What is Integrative Body Work?
Integrative Bodywork is whole-person healing. Physical, Mental, Emotional and some could say, Spiritual. We approach integrative body work as looking for the “root”. Using various methods, with the focus on energetic balancing, the therapist stimulates the body’s innate desire to be balanced.
The Root
Essentially, deep root causes are addressed, the therapist releases muscle tension embedded in the muscles caused by historic and present emotional pain, stress and recovery from minor physical injuries and surgery, as well as psychic pain.
Physical
The therapist will realign, stretch, massage, and/or apply gua sha (scraping method) to ease the tissues in distress. You also might be asked to do some breath work to increase your oxygen intake and generate energy to create blood flow. Creative visualization might be employed to relieve muscle tension.
Emotional
This massage takes a deeper look at the psychic/emotional injuries that can create trauma in the physical body. The memory remains in the muscles until removed. (muscle memory). The therapist can assist with eliminating negative feelings in the dis-eased muscles to help the body, mind and spirit resume full operation.
Spiritual
Our bodies are composed of many layers of vibrating energy. The therapist looks at the “spirit” as one of the vibrating layers and works to integrate it with the other energy layers of our system. When they work as a synchronized as a whole, a balanced physical, mental, and spiritual body emerges.
Benefits of Integrative Bodywork
- Enhances immunity by stimulating lymph flow
- Assists with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shortened maternity hospital stays
- Exercises and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles
- Helps athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from strenuous workouts
- Increases joint flexibility
- Reduces fatigue, depression, and anxiety
- Enhances sleep
- Improves energy, concentration, and circulation
- Alleviates low-back pain and improves range of motion
- Promotes tissue regeneration, reduces scar tissue and stretch marks
- Pumps oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs which improves circulation
- Relaxes and softens injured, tired, and overused muscles
- Releases endorphins
- Relieves migraine pain
- Allows for the client to be in a relationship with their body and all our little t or big t traumas and begins to build a deeply trusting and healing relationship by just feeling and listening to what we hold in our cellular memories.
All Services
Functional Wellness
Identifying illness at the source
Restoring wellness
Supporting continued health and wellbeing
Body Work Therapy
Intuitive Body Reading
Injury Rehab
Cranio-sacro Therapy
Ancient Healing Traditions
IV Nutrition Therapy
Hydration for the cellular health
Necessary micronutrients for wellness
Recovery for imbalances in the body