Benefits of Muscle Relaxation

Our body's response to stress is to hold tension in our muscles.  Anxiety and other similar conditions can leave us feeling so tense that we become unable to recognize what it feels like to be relaxed.

Guided muscle relaxation (GMR) retrains our muscles and our brain to recognize tension and purposefully release it.

I've developed a unique therapy approach integrating GMR with a blend of:

 Therapeutic Self Soothing Touch - promotes relaxation, boost self-healing abilities physically, mentally, emotionally and gives a boost in the production of serotonin in your brain.  

Diaphragmic Breathing - (also called deep breathing) is a practice that enables more air flow into your body while eliminating toxins from your lungs and helps calm your nerves, reducing stress and anxiety.  

 Lymph Stimulation - a touch therapy that is added to your GMR session to promote overall bodily function and prepare your system for other physical therapies such as those performed by a Lymphatic Enhancement Therapist.

When combined together the body is grounded, soothed and regulated during your workshop session. The thinking brain works better.  The effects of depression, anxiety and stress are relieved.  Blood pressure and fatigue are lowered, and it improves muscle function and increases the overall feeling of well-being.

My style of therapy is structured - each workshop is set up similarly, yet flexible.   All workshop sessions start with a grounding exercise followed by a unique blend of relaxing therapy.   This type of therapy is meant to be learned through a repeated, guided routine until you are knowledgeable and comfortable performing the exercise on your own.  However, many enjoy the group sessions and do better staying on a guided routine.  

 All workshop sessions are on Zoom meetings so that you can join from anywhere in the world.   When choosing a session, keep in mind my time zone is PST (Tacoma, WA) so you'll need to convert to your time zone.

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