Modality: Body-Mind Therapy

Movement Meditation in Boise

Published: 10 June 2019
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Movement Meditation is a container for practicing embodied mindfulness. 

Sitting meditation is a way to practice observing your thoughts and emotions.  Movement meditation can help you find the link between motion and emotion, bringing mindful awareness into your everyday life.  Your body is your home for a lifetime—being radically present in your body can help you address trauma, ‘fixing the holes where the rain gets in.’  Because movement meditation brings mindfulness to our actions so concretely, it can also help you bring mindfulness to your inter-actions—in your partnerships, and with your community.

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Somatic Ideation in Boise

Published: 10 June 2019
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Created by Matthew, Somatic Ideation is ‘body-storming’, using movement and awareness as resources for creative thinking and decision making.

When we make decisions it’s easy to ‘get in our heads’ and become anxious.   While much of our contemporary understanding of thought revolves around how our brains function, we are also coming to understand that the brain does not work separately from our bodies.  The HeartMath institute has done excellent research into how even our organs affect our thought processes. Have you ever had the experience of exercising your body and having ideas come to you?  Perhaps a decision you were waffling on became clear?  No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it—so in turn we enter the consciousness of the body for new solutions.  Bringing embodied mindfulness to the ideative process can literally get you out of your head and put you in touch with your intrinsic embodied intelligence.

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Energetic Bodywork in Boise

Published: 27 May 2019
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From Polarity Therapy to Reiki

Energetic Bodywork is a vague term at best.  There are many systems of energy work from Polarity Therapy to Reiki.  Our atoms are only .0001% matter.  The rest is energy—the forces which we cannot see.  Energy work involves intention, attention, and attunement to the spaces between.  Movement is trans-formation; it is change in our form.  As a movement specialist I see, feel, and engage with the rhythms, patterns, and connections of movement in bodies.  Many of my clients speak of my bodywork as energy work.  I see it simply as movement.

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Myofascial Massage in Boise

Published: 27 May 2019
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Myofascial massage is touch with particular attention to the connective tissues

Rolfing, or Structural Integration, is the most well known somatic approach in this regard.  I am also highly influenced by Craniosacral Therapy, which works with the fascia and fluids of the spinal column, and Visceral Manipulation, with works with the connective tissues and rhythms of the organs.  Connective tissue is the fabric of the body—a web—in which the muscles, bones, organs, nerves, and fluids are invested.  The function of the connective tissues is to create biotensegrity—a tensional network that acts as a suspension system for all of ur parts.  It is through biotensegrity that our joints can decompress even as weight is applied.  Fascial research and therapies are quickly becoming central in fields from physical therapy to acupuncture.  I incorporate mysofascial massage to relieve pain and restore biotensegral function so that your body can decompress.

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Pilates in Boise

Published: 27 May 2019
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Pilates is a system of movement exercise originally developed by Joseph Pilates

The focus of Pilates exercise is the control of the limbs from core connection.  There are various pieces of equipment used in Pilates that provide resistance.  The primary purpose of the equipment is to facilitate your ability to feel connection in your body that you can take out into all of your activities in the world.  I studied Pilates with Long Beach Dance Conditioning, a program focused on rehabilitative therapy.  I incorporate Pilates exercises as part of my comprehensive therapeutic approach.

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Somatic Movement Therapy in Boise

Published: 27 May 2019
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Somatic Movement Therapy is the art and science of honoring your body’s natural intelligence through gentle movement with awareness

Similar to physical therapy in its specificity and physicality, somatic movement therapy is differentiated by its focus on mindful participation.  Motion and emotion and are intimately connected:  I will empower you to feel and participate in your healing so that you can enjoy the process and renew your motivation for self-care.  We all want to be healthier in our bodies.  The intrinsic motivation to act on this desire arises when you can actually feel the difference and enjoy the path that gets you there.  I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist through ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.  My particular Somatic Movement Therapy lineage is as a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA).

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