Tuesday is magic skeleton day! You can do anything!
Did you even know that your bones are 31 percent water?
My Biodynamic Meditation this morning had a lot of Tide moving in my central energy channel.
The swirliness settled in the lower part of my sacrum and then in my sphenoid.
The sphenoid is a mostly hidden bone that many are unaware of.
Continue readingThis morning I woke with a twinge in my sacrum. It’s the area affected by multiple old injuries.
I did some movement that helped.
After I started my Biodynamic Meditation session, I sensed a couple of sweeps of the Tide, and then it settled into a sacral stillpoint.
I’m not sure exactly when that stillpoint became swirliness, because the swirliness only made small swirls with lots of pauses in the tissues on the back of my sacrum for the rest of my 30-minute session.
Old injuries are often complex. They can affect muscles, fascia, ligaments, tendons, nerves, blood flow, bones, etc.
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, my advanced program class at Lauterstein-Conway Massage School did our final exam for the orthopedic massage training. We were assigned a partner in the class, and our job was to interview them, observe, palpate, check range-of-motion, and do special tests if needed to identify the tissues involved.
Then we treated them, and they did the same for us.
My partner, James, did a great job of reassessing my pelvic alignment, first done back on June 22 by our teacher, Jan Hutchinson, PT/LMT. I’ve been wearing a sacroiliac belt around my hips much of the time since then. My hips feel tighter, and my walk has changed for the better. I rarely feel much discomfort at the left SI joint any more.
But I’m still not there. I still had a slight lateral tilt, an anterior tilt, with the left innominate having more of an anterior tilt than the right, and the pubis was also tilted. James watched me walk and could see that it affects my gait.
James applied what we’ve learned in the class. Since the bones are supported by the muscles, we learned techniques to length and shorten muscles to move bones into better alignment.
By the end of his treatment, he retested me. Everything was aligned. No tilts! Good job, James! Continue reading
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