When establishing a healthier, more balanced body it is essential to have a body capable of breathing. It is the tick-tock of your system.
One of my preferred ways to begin a session is to look for what moves during breath (as well as what doesn’t). What is holding back full inspiration and expiration? Often this is found in a series of tight, tense muscles in the front of the body: forearms, shoulders, jaw, front of the neck and chest, as well as the hip flexors. With a variety of techniques we begin to address the sources of the problems: these can which show up as tension, lack of flexibility and mobility, hard pain, loss of or changes in sensation, aches, imbalance, and weakness.
The source of the problem is initially experienced in patterns of compensation. For example: one shoulder may be lifted and stuck in a pattern of pain from an injury, while the other is chronically tense from doing twice the work. Mapping out how we will unravel, unwind, and demystify these patterns is essential to the process. And it is so very rewarding and liberating to begin to understand what is actually going on in one’s own body.
When breath doesn’t occur as smoothly, easily, or fully because of a limiting posture, an injury pattern, or a more personal cause, the neck, shoulders, and sometimes jaw muscles will try to assist and become chronically tight.
Working with me is not only a way towards feeling better; each visit is an aspect of a tailored program that will help you become more fluent and receptive to the language of your body.