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Changing Cellular Memory

Changing Cellular Memory

 I would want to conclude by suggesting that healthy and vibrant residual memory of the cells previous original condition of vibrancy, integrity, balance, function and pure representation remains in tact during trauma and during challenging health conditions can and should be accessed.
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THERAPEUTIC ATTUNEMENT

THERAPEUTIC ATTUNEMENT

A definition of attunement ‘is a kinesthetic and emotional sensing of others knowing their rhythm, affect and experience by metaphorically being in their skin, and going beyond empathy to create a two-person experience of unbroken feeling connectedness by providing a reciprocal affect and/or resonating response’. (Erksine 1998).
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FROM WHENCE COMES THE ORIGIN OF LIVING POWER?

FROM WHENCE COMES THE ORIGIN OF LIVING POWER?

If, while exchanging therapeutic intention with my client, casually applying my therapy, I am thinking some mundane thought like ‘did I forgot to clean the bathroom this morning’, then this very undesirable and unacceptable transmission becomes the quality of energy that floods the channel and careens into the targeted destination such as a marma, a chakra, an organ and its function or the brain to name but a few.

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The Simulated Turnover

The Simulated Turnover

Allow gravity to apply its therapeutic magic

With this delicious procedure, we are going to use the influence of gravity to align our recipient's posture and easily remove deep tension from their pelvic, hip and lower back regions.

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The 'Zone' in Bodywork Therapy

The 'Zone' in Bodywork Therapy

So the day arrived and I had to walk by a few black limos with a few, shall we say, attendants  menacingly hanging around.

My massage table in hand along with my bag of linens, creams and oils and cosmic music, I was praying that my swagger demonstrated at least a few molecules of masculinity?

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Fully Expressing the Hamstrings

Fully Expressing the Hamstrings

This wonderful and life giving therapeutic offering, known as a hamstring stretch-release, is best effected when the receiver's leg is initially slightly flexed. In order to refresh and to effect a fully extended posterior leg and also to bring a...

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ALL MOTION ORIGINATES FROM THE NAVEL

ALL MOTION ORIGINATES FROM THE NAVEL

It has been described that a Samurai is not holding the sacred sword with the hands. The samurai is holding the sword with the navel. The same abdominal prerequisites and subordinations are true for the instruments of the archer and the implements of the calligrapher. Previous to initiating their graceful actions, tea and flower ceremonies also require preliminary access to the viscera region’s contributions. 
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No Need to Always Go and Get It

No Need to Always Go and Get It

However, the holding persuasion is frequently by-passed.

A practitioner will incorrectly feel that they are not entitled to this superb condition of simply  pausing and holding. A practitioner will also incorrectly feel that this exquisite condition of simply holding and pausing falls into the therapeutic category of uselessness, laziness or ineffectiveness.

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Four Healing Options of a Shaman-Therapist

Four Healing Options of a Shaman-Therapist

Surprisingly upon arrival, and in substitution of your eagerly anticipated expectation, the therapist-shaman, with the best interest of your health at heart, has included in his or her therapeutic evaluation, an alternative option and has summarily dismissed you to return home. 
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