INDIVIDUAL THERAPY DESCRIPTIONS
The types of therapies used in a session are solely based on each client’s needs at the time. After an initial evaluation, all individual therapy begins with Body Talk. If further treatment is required, then other modalities are integrated into the session. At the end of each session there is re-evaluation and a determination of further repair or maintenance in another visit.
Body Talk™ is a health care system that uses state of the art energy medicine to optimize the body’s ability to efficiently and effectively respond to injury, illness, dysfunction and pain. It encompasses the whole body-mind complex including physiology, structure, mental, emotional, environmental and hereditary factors into a cohesive whole. It is safe, non-invasive and complementary to any other health care modality.
Developed in 1995 by John Veltheim, D.C. and acupuncturist from Australia, it is now being used in 38 countries by medical doctors, psychologists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, naturopaths, osteopaths, physical therapists, nurses, massage therapists, psychiatrists and lay people. The reason for this meteoric rise is its effectiveness, safety and deep and lasting healing of the body mind in a short amount of time.
The main premise of Body Talk is that the body can heal itself. The client lies fully clothed on a massage table while the practitioner facilitates communication with the innate wisdom of the body using neuromuscular biofeedback. Following a comprehensive protocol of questions, the practitioner can establish what balancing the body needs to heal communication between all levels of the body-mind function and facilitates this by gentle tapping on the head and over the heart while the client breathes.
Parama Body Talk is the College of Body Talk. It goes further into functions of the brain, consciousness, principles of quantum physics, mathematics, lateral logic and philosophy. It works to maximize performance in every area of endeavor. It also is commonly used to facilitate personal and spiritual growth. Most sessions are begun at the appointment time and then set to run at different times of the day or night for several days automatically.
Biovalent Systems Manual Therapy® is a gentle form of hands-on therapy to assist the natural corrective processes the body creates to achieve balance and restore health. When the self-corrective process gets overwhelmed by excessive physical and emotional tensions, BVS provides assistance. Created by Frank Lowen, LMT and former director of the Visceral Manipulation program, BVS makes extensive use of energetic forms to effectively change tensions in the body.
Craniosacral™ Therapy works through the craniosacral system, the membranes and cerebralspinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. John Upledger, D.O. found that this fluid is in constant motion within the meninges and around the cord, that when there is dysfunction anywhere in the body, the motion becomes abnormal. The therapist releases restrictions in the CS system to improve the function of the central nervous system. Symptoms helped by CST include migraine headaches, chronic neck and back pain, autism and more.
Feldenkrais Method® is movement re-education that uses gentle touch and guided exercise to release habits of misuse or non-use of the body. Traumatic brain injured, stroke victims, performers of music and athletes all benefit from these lessons as do developmentally delayed infants and children.
Lymphatic Drainage Therapy is a very gentle massage which releases or redirects blocked lymph. Blockages can cause headaches, fibrocystic breasts, swollen legs and ankles, pain and heaviness in body parts and weakened immune function. LDT was developed by Bruno Chikly, a French M.D. out of his award-winning research on the lymphatic system.
Mechanical Link™ is a gentle manual therapy that encourages the balance of tensions in the fascial system, a complex web of tissue that interconnects and affects all body systems. Think of the fascial network as a spider web. Imagine what happens if one area of the web is pinched; the whole web becomes distorted. The body compensates for physiological or traumatic stress in the same way, by creating patterns of lesions that affect the whole body. These patterns relieve pain and protect the body from further harm, but over time the compensation becomes debilitating. We use various levels of specific recoil on primary tension sites to allow the fascia to normalize tension throughout the body.
Total Body Modification™ is the correction of body functions including structure, physiology, emotions and sensitivities to environment and food. Created and taught by chiropractor, Victor Frank.
Visceral Manipulation was developed by French Osteopath, Jean-Pierre Barral. At optimal health, the relationship between the organs (viscera) and the muscles, membranes, fascia and bones remain stable despite the body’s motion. When one organ can’t move in harmony with its neighbors due to abnormal tone, adhesions, or displacement, it creates fixed, abnormal points of tension around which the body is forced to move. This chronic irritation is a pathway to disease and dysfunction. “Symptoms do not appear until the body’s ability to compensate has been used up,” JPB
