Covid Update In Touch is cautiously open! If you know you have been exposed to someone with covid, or are not feeling well, please follow the CDC guidelines and self quarantine. If you are immune compromised or 65+, please ask for morning sessions and I will make sure you are first in. Masks are mandatory. If you have one with a nose wire please bring that one as there is some dialoging during the session. During Covid I will work through clothing The waiting room is now a walk through. If you arrive early, we are asking that you wait in your car until your scheduled appointment time. Thank you for your help in all of this. I look forward to working with you!
CranioSacral Therapy
Our nervous system comprises what we perceive, think, feel, and how we act. The main goal of craniosacral therapy is to bring balance and optimal function to the nervous system. Osteopaths discovered that rather than being fused, the skull’s twenty-two bones have subtle movement. Any restriction to the movement of the bones, which nerves pass through, can affect nerve function. Craniosacral therapy works to identify both restrictions, and the origin of those restrictions, in order to release the entire strain pattern effecting the region. The generates space and flexibility for the nervous system to improve in function.
Therapeutic Massage
Massage for Pain Are you frustrated with short term solutions? Tired of being right back where you started hours later? Wish you could fix the root of the problem? Tightness in the body is more complicated than the nag of a muscle spasm. Poor habits, recurrent stressors, bracing, past injuries- both physical and emotional-can all detract from the body’s optimal function.
Our bodies are adaptive- both a gift and a challenge. As body workers, we assist your recovery by focusing on the unseen layers of adaptation held in the tissue. My work combines massage, myofascial techniques, re alignment of posture, and dialoguing, to break through your muscles’ chronic tightness. I can support you in your process to attain changes in your body to help optimize your lifestyle.
Kids In Touch
Young athletes are rarely taught to listen to and take responsibility for their bodies. Oftentimes, a child will brush off an injury to get back into the game. The truth is, this resilience is a coping mechanism: it is how the body re-organizes to work around a limitation. If not addressed, over time these injuries will get buried under future accidents and eventually shut down range of motion and function in the afflicted area. Each layer of adaptation changes the number and quality of options for how the body functions. Concussions concern parents and athletes alike. In addition to the resolving structural restrictions, the latest teaching in the craniosacral field includes how to work with the glial cells of the brain, which are responsible for neurons’ quality of function.
Anxiety is found across the board with kids 2-22. In many cases, stress results from not being able to discern one’s own feelings from those around them; often stemming from the child modeling one of their parents or siblings. The body has its own truth that that isn’t neutralized by the mind. I create a safe, stable container for their body to share its truth, and empower your child to set clear boundaries and let go of old ways of doing things. We do this through body work, not talk therapy. The body has its own way of communicating.