What Is the ‘Ten Series’ of Rolfing?
As you probably know, Rolfing is a technique of deep tissue manipulation designed to release and realign the body and to reduce muscular and psychic tension. It’s also called structural integration. People frequently ask how Rolfing is implemented and what...
CoQ10 as Part of Your Healthy Lifestyle
What is CoQ10? CoQ10 stands for coenzyme Q10, but a similar form of it is often referred to as ubiquinol. This is an apt name for it ,as CoQ10 is found naturally throughout the body in cell membranes, particularly in the mitochondrial membranes. It is most abundant...
Improve Your Body Alignment With These Exercises
Your body needs to be strong yet supple and flexible to maintain proper body alignment. A strong core will provide a good base for proper alignment, so doing a number of exercises on a regular basis that strengthen and build your core is a good idea, and can go a...
HOW DIET AFFECTS PAIN LEVELS
Let’s take a quick look at how you feel and process pain. Nociceptors are specialized nerves that can detect changes in temperature, chemical balance, or pressure. They cue your brain to feel pain when something is causing tissue damage. You react instantly by, for...
PMR Helps Relieve Stress and Anxiety During Covid-19
It is well documented that stress negatively affects one’s body and one’s health. With the continuation of the Covid-19 crisis, and its accompanying uncertainty and separation from family and physical care providers, many of us are in more need than ever of...
Healing from Within
Pain is not our friend. In fact, many of us live lives of impaired quality due to chronic pain. Walking upright gave man the ability to see prey at a distance, but the human skeleton pays a price. There are 500,00 back surgeries while more than 1% of Americans are...
Self-Care in a Time of Covid-19
A day off work to relax at home is a stress reliever, but spending every single day at home has quite the opposite effect for many people. The loss of work-home rhythm, the frustrations of children suddenly home all day, 24 hour spouse time, all exist on top of...
Rolfing in a Time of Coronavirus
As “social distancing,” “shelter in place,” and “pandemic” become part of our vocabulary, personal care and therapy sessions are less available. For the vast number of people who are working from home and suddenly less able to go to the gym or therapy services,...
Finding the Body You’ve Forgotten
Do you remember the exuberance of running through the woods on a spring day, the rhythmic sound of footsteps, the rush of spirit that promises no limit? Or maybe you remember long rambling walks exploring new cities or countryside when all your senses were on high...
Living in Pain? Consider Rolfing
One person’s journey back from pain Like many Americans I had suffered my share of back challenges, sports injuries in high school, a fall from a scaffold in college. My youthful body shook these off over time, but as my 30’s gave way to 40’s there was chronic...
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