Moving Into Harmony

MOVEMENT & BREATH: HEALTH - FITNESS - WELLNESS

Medicine of Movement – Revolutionary ways to Harness your Health!

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“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional” – Buddhist proverb

I always remind myself of this powerful statement in my own life, and in the ways I can contribute to helping you reduce your own suffering. The oath of the healing arts practitioner – “first do no harm.”

Movements that ignites the health of the body invite the individual to journey just beyond themselves; to investigate the right kind of challenge in forgotten, or uncharted, territory that moves them toward their goals and draws their attention to what’s needed along the way. Movements that promote subtler aspects of vitality and power are key to sustaining the true health of the body. This is not about what you think in regards to fitness – going to the gym, or an exercise class, going for a run; rather it is about the dynamics within all movements you develop access through feeling, and skill to use according to the seasonalities of your body and life.

Moving Into Harmony offers you the opportunity to go to a place of not yet understood layers of support and collaborative activities in your body-mind ecosystem and we invite you, the attentive explorer, to step into a territory that: 

  • ignites discovery – opening doorways to natural unbound potential, 
  • inspires vivid integration of newly found freedoms and vitality,
  • animates achievements – the fruits of your efforts that are carried through life, and
  • emboldens your capacity to age gracefully.

*Note: Telehealth Discovery Sessions are available as free inquiry into the nature of what limits you. These are offered to help you decide your best path may be for your journey of health.

Over time, with your consistent playfulness and attentiveness to movements that promote and circulate health, you will not only feel the freedom from suffering and the limitations in your life, but you will also harness the capacities**: 

  • Develop strength from an internal layer of stability (not your muscles). 
  • Promote fluidity as the essence of flexibility. 
  • Connect and interactwith the subtle, natural phenomena within you, which signals and guides how you move in your life. 
  • Freely move your whole body in coordinated ways from a spacious balance-point. 
  • Gain agility and responsiveness, and experience your own sense of athletic accomplishment. 
  • Compassionately adhere and endure what life brings you.

This is why Moving Into Harmony emphasizes that Movement as Medicine is essential to harnessing your health. In my 26 years as a practitioner, I’ve come to understand and respect that one’s individual journey on the path of healing is based on the whole person – their body-mind ecosystem and it is this honorable opportunity that I gratefully serve. It provides me the lens to assist you with the best possible solutions.

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**Please join me in my series, Movement as Medicine where I expand on the concepts shared in this introduction.  

**Exciting news: This article was featured in a collaborative of health professionals – GoTherex. You can visit this post and find out more about GoTherex here.

“I don’t believe Physical Therapy can help me” – pt. 1

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Disbeliefs are despairing.

Disbelief is what will stymie you from pursuing your goals to live at your highest level.
To do what you want to do.
To Live beyond your perceived limitations that pain is controlling.

And because you have gone to a Physical Therapist for the challenge you are having.
You are doing all the “right” things.
Doing your exercises and stretches with commitment and perseverance.

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And yet the challenge is still limiting you from doing what you want to do!

So you resolve to the disbelief that another Physical Therapist can’t help you.
You believe a consult at Moving Into Harmony won’t do any good.

DANG!!!

I’m here to share stories that can shift that disbelief to hope.
Hope to possibilities!
Possibilities to Advancement!
Advancement to Living with Higher Levels of Performance for the things you WANT to do!
Greater Confidence
Greater Options for Health & Wellness.

WAY BEYOND just trying to be PAIN FREE!

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I hope this story helps you pursue your desire to discover to be BETTER & GREATER!

60’s year young with ongoing sciatica pain. Been to Physical Therapy for 6 visits. Some change in her sciatica, but never went away fully. Stopped going because insurance said she had to do home exercise. Very committed to getting better with what she was shown. Doing her home exercise program daily (sometimes twice a day) the PT gave her – core strengthening and stretches for the hip and low back. Sciatica was not getting better, in fact was getting worse, now down around her ankle.

Unable to go to exercise class, that she enjoys.
Unable to sleep, which she needs.
Quality of life is less – not what she wants.

Do you see the decrease in her enjoyment, needs, and wants?

And she was doing what she was shown, but was unable to seek help because her health insurance did not see the benefit of further care, and the PT was not able to do anything else to support her.

Sound familiar? Sound like a recipe for disbelief and despair?

Well, she followed her doctor’s great advice. “Just go see Shawn. He is magic! He can help get you back on track with probably 1 visit, for sure with 2. Just go!” This was enough of a nudge to get her to call me.

First visit – great interview and great story telling by her.

Her story is important and relevant to her – what it feels like, what helps, what doesn’t help, what she wants me to help her with, and what will be a measure of success for her.

Her story is important for me to listen to.

With LISTENING I can start putting pieces together that may not be relevant to her.
A few questions as INQUIRY. And I can now observe how and possibly why she is struggling.

AND most importantly what is available to her that she can work with to help moving the direction of her struggle back toward healing. AND toward her enjoyments, and begin participating in the activities in her life that are important to her. That bring her joy. That serve her wants, and her needs.

Movement is Medicine.

So I watch her stand, transitions (standing from the chair, sitting back down), sitting, AND most importantly with the movements she was doing trying to help herself, and a few things she wanted to be able to do, especially in the class that brings her enjoyment.

What did WE discover?

It was not in her hips and low back.
Yes the symptoms arose from there.

AND there was something very important about how she was presenting in ALL of her standing, sitting, transitions (standing from the chair, sitting back down), and a few of her exercises that a BIG RELATED piece was not being addressed.

Any guesses?

It was the realization she has a strong tendency to hold in her shoulders and neck. Who’d thought?

Well….that is how I view and relate the body.

The isolated focus on the symptomatic area was not serving her healing potential and possibilities for healing and moving toward living with LEVELS of GREATNESS.

OMG!
Her sciatica decreased, to soreness in the hip, as we were together within the hour.
She was able to perform some of her routine without increasing the pain….meaning going down her leg.

And as we continued the following 20-30 minutes, she was in complete awe of how many times she had caught herself holding in her shoulder and neck.

BTW, in her follow up visit (2nd visit), one week later, she reported NO-SCIATICA, a little back stiffness and occasional ache. With simple modifications to HOW she was doing her exercises and stretches, adding a few simple routine movements and awareness exercises in her day, shifting her attention and re-directing her worry and disbelief toward what is possible, because she experienced something better, and increased her perception for what is possible.
AND …….

On her 3rd visit she was back to her exercise class, freer and more engaged as she says because she was not in pain, or worried about the pain….
she stayed after class for socializing (before she rushed home to ice her hip),
she is sleeping 7 hours pain free,
waking up more refreshed and energized that she had for a year,
AND she is exploring more opportunities to further her progress and ways to enhance her abilities and performing in the activities she can and wants to.

HUGE!!!! 3 visits, profound awareness, excitement and enjoyment with life,
PAIN is not the limitation,
CONFIDENCE is what she can do, and
EXCITEMENT  for the possibilities she can

DO THINGS with GREATNESS!

Give me a try, and explore what Moving Into Harmony can do for you!
Mention you read this article, or the word BELIEVE,
and receive a SPECIAL DISCOUNT on your first visit.

Soar to your highest potential!

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A note about sciatica – it gets worse, meaning it goes down the leg further when the nerve is more irritated; less irritated or inflamed the less in the leg AND the more in the buttock or low back…..please be aware EVERYONE who recovers from sciatica will experience LOW BACK PAIN as you are healing, because that is the source of the symptom). Lessening symptoms is not enough to promote GREATER LEVELS of PERFORMANCE. Do not be content with that as your outcome. GO FURTHER. Pain free is good. AND there is more available to you BEYOND PAIN! Movement that promotes greater power, greater balance and coordination, greater agility and performance with activities that bring you joy and excitement for life, that bring you ALIVE without the worry when it will come back. If it does you use the signal instead of going into flight or freeze – stop what you are doing…..protect….brace….drop hope and take on fear or disbelief…..and wait for it to go away. NO! you respond differently to the signal and see how the body trying to talk to you brings you back to awareness. The patterns you developed and relied upon for some reason are stronger than the new ones you are developing. So the body is just signaling, getting your attention to continue to develop and move toward balance (Harmony) and greater possibilities rather than going backward in the direction of something that your body recognizes does not serve you. Practice makes perception. Greater options. Greater possibilities for Greater Performance and Living to your Highest Level you want!

Give me a try, and explore what Moving Into Harmony can do for you! Mention you read this article, or the word BELIEVE, and receive a special discount on your first visit.