Energy Bodywork

Energy massages fall into two categories:

• Polarity Therapy
• Reiki

Polarity Therapy

TThis energy bodywork is very powerful and is awesome in easing many types of muscle tension and removing energy blockages to restore balance to the body.

Our bodies have electrical charges in and surrounding it making the entire body an energy field. We know this to be true through measurements of science with EEG and EKGs. Any electrical field will have a bio-magnetic field that surrounds it, and therefore surrounding us.

Polarity works with the positive and negative charged areas to clear blockages or stuck energy and to balance the energy centers or Chakras.

Dr. Randolph Stone, who earned doctorates in Chiropractic, Naturopathy, and Osteopathy, developed Polarity therapy in 1954. He also studied acupuncture, yoga, meditation, natural cures, reflexology and cranial osteopathy. It was not until 1971 that the American public was ready for his knowledge. One of the strongest influences on his emerging energy work was his study of Ayurvedic Medicine and Yoga while in India.

Life Energy: This concept is ancient and cross cultural around the world. Indian yogis call it "prana", the Chinese "chi" and the Japanese "ki." Polarity works to balance this life energy.

Modern physics organizes subatomic particles according to their negative, neutral and positives electrical charges. The earth has a North and a South Pole and the human body organizes its energy field in a similar way.

Specifically:

• The top of the head is Positive, the sole of feet Negative.
• The right side is Positive, the left side Negative.
• The back of the body is Positive, The front Negative.

In Polarity, when using hands-on techniques, we keep in mind the effect of our touch might be having at the associated reflex point. For example, if a client is having low back pain, we know that the neck is the back's positive reflex pole and so by working the neck we can improve the lower-back.

Taking this idea one step further we arrive at a classic Polarity contact. By placing one hand on the lower-back and the other at the neck, we can induce an increase in energy flow between the two. By balancing this energy and the influence it has on the body has a much greater effect than working each area independently because we are working on several levels or points of the body simultaneously.

Polarity Therapy blends three styles of touch during the session depending on the needs of the client. Most of these treatments can be done over clothes or they can be worked into a massage session.

• Light Pressure: Sattvic - Gentle, calming. Balances energy
• Moderate Pressure: Rajasic - Stimulates energy flow. Directs it form one area to another.
• Deep Pressure: Tamasic - Breaks up energy blocks, disperses energy.

The goal of Polarity Therapy is to enhance health by balancing Life Energy. Polarity takes a Holistic approach in its method. One of the principles of taking a holistic approach is that each aspect of a system affects the whole. In the human being it is impossible to isolate a part of the human system (body, mind, behavior) and change it without affecting the whole. Polarity uses this principle by working with several aspects of the human system at once. We use contacts or manipulations, diet, exercise and attitude. The more levels of the system we affect, the more lasting the result.

This makes Polarity Therapy a powerful agent for human change.

Reiki

Reiki healing is a hands-on energy healing art and is done over the clothes in most sessions and will leave you with a sense of calm peacefulness and energetically balanced. Reiki originated in Japan in the early 20th century by Mikao Usui. He had a life-changing experience of light and energy that he recognized as Reiki or "sacred life force" energy. This event awakened his innate healing abilities. He then developed a system of practices that enabled others to become effective healers and is passed down through a linage of master teachers.

In a basic Reiki healing session, the practitioner will access and serve as a channel for the life force energy (ki or chi), by placing their hands on or just above your body to activate the healing within receptive points on the body. The touch is passive and will progress through 12 points or holds on the body, remaining in each position for 3 to 5 minutes. At the end you will feel very relaxed and calm, yet full of energy.

As with any energy work Reiki lends its self perfectly to be blended into any massage session. This work is highly intuitive and can evolve in the session. As the harmonic flow of energy is strengthened, the healing occurs through the return of physical, mental and spiritual balance.

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