Bodies are designed to heal and to heal your body you will also be healing your soul.

This is where you come to reduce injury, prepare for & recover from childbirth, balance your gut microbiome, and gain the tools for self recovery body, mind, and spirit to lead a healthy life.

Buzz words & terms here are fascia, gut health, trauma recovery, structural integration, Dr. Ida P. Rolf, pregnancy, postpartum, birth, informed consent, and so forth, so you can accomplish your divine mission.

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integrative healing

Definition -

Integrative Healing is a personalized approach to restore the body, mind, and spirit to
homeostasis by combining principles of

Structural Integration,
fascial release,
nutrition,
neuromuscular programming,
energy flow balancing utilizing manual techniques,
- breath and movement coaching,
- energy work, and
- center/grounding exercises.

Benefit -

The body, mind, and spirit are intricately connected. Physical ailments can be a result of an injury or possibly a toxic belief that manifests in the physical body as pain, misalignment, or disease.

When we connect and align these three components you are able to have better quality of life and activity performance. Improved posture typically improves confidence and health, mental capacities, and finding greater meaning and purpose in life. Balancing kinesiological function will improve how energy flows through your body, which conversely goes hand in had with acknowledging beliefs that contradict your personal life vision.

Whatever you do and whatever you aspire to in life, aligning and balancing your body,
mind, and spirit help you be better and go farther.

(Nope. This was not evaluated by any government agencies, so take it with a grain of salt. Ideally a full spectrum salt for better hydration. ;)

release Fascia

comfort Nerves

Fascia surrounds your muscles, bones, neurons, organs, and runs from one to the other without seam. It simply changes structure and direction.

Fascia is likely more abundant that muscle tissue, because it surrounds each muscle fiber, then the muscle, then the group of muscles, and the entire body. Add to that it covers joints, is called tendons, ligaments, periosteum, pericardium, dura matter...and so forth. It's everywhere protecting everything so your body holds together and the friction inside your body is reduced.

-Kristy Burtenshaw LMT SI

"Habitual 'good posture' does not come holding oneself upright. It happens naturally when a body is free of structural limitations. [...] Biochemist Dr. Ida Rolf discovered that.

Her great accomplishment was to make a connection between body structure, gravity, connective tissue and body plasticity.

In a lifetime of practical application, she developed an equally "simple" and brilliant method to balance body structures in gravity and allow them to align and uplift."

-Hans Georg Brecklinghaus

Rolfing Structural Integration

p. 12, 15-16

Your brain connects to your body through fascia. Of course neurons, the brain, the spinal cord are all covered by fascia...even tiny little myelin sheaths.

-Kristy Burtenshaw LMT SI

warning- medical description to follow:

"In the motor control system, cerebellar function apparently involves a kind of fine-tuning that coordinates incoming and outgoing neural signals. In complex movements like running or jumping, for example, the body must sense and instantly reposition feet, knees and torso.

The cerebellum quarterbacks the process based on learning and predicting what adjustments the task requires.

“We think it’s doing this same computation with all different behaviors, balancing not just movement and gait, but also cognitive control and emotional processing,” Schmahmann says.

“An important function of the brain is to maintain the organism in a state of optimal interaction with its surroundings—family, community, the world at large. All require modulation around a baseline.”"

http://dana.org/News/Cerebellum_Good_for_More_than_Moving_You_Around/

reprogram Muscles

When you've practiced a habit for many years your muscles remember the pathways to do something. That doesn't mean you did it well, it means you created a habit. After releasing the fascia it is important to begin to reprogram your alignment and muscle use and we can help with that.

Muscles are something we've known about for a long time...but it doesn't mean we know how to take care of them.

For starters, did you know that calcium is used to contract a muscle...no energy required?

It is ATP that is made by potassium/magnesium, water, and oxygen that creates energy to relax/stretch a muscle.

I know.

mind blown, or at least mine was when I learned it.

Also, did you know that when you contract a muscle the actin and myosin go back and forth, like climbing a ladder? If you overwork them they get stuck part the way up, making your potential to contract that muscle reduce...and then of course the fascia cools around a static muscle....always back to fascia.

-Kristy Burtenshaw LMT SI

remodel bones

Bones have amazing abilities to create blood, hold the body up, and withstand insane amounts of pressure.

Under pressure they can regrow, overgrow, and without pressure they can wither into rickets and osteoporosis.

Nutrition discoveries are showing that people are getting vitamin D and not absorbing it, we need Vitamin K to help the D be useful. (I take a k2 d3 to absorb the minerals needed to keep bones sturdy and prepared to define our features.

During my studies I found that you can change the shape of your bones. Literally remodel.

This research was interesting to me when I found my extra long tibia and fibula could be modified. (It's just osteoclastic and osteoblastic activity.)

I followed good kinesiology principles and my bones are happily a matching length and without the spiraling torsion.

-Kristy Burtenshaw LMT SI

birth education

@kristyburtenshawlmtsi

holistic fertility

Birth Education

All About You

This is under construction, ironically, but it is coming. Besides FAM and Nutrition, it is difficult for me to describe (concisely) what I do to help fertility.

birth plan(s)
father support training class
prenatal & nutrition class
two prenatal visits prenatal Structural Integration 10 sessions
birth pool set up and take down
pelvic floor release
reflexology
acupressure
rebozo with rebozo practice
essential oil mini course
birth attendance doula
one post partum appointment fascial work session
beng kung binding instruction & fabric
placenta encapsulator
postpartum Structural Integration 10 sessions

Body preparation for birth
Training with Structural Integration
Birth (home, birth center, hospital)
Practitioners (doctor, nurse, midwife, doula)
Fascial work to prep and recover
Nutrition needs pre, post, and in case of H.G.
Books you'll want to read
Great resources for pre, event, and post

balanced nutrition

nutrition gut balancing

energy and meridians

The study and practice of healing Asian meridians is over 3,000 years old and, in my view, that is the longest medical study in the history of mankind. Plenty of time to work out the things that don't work.

If you want to heal your gut there is more to it than changing diet, and rebalancing gut microbiome with pre and probiotics and enzymes, you need to balance your life and that is easier when rebalancing your meridians.

pre /probiotics & enzymes

There are a lot of contributing factors to a leaking gut, which is holes between the villi in your small intestine.

It hurts.
Things get through to your blood that weren't meant to.

In order to help heal your gut intaking enzymes, prebiotics and probiotics, you help your body reduce inflammation and properly digest the foods you are eating.

This is where you get empowered to learn the most practical ways for you to get these into your diet.

nutrition

With 21 years of nutrition study it has become clear that there are truths accidentally missed when nutrition is taught.

Lucky for you I enjoy studying the contradictions, and I love to share that information with you to make your life easier.

After a few mind-blown moments you're going to quickly learn the real rules to your own body so that you heal, feel well, digest food, and have a healthy body.

You can find joy in eating and feel well.

holistic plan

holistic approach

Evaluate

Plan

Action

Asses & Create

We need to find out what is out of balance in order to create balance.

As a team we need to use the tools we know to make healing you both attainable and affordable. Everyone lives with boundaries and when we do therapy we find new parameters to live within.

That plan includes actionable steps. Some are self care, and some are with a practioner. Anything that we can't do we'll refer you, which happens often when we work with people in say Bangladesh and South Africa. We simply can't hop over there and do bodywork.

Rest easy. We can help you learn how to find local practitioners that can help with the bodywork.

Once we've gone through the plan we re-evaluate next steps. R