THE BODY WISDOM APPROACH
REMEMBER. RELEASE. RETRAIN. REBUILD.

The Body Wisdom Approach is based upon the premise of Bringing Back Awareness. For without awareness there is no choice. We are all living in our heads trying to just survive, taking on too many things, and disconnecting from our bodies and nature. Basically we are becoming robots and just moving through life. 

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We have disconnected ourselves from our "body wisdom." The body’s feelings are now ignored and dismissed as unimportant or irrelevant. Our feelings are the facts; if we do not listen to and respect our feelings, our bodies will give off a signal that something is wrong by triggering pain or injury. The fascial system is the first “victim” of the traumas, causing a binding down of the fascia that puts abnormal pressure on nerves, muscles, bones, and organs down to the cellular level. The functions of the body - support, nutrition, protection, elimination, metabolism, and lymphatic flow - do not process correctly.  

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REMEMBER: As expert trained Myofascial Release Therapists with backgrounds in physical therapy and biomechanics, we will identify and evaluate your fascial restrictions. These restrictions are mostly from the lifetime buildup of repetitive movements, emotional holding, improper posture, or direct traumas. As they are identified, you will develop an awareness of the “feeling” of the compensations. With this new found awareness, you will begin the process of breaking unhealthy postural patterns allowing yourself to catch the habits and correct them.

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RELEASE: One of the most successful treatments in eliminating the fascial restrictions is the John F. Barnes’ Myofascial Release Approach. As expert therapists, we are trained to guide you on how to connect with your fascia and help release it. We are focused on reaching beyond the elastic barrier of the fascia to the collagenous barrier, which is the portion of the fascia that will result in true structural change and allow you to create new patterns. In addition to hands-on manual therapy sessions, we will teach you the self-healing techniques of Unwinding and Rebounding to help keep your fascial system balanced at home.

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RETRAIN: No matter how much treatment we receive, it is how we move our bodies through life that determines how successful our healing will be. We will guide you through specific somatic retraining sessions to recreate a healthy trusting mind/body relationship. We work to change the message the body is sending. Your traumas create holding patterns for protection (for example, a limp develops after you break a leg, abdominal or digestive issues develop as a result of fear or being locked in survival mode, rounded shoulders develop after a car accident or from physical abuse as protection). These exercises rebalance the system to teach the mind to trust your new movement and mobility capabilities. 

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REBUILD: Once your fascial system is balanced, we will teach you how to strengthen your fascial and muscular systems for more coordinated movement patterns. Research finds that it is not enough to just stretch and strengthen muscles, but that training the whole fibrous fascial system is important to building a strong, balanced, and coordinated muscular system (Thomas Myers  of Anatomy Trains). If the “fascial” body is well trained (optimally elastic and resilient), it can perform effectively. 

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The Body Wisdom Approach’s goal is to help you develop a "new" fascial communication system, learn healthy movement patterns, and strengthen the fascial system to provide you with “One Body” – balanced and pain-free.