Transformational Bodywork

We carry our physical and emotional history in our body. Bodywork addresses the long-held patterns of stress, tension, injury, and overuse in the musculo-skeletal system. By working with the connective tissues, balance and flow can be restored which will have a beneficial effect on:
      · alignment/posture
      · structural function/efficiency
      · self-esteem/body image
      · relaxation/pain release
When patterns of tension are released, the history of the tension is also released. . . thereby creating an opportunity for emotional healing and new choices. This is an effective avenue for personal transformation.

Somatic Therapy involves a combination of body work and body-mind work. Somatic therapy is an effective avenue to approach emotional and/or physical issues engaging the perspective of the body and its wisdom

Somatic therapy is a vital tool for whole person health
  ·offering insight and new learning
  ·resolving long-held issues
  ·nurturing the whole person
  ·producing lasting results
  ·inviting the fullness of BEING alive

Ann Brode's particular method of somatic therapy has evolved from her studies in motor perception, movement education, state of the art bodywork, and mind-body therapies. It is oriented mainly in hands-on bodywork which sometimes includes process work to augment the goals of healing and learning.


Bodywork

Experience your shape and pattern through a touch that honors your three-dimensional design. Following the spiral in this design opens a pathway for change.

Three forms of bodywork can ease holding patterns in connective tissue which control your current way of being:
Aston Massage-“3-D touch” is the basis for the non-compressive, effective bodywork
Myo-kinetics-Specialized myofascial work can release deep holding patterns in the soft tissue
Arthro-kinetics-Unnecessary holding can be released at the joints and bony surfaces


Movement Education

Learn easy graceful movement that is specific to you by finding harmony within your own asymmetries. With gravity as your friend, you can release unnecessary tension, and with ground reaction force you can be uplifted and more powerful.

Step by step coaching teaches the most efficient and effortless ways to function, reduce physical stress and strain, and sustain the changes from the bodywork. These understandings can then be applied to improve all movement such as sitting, standing, walking, running and all levels and types of athletic performance.