Bodywork and Yoga
 
 
What is Energetic Bodywork? It is quiet, soothing bodywork, designed to bring a sense of peace to your nervous system as well as your physical body. It is focused listening to the stories that your body wants to tell. It deals with the quantity and quality of one’s individual energy. Energy is the movement of life force. Energy moves and when there is energy/movement, there is life. Without motion there is no life. Energy is subtle, non-visible, non-tangible for the most part. We recognize abundant or diminished energy in people around us. Feel the energy and feel Life. We need movement in our bodies to be healthy. During a session, your body directs the way. As the therapist, I follow your lead in a dance of energy. Because the healing starts with the client, I usually offer some suggestions that could bring about change within the body. These might include some yoga postures, dietary changes, breathing exercises or suggesting a different approach for the client other than energy work. What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy? Biodynamic craniosacral therapy is a fluid and energy based modality. It has returned to the origins of craniosacral therapy that was originally developed by the early osteopaths. It is not a mechanical form that lifts and turns cranial bones. Rather one listens to the inherent movements within the body below the beating of the heart and the breathing of the lungs. Craniosacral therapy is a very gentle hands-on modality that assists one’s body in re-organizing into a more efficient way of being in life. As we release old tensions, held patterns or trauma that manifest as chronic tight shoulders or TMJ or indigestion, we free up energy for use in our present life and a greater sense of relaxation follows. The client is clothed and lays on the massage table. As a therapist I listen with my hands, heart and being, rather than thinking about what is being felt. I can start at the feet, the sacrum, the head or an arm or leg. I sense the rhythms of the fluids in the bones, tissues and the cerebral spinal fluid surrounding the central nervous system. As fluid beings, we have a Primary Respiration that moves through all the tissues, bones and organs. It creates a tide like movement that can be palpated. It is the energy of the health that cannot be lost. ” Motion is not life, but motion expresses life.” My job is to help you access your health through palpation and focused listening. Craniosacral therapy has been used for a variety of health conditions including, temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ), learning disabilities, whiplash, insomnia, allergies and I especially enjoy working with pregnant women up to the birth and then with mother and child after the birth. The sacral work is especially benificial towards the end of pregnancy and the cranial work is especially effective for both mother and child. A few weeks after the birth, I do cranial work on the mother who has her newborn in her arms. Both infant and mother receive the benefits of the work. Often the parents tell me that the newborns will sleep a much longer time after a session. I started my Craniosacral studies while at the NM Academy for Healing Arts during my Polarity training. I entered my Biodynamic craniosacral studies with Roger Gilchrist at the Wellness Institute in 1998, graduating in 2001, becoming a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in 2005. Since the completion of my studies at the Wellness Institute, I have served as a Teaching Assistant with Roger in two complete training programs that spanned six years. What is Polarity Therapy? Polarity is a hands-on energetic modality that uses non-invasive bodywork to palpate stuck energy in the body. Additionally, Polarity uses diet, Polarity yoga and addresses thought patterns to alter habits and create new pathways within the mind, body and spirit. When the energy is blocked or not flowing smoothly, the client will experience pain and discomfort – the reason why they seek help. The body has an inherent sense of wellness. It is always trying to self- correct, sometimes it just needs an assist. The intent of Polarity is to bring about a balanced distribution of the body’s energies. As a Polarity therapist, I work with the energy and fluids in the body via touch and movement. I am listening for the movement of energy within the body. It may be experienced by the client or therapist as heat, coolness, prickly sensations, a sense of fluids moving beneath the skin or simply a sense of profound relaxation. I might include stretching, rocking, pressing firmly into a muscle or tissue during a session. Polarity therapy has been used to help relieve diverse conditions leading to tension, insomnia, indigestion, sciatica and muscle spasms. I have used it with diabetic clients who felt that their sugar levels stabilized for a longer period of time after a session. I began my Polarity studies with Joseph Lancaster and completed my RPP program at the New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts. As recently as January 2009, I became certified as a Registered Polarity Educator. What is Yoga for Everyone? Yoga taught with the principles of energy work incorporated into alignment and movement. I have been studying yoga for more than 40 years and began teaching yoga in the mid 70’s. I bring the principles of Craniosacral and Polarity therapy to yoga along with a very conscious awareness of the body’s potential to grow, change and heal. Every student is encouraged to seek their own level of excellence in their own time frame. I also bring a history of injuries that makes me a better, more understanding teacher. When we allow our bodies to stagnate, we begin to lose mobility. As with the Craniosacral and Polarity therapies, movement is how energy manifests itself in a sense of wellbeing after a class or practice. Yoga for Everyone seeks to encourage people of all abilities to bring more movement and strength into their bodies. I encourage students to find their edge of resistance and gently work at that level. Yoga is not about competition. Yoga is about being present to one’s body in the moment. What does it want today? What is it capable of doing today, right now? I completed my Teacher Training with Charles and Lisa Matkin of Matkin Yoga in 2005 and am a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. I began a 300 hour teacher training with the Matkin’s in the fall of 2008.This will lead to an additional certification in Yoga Therapy. Women’s Wellness / Breast Health This is normally a 3 hour presentation dealing with things we as women can do for optimal breast health. Topics covered include: things that are harmful to us; what we can do to neutralize the negative impacts from toxins; breast self massage to establish our own baseline; dry skin brushing or lymph massage; yoga and tai chi exercises to move lymph thru the breast area; foods that help protect us with samples and recipes. This can be modified, either shorter or longer, to meet a groups needs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephanie Rogers, RPP, RPE, RYT, RCST Mobile: +1 970 618-6899 Santa Fe Tel: +1 505 820-2020 New York Tel: +1 631 583-7802 stephsbodyworks@mac.com www.stephsbodyworks.com mailto:stephsbodyworks@mac.comhttp://www.stephsbodyworks.comshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1