Showing posts with label craniosacral. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Rainbow of Vitality: a Transformational Bodywork Series

 
 
RAINBOW OF VITALITY  
BODYWORK SERIES 
 
There is so much more to your body than meets the eye.  Engage your inner healing process by connecting to the inner network of energy that sustains life, and engage that energy to support you in healing and transforming disease, pain, emotional distress, and fatigue.  This special series of treatments is a healing journey that incorporates many different massage and healing modalities, as well as follow up and check-in times in between sessions. 
This video walks you through the main energy centers in the body:
 
 
 
 
 
Earth - Root Chakra - tailbone, colon, immune system, hips, legs & feet
Relax into the support of the earth and feel your bones and tissues stretching, balancing, and becoming in harmony with your spirit, facilitating the experience of being connected to, and supported by life.
Modalities used: Thai Yoga Massage, Breema Bodywork, Reflexology

Water - Sacral Chakra - pelvis, intestines, reproductive organs & bladder
Our body is mostly made up of water - get the waters in your body flowing and balanced, detoxifying your body and enhancing your center of personal power & creativity.
Modalities Used: Lymphatic Drainage, Swedish Massage, Energy balancing

Fire -  Solar Plexus - stomach, liver, gallbladder, adrenals, spleen
cleansing, purifying and motivating.  Spark your fire and increase your passion and joy with this treatment that starts with some guided yoga, and then relax with the heat of the bio-mat and hot stone massage, supporting you to honor yourself, and maintain strong boundaries.
Modalities used: Yoga, Bio-Mat & Hot Stone massage

Air - Heart Chakra - chest, upper back & shoulders
A gentle touch session that focuses on connecting your body and spirit, and revitalizing your whole energy system by listening to your heart and engaging your compassion towards your self and others.
Modalities used: Aromatherapy, Polarity, Hakomi-Inspired Therapy

Ether - Throat Chakra - neck, thyroid, jaw
Gentle rocking and stretching to all of the joints in the body, as well as for the neck and throat and energy balancing to assist you in listening to your inner guide and speak your truth clearly.
Modalities used: Energy Balancing, Stretching, Sound Therapy
 
Light - Third Eye - brain, nerves, eyes, ears, nose, pituitary
Gentle face massage with guided visualization to support you in seeing the difference between truth and illusion, and see the bigger picture in your life, as well as slow down over-active mental activity. 
Modalities used: Cranial Sacral, Bio-Mat, Guided Visualization

Consciousness - Crown Chakra - head, muscles & skeletal system
This energy work supports you in connecting your body to your spiritual nature, and in letting go of fears in order to center yourself in faith.  
Modalities used: Cranial-Sacral, Sound Therapy, Bio-Mat.



Single RAINBOW Vitality Session -75 minute session
(you can pay as you go, or pick one chakra to focus on)
 
TWO FREE BONUS GIFTS
BONUS #1 -Check-in session - After your Rainbow Vitality Session, you will have a 20 minute check in with Laura Rose on the phone so that you can deepen into the inner healing dialogue.
BONUS #2 - Optional journaling and relaxation exercises before and after your Rainbow Vitality session!
Normally, the investment is $120...  Special introductory offer... $100!   
Book your Rainbow Vitality Session today!
Complete Rainbow Vitality Series
A series of seven 75 minute sessions for each energy center 
 
FREE BONUS GIFTS with Rainbow Vitality Series 
 
BONUS #1 - Seven half time check-in sessions
In between your Rainbow Vitality Sessions, you will have a 20 minute check in with Laura Rose on the phone so that you can deepen into the inner healing dialogue.
BONUS #2- Journaling and relaxation exercises
before and after your Rainbow Vitality sessions!
BONUS #3- Relaxing Eye pillow
BONUS #4- Comfortable Ear plugs
BONUS #5- Customized aromatherapy blend
Normally, the investment is $840... Special introductory offer... $600!  
 
Call or email Laura Rose with any questions: 303-601-5060 listeningtouch@gmail.com

Thursday, July 11, 2013

How to truly listen to your body during bodywork

Many people are discovering how supportive it is to be mindful in their lives, and I am discovering how powerful mindfulness can be during a bodywork session.  Mindfulness is a wonderful tool for our day to day existence, helping us to stay present to every moment, rather than cutting off some aspects of our experience.   It can bring more peace and self-understanding into our day-to-day existence, by staying away from the usual habit of trying to avoid emotional distress, pain, or tension  and trying to make things different than they are.

When receiving massage and bodywork, most people have an idea about something that they would like to change.  Maybe it's a bad mood, maybe its a tight shoulder or a painful back, but we want it to go away.  I have found that if we take some time to slow down and listen, our body often has a message for us.  Some examples of what your body might say to you is: "I'd really like to have a do nothing day" or "I need to tell my boss that I'm feeling overwhelmed" or "I'm really sad about my family member being sick."  And it can be really helpful to "unpack" these feelings, and observe them, let them know that you hear them / feel them / see them, and then come back to the feeling of the weight body on the massage table, the touch of my hand with your body, or your breath.  If you just make the sensation go away, you might miss out on some important messages.  


Here is an example of how the inner dialogue or experience can be:

I'm laying on the massage table...
I'm relaxing...
I'm breathing...
I'm letting the weight of my body sink into the support under me...
I'm feeling a painful place in my body...
I'm experiencing the sensation as it is...
I'm saying hello to it...
I'm letting it be as it is...
I'm inviting this place to speak to me from it's own perspective...
I'm thanking it for sharing with me...
I'm invite it to let me know if there is something more...
I'm noticing it is relaxing on its own...
I'm lovingly inviting it to let go, relax, soften...
I'm breathing into that place...
I'm noticing that place feels different now...
I'm grateful for my body...
I'm resting...
I'm breathing...
I'm thinking about something...
I'm saying hello to that part that is thinking about something...
I'm noticing the thinking stops when I say hello...
I'm breathing...
I'm letting go...

and often the sensation goes away on it's own!

It can be difficult to have this much awareness on your own, and that's where a mindful practitioner can help with some active listening and "focusing" dialogue work.  Your practitioner can support you in staying present and really listening with compassion, with gentle touch, helping you to "stay with" and witness your inner experience instead of pushing it away or going for an emotional roller coaster ride with it.  If you would like some support with mindfulness, I would be happy to be a companion to help you to focus in and really listen to the messages that your body might be telling you.   And hopefully when your body has a message for you five days later when you are walking down the street, you can listen with compassion, instead of just telling it to go away. 


303-601-5060

Laura Rose Boyle has been listening and touching since 2000 and studies and practices Inner Relationship Focusing and Hakomi Therapy in addition to massage and bodywork.  
To schedule a Listening Touch session, visit: www.listeningtouch.org