Certified Massage Therapist
Advanced training and certification in sports and orthopedic massage therapy
(303) 919-6042
323 Third Ave #1, Longmont, CO 80501
Massage therapy that releases you from the pain, tensions and energies you have outgrown.
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Certified Massage Therapist Advanced training and certification in sports and orthopedic massage therapy (303) 919-6042 323 Third Ave #1, Longmont, CO 80501 Massage therapy that releases you from the pain, tensions and energies you have outgrown. |
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What is massage therapy and bodywork? Massage is kneading or manually working the body and tissues. Massage can be a systemic soft relaxation time, it can be a deep scrubbing of the muscles and fascia around the bone. Bodywork is less about kneading the tissues, rather working the other aspects, whether it be strictly fascia, like rolfing, the meridian channels, like shiatsu (a style of acupressure), as well such stuff as releasing holding and pain patterns associated with past traumas and listening to the Tide of biodynamic cranial sacral therapy. When most people hear massage, they think of a nice relaxing hour of spa type, or Swedish Therapeutic Massage. There are many days that this is what I ask for when I get a massage. However, more often then not, I ask for treatment on a specific area. My natural focus is to make changes with massage. To be your guide in your recovery of pain and tiredness. I have allowed myself to hear my teachers well enough to have my strong belief in the biochemical processes of the body added to.
Bodywork does take its' roots from traditional medicine. In fact, I openly wonder if it's not the best routine medicine for many parts of the world. For example, there are large areas in Asia, Africa and South America that don't have clean, running water. If there are not enough resources for doctors to wash their hands, most of these areas don't have facilities to sterilize tools and needles. In these areas, it seems to me, that efforts should be made to improve health care that is locally available and non-invasive. For more medical discussion of bodywork click here
It's touch based therapy. Like oil or water painting and taking pictures, anybody can do it at the basic level. However, only with a huge amount of studying, practice and luck can a person paint like Picasso, Michelangelo or photograph like Ansel Adams or Minor White. In my perception there are three aspects that separate a quality massage therapist from a regular massage anatomical understanding- knowing the parts of the body quality of touch- feeling and knowing how to surf the tissue to allow it to open quality of concentration. Like a concert musician, a massage is flowing in time, and the therapist's concentration and state of mind is felt by the client.
Swedish Therapeutic Massage. Greek origins This is the form of bodywork that most people what most people think of as massage, and is indeed the foundation for most other massage modalities and styles. This type of work is systemic and relaxing. Swedish massage usually comprises the core of each session. This is the foundation of the philosophy and techniques involved in sports and orthopedic massage. This style is more than "deep tissue" massage. Rather than blindly going aggressively into your body, this work is based on working with you and your tissues to change outgrown neuromuscular patterning and to release the deep tensions, while doing it as gently as possible. Emotional body as holding connection to pain. Sometimes the physical body can also The meridian body (Chi/Qi), the emotional body, and the energetic body: each a different perspective of the body, and all are currently outside the paradigm of western medicine and science. Many persons consider these paradigms as pure imagination and "woo-woo". Having come from a background strong in western science and medicine, I had tended to agree. However, during my training my understanding changed as I learned what the various energies actually felt like. In many cases I incorporate bits of these modalities to provide you a more effective session. Other modalities/ paradigms. The meridian body (Chi/Qi), the emotional body, and the energetic body: each a different perspective of the body, and all are currently outside the paradigm of western medicine and science. Many persons consider these paradigms as pure imagination and "woo-woo". Having come from a background strong in western science and medicine, I had tended to agree. However, during my training my understanding changed as I learned what the various energies actually felt like. In many cases I incorporate bits of these modalities to provide you a more effective session. Massage as medical treatment. Massage and bodywork around the world: still very important. What massage offers, as a medical modality, is the time, caring and sensitivity to notice the subtleties within, and treat, your tissues and body. Massage also has the advantage that it packages deep treatment work with relaxation and thus the changes have a far better chance to become permanent. What is massage and bodywork and what are the differences Massage as the medium for treating beyond the western paridiagm. The body is much more complex than can be understood by western science. A strong statement, but the strength of science is the ability to check the effect of one (independent) varible on a dependent varible. ith massage and bdoywork, it is about going beyond teh pysical cody as fequire. Many, if not most parts of the world don't have access to sterile technique. Many parts of the world don't have enough clean water to even wash their hands, let alone give injections. These parts need bodywork and massage as healing tools.
without embalming, refrigeration or plastization, opening the body after death is not a wise idea in most of the world. doing cadaver disection in most of the world is still a bad idea, and thus it is wise to be taboo. However, the feeling of the living person is something highly overlooked in western medicine. The start of medicine and scientific thought by Aristotle was a great stride. Pasteur's contamination theory was great and taught us loads, but the internal environment was dismissed too fast.
if each medical student had to give a single medical school faculty a physical and was graded on their "quality of touch" how would that change the applicant pool at that school or the quality of the surgeon/ physician that graduated from that program?
What is bodywork Modality: shiatsu/ acupressure (acupuncture) Modality: Cranial-sacral therapy. modality: Polarity Technique: verbal contact, TPT, Cxff, MFR |
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