Massage and Self-Healing method
Massage and Self-Healing method “In the Self-Healing method, massage is used as a very important adjunct to movement therapy. Self-Healing bodywork is also a healing tool in its own right. The techniques we use are designed to: relax muscle spasms, so that the softened muscle fibers become more capable of free movement; ease the sense of constraint and tension in the body, which may be just as limiting to movement as actual tight muscles; increase circulation, by relaxing muscles so that blood can flow into areas that have hitherto been deprived of their full blood supply, and by promoting regulation of blood formation; reactivate nerves; strengthen weak muscles by improving circulation and nerve response; promote deeper respiration - an automatic result of relaxation; activate the parasympathetic, or relaxing, mechanism of the nervous system through touch and relaxation and by improving respiration; lubricate and m