Bodywork Beyond Massage

                                     Therapeutic Bodywork, Movement, Stress Reduction

                      3 Different Approaches to Increase Well-Being and Find Inner Balance

 

Individual sessions, group and private classes.

In-person and remote.

By appointment.

 

Are you seeking relief from pain? Are you hoping to reduce levels of anxiety or stress in your life?

Are you looking for support to Increase Your Well-Being, and to Find Your Inner Balance?

At Bodywork Beyond Massage, I use a variety of techniques/types of sessions to access deeply held areas of tension, to release patterning that can create restrictions and pain, and to soothe the nervous system. 

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"When there is less struggle to maintain balance and equilibrium, the body is more at ease and can instead use that energy to maintain the proper functioning of our systems.

Without the constant struggle to maintain physical balance/adjust to physical discomfort, our bodies can find both freedom and grounding, and our "psyche" can release from protective holding, finding more patience, energy, and ease..."

 

 Bodywork Beyond Massage focuses on reducing pain, releasing patterns of tension/restriction, creating new patterns of ease and well-being, educating clients/students so they can find more healthful and comfortable ways to move through their daily routines with ease, alignment, and balance.

 

Sessions help to relieve pain, discomfort, restrictions, headaches, etc.; and to increase physical ease, range of motion, strength, feelings of equanimity, "inner strength", and calmness.

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November 2022:

In my office I am continuing to implement Covid policies. Some are:

Masks are required at all times in my office spaces.

HEPA filters run at all times.

I am vaccinated and only seeing vaccinated clients.

Clients are expected to self-screen for symptoms prior to their appointment and reschedule (no fee charged) if there is any concern they may have COVID.

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If you are uncomfortable with my COVID policies we can talk about Zoom/Distance sessions.

 

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NEW!!!  ON-LINE PRIVATE CLASSES!!

   "... I was very skeptical when we had to switch from in person to online ballet class, I did not think that a class via zoom, with no hands on support, could be successful. I was wrong. Karen pays close attention to details, whenever I struggle with an exercise and can’t quite get it right, Karen identifies where my struggles are originating and is able to correct them with verbal cues..."

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    Introduction to Ballet,  Beginning Ballet**

       (Ballet classes can be fully traditional, classical, classes, or can include Experiential Explorations;           see below)

    Dynamic Balanced Movement: Move To Reduce Stress

    Dynamic Balanced Movement: Dance Flow

    Dynamic Balanced Movement: Work Out

    Breath Correctives And Conditioning

    Let's Get Moving

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~~ Classes will be 1 hour (unless we agree otherwise)

~~ Some classes can be adapted to become chair classes

~~ All classes will meet you at your level of ability

~~ The option for 2, 3, or 4 person classes is also available

** Intermediate classes available also

(See below for class descriptions or contact me)

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“This ability of Zero Balancing sessions to help a person move into expanded states of consciousness is one of the main reasons we talk about Zero Balancing as a body and mind system that facilitates personal transformation.

"Clients that have this type of experience begin to experience the world in new ways. Their early conditioning is lessened, and their perceptions become clearer and less clouded by their past history. Some of these sessions become a turning point in a person’s life.”

Jim McCormick

*Zero Balancing for Mind, Body, and Spirit

Energy Magazine Mar/Apr 2022 Issue

https://energy.energymagazineonline.com/.../Zero...

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"Touch is the other side of movement. Movement is the other side of touch. They are the shadow of each other."

- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

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"The primary sense organs of touch and movement are located throughout the body -- in every cell.

Touch is emphasized in the skin. Movement is emphasized in the proprioceptive and kinesthetic receptors in the joints, ligaments muscles and tendons, the interoceptors of the organs, and the vestibular mechanism of the inner ear.

Movement and touch develop simultaneously. Touch is the other side of movement. Movement is the other side of touch. They are the shadow of each other."

- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen  

          

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                    Pain can limit our ability to function and be present in our lives.

 

                  In a therapeutic bodywork, movement, or stress reduction session,

I can help to reduce pain/restrictions, increase your awareness of your "Internal Landscape",

        and teach you about more healthful ways to find and maintain balanced alignment.

 

When we are without the constant struggle to maintain physical balance/adjust to physical discomfort, our bodies can find both freedom and grounding, and our "psyches" can release protective holding, bringing us to a place of more patience, energy, and ease.

 

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RE-OPENING :

     I will be re-opening my physical office for hands-on, in-person sessions as of June 2, 2021.

 

Please see the COVID Related Protocols and Policies page on this website for more information.

I have posted updated prices/session types and lengths available for in-person sessions on my FEES page.

I will continue offering Distance and Zoom sessions even after my physical office has re-opened.

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Be Healthy.  Be Kind.  To Yourself, and to Others.  Believe in our Resilience.  Revel in Happiness.

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At Bodywork Beyond Massage, I offer Therapeutic Bodywork, Movement, and Stress Reduction sessions, and group or private classes.

 

Are you seeking relief from pain?

Are you hoping to reduce levels of anxiety or stress in your life?

Are you looking for support to Increase Well-Being in your life, and to Find Your Inner Balance?

 

I use a variety of techniques to access deeply held areas of tension, to release patterning that creates restrictions and pain, and to soothe the nervous system. 

 

Please look through the rest of my website, and contact me for information, or to schedule your appointment.

 

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Are you feeling in need of some extra "calm" and grounding in your life?

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Many people are feeling in need of some extra refilling of their Internal Reservoir of calm/balance/patience these days.

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Consider scheduling yourself for either a Bodywork Beyond Massage's Distance Dynamic Rebalancing session,  a Zoom Movement session, or a Stress Reduction session.

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 See the appropriate pages on this site or contact me for information.

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Would you like to feel more at ease in/with your body?

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Do your joints feel stiff and you wonder what it might feel like if they did not?

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Are your muscles feeling ache-y or stiff from holding on tightly these past many months?

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"...When there is less struggle to maintain balance and equilibrium, the body is more at ease and can instead use that energy to maintain the proper functioning of our systems.

Without the constant struggle to maintain physical balance/adjust to physical discomfort, our bodies can find both freedom and grounding, and our "psyche" can release from protective holding, finding more patience, energy, and ease....." (from my website)

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Consider a Bodywork Beyond Massage's session of either Dynamic Rebalancing, Movement, or Stress Reduction.

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 Please see the relevant pages on this website for more information about the various  sessions I offer - the basic categories are Therapeutic Bodywork, Movement, or Stress Reduction. These include various forms of self- care, movement to reduce tension or pain, movement for the sake of getting the blood flowing, etc..

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As of March 18, 2020, my (physical) office was temporarily closed for hands-on, in-person treatments/sessions.  I am expecting to re-open as of June 2, 2021.

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I will continue to have part of my practice in a Telehealth format (see my "Telehealth versus In-person" page for some comments).

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Perhaps the thought of having a distance or Zoom session may seem pointless, as if the main component- in-person contact - is missing.

I ask you to "reframe" your thinking and instead of thinking of one of these types of sessions as "missing" things or "a poor substitute" for a hands-on, in-person, session, think of them as a different type of therapeutic experience, and consider the positive effect/benefits they can offer.

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BREATHING WITH EASE IS GOOD

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"We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music."                                   Albert Einstein

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 *** I saw this post on the page of Deep Massage Society (courtesy of David Lauterstein).  It explains a lot about why I work the way that I do:*****

The linear and oversimplified models of movement obviously break down when you look closely. For instance, even the terms agonist and antagonist and prime mover (for God's sake!) lead us astray. No one muscle is responsible for movement. For one to flex, another has to extend - so they are, rather than antagonistic, partners in a circuit of movement. And rather than these muscles and fascia running in straight lines, everywhere there are curves - you can't find a straight line anywhere in nature!

And as this article clarifies, between the actions of fluids, movements and the woven character of fascia, it is common sense to see and feel the effects of movement throughout the body, not merely in the muscles in question.

Batia Biller shared a post to the group: ‎Israeli Association for Structural Integration (Rolfing) (רולפינג)‎.

 

PhysioosteobookLike Page

April 13 at 12:20 PM · 

MYOFASCIAL SPIRALS

Biomechanics are traditionally explained in a Newtonian/linear language involving classic concepts such as simple levers, beams and pulleys.

Recent studies of LIVING bodies (rather than pickled cadavers) show that living tissue behaves in a way that is not so easily explained by levers and pulleys.

Fascia is a fluid-dynamic system with layers of collagen fibers aligned at alternating angles and orientations. When one considers the “simple” action of elbow flexion, one could explain it as a simple pulley in which the biceps exerts a force on the distal beam and via a tendon pulley action, creates elbow flexion and forearm supination. This is an oversimplification.

Another more accurate model to explain this would be contraction of the biceps fibers causes a change in the tension of it’s fascial tube/sleeve which due to continuity to the fascial tube of the forearm, causes a global tensional change to the thumb via the deep fascia associated with the thenar muscles.

When a muscle contacts it shortens in the tube but it also increases the pressure within the tube via fluid dynamics of blood and interstitial fluid being compressed. This compression creates an equal pressure outward into the fascial network, creating force transmission along the collagen fibers (light blue).

As we can see in these images, the collagen fiber directions change at each layer but assume an overlapped 45-55 degree orientation of a SPIRAL or helix. This influences the macro motion of the fascial chain creating a spiral through the whole arm resulting in not only elbow flexion, but paired motions of humeral internal rotation and forearm supination.

Complex? Yes. 
The body is complex and movement is complex but understanding tissue dynamics helps influence understanding of injury and therapy mechanisms. Fiber micro anatomy influences macromovements.

Credit: Anatomy Links

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