CranioSacral Therapy
A profoundly relaxing and powerful treatment with the lightest of touch. The practitioner holds a space in which the clothed client is able to let go of deeply held restrictions and tensions within the systems of the body. Various techniques can be used to help free the fascia, improve the flow of the fluids in the central nervous system and free restrictions within the connective tissue allowing the body to realign, promoting better functioning and sometimes releasing long held emotions that occurred at the time of past injury to the body. Generally people report an amazing sense of deep peace, restfulness, well-being, a much calmer nervous system and a feeling of being restored on emotional, physical and spiritual levels.
Please read some testimonials from clients to understand the diverse range of help this treatment can offer.
Rejuvanessence
is a course of six treatments focusing on the 91 muscles of the face and neck using very light touch massage. It is also known as 'The Fingertip Facial' and 'Angel's Touch', it uses manual lymphatic drainage and cranial techniques and acupressure points to free the stuck connective tissue to soften expression lines and improve blood and lymph flow. Suitable for men and women this remarkable treatment has clients drifting in and out of an alpha state of relaxation and visible results can be seen after just one session.
Reiki
The Usui system of natural healing is a Japanese healing art. It is a laying of the hands upon the body and allowing the energy of life flow through the hands to the person being treated.
Somatic Movement Education Coaching (I can only offer this from Savile Road Halifax)
Somatic Movement Education Coaching is teaching clients movement to help them retrain their brains to remember the true resting length of muscles. Muscles that have got stuck in a contracted state from posture, working too long in one position, uneven balance of one side of the body to the other or from injury old and recent can remain contracted where the brain has forgotten to tell the muscle to let go. We call this Sensory Motor Amnesia.The slow movement exercises provide feedback to the brain to say this is where I should be normally be at rest.
To release a muscle we always need to contract the muscle before stretching so this isn’t an exercise to replace yoga but to improve your movement and flexibility. Ever heard someone say ‘I do lots of yoga and am always stretching but this area never seems to release?’ Or ‘my neck is always stiff’, or ‘I always have tight shoulders’. This is where the method of pandiculation can help clients bring their muscles back under their voluntary control.
We contract the muscle further than it already contracted and in the very slow releasing of the muscle we look for skips and jumps in the movement, this where there is amnesia, we go back into the movement where this is present. Coming slowly out again to the end of the muscle lengthening is the resting phase where the messages will start being fed back to the brain.
We start and end with the client somatically feeling into their own body balance either lying on the floor or standing so once they have learnt the movement they can gauge the effectiveness and need to do more of one or more sequences to retrain the brain. This truly empowers clients to help themselves treat their own body imbalance. Once learnt a maintenance of 10 minutes a day may be all that is needed to remind the muscles to remain at full resting length when not in use.
The release clients feel when their neck or backs or shoulders become free is so liberating it has people raving about this work. It is becoming exponentially more popular especially amongst yoga, pilates and dance teachers.
Thomas Hanna Ph.D (1928-1990) was the creator of Hanna Somatics and author of six books. He combined his knowledge of philosophy, movement education, and neuroscience physiology to create Hannah somatic education. He worked with and brought the teachings of Feldenkrais over to the Uk and ran trainings. His knowledge as a neuroscientist enabled him to develop the teaching of Feldenkrais further and create the method of ‘Pandiculation’ giving the brain the vital biofeedback necessary to relearn.
Please contact Debra to book 07771 724021 debramorrice@gmail.com