Intuitive healing is the practice of tapping into the body's own knowing and using the guidance from the body's feedback to heal. This is a practice of deep listening to the body. We, humans, are all healers. Our body's are built with the amazing capacity to regenerate cells. These cells can be in our brain or in our muscles and/organs, bones, every part of us can and does regenerate. After a large amputation like a mastectomy, my body spoke louder to me than it ever had before. By using meditation and mindfulness I was able to quiet my mind, which loves to problem solve but not always the current problems, and really listen to the information the body was providing. I noted that by flexing my ankle or my neck I would feel changes across my chest. The changes felt welcome, and informed next steps of healing which could be a rotation of the wrist or a depression of the pelvis, multiple joints away from my incisions.
Everyday, usually twice a day, I would lay down, listen to a sound bath meditation and tune into the body. I would move and send my breath to my tight spots and linger there. My body healing was during the fall season, I spent countless hours on my back deck breathing life into my body. After about 6 weeks I found myself in a resortative yoga class and realized that by getting into positions and holding/sinking into poses was deeply helpful for other body's as well.
As a physical therapist, my education of fascia, tissue healing and movement allowed me to trust my own knowing. I had been healing myself for years with cross friction massage to painful joints, corrective exercises to address assymetries, and stretching to improve tightness in my body, but after my amputation, the knowing was too loud to ignore and I knew I wanted to bring it to others. My dream is to empower my clients and anyone who will listen to tune into their own knowing and move their body to promote its full healing. Not just those after mastectomy but everyone with pain or discomfort in their body.
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