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Bodywork
IHA also offers Rolfing/Structural Integration and Feldenkrais. These two modalities are discussed separately:
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Deep Tissue Massage
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Sports Massage
Sports Massage combines specialized massage techniques that address the specific needs of athletes. It can be divided into the following subcategories:
- Preventive Massage
- Event massage (pre-, post- and intra)
- Orthopedic or injury work
Preventive massage is the regular maintenance massage that works with those muscles that are used most in the specific sport. The goal is to keep the muscle tissue most pliable to ensure peak performance and to reduce the risk of injury. A very important part of preventive massage is stretching and information on hydration, nutrition and proper strength training.
Sports massage is also used directly at events. Before the event (Pre-event massage) it is used as an adjunct to the athlete's warm-up, to prepare the muscles for competition. Post-event massage is the appropriate massage technique after competition. It helps the athlete recover faster by reducing muscular soreness and spasm. Intra-event massage is used between events and is a combination of pre- and post-event massage to help the athlete recover from one event and be fit for the next one.
Orthopedic massage is used to speed up recovery after an injury. The goals are to minimize scar tissue, remove adhesions and to restore full pain-free range of motion. The primary technique used for this is deep transverse friction.
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CranioSacral Therapy
CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle yet profound method of treatment for correcting imbalance in the craniosacral system.
The craniosacral system consists of the brain, the spinal cord and its covering membrane, the cerebrospinal fluid, and the bones that surround and protect these. Correcting imbalance and restriction here improves the operation of our nervous system, reducing stress, and enhancing the function and health of the whole body. Quite often a great sense of calmness, clarity and well-being is experienced after a CranioSacral session.
The CranioSacral System consists of the brain and spinal cord, cerebrospinal fluid, connective tissue and the bones of the skull, spine and tailbone. CranioSacralTherapy is designed to correct dysfunction that occurs when tensionor injury impedes free motion in the CranioSacral system. Held tension cancompress tiny openings through which cranial nerves pass on their way toenervate the body. This compression inturn can lead to a cascade of symptoms including headache, dizziness, pain,moodiness, depression, concentration problems, and specific and non-specificneurological problems. In a CSTtreatment, the head and sacrum are palpated and the cranial bones are gentlyadjusted to release underlying connective tissue tensions.
The practitioner works with light holds on the head and other parts of the body. This work is done without oil while the client is dressed in comfortable clothing. Benefits of treatment can include: reduction or elimination of headaches and migraines, temporomandibular joint dysfunction (jaw joint pain and clenching), back, neck and facial pain, grinding of teeth, visual and auditory disturbances, sinus problems, endocrine system (hormonal) disturbances, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, and other nerve disorders.
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Kim Dines
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Zero Balancing
Zero Balancing (ZB) is a hands-on bodywork system designed to align your energy body with your physical body. A session normally takes 30 to 40 minutes and is done with you fully clothed. Using touch on the back, legs, feet, and neck, the practitioner evaluates your energy fields and energy flow and balances the structure asneeded. The primary focus is on the skeleton because it contains the strongest currents. ZB is ideal to prevent or relieve problems encountered in our harried world. It is particularly useful for those people feeling out of balance. It helps you reach a point of stillness where the mind quiets and reorientation takes place. It is designed to work in tandem with primary health care, focusing on deep quieting and integration of thebody/mind/spirit to promote optimum functioning.
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Reiki
Reiki is the Japanese word for Universal Life Energy, a force present in all living beings. Reiki, the ancient healing art, is thought to have originated in Tibet where Tibetan Buddhist monks meditated on the Reiki symbols to expand consciousness and purify the body and mind to help promote healing. It was rediscovered in the late 1800s by Dr. Usui, a Japanese Buddhist monk, who then developed a method to attune and balance an individual's UniversalLife Energy and increase healing potential.
A Reiki Master, who has been attuned to and uses the Usui Method, attunes you more directly to your higher mind so that your touch becomes more potent and you have more balance throughout your physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies.
In a Reiki I initiation (attunement) you are initiated and taught the hand positions, which correspond to the seven major chakras. You may then give treatments to yourself and others. In subsequent levels, you learn the Reiki symbols and how to do long distance healing. Reiki II concentrates on opening the heart to love and warmth; Reiki III opens you to manifest spiritual vision, and it provides the energy of power and action. These experiences may provide insights into originsof diseases or disorders from which you are suffering, allow your higher self to help you in making decisions on appropriate therapy and permit wonderful healing to occur.
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Tuina (pronounced tway na) - Chinese Therapeutic Massage
Tui Na (pronounced 'tway-nah') massage is a recognized form of therapy for a wide range of health problems which uses wave like motions and rhythms to loosen joints, nourish the muscles and encourage the flow of qi. Tui (push) and na (grasp) are characterized by skillful strokes of the gliding or rolling hand and arm movements. Gentle shaking, joint rotations and stretching compliment this vigorous style. Also known as meridian massage it opens stagnant acupressure channels and encourages the flow of qi to any deficient areas. It improves mobility, fluidity and works from a place of bringing balance and optimal functioning to the body, mind and spirit.
The basic Tui Na stroke and definitions are:
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Tui |
Brush |
Sao |
Scratch |
Tsa |
Slice |
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Na |
Grasp |
Da |
Hit |
Pok |
Slap |
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An |
Rolling
press |
Tien |
Delineate |
Niem |
Pinch |
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Mo |
Circular
rubs |
Mot |
Dust |
Yao |
Circle |
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Tao |
Range
of Motion |
Chien |
Silver
dollar polish |
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The practitioner can use a wide variety of techniques (soft or hard, superficial or deep, general or more precise, slow or fast, etc.) with any of these strokes to balance the Qi energy, the vital substances, and the internal organs of the client.
Like all forms of massage, many of the effects of Tui Na are brought about simply by its function of simulating the flow of Qi, blood, and body fluids. Many of our health problems are caused by blockages in these vital substances, leading to pain, swelling, a build-up of toxins, and other symptoms. Getting things moving again re-establishes the proper functioning of the body and the recovery of damaged tissues. Tui Na works holistically, treating the mind through the body and vice versa. It leaves people with a deep sense of physical and mental relaxation, revitalisation and well-being. An important effect of Tui Na is to bring a person’s awareness back to their own body and what’s going on in it an essential first step in any healing process.
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Acupressure
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Advantages of using acupressure include relieving pain, balancing the body and maintaining good health. The healing touch of acupressure reduces tension, increases circulation, and enables the body to relax deeply. By relieving stress, acupressure strengthens resistance to disease and promotes wellness. While all healing is self-healing, you do not have to do it alone.
Acupressure is an ancient healing art started in Asia over 5,000 years ago that uses the fingers to connect to key points on the client to stimulate the body's natural self-curative abilities. When these points are contacted, they release muscular tension and promote the circulation of blood and the body's life force energy which aids healing, relives pain and improves the client's system. Acupuncture and acupressure use the same points acupoints for their work.
Treatment is given through clothes with the client is normally laying on a massage table. The areas of disharmony identified during the interview, tongue or pulse readings are balanced using the a series of pairs of acupoints. Each pair of points is held until they come to balance. The touch employed may suggest tonnification, sedation or balance. Depending on the disharmony a single pattern or several patterns may be used.
Like Tui Na massage acupressure dates back to the Shang Dynasty of China, 1700 B.C.E., where Oracle bones showed that acupressure massage was used to treat children's diseases and digestive complaints in adults. The roots of both Five Element and Eight Paramter Acupressure Massage are in the Ne Jing or "The Yellow Emperor's Classic" which was written in about 500 B.C.E.
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Process acupressure, Jin Shin Jytsu and Jin Shen Do arose out of the work of Jiro Murai, a Japanese philosopher, and are based on ancient knowledge of the body and creation (Jin Shin Jyutsu) which was passed down orally from one generation to the next and had virtually disappeared in Japan when it was rediscovered in the early 1900s by Jiro Murai. Mary Burmeister, Iona Teegarten and Aminah Raheem have continued and expanded on the work of Jiro Murai.
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