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Stillpoint Therapeutic Massage (STM) spans a wide variety of
therapeutic manual approaches to improve health and well being through
hands-on manipulation of muscles and soft tissue structures to prevent and
alleviate pain, muscle spasms, stress and injury, including childhood
neuromuscular disorders. This bodywork improves the functioning of the
circulatory, lymphatic and nervous systems and assists the body’s recovery
rate from injury and stress.
The School of Integrated
Movement Studies (SIMS) connects and supports individuals and
organizations, transforming Body Intelligence into wellbeing and effective
action. Body Intelligence embraces the concept of innate wisdom of
body experience acquired throughout our lives. Our physical bodies change
in response to experience. This experience is influenced by the structure
and function of our bodies. With this integrative perspective we explore
how sensations, feelings and actions are embodied, how they are discovered
in our expression of physicality, posture and movement. Awareness of body
wisdom enhances and empowers us by assisting with dynamic balance and
integrated body function affecting ease, presence, creativity and
cognition. This in turn influences positive change in quality of life.
Core-based movement and strengthening series is designed to develop
flexibility, improve endurance and increase range of motion. Breath-work,
grounding studies, awareness practice, self massage and stretching
sequences create a balance to the movement and strengthening series.
Emphasis on gravitational and energetic centering and alignment enhances
awareness of the body in stillness and motion. Improvements will be
noticed in the effectiveness of movement, balance of form, flow of energy
and the development of innate physical strength and stamina. Ultimately
these improvements benefit and enhance the endocrine, circulatory,
visceral, nervous and structural systems.
STM-SIMS
brings together the philosophy and training of 40 years in dance and
healing practice by offering movement for health and manual therapy for
healing and rejuvenation.
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Develop, increase,
maintain flexibility and range of motion
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Improve strength and
endurance
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Improve alignment,
posture, balance
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Learn essential
breathing techniques, increase lung capacity
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Increase
cardiovascular health
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Improve back, hip,
shoulder and knee pain
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Learn self-massage
and self-healing techniques
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Increase vitality,
fortify the innate constitution
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Increase bone
density
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Especially effective
physical training for normalizing the metabolic changes of Childbirth,
Peri-Menopause and Menopause
 By
touching a body, we touch every event it has experienced. For a few
brief moments we hold all of a client's stories in our hands. We
witness someone's experience of their own flesh, through some of the
most powerful means possible: the contact of our hands, the
acceptance of the body without judgment, and the occasional
listening ear. With these gestures we reach across the isolation of
the human experience and hold another person's legend. In massage
therapy, we show up and ask, in so many ways, what it is like to be
another human being. In doing so, we build a bridge that may heal us
both. --Tracy Walton, "The Health History of a Human Being,"
Massage Therapy Journal, Winter 1999.
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