by SharonHartnett | Jan 29, 2014 | Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit
At Lighten Up Therapies in Columbus Ohio…
Wellness through Craniosacral Therapy is our goal.
Often clients are faced with challenges that take them off track for some reason. It could be unrelenting chronic or acute physical pain, feelings of anxiety, anger and rage that have no place to be expressed, or a sense of disconnect from the rest of life. Whatever your problem is, if you are having a hard time resolving it alone, you have come to the right place to start your journey to Wellness. We work holistically within our practice, and with other therapists and doctors as a team. We are here to help you move toward your goals of health.
How does Craniosacral Therapy Work for You?
Craniosacral Therapy is a system that requires an experienced practitioner to listen to the healing intelligence of your body, and energy field to support your health. By bringing our technical and palpation skills to your session, your body can begin to self-correct and release old dysfunctional patterns. This is accomplished by gently following your body tissues and moving along with your natural CS rhythms to enliven and hydrate the tissues and nervous system. As new information is introduced, a dialoguing process activates more efficient body functionality overall. When the mind of the body gets re-educated, the brain changes too.
At the end of a session, clients often get up off the table feeling relaxing changes working throughout their bodies and thinking. When people talk about the mind, body & spirit connection, it means that by sensing change on any of the physical, emotional, or other aspects of life, one spectrum can support healing onto the other. As bodyworkers, often our intention is to awaken your sense of Source through skilled touch. As indicated by the title of this blog, “Wellness is a connection of paths: knowledge and action.” One system connecting with another opens the possibilities to shift into a more whole way of living.
Wellness
At Lighten Up Therapies we offer an array of different modalities to help you on your journey to Wholeness. Our hope is to help you awaken to your Source. It is in the richness of the inner experience that healing can be activated.
For more questions on Craniosacral Therapy in Columbus, Ohio, please call Sharon Hartnett LMT at:
740 966-5153
by SharonHartnett | May 4, 2013 | Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
The Holistic Massage Approach…
When I work with clients, I don’t like to focus on only one muscle to relieve pain. I prefer to look at the person as a whole being. As with the tree below, if the leaves don’t look healthy, one has to look to the soil, the environment, or any cause that might contribute to disease or impairment. For the tree’s health, one must examine the trunk and the branches as well to determine how best to treat the whole organism. Similarly with the human body, when groups of muscles are sore, weak or in pain, that is a signal that a whole body approach to healing is needed for longterm health. The pain may be relieved after a session, but would most likely show up again without a holistic understanding and treatment of the dysfunction.
Listening to the body and following its cues is very helping in resolving many health issues. The body’s wisdom is constantly revealing what needs to happen in order to heal most efficiently. If followed and treated with skill, many pain conditions can improve dramatically. When you are looking for real pain relief, allow yourself at least a few sessions to correct misalignment and imbalances that have been contributed to a pain pattern. It takes time to disorganize and create habitual disorder and it takes time to self-correct.
- Massage in Columbus
Working with Structural Integration and Craniosacral Therapy, the therapist is trained to work closely with the signals that communicate what kind of massage therapy is best suited to enhance functional integrity. At Lighten Up Therapies, we want you to feel more alive and active in your life. We trust that your your body is an intelligent aspect of you that has much to offer through dialogue in bringing you into wellbeing.
Sharon Hartnett LMT
by SharonHartnett | Mar 4, 2013 | Massage
Pediatric Massage: Working with Children
A Craniosacral Perspective towards working with Children~
One thing that I read from Dr. Valeria Hunt, Ph.D’s, foreword, to “Cell Talk” by Dr. John Upledger, D.O., has stuck in my mind because of its wisdom and love for children. As she and Dr. John often enjoyed mutual conversations about consciousness and awareness, they similarly challenged old paradigms, and opened up conversations into the vastness of all probabilities. One can see how they appreciated enjoyed working with children as she describes her thoughts as such, “I would love to see John’s concepts of inner awareness developed and taught to children before their consciousness has become concretized by material problems. The complete healthy human being will be in a conversation with the hidden information of his consciousness placed there primarily by the experiences in this life and other lifehoods with only “tendency matrices” for the genes.” In my opinion this is a fabulously intelligent way to work with children because the earlier they are released from negative thinking and experiencing harmful patterns, the matrix of life that appears before them will be exponentially more navigable, unfettered and living in the emptiness of Now. Presence and listening allows the dualistic story to unfold. When this energy is released from the energy system of the child, new pathways emerge, leaving behind the imbalances and disturbances that could have stimulated dysfunction or disease. Dr. John Upledger brought his teachings of open dialoguing and imagination to a science based Craniosacral therapy that is able to break down the barriers of limited thinking by standing freely in the Universe of All Things.
Pediatric Massage
As a Certified Advanced Craniosacral Therapist, I have found a deliciousness in the melding of Science and Making oneself open to the Unknown. While I mostly begin early sessions with the basic Protocol formulated by Dr. John, I have discovered that it is indeed possible to use the Craniosacral Rhythm and its intelligence to investigate and explore the consciousness Within. With children, there is a simple curiosity that accompanies a Craniosacral Session that opens doors to health and expansion and absolutely discards the disease process. Children are like open rosebuds, waiting for life to nurture them and direct them in the material world. They are often not as attached to the way things turn out as much as they are to what is naturally occurring within the moment. This can easily be palpated in the tissues. The slightest of touch and intention can quickly release a minor blip or a chaotic pattern. While listening to a child’s system, a seasoned Craniosacral Therapist can ask the rhythm to turn “off” is something significant is occurring, or to stay on when things are moving along nicely. Because the Craniosacral system is so interlaced with the functioning of the nervous system, it is easy to understand that this from of dialogue can create positive longlasting changes that will promote health and wellbeing.
So how does this work? I’ll give some examples of case studies where I have worked with children. Once I was working with a child whose mother had been left as a child. She did not have an inner resource for mothering. After quite a bit of hand-on craniosacral therapy work with the baby, the child was making better eye contact, engaging more with sound, relating better in an overall sense. Meanwhile, the mother had some sessions too which brought her more inward and better grounded in places where she did not engage in her youth. Both the mother and baby could approach their relationship in a more trusting and sensitive way. Another child that I held recently was born to a mother who was addicted to drugs. As I held the baby, I could feel the places along her spine where there was restriction. I gentle used my intention to lengthen the dural tube between the occiput and sacrum and she cooed and smiled as restrictions were released. I could easily feel a deeper and stronger connection along her spine. With more movement and connection, that little girl will no longer need to organize her tissues around adhesions or shortening in the segments that were not in their full operation mode. I have also worked with older children with disabilities. I have seen them do better in school after the temporal bones sutures were released and the falx tentorium was freed up.
Children are at their best when their bodies are awakening to the interconnections within. Freeing up the structure and listening to the fluidity and supporting that movement through dialogues and listening can bring tremendous relief to children with challenges, illnesses, and stress. Dr. John Upledger brought the gift of an open mind and an intent to dance with joy in the body’s Craniosacral system. It is with pleasure that I take this model of healing and employ it in my day to day work with clients. Following the intelligence of your body’s systems and being in service to the movement towards health is my honor.
For more information on Pediatric Craniosacral Therapy, please call:
Sharon Hartnett LMT Cell: 740 966-5153
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
by SharonHartnett | Mar 4, 2013 | Aromatherapy, Massage
Aromatherapy in Columbus
Peppermint in its Essential oil form has many medicinal properties along with its great flavor. When used during an aromatherapy massage, the peppermint oil can be both energizing and soothing. It is an excellent digestive, acts as an anti-inflammatory, aids in respiration and circulation. When applied with a base oil, at first the sensation may be close to that of the candy, with a crisp awakening touch. However, as the oils are absorbed, circulation increases and a general sense of overall warmth takes its place. This makes peppermint a good oil to use for headaches, toothaches, fatigue and bad breath. It’s also a wonderful scent that brings about a lively alertness to life.
Benefits of Peppermint
When going in for a massage or Craniosacral Therapy Session, ask for a few drops of Peppermint to freshen up your mood and day!
Sharon Hartnett LMT
Business Cell Phone Number: (740) 966-5153
Link for Aromatherapy
Favorite Peppermint Essential Oil that I found is at: www.youngliving.com
by SharonHartnett | Jan 25, 2013 | Craniosacral Therapy
Massage for your Babies and Children
Craniosacral Therapy is so gentle that it is the perfect type of Massage Therapy for young ones.
If you are interested and would like more information, call Sharon Hartnett at (703)509-1792
Calming down little bodies:)
Craniosacral Therapy is helpful for baby and children, especially in balancing the nervous system, helping to improve issues with learning disabilities and in finding deeper sensory integration.
