I help the tissues in their ribs, diaphragm and back  expand.  ‘Opening the breath’ means opening the thoracic area to enable the mechanism of breathing to occur.  It is difficult to breathe deeply if your body isn’t capable of expanding in order to do so.  Once this expansion occurs, breathing becomes easier and depth of breath occurs.  Breathing down into your sacrum resets your system.  You are able to and are allowing your body to breathe.  Taking breath in so the oxygen and co2 can work together before breathing out.

Here is an article:  https://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/does-co2-trigger-the-breathing-process/

Leaf on my Windshield

Driving around the other day I heard this loud pittering sound, like something… say under the hood of my car …was messed up.  It scares me to think anything is wrong with my car.

I arrived at my destination to see what it could be.  I looked at the fender which I thought could be an issue (it was before). 

Then I saw this leaf barely attached to the windshield wiper.  I took this photo then took the leaf off.  When I got back into my car and started it…..the sound was gone!

The moral of this story is that it doesn’t take too much of a deviation, of a disruption, to cause a profound effect in something else.  A little leaf, loosely hanging onto a windshield wiper, causing enough of a noise, a disruption as to make me think something was dreadfully wrong.  

So it is with our bodies.  We are not that big!  It does not take some enormous ‘thing’ to begin the compensation process in our bodies.  That compensation expands and becomes a bigger issue over time.  However, once it is removed, there can be calm in the body and mind and spirit.

Compensation and Balance

Recent experience has again shown me the benefits in keeping yourself balanced if you have been injured and if you can, to begin that process sooner rather than not.

Otherwise compensation sets in.

We need to work not only the problem points but connecting the
areas so they can all work together…

Connections.

Like a sail boat: sail, gunwales, lines, etc. need to be functioning on their own with all the parts working together … so to begin the next adventure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patterns of Movement

Patterns of movement
in an individual,
reinforce chronic
discomforts and
limitations.

Structural Integration
begins to free those restrictions which allow the body to lengthen and become more fluid in movement.

Ida P. Rolf

Reorganizing the Scapula

…Lack of tone in the rhomboids also allows the scapulae to wander too far from the vertebral column; the bones are no longer flat—they “wing” out.

Lack of tone in the rhomboids also allows the scapulae to wander too far from the vertebral column; the bones are no longer flat—they “wing” out. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The practitioner in Structural Integration accomplishes this by manually restraining the muscle, bringing it toward its “normal” position and then demanding specific directional movement of the part. Suddenly, the restricted joint moves; it moves more normally. The constituent myofascia is permanently in a new position, nearer that demanded by pattern.”

From Ida P. Rolf

 

Advanced Rolf Practitioner / Structural Integration