by SharonHartnett | Jan 25, 2014 | Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, Structural Integration
What’s the big deal about fascia?
Lately, fascia is being touted as the new integrative approach to massage and bodywork. I am so happy to hear this news as Dr. Ida Rolf developed her work in organizing the human body back in the 1920’s, and it’s finally getting the notice it so much deserves. Since that earlier time, students who had studied with her over the years, trained, interpreted and opened various schools enabling this work to spread and improve healing for those fortunate enough to find this approach to evolutionary change. If you google, you can find the Institute for Structural Integration, The Rolf Institute, The Guild for Structural Integration the anatomy trains work by Tom Myers, and some new curriculums popping up with Massage Schools everywhere. Even more exciting, the valuable benefits of healthy fascia as experienced through Structural Integration, Craniosacral Therapy, and Myofascial Therapy is now being backed by scientists and clinicians alike. It’s thrilling for us Fascial workers who have been doing this work for years that fascia is now being recognized as a holistic system that can improve your life when optimized for efficiency. It’s time to discover and understand the potential of health and wellbeing within the global web of connective tissue.
So now do you want to know more about Fascia?
Fascia has been part of our body’s since the beginning of humankind. It has been the glue that holds us and connects us together. It is made of extracellular matrix containing: collagen fibers which contribute to structure, elastin which provides elasticity and ground matter which allow transport of material. Without it, we would be a pool of bones, and dried up parts lying randomly on the ground.
So why is it that we are just beginning to learn about it now?
Living with a healthy fascial relationship within the human body
While fascia is the living stuff that sets our three dimensional shape and form, it is not easy to see with its transparent silvery quality. For the most part, it has been dismissed as a major player in our health system until now. Fortunately, in the last 80 years, the word has gradually gotten out by manual workers that layering, spreading, balancing, and lengthening the connective tissue improves the overall sense of health. When it is in a restful state, the fascia stays hydrated, able to use its elements of viscosity, plasticity and elasticity to give us a strong yet bouncy movement throughout the body. It also nurtures the muscle spindle firing, and enhance nerve ending firing. The internal wisdom of the human body has distributed the fascial tissue with the correct amount of characteristics to keep us organized and functioning fairly well into our later years.
So What Does This Mean For You?
It means that not only is there experiential testimonials to the benefits of fascial work, but if you research on google, you will also see that the medical field is learning and verifying the positive results that clients have been feeling for years. In my practice I have helped many hundred of people by listening to the intelligence of their fascial body. With Dr. Ida Rolf’s teachings, many of my clients have completed the original 10 sessions. They walk away with a lighter, springier step as the pain disappears. For clients who are more interested in gentle touch, I tend to focus on the Craniosacral Therapy side of things. But along with working with this semi-hydraulic system, it is also necessary and practical to work with the fascial diaphragms and restricted areas as well. It is through the softer manipulation of tissue that chronic pain and dysfunction release easiest. If you are interested in finding more freedom in your movement and a spark in your spirit, check out fascial work by a certified massage therapist in your area. You’ll be happy with the results!
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by SharonHartnett | Jan 17, 2014 | Energy Healing
Energy Healing
The Barbara Brennan School has been thriving for over 25 years, bringing healing and integrative transformation to each individual student, graduate, the community of the Sacred Human Heart, and all clients touched by these healers.
Graduates are spread across the globe in fields of private integrative health care, reaching people through music and arts, integrating healing into corporate environments, and currently in hospital rooms. Our intention as a school is to teach, learn and grow in order to make this planet a better place left by our footprints of life’s experiences. As part of the intensive curriculum, students must work on their own process and healing in order to reach out and help others. By opening and cleaning ourselves, we open the life force to move freely and to heal. Healers are here to help you to find your sense of health, purpose and potential!
Question: Are you wanting to heal yourself? Have you felt like you have searched but found no answers to your deepest prayers? Is it possible to open up to the vast intelligence of Being to integrate into Wholeness and Health? Is it time for you to allow a paradigm shift to help you expand beyond your current way of living?
There are many Barbara Brennan Healers available to assist you on your healing journey!
We are dedicated to our work and to connecting its benefits to all who all who come our way. For many of us who have practices, it is our job to facilitate your process and help you uncover the Truth of your Being. We are trained to be present, supportive and confidential in our work. With over four years of study, we know how to perceive the Human Energy Field, how to correct and balance the system, and to lead the client’s own intelligence to self-correct and find alignment. We work privately and also often with full healing teams in the medical field to help you achieve your goals.
If I have your attention now… if something is interesting to you, then I invite you to check the Barbara Brennan School for a graduate in your area. We are thrilled to bring our energy healing work out into the world. We want to make sure you know about us so that we can serve for the Highest Good. Also, a new website is coming alive for all the different Country Associations. Stand by for information coming your way.
In Columbus, Ohio, there are plenty of graduates to choose. But as you have found me, Sharon Hartnett LMT., I’d invite you to call me for a free 15 minute telephone consultation. I have been practicing energy work for over 15 years, studied at the Barbara Brennan School and am a former faculty member there. I love this work as I have seen people go through extraordinary changes as they commit to their mind body & spirit journey.
Healing through the Human Energy Field
Brennan School of Healing
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by SharonHartnett | Jan 12, 2014 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit
When I tell people I specialize in Craniosacral Therapy, they often ask me to describe what it is. While Craniosacral Therapy has been around for a while, it is just now coming more into the forefront as being known as an effective integrative health approach. So in order to bring even more clarity to this field of healing, I want to present this short blog entry. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me, Sharon Hartnett, LMT, for a free 15 minute phone consultation
614 653-08111
Craniosacral Therapy is a light touch type of bodywork that enhances the functioning of the whole body by working primarily with the Cerebrospinal fluid around the nervous system. This is done with palpation from the feet all the way to the head. The name “Craniosacral Therapy” can be misleading because while the main focus is on listening at the cranium and the sacral area, this gentle manual therapy may be approached from anywhere on the body. During a session, a client remains fully clothed and lies down on the table for about an hour. The therapist will follow listening stations and help the body find its own healing course. Craniosacral Therapy’s relaxing and balancing effects may be felt physically, emotionally and spiritually throughout the session and afterwards.
Craniosacral Flow
A Craniosacral Therapist is a listener of the craniosacral rhythm much like a Counselor may listen to the words of a client. As the session progresses, the client often calms down and lets go of stresses and pain. The therapist is guided by the body’s own intelligence to follow any dysfunctional patterns and to help the system to self-correct. The quality, symmetry and strength of the craniosacral movements are strong indicators if there are restrictions or weakness in a certain area. As certain patterns are tenderly touched, unwinding and lengthening may occur allowing healthier interaction between the nervous system and the tissues. Often people who come to a Craniosacral Therapist for a series of sessions after finding no relief elsewhere end up feeling more vitality and release of deep pain patterns.
For a quick Youtube layout of the work, check out one of my earlier teacher’s explanation of the work:
https://youtu.be/vn7AC6iktmU
Craniosacral Therapy has been helpful with relieving traumas from the body on many different levels. Once these traumatic experiences are processed in a healthy environment, the person usually feels freed up to live more fully from a clear more positive intentional place.
Sharon Hartnett CST-Diplomate specializes in helping people with anxiety & related issues, concussions, and chronic pain.
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by SharonHartnett | Dec 18, 2013 | Craniosacral Therapy
Let Craniosacral Therapy help you in your Healing Process
An Article on how CST helped Dr. Wayne Dyer
Dr. Wayne Dyer
I enjoyed this article because it talks about the responsibility of self-healing. While is up to each of to take good care of ourselves, it is also in the hands of others that we can go that extra step in remembering the way. The skill of a Certified Craniosacral Therapist/s will help you to discover deeper inner peace, as well as giving your body new information to release painful patterns. The touch is so gentle and the effects are profound.
Read this article to find out more:
https://www.healyourlife.com/author-kate-mackinnon/2013/12/wisdom/personal-growth/healing-with-craniosacral-therapy
Craniosacral Therapy is not a one time fix it job. The gift of this work is an ongoing releasing of tension and dysfunction. Proactive work will keep you moving with better health and stamina. Give yourself the gift of Healing!
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by SharonHartnett | Dec 15, 2013 | grounding, healing, Healthy Body, Massage, meditation, mind body & spirit, Spiritual Healing
Cobra Pose for those Shortened Soft Tissues-
As we get older, often we lose the natural curvature of our spine. Gravity pulls us downward and often we end up out of alignment anteriorly and posteriorly as well. Our doctors often recommend exercise which is a great beginning. Massage, Craniosacral Therapy, and other forms of Bodywork can be very helpful too. But there is something you can do to feel young that is easy to do right at home in just about 5-10 minutes a day that will help you quite a bit.
How about spending a little time with the Cobra Pose to self-correct your posture and open up your energy flow!
Begin Cobra by lying down on your stomach with the legs extended. Place your hands fairly close to your body parallel and slowly lift your body off the ground. Continue to lift higher, but only in comfort with a light stretch.Hold the stretch as long as you feel release for up to 30 seconds. If anything feels like it is too much, move back to the ground and relax and try again when you feel rested.
Stretching
Many of my clients come in with painful necks and lower backs.Those two areas especially seem to shorten in many people and end up being the weakest link in posture. Part of that can due to a shortened psoas muscle but usually include anterior fascia being too short from the feet to the top of the head.
If you take the time to do the Cobra Pose routinely, you will begin to see great change in how you stand and feel each day. This is accomplished by lengthening the front of your body with the stretch and relaxing all the above back muscles. This pose is counter to many of the activities we do each day which jet us forward. The Cobra Pose allows us to move into a backward curved space which restores better balance.
In Yoga, often the class leads us into pushing the stretch. I’d like to invite people who are in discomfort not to go all the way, but to simply go into the stretch gently, listen to your body to what feels good and stay there. I have found that when the body is not overtaxed, the defense mechanisms relax and more tissue will relax and spread throughout the whole body.
As with all physical activity, it is helpful to check with your physician what is good for you to do, especially while dealing with spinal issues.
As we age, we don’t have to limit our movements. We have a choice to move freely but we need to take advantage of our Cobra range of motion. Want to feel young? Then live young!
Sharon Hartnett CST-D
614 653-8111
www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com
