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Structural Bodywork

Together we will assess your body, mind and soul wellness,  creating a specific treatment tailored to your needs or injuries.  Therapy sessions typically last for two hours.  Stretching and resistance moves are incorporated into each session.  It may take multiple sessions depending on the goal of the individual.  You will also be given information on how to continue your balanced state while at home or work to be incorporated into you daily life.

Visceral, Vascular and Neural Manipulation of The Barral Institute

These Therapies were developed by world-renowned French Osteopath and Physical Therapist Jean-Pierre Barral. Barallinstitute.com

Visceral

  1. Gentle manual therapy that assesses the structural relationships between the Visceral (organs) and their fascial or ligamentous attachments to the various systems of the body.

  2. Assists functional and structural imbalances throughout the body, including musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, urogenital, respitory, digestive, eliminatory, neuroendocrine, and lymphatic dysfunction.

Neural Manipulation

  1. The light touch hands-on treatment that releases local nerve restrictions, while at the same time examines the effect these local restrictions have on the rest of the body. By accessing this relationship, it changes the more comprehensive (global) dysfunctional patterns.

  2. Enhances proper functioning of the nervous system, one of the comunication highways throughout the body.

New Manual Articular Approach

  1. Precise gentle engagement and soft tissue manipulation that applies a comprehensive approach to the treatment of the whole body and its relationship to the problematic joint, and not just the localized dysfunctional joint.

  2. Integrates all aspects of the joint including the nerve, artery, bone, capsule and ligaments, as well as visceral and emotional connections.

Bio Mechanical Restructuring (BMR)

This advanced restorative body work technique was created by Valerie Revering LMT. CST., Owner/ Director of "And Breathe" Wellness Center.  BMR combines many massage modalities with soft tissue mobilization to correct the underlying dysfunction in your musculoskeletal system.

 

Biomechanical Restructuring is a body treatment technique which has been in development since 1987. BMR is a technique that helps your muscles and bones to work together instead of against each other, ending the constant struggle within your musculoskeletal system.  There is allways a reason why muscles get tight. They're usually trying to put a bone back into place. Likewise, there is allways a reason why bones get out of allignment.  Trauma and dysfunction occur; the muscles that attach to them become overstretched and compromised. Using BMR, we're able to get the bones back into allignment and release the muscle attachments so that everything stays in place. 

With this technique, your sessions will actually "hold" longer, you will feel better, move more smoothly, breathe deeper.  BMR is based on the belief that the human body can heal itself.  Sometimes it just needs a guiding hand.

How Does Structural Therapy Work

It is a technique of deep massage intended to help in the realignment of the body by altering the length and tone of myofascial tissues. The basis of the practice is the belief that misalignment of myofascial tissues, a result of improper posture and emotional and  physical traumas, may have a detrimental effect on a person's energy level, self-image, muscular efficiency, perceptions and general health.

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It can be any of a number of bodywork techniques intended to reorganize and integrate the body  in relationship to gravity by manipulating soft tissues and/or correcting inappropriate patterns of movement and rebalance the body and nervous system.

Central to structural integration therapies is the belief that the fascia is not a series of  single units enveloping muscle, but rather an interconnected system that extends from the top of the head to the toes.  According to this construct, disease occurs when the fascial system becomes inundated and constricted through the vicissitudes of emotional stress, habitual poor posture, repetitive use syndrome, trauma and others. Anecdotal  evidence suggests that structural integration may be effective for allergies, arthritis, flat feet,  gastrointestinal complaints, low back pain, sciatica, scoliosis, tennis elbow,  temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome and other conditions.

CranioSacral Therapy (CST)

CST is a gentle, hands-on approach that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. It was pioneered and developed by Osteopathic Physician John E. Upledger after years of clinical testing and research at Michigan State University where he served as professor of biomechanics.

Using a soft touch which is generally no greater than 5 grams – about the weight of a nickel – practitioners release restrictions in the soft tissues that surround the central nervous system. CST is increasingly used as a preventive health measure for its ability to bolster resistance to disease, and it is effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction.

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Massage Cupping

Massage cupping is a form of therapeutic bodywork that is used to facilitate deep tissue release and aids in bringing about numerous healthful benefits to the body.

 

Massage cupping is performed by applying ‘reverse pressure’ to the body, via glass or plastic suction cups that are generally placed or massaged along problem areas, in the direction of natural lymphatic flow. 

 Benefits

The technique namely focuses on reducing stagnation and restrictions in problem areas, by breaking down adhesions/knots, and by helping to increase fluid (i.e., blood & lymph) circulation.

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Massage cupping helps to reduce the build-up of cellular waste, toxins, inflammation, & excess fluids by assisting in dragging them from deep within muscles/soft tissue, to the body’s surface, where they can be more efficiently disposed of, via the lymphatic system.

More specifically, the Massage Cupping technique assists in:

  • Clearing stagnation

  • Relieving inflammation

  • Draining/moving fluids

  • Sedating the nervous system

  • Expelling congestion

  • Stretching muscle & connective tissues

  • Loosening adhesions & scar tissue

  • Nourishing blood supply to the skin

Massage Cupping is reported to be beneficial for numerous conditions, such as:

  • Fibromyalgia

  • Tissue & joint inflammation

  • Sluggish colon

  • Poor circulation

  • Sciatica

  • Sluggish, devitalized skin

  • Lung inflammation

  • Insomnia

  • General anxiety

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