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Body•Work

Vedic Thai Yoga Bodywork Massage, Assisted Yoga, Passive yoga, Lazy mans yoga, therapeutic earth dance, assisted/passive stretching, is a sacred and deeply healing art. this practice.... you can be doing alll the mental work to change yourself, but still not be getting there. why? because you have to help the body get unstuck too! This is the  missing piece  everyone needs to heal 

Other Bodywork Modalities: 

  • Acupuncture 

  • Cupping

  • Body Rolling (Yamuna balls or foam roller) 

  • Massage

  • Craniosacral therapy (CST) 

  • Yoga + stretching 

  • Marbling your feet

  • fascia blasters, massage chairs, myofascial release tools 

  • Pranamat 

  • Physical therapy, assisted stretching 

  One might also say that any of these forms of "touch" or hands-on healing, are a part of Tantric Yoga, or Tantra, which when translated means touch.

  Bodywork, sexual energy flow, balanced chakras/optimal wellness, and releasing old harmful patterns are all intricately woven together when it comes to healing. You have to address ALL of these (+more) in order to create the change needed to bring forth the life you dream of.  When heard, "Tantra" is often only known for its sexual teachings, but just because something is tantric does NOT mean it is sexual or any kind of sexual act. There are many forms of bodywork that are touch healing, but completely non-sexual. That being said, there are also forms of tantric therapies that are a bit more intimate in nature, (yet totally healing +necessary) which you can read more about at the bottom of my page "sacred sexuality".  

        - Vedic Thai Yoga Bodywork (aka: Passive yoga, assisted yoga, assisted stretching, Thai massage) 1.5-2hr min

    

        - heals and restores: Interstitium, fascia, connective tissue, and related conditions (like IC, MCTD, EBV induced Lupus, hEDS, RCCX)

 

​             - releases stored energy/trauma/old patterns/programs/emotions 

        

        piercings = NO… bad for interrupting electrical signals along the fascia and causes slow build up of chronic muscle tension that   leads to imbalances, pain and dysfunction further up the  fascial chain with time.     nickel allergy & skin issues      long term muscle fascia issues      mindful wearing/ use will somewhat help fix these issues      jewelry can be also thought of as “chains”   

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Craniosacral - 

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The Perrin Technique/Method - 

 

 

     Birth Experience…. birth experiences determine life experiences/perceptions of self and world around. this includes if your father was present, what your parents relationship was like, etc. (i am an only child of a womb twin that died & as a result I became a human chimera, experienced death  before birth and loss of my “other half” who would serve to be my companion and understand me fully  and deeply like only a twin can)  

 

 

  • Jesus was tantric….. sexual energy understandings from different eastern cultures/religions 

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  • W. Reich on sexual health, expression, & repression

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  • Bodywork & De-Armoring …(ex: bulletproof vest + gun belt), releasing of deeply ingrained patterns in the cellular memory level by freeing acquired structural restrictions and posturing, often times liberating stuck deeply held emotions in the tissues (hence the armor we have all acquired from the pains of life)        a good book on this is: body keeps the score      your physical body can actually keep your mental and emotional consciousness energy stuck in certain energetic patterns and blocked …this means you could be doing everything to heal your mind and your spirit, but until you start incorporating bodywork you will not feel you’ve made it “there” on your journey to wholeness, vibrant, and well living. 

  • accessible body states of being. all dieties got regular bodywork . sattva 

 

 

When looking for a practitioner...

These angels are often hard to come by, you only hear of them through the grape vine most of the time. We like to say that a lot of times, " thai yoga finds you".   Try to find someone with lots of experience not a bunch of fancy visual stuff and high prices. Spiritual integration practice of some kind by the practitioner is a necessary plus in my opinion. I wouldn’t pay higher rates than  . Mukti is in the massage hall of fame and still charges no more than $180 for 1.5 hrs. He even lowers it for people often who can’t afford it.

*** Really find someone you trust so you can let go during the session

 

What does all this mean?

My theory is trauma survivors have more stored/accumulated toxic energies in the cells, muscle/nervous system 

Deeeep ingrained pain 

Years of it 

This undoes all that somehow. 

You magnetically attract better when you receive these treatments because it clears your energy field of blocks and malfunctions you didn’t realize you were carrying, thus keeping yourself from receiving

It also structurally liberates you from anxiety by freeing blocked channels and chronically tight muscles( you might not have ever realized you had them tight before in your life until someone loosens it because no one has ever touched you there or like this before) 

The technique also causes the nervous system to switch into its most healthy and optimal state instead of the stress regulated state, allowing healing and prime optimization on every cellular level to take place. Trust me when I say, you’ll feel it and the bliss it brings permeate into your whole life. 

All this gives such mental clarity, peace and focus 

Again aiding embodied performance even further

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Further reading: 

the body keeps the score

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