Your Most Important Investment:
Your Body
How are you investing in your long-term health?
Do you know that bodywork can have a lasting effect on your overall well-being, supporting your long-term physical, mental and emotional health? Are you familiar with this idea that some bodywork lasts?
People often associate bodywork with their cars!
When I think of the bodywork I do, I think of a therapeutic treatment for your body that focuses on bringing about optimal functioning through structural alignment, awareness and nervous system balance. Rolfing and Somatic Experiencing are pioneering bodywork modalities with longevity. They catalyse changes in the body that outlast the length of the session.
As an investment in the future health of your body, they’re sustainable.
It’s about learning how to become connected and curious about your body’s needs and cultivate a greater understanding of its innate intelligence. Through a process of transformational techniques with key shifts in knowledge we will work together to change your body's core experience of living.
This is what I want for you.
This is why it’s an important question to ask yourself, when you have a therapeutic treatment: “Are the effects lasting?”
Maybe you didn’t realise how vital this is for your longer-term self-care?
How can I be sure it will last? Well, it has a lot to do with the nature and character of fascia and the concept of cellular memory. Fascia is the highly intelligent communication network that connects, supports and holds everything in your body while remembering how to lengthen, expand and soften.
If we want lasting change we have to contact and know our fascia. Fascia's intelligence records not only the imprint of an injury but also the opening and unwinding potential of your body. It’s able to do this through the intrinsic link between the fascia and the body’s cellular memory. This body memory of experience stored at a cellular level in your tissues informs its neuroplasticity.
Rolfing and Somatic Experiencing are investment treatments that will teach you about your body and who you are, through connecting to your fascia, your cellular memory and nervous system to access your body's potential.
For bodywork to last, it needs to work
For many people it can be difficult to identify if a treatment has worked because they’ve never been taught how to read their body’s internal cues. To distinguish if the effects are holding we need to start by asking: “does your body continue to feel different?”, “do you remember the things you learnt, such as how to be in alignment and what embodiment feels like?”
Your body is actually very good at answering these questions and telling you what it needs. By becoming more in tune with it you'll be able to understand if a treatment is working and making a difference.
I believe that this paves the way for your body's intuition, which can also guide you towards which treatment or practitioner could be right for you. With this kind of connection it becomes easier to assess if the bodywork you're receiving is lasting - and this is what counts.
I think a lot about my investment choices when I'm considering sustainable bodywork. Whether it's time, attention, money, heart or energy, choosing well can bring an ease and health into our lives.
We have a tendency to ignore our bodies and dampen down our intuition when we could be listening and caring for it without judgement.The more time we spend developing a healthy relationship with our body the longer we can live. It's quite simple.