Posture Massage's Trauma Support
Trauma happens, and when you are not expecting it. It can occur from playing sports, accidents, car wrecks, or from PTSD inducing events. Regardless of the trauma, Posture Massage can help your brain and body to recover more quickly.
Trauma Affects Both Body and Brain
This should not come as a newsflash to any reader: strong emotions and chemicals are released in our bodies and brains when we experience trauma. The emotions and chemicals are a great response in the moment when your body or brain are at great risk but are not meant to be locked within your body parts or brain for the long term.
Obviously lymphatic drainage and myofascial massage can help to loosen up locked up muscles and joints, thus allowing the chemicals and emotions to digest and be processed. Less obvious is the help that brainwork can do to help ensure you are supporting your neural networks appropriately after trauma. Posture Massage can help with all of these things.
Some examples of things that Posture Massage can help with during the healing process include:
- Concussions
- Injuries from car accidents
- Sports injuries
- Skiing/snowboarding injuries
- Falls
- PTSD
- Post-surgery
- Childbirth trauma
- and More!
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As humans we are averse to fear and scary moments so it is very common for us to avoid processing the scary bits of our lives, in fact we are very good at avoiding hard things! Working with a professional on those emotions, injuries (whether physical, emotional, or mental) can help to release and heal.
Having someone to help guide you in processing the tough bits can be lifesaving. Just as paramedics, surgeons, and doctors are great at administering first aid and critical treatments in the moment of injury, lymphatic drainage, massage therapy, and brainwork can help with long term healing, after the red flashing lights have faded and you are left to heal.
Visceral Manipulation
Visceral manipulation is the release of tension throughout the torso by way of the organs and fascia. It restores functionality to the organs and helps the body on all levels. Visceral Manipulation will help with physically moving better, discovering if your body and tissues hold emotions and deals with them.
The body records everything that happens to it and we need to acknowledge it. This is why we feel butterflies in our belly or our stomach gets tied in knots. Our emotional body plays a huge part in how our organs/tissues function. We can help those who want to address the emotional connection to the body and help the body, mind, and emotional body get on the same page. The importance of visceral work is to clear the organs/tissues that get inflamed, stuck, or moved out of place.
Craniosacral Therapy Can Help!
Craniosacral Therapy is a light-touch approach that can create dramatic improvements in your health. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction to improve whole-body health and performance.
Few body structures have more influence over your health and well-being than your central nervous system. And few body systems have more impact on your central nervous system than the craniosacral system – the soft tissues and fluid that protect your brain and spinal cord.
Every day you endure stresses/strains and your body absorbs them. However, your body can only handle so much tension before the tissues begin to tighten and potentially affect the brain and spinal cord. Unfortunately, this can compromise the function of the central nervous system – and the performance of nearly every other system in the body.
Craniosacral Therapy releases those tensions to allow the entire body to relax and self-correct. Using a gentle touch – starting with about the weight of a nickel – practitioners evaluate your internal environment. Then they use distinctive light-touch techniques to release any restrictions they find.
By freeing the Central Nervous System to perform at its best, Craniosacral Therapy naturally eliminates pain and stress, strengthens your resistance to disease, and enhances your health. Because it’s so gentle, Craniosacral Therapy can be effective for all ages, from newborns to elders.
Emotional Integration Can Help!
Whether we want to admit it or not, as humans we are emotional beings. Each moment of our lives, whether happy, sad, scary, traumatic, etc. can tie to strong emotions.
Simply put, emotional integration is a process of reconnecting and clearing your body and tissues of the emotions and feelings that they have held onto from past trauma, experiences, and day-to-day stresses. Each session has a particular goal to achieve that you set with your massage therapist. Sessions are designed to help you become aware of your body, the emotions tied to it, and clearing out tissues/organs from any negative impacts you are experiencing.
Do you ever feel like your brain is disconnected from your body? Do you wish you could move and feel better? Our tissues and organs experience our emotions and feelings just as strongly as our brains. In fact, sometimes the chemicals released during emotional events in our lives get stuck in our tissues and organs. It is very common to work through something mentally and through our brains, yet parts of our physical being may still be stuck and have not gotten the update from our brains. These sessions are designed to re-connect your entire being and ensure that all parts of you got the updated "memos" that your CEO (or brain) puts out. Expect to feel lighter and more in balance after these sessions.
