by SharonHartnett | Aug 9, 2015 | Structural Integration
Low Back Pain is a Common Problem
In the current AMTA Massage Therapy Journal, it states that, “Generally speaking about 80 percent of the adults ages 30-60 in the United States have reported suffering from lower back pain at some time in their lives. According to the National Institutes of Health, its is a leading contributor to missed work days and job-related disability.”
On a positive note, low back pain can often be alleviated if dealt with proactively or in the early stages.
low back pain relieved with massage
Some of the best things you can do is to improve your posture. Here are a few ideas:
- While I have studied and practice various modalities of body and healing work, I find the best results for performance enhancement and pain relief such as with low back pain with Rolfing types of Work called Structural Integration (SI). Structural Integration works with both dysfunctional patterns in the fascia and gravity to bring the body back into healthy alignment. During the ten sessions, I work with different areas of the body, until I help the client find their structural integrity so that they can move in better balance, more length, and with more vitality through life. However, if someone is have an acute low back pain issue, we can often see great pain relief in just one session.
- One of the best things you can do for posture is to exercise. Yoga, Pilates and other types of sport can build and strengthen core connection and flexibility. However, it’s important to know that you want to go for symmetry and length in the body as a target.
- If you are working seated most of the day, take a few moments every 1/2 hour or so and stand and stretch.
- While you sit, imagine doing so with a tall straight, but flexible spine. Imagine a sting pulling the top of your head up.
- Keep your feet on the floor when you sit.
- When you stand allow your shoulders to pull back but relaxed.
- Keep your knees soft.
- Tuck your lower anterior ribs in.
- Practice pelvic tilts.
- Lie on your back with knees up and explore your feet connection from the balls of your foot to the heel. Body awareness!
- When you sleep on your side, put a pillow between your legs.
- Sleeping on your side is better than sleeping on your belly for low back pain.
- Doing the Cat-Cow and Cobra Yoga exercise daily can be great for low back pain too!
- General Massage can help with muscle aches, tenderness or spasms. Also with stiffness and lack of mobility.
Low Back pain can be helped by becoming proactive in your life. However, if the pain is extreme-make sure you don’t ignore it.
Call your physician for an appointment:
The majority of herniated disc problems occur between L4 and L5. If you are feeling any tingling, numbness or weakness, this may be more than a soft tissue issue. While massage is usually still very helpful, you may want to contact your doctor and let him/her know that you are experiencing these symptoms.
Sharon Hartnett CST, SI, LMT
Columbus, Ohio 740 966-5153
by SharonHartnett | Aug 6, 2015 | craniosacral, Massage, Structural Integration
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
by SharonHartnett | Aug 5, 2015 | craniosacral, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
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.
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
Sharon Hartnett CST 740 966-5153
Now Serving the Columbus Ohio area!
by SharonHartnett | Aug 1, 2015 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Structural Integration
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:
- Structural Integration helps the whole body come into alignment. Myofascial relationships shift and work more efficiently with gravity.
- 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.
- The below tools have helped me too and give me a sense of self-empowerment to change.
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
by SharonHartnett | Jul 26, 2015 | Structural Integration, sports
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
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
by SharonHartnett | Jul 24, 2015 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
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 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
by SharonHartnett | Jul 11, 2015 | Energy Healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit
Reiki is probably the most well known Energy Healing method in the US.
The reason for this is that Reiki is fairly easy to get an attunement for each of the first two levels with a week-end class. No previous experience with energy healing is necessary. Over 1 million people in the USA have received this ability transferred from Master Reiki teacher to student, so that they use Reiki on themselves or others as a healing modality. Practitioners of Reiki often feel a deep sense of relaxation and healing. The work is subtle and nourishing.
While I personally enjoy Reiki Treatments, I have found that there are many other schools of energy therapy out there that are quite supportive to the healing process as well. After researching, I decided to attend the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. It is a 4 year college program based in Florida founded on the work of Dr. Barbara Brennan, author of the books, “Hands of Light” and “Light Emerging”. It was there that I studied and eventually taught this amazing transformational work. Because I could see the benefits of Energy Therapy as well as working a program to help the Awakening process, I then studied the advance course for an additional 4 years. I soaked all of it in so that I could share these techniques with others. Brennan Healing Science® is a comprehensive program that teaches students to become compassionate healers to serve others on their path. And now- I like to incorporate this healing modality into my Craniosacral Therapy and Structural Integration sessions. It is a gentle hands-on healing process that has helped thousands of people across the world.
Reiki Energy Healing
In addition to Reiki, Brennan Healing Science®, while I was living in Florida, my friend Joann Rahl, introduced me to the https://www.seraphimblueprint.com. At first I didn’t think that is would be much with all my other training. But I still went, and was pleasantly surprised. It felt wonderful to sit in and receive the energetic initiations. I felt new frequencies opened up that I have added to my healing work through intention.
While this has been my path in studying and implementing energy healing, there are many other schools that are second generation, and are very appropriate to healing what is going on now here on earth.
I will say, that my experience has shown me over and over that we are energy being, with human energy fields. When we can align our auric fields, we can find deeper balance and move through life more effortlessly.
If you have an interest in Energy Healing, please go out and investigate. There is something waiting to help you open up the door.
Blessings,
Sharon Hartnett LMT, SI, CST, Brennan Healing Science®
740 966-5153
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
by SharonHartnett | Jul 10, 2015 | Craniosacral Therapy, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
If you are still looking for chronic pain relief… you have probably already tried many conventional means to no avail.
How about giving yourself a new option with Cranosacral Therapy?
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) offers a gentle, yet effective method that releases tension deep in the body. Over time, CST’s effects can be expansive and life changing. By listening deeply to the body’s Central Nervous System’s physiological processes through subtle palpation, a CST therapist can find and treat misalignments, chronic pain areas, sore muscles and nerve pain conditions. Craniosacral Therapy has also been known to help with conditions like: Fibromyalgia, MS, migraines, sports injuries, neck and back pain, along with others acquired from trauma based accidents or experiences.
A good article from one of Upledger’s teacher for more information that I recommend in Massage Magazine is: https://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/article.php?id=13489
I have found that clients who only partially recovered with general massage have found longer lasting pain relief with CST. Just Recently, a new client after about 5 sessions excitedly told me that her body was feeling “great”. I know from her intake that this was a huge shift. The reason for this is that rather than focusing mostly on the muscles, the CST therapist is dialoguing with the internal wisdom of the brain, spinal cord, and surrounding tissues and cerebrospinal fluid. By doing this, the intelligence within can be expressed to promote health and wellbeing.
Pain Relief
The body returns to it inherent self-correcting healing abilities by being supported by healthier fluid dynamics, structural integration and optimal CNS functioning.
If you are looking for something that can help you relax and rest better or on the opposite spectrum create more energy and vitality, this might be your best alternative. Through its balancing effects, clients often walk away feeling refreshed, more grounded, and pain-free.
Sharon Hartnett CST, LMT, SI, Brennan Healing Science
(740) 966-5153
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
by SharonHartnett | Jul 7, 2015 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
You’re thinking, “I want a Massage in Columbus Ohio”.
But how do you find the best therapist for you?
Massage may feel like a luxury, but really it is much more than that.
Clients often feel healthier when they find better range of motion, more flexibility, balance and a greater sense of vitality.
If you are wondering who can deliver these type of results, then check google reviews. Google is a great tool to help you evaluate therapist through a review system.
Some of my clients have shared their experiences there so that you can get an idea of the work I do. Please check out my link at:
Lighten Up Therapies
In addition to being a licensed Massage Therapist for over 16 years, I also have an extensive background in Energy Healing (Reiki and Brennan Healing Science), Transformational Work, and Trauma Training.
I like to give my potential clients an opportunity to get to interview me over the phone. So I offer a special package to help you make the best selection. For $100.00, you get:
1. 15 minute telephone session for interviewing.
2. A 55 minute hands on Session, along with 15 minutes on your first appointment for 1:1 intake.
3. A follow-up 20 minute phone session, days later to discuss your healing plan.
At Lighten Up Therapies, our goal is to provide a professional and supportive environment for you to rediscover the path to health and wellness.
Sharon Hartnett LMT, CST, & SI
740 966-5153
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
by SharonHartnett | Jul 5, 2015 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Looking for: Massage Johnstown, Ohio?
Call: Sharon Hartnett LMT, SI, CST 740 966-5153
I have been living in Johnstown, Ohio for about two and a half years. In this time, I haven’t seen too many other massage therapists working nearby. So about a year ago, I decided to open my practice up to my community where I live. I am really enjoying connecting with my neighbors and being able to help out!
My background is in Deep Tissue Massage, Structural Integration Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Essential Oils, and working with people with trauma. Most of the clients that come to my office complain of chronic back pain, and neck pain, TMJ, Fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, and arthritis. I also like to work with athletes to help enhance their sports performance.
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At Lighten Up Therapies, my goal is to help you to relieve stress and pain, increase circulation and lymph flow, and to help you find better ease in rest and movement. It’s never too late to start taking care of yourself!
I also like to stay current with other integrative therapists nearby. My favorites at the moment are:
Dr. Matt Sutton Local Chiropractor
and
Dr. Doug Maxeiner New Albany Chiropractor
Both have very unique styles but are very professional and are successful with great results!
Sharon Hartnett LMT, SI, CST
Massage Johnstown Ohio
740 966-5153
www.upledger.com
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
