{"id":6544,"date":"2017-06-30T00:55:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogaandhealing.com.au\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:42:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:42:07","slug":"bodywork-therapies-it-doesnt-have-to-hurt-to-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaandhealing.com.au\/bodywork-therapies-it-doesnt-have-to-hurt-to-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodywork Therapies – It doesn\u2019t have to hurt to benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many of us subscribe to the philosophy of \u2018no pain – no gain\u2019 and apply it to various aspects of our lives?<\/p>\n

Yet when we truly practice yoga<\/a>, we learn to develop a relationship with our body, where we listen to what it is telling us and respond and move in a way that is deeply honouring. After all, yoga means union and how can we be in union if there is not a true respect for the body.<\/p>\n

This means no pushing, no hardness, no pain.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

With this, there is much to actually gain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pain is the body\u2019s feedback mechanism to say stop<\/strong> what you are doing. Our mind can often override this signal, but at what cost to the body? When pain is felt the body responds by causing the muscles to harden up around the injured site for protection to avoid further injury.<\/p>\n

So what happens when we actively go into a movement that stretches the body to an extent where there is pain? The connective tissue (or commonly known as fascia) also hardens up in order to protect the body.<\/p>\n

Connective Tissue <\/em>is a system of tissues that runs throughout all the muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, nerves, blood vessels and organ overlapping and enveloping soft tissue structures like cling film.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So if our aim is to loosen and open the body, to have more fluidity, then why would we induce pain and cause more tension? It just doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/h5>\n

So if we apply this in the true practice of yoga, then it only makes sense to apply this across the board with all bodywork therapies including massage.<\/p>\n

As a yoga teacher, connective tissue therapist and massage therapist, I have come to understand that the best way of releasing tension in the body is through the quality of connection – not force. A stronger stretch in yoga or a harder stroke in massage may offer temporary relief, but does it solve the underlying problem in the long term? I would beg to differ.<\/p>\n

For long term healing, the approach that I take as a bodywork therapist is to respect and respond to the connective tissue by working with the body in a connected and gentle way.<\/h5>\n

As an example, in massage,<\/a> rather than forcefully working into a trigger point (a point of tension held in the muscle) to access the deep tissue and muscles, the body requires lots of repetitive strokes to first of all warm up the outer layer of muscles allowing access to the next and deeper level of muscles (hence the name deep tissue).<\/p>\n

If you try to access the deeper muscles via force and without truly understanding the role of the connective tissue in the body, the outer muscles harden and go into protection going against what we are trying to achieve, which is to relax the muscles. Once the outer muscles have been warmed up, then we can access the deeper tissue in a gentle manner, with no force and without inflicting pain.<\/p>\n

With the modality of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy<\/a> we work with gentle hands-on healing techniques performed with slow rhythmic motion on various parts of the body. The therapy works directly with both the physical structures of the body (muscles, joints etc) and the energy that flows through the connective tissue system and in turn releases tension and tightness in the muscles.<\/p>\n

By listening to the body and treating it with absolute care and gentleness it leads the body towards it own natural state of healing with no pain inflicted.<\/h5>\n

Donna Nolan offers\u00a0Remedial Massage<\/a>, Esoteric Massage<\/a>, Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy<\/a>, Esoteric Healing<\/a> and Chakra Puncture.\u00a0For bookings please call Donna 0408 7838187 or email donna@yogaandhealing.com.au<\/p>\n

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