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Healing Old Trauma with Massage

Love with Mindful Contact is the Best Healer for Trauma

Trauma can start young. Children are naturally trusting and they have basic needs. They look to adults for acceptance, love, nourishment and so much more so that they can grow and thrive in this world.

Yet statistics say that child abuse is reported every 10 seconds.

In most cases, children adapt and survive many cases of abuse and trauma, but that doesn’t mean that the mind and body have processed the whole experience/s.

So as adults, often in a trusting massage relationship, emotions and sensations come up as the body eventually reveals old patterns that may have developed as a trauma defensive reaction. Traumas can include something like falling off a bike as a child, being scared by a loud argument, re-occurring abandonment situations or being terrorized by an event.

Most people have touched into some type of trauma whether small or life impacting and developed strategies to cope with life without being fully aware. But through a series of mindful Craniosacral Therapy or other types of bodywork- the body’s own intelligence can set the pace for healing. Not only in the body, but the sensory information is related to the brain as well to restore balance.

Opening the human heart through gentle contact to heal past trauma.

 

Craniosacral Therapy

Sharon Hartnett LMT, and Certified Advanced Craniosacral Therapist has trained to work with trauma at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, the Hakomi Institute, and the Upledger Institute to understand how the body holds and can release trauma in a safe and comfortable environment. She has worked with soldiers, victims of rape, neglected children and adults who face physical challenges due to accidents in their childhood.

In the Craniosacral Therapy sessions, licensed counseling is not provided , but what does happens is that dialogue can help the process open up. As the younger “child consciousness” shows up organically, support and love are held without judgment. When the younger energy is acknowledged, accepted, cared for, and allowed to feel deeply in the body, often the process is able to complete and no longer circulates as anxiety and reactionary systems anymore.

Sometimes, when talk therapy doesn’t help with a physical challenge, going to a trained Craniosacral Therapist  CST, who trained in ethics and in holding a compassionate container to support their clients in this process, will be the way through. When no other avenues have helped you to integrate, the body intelligence may be able to complete your healing through the mind, body, and spirit connection.

It’s important to say that this is more of a self educational type of session as Craniosacral Therapists are not necessarily licensed psychologists or such. The Craniosacral Sessions are one of Self-Discovery that has helped many to find inner peace and love.

All information shared during sessions is confidential.

For more information, contact Sharon Hartnett CST-d in Columbus, Ohio  

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

 

Headache Relief with Craniosacral Therapy

Headache Relief with Craniosacral Therapy

Help my headache go away!

Headaches show up for a variety of reasons… What’s important for you to know is that there are some things that can be very helpful for headache relief, and one of those things is Craniosacral Massage Therapy.

Headache

Help your headache with Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral Therapy for Headache Relief!

With Craniosacral Therapy, the therapist first tunes into the whole body by listening to the Craniosacral rhythm and palpating the fascial restrictions and tension. Through the practiced light touch of Craniosacral Therapy, one feels supports and follows the internal body wisdom to  help the fascia soften… lengthen,  often following with the body feeling more energized. With the intention of helping to sooth the headache, the next thing a seasoned therapist will do after listening to the entire body is to go to the diaphragms and release the tight layers. Since the body’s fascia is continuous, it’s important to make sure that other sources away from the head are freed up too.

When that is accomplished, one of the best techniques to release pain in the head is to Release the Cranial Base. This technique feels wonderfully therapeutic and often clients breathe a sigh of release when this is done:

1.The first aspect of this technique is to position the fingertips gently into the soft tissue posterior to the atlas (C1) as the tension melts away.
2.Next, the fingertips form a platform with straight fingers that aim towards the ceiling and then towards the eyes. This may be a little sore due to tightness, but to most people, it is the kind of feeling that feels quite good. Eventually the head will drop down into the hands and the atlas floats freely.
3.Part three of the Occipital Base Release aims to release the occiput from the atlas. This is accomplished by tractioning the occiput superiorly, while making sure that C1 stays stable.
4.To make this release even better, the hands continue to hold the head while fingertips spread the condyles laterally which effectively open restrictions along the cranial base and around the foramen magnum.
5.The final touch includes a gentle release of the dural tube with a delicate traction.
This whole process of working with the Cranial Base allows better flow through the Cranial Vault. It relieves pressure from along the major nerves. In addition to this wonderful new opening, a Stillpoint would be included. It also helps to alleviate pain and strengthen the nervous system’s balance. The Upledger Institute sells a Stillpoint Red Tool that I highly recommend for clients to buy for in between sessions. With about 10 minutes per day, there should be a significant improvement with headache pains.

 

Check into the Stillpoint Inducer at this link to help you maintain a Pain Free life: Stillpoint inducer

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Sharon Hartnett CST-D

Worthington, Ohio|Serving the Columbus Area

614 653-8111

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Craniosacral and Tools for Foot Pain

Craniosacral and Tools for Foot Pain

Foot Pain: As we get older,  we pick up certain habitual patterns that contribute to how we feel and move.

Personally I have had issues with my right foot for years from a childhood sprain and twisting. The best I felt was about 20 years ago after going through a Rolfing 10 series.  After we finished,  I remember feeling so great and actually standing taller that I decided to study Structural Integration (SI) myself.  For years now, I have been doing SI work and I have seen miraculous changes with my clients. But since I have integrated Craniosacral Therapy, some Feldenkrais that I learned and a few basic tools into my daily practice and table work, I have shared these concepts in order to help others.  I like to see people get better!

So here is what helps me and my clients:

  1. Structural Integration helps the whole body come into alignment.  Myofascial relationships shift and work more efficiently with gravity.
  2. Craniosacral Therapy (CST)  relieves dysfunctional issues in the cranium and brain, and also with the fascia.  In addition, it helps to enhance fluidity around the joints and in the tissues and to support a nervous system that helps clients to feel balanced and more vitalized.
  3. The below tools have helped me too and give me a sense of self-empowerment to change.

 

Red Ballrelieving foot painfoam roller

 

The roller, red ball and Yamuna foot fitness tools can be used daily to break up old patterns in the feet.  But this goes way beyond just the foot.  As the tension there begins to melt, the tissues going up the leg and trunk change too.  You will start to feel your hips changing and your posture relaxing.  Use your daily practice as medicine, and I invite you to go out on a limb and find some good bodyworkers to facilitate.

Good-Bye to Foot Pain!

Blessed day and blessed feet to you!

Sharon Hartnett LMT, CST, SI & Brennan Healing Practitioner

740 966-5153

Columbus, Ohio

www.massageincolumbusohio.com

Sports Conditioning with Massage in Columbus

Sports Conditioning with Massage in Columbus

Sports Massage is a Specialty.

It is focused on performance.

Many different techniques have been used to help athletes work optimally.  Just to name a few:  friction, stretching, range of motion, effleurage, compression, and deep strokes have been part of a typical routine to help circulation, lymph flow, and enhanced neurological functioning.  Massage can be enjoyed before or after an event based on the needs of the athlete.

I like to think that there is an even better way to help sports-oriented people feel and challenge themselves.

Structural Integration which is based on fascia and myofascial relationships is key in allowing the body to release tension, rotations, and restrictions.  When I have worked on athletes, young and old alike,  I have seen dramatic changes which have increased mobility and allowed more space for the body to lengthen and perform better.  Clients are amazed at how this type of work helps where others have not!

In the best 10 series, clients connect to their line.  What this means, is that a vector of sorts is felt from their grounding to the top of the head which allows them to move more freely in relationship to gravity.  Being in alignment creates better efficiency in rest and in motion!  During a 10 Sessions Set,  the Structural Integration Therapist starts with the upper body, and then moves to the lower, and then integrates superficially.  After that, the work deepens into core and continues to balance and re-educate the athlete to work with more ease.  By the last session, well- everything comes together in a new way.  Clients feel more energized.

 

sports massage columbus

sports massage columbus

The three areas that most athletes call for a massage visit that I see are:

1.  Performance Enhancement- Bringing symmetry, more vitality and balance into the body.

2.  Sore Muscles

3.  Injury/Restoration/Scar Tissue

Working with the fascia can be extremely beneficial in all three of these areas.

If you would like to find out more,  call: Sharon Hartnett, LMT, SI, CST, and Brennan Healing Science. at:

740 966-5153

www.massageincolumbusohio.com 

East of Columbus, Ohio

 

Cranial Sacral Columbus

Cranial Sacral Therapy is correctly spelled “Craniosacral Therapy”.

I am writing this short blog entry so if you are looking for Craniosacral Therapy Massage, you’ll be able to find me.

Certified through the Upledger Institute, I have advanced skills in helping clients with conditions such as:

  • Back Pain
  • Neck Pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Dyslexia
  • Migraines
  • Scoliosis
  • In need of Somatic Emotional Release
  • Brain Trauma
  • Concussions
  • Enhanced Sports Performance
  • Wellbeing
  • Developmental Challenges

Craniosacral

Craniosacral Columbus Ohio

Located in Upper Arlington and at my home office in Johnstown, Ohio,  you can find me working through the week and on Sunday evenings.

For more information,

Contact:  Sharon Hartnett LMT, CST, SI and Brennan Healing Science Practitioner

(740) 966-5153

www.massageincolumbusohio.com