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Gateway to Healing Introductory Workshop
Thursday, January 31st
7:15-8:15 pm
An Information Session for all NSA New Patients to attend as well as anyone who is interested in learning more about Network Spinal Analysis and how this gentle method can help in many different ways. The Workshop consists of a half hour talk about the work, followed by a half hour demonstration of the work. This workshop is an important part of your care and we encourage you to join us. Call Veronika at 725-0988 to reserve your space.
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FAR INFRARED SAUNA & DETOXIFICATION FOR IMPROVED HEALTH
* COMPLIMENTARY TRIAL SESSION AVAILABLE
With the pollution in the air, preservatives in our food and chemicals in the water, it is important to find a way to detoxify your body from the exposure of all the foreign material one encounters on a day to day basis.
The far infrared sauna is a fantastic way to break a sweat with little effort and maximum results towards improved health and wellness.
Here are some helpful facts about the far infrared sauna and its many benefits for detoxification:
• Detoxification from a far infrared sauna is 7 to 10 times greater than a conventional sauna because it operates more effectively at temperatures 60 to 80 degrees lower than conventional saunas.
• In a conventional sauna the average person sweats out 3% toxins and 97% water. In a far infrared sauna, the average person sweats out 20% toxins and 80% water!
• Sweating is the body’s safe and natural way to heal and stay healthy. It carries toxins out of the body and pushes it through the pores.
• Sweating also helps the body release heat and keeps your internal core temperature as consistent as needed. Far infrared Sauna health benefits include:
• Relaxation Saunas deliver the ultimate experience in relaxation
• Pain Relief Relieve back, neck, and arthritis pain with far infrared heat therapy
• Weight Loss Burn calories in a 30 minute sauna session. It’s a great addition to any work out or weight loss plan
• Lowers Blood Pressure Far infrared saunas were shown in a clinical study to lower blood pressure with repeated use
• Blood Circulation Heating of muscles produces an increased blood flow level similar to that seen during exercise
• Skin Purification Far infrared therapy is excellent for healthy glowing skin!
10 half-hour
(plus 2 additional complimentary sessions)
$190.80
*Enquire at front desk about initial complimentary session
Lift Light, Shovel Right
When you consider that a shovelful of snow weighs 5 to 7 pounds, you realize how much weight you have to lift to clear your sidewalk or driveway on average, several hundred pounds!
These tips will help keep your back in top shape:
*DON’T LET THE SNOW PILE UP:
If the weather report calls for several days of snow, frequent shoveling will allow you to move smaller amounts of snow at once.
*PICK THE RIGHT SHOVEL:
Use a lightweight pusher-type shovel. If you are using a metal shovel, spray it with Teflon first, so snow won’t stick to it.
*PUSH, DON’T THROW:
Always push the snow to the side rather than throwing it. That way you avoid lifting heavy shovelfuls of snow, and sudden twisting or turning movements.
*BEND YOUR KNEES:
If you find you have to lift a shovel of snow, use your knees and your leg and arm muscles to do the pushing and lifting, while keeping your back straight.
*WARM UP:
Before tackling any strenuous activity take the time to warm up with some overall conditioning (a 10 to 15 minute walk, even on the spot, should do it), followed by some simple stretching.
*TAKE A BREAK:
If you feel tired or short of breath, stop and take a rest. Shake out your arms and legs. Stop shoveling immediately if you feel chest pain or back pain. If you have back pain that is severe or that persists for more than a day after shoveling, see a chiropractor. If you have chest pain that is severe, see a medical doctor immediately.
By following these simple steps your shoveling experience this winter will be stress-free and above all pain-free.
Be Well!
Finding balance involves body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Contributed by Rosemary Brown-Tucker, RMT.
If one of your goals this year is to feel more balanced as you move through your busy life, now is a great time to start the year as you’d like it to continue. Achieving a state of equilibrium is the body’s mission as it constantly adapts and adjusts to the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the big and small stressers in our everyday lives. But true balance is more than a physical balancing act. It's about creating balance in mind, emotions and spirit too.
Looking for ways to make life simpler and easier is an important first step in finding practical self care ideas that can be done to achieve balance every day. There are many ways to learn how to live more easily in your own body taking five minutes each day to breathe deeply through your nose, inhaling and exhaling to a count of four, taking an Epsom salts bath, or journaling every morning to ‘clear the clutter’ so you can enjoy the rest of the day. If you’re one of those ‘thinkers’ who has back and neck pain, try taking your focus away from your shoulders down to your feet, or breathe into your belly. Another way to get rid of the tension is to practice a contract and relax exercise – shrug your shoulders up to your ears, hold, then relax so you can notice the difference between tension and relaxation.
Many people are unaware that they clench their jaw. This can cause headaches and back and neck pain. But if you consciously relax that area every time you notice you’re clenching your jaw, your body will soon get the message that this isn’t an acceptable way for expressing stress.
To get in touch with what is going on inside your body start paying attention to the subtle signals you’re getting from specific areas. Check in with how you’re feeling every day – scan your body from head to toes and really feel what’s going on there. Are there areas of tightness, heat, cold, tingling or pain? Consider what’s going on in your life that could be causing these sensations. If you’re ready to pay attention to those signals from inside your body, what changes are you willing to make?
A holistic practitioner needs to look for the source of pain and tension in order to help the body to heal. By working on a misaligned spine, secondary effects such as back and overall body tension will disperse and the body’s self healing mechanism will be switched on. Sometimes the body needs to be reminded how to be in balance.
Craniosacral therapy gently guides the body into a state of self-healing by helping to synchronize the body's own natural rhythms with gentle pressure techniques. These movements retrain the nervous system to be more relaxed and open when responding to a situation instead of going into overwhelm when under stress. With a bit of guidance the body finds its own way to a state of balance.
A lifetime of injuries, illness, trauma and emotional pain can be stored in the body if they’re not treated properly at the time of injury.These ‘old’ injuries can be contributing factors to chronic pain which can be successfully treated with CranioSacral therapy.
Making time each day for creative expression is a great way to renew the spirit and experience joy and balance. When we take care of our own well-being we are also giving to those we care and love.
The Seasons Continued
Contributed by Dr. Michael Tucker, DC.
In last months newsletter I wrote about the seasons of healing. Basically this is a simple way of looking at the 12 Stages of Healing, Donald Epstein's first book. Discover is stages 1-3 or Suffering, Polarities and Rhythms and Stuck in a Perspective. Transformation is stages 4-7 or Reclaiming our Power, Merging, Preparing for Resolution and Resolution.
Awakening is stages 8-12. Integration is about choosing what season or stage we want and playing with the results.
The question we ask ourselves in the various seasons are important. Here’s some questions for each season:
Questions in DISCOVER
• Why me? Or Why not me?
• What is wrong with me?
• Why does this happen to me?
• Why does this not end?
• What is the cause of this?
• Who is wrong/right?
• Who can fix/get rid of this?
• What is the best or worst ____?
• Why did he/she do this to me?
• What is the pattern here?
• Why can’t I make the breakthrough?
• Why do I keep doing this?
• Why am I stuck?
• Why am I blocked?
• Why can’t I solve this now?
Questions in TRANSFORM
• What can I do to never disempower myself again?
• How can I express more of my courage now?
• What else is going on?
• What is really happening here?
• How can I face this now?
• What is on the other side?
• What can I do to really be ready?
• How can I prepare myself?
• What must I do now?
• How can I resolve this?
• How can I conduct an inventory and get rid of that which no longer serves me?
• How can I dump the old stuff/energy/patterns?
Questions that lead to AWAKEN
• Where is the rhythm?
• How can I hold the space?
• Where is the gratitude?
• What is the energy/love telling me?
• Where is the connection within spirit?
• How can I express the love more?
• How can I grow the gratitude?
• How can I feel the real energy behind the form?
• What gift has been given to me?
•How can I express my soul and the one love?
• How do I give my gifts in joy and gratitude?
• Where is the joy, love, gratitude & gift?
• How can I sponsor the sharing of my abundance?
• How can I receive others/circumstances with gratitude as gifts?
• Where is the gift in this?
• How can we be each others wisdom/medicine?
It is important for us to be in the season we are in. It works best to ask the questions that help us heal.
Very often I don’t like the season I’m in. I want to be in Awaken or Integrate and ask different questions; however it is important to be in the season we are in. It is more useful to ask the questions that move us to the next season. There are times we are asking ourselves questions from Discover when it would be more appropriate to use the questions of Transform. In this case, those ‘why’ questions from Discover could hold us at a lower stage of healing.
5 Ways to Start Balanced in the New Year
Contributed by Erin Whyte, RMT
I am fortunate to be in a profession whereby I come across many techniques, tools and ideas that aid in my own physical and emotional health. I’d like to share with you five ways that I have either experienced or have had excellent feedback on that can help keep you more balanced in your own health as we move into a new year.
1. BREATHE! Sounds simple enough but we often take our breath for granted. It is involuntary after all! But many of us are shallow neck breathers and this pattern serves to reinforce stress-pain cycles. We need to learn how to take full breathes using our diaphragm. Let the belly rise with the inhale and fall on of its own accord with exhalation. Diaphragmatic breathing is associated with emotional stability, calmness, and higher levels of physical and mental activity as well as a diminished perception of environmental stressors. (Grossman P. Respiration, stress and cardiovascular function. Psychophysiology. 1983;20:284-300)
2. STRETCH! You’ve heard it before but you’ll hear it again…stretching can help to reduce pain, improve flexibility and enhance circulation. Agood 30-60 second stretch repeated 3 times at least once a day (more is better) can promote tissue elongation and take the stress off other muscles. If you have a time on your computer try setting an alarm every hour to remind to you stand up and stretch.
3. EXERCISE! Easier said than done right? Too tired? Can’t find the time with all the “important” things that need to get done? What could be more important that your own health and the body that is going to serve you to the ripe old age of 97 of older?! Regular exercise will actually give you more energy along with all the cardiovascular benefits of improved heart function, weight loss, and gaining strength. All of which can lead to less postural stressors that can be causing daily aches and pains. It may seem monumental to get out the door to go for a walk or head to the gym but if you can surpass that obstacle you can do anything! Believe me when I say you will feel SO much better.
4. FAR INFARED SAUNA- Staying warm is one benefit of this fantastic sauna. Built to allow the infared rays to penetrate deeper than a normal sauna it then allow for greater detoxification of muscle tissue and cells. When we get rid of waste in our body we are free pain producing toxins and the potential for disease. It aids in circulation which means more blood is flowing to deliver oxygen, nutrients and healing agents to all levels of our body.
5. MEDITATE! Okay, this one might be even more difficult than the suggestion of exercise but if you can find the discipline to sit for even 5 minutes and focus either on your breathe, a short mantra or nothing at all, it is amazing the effects that will be produced. You may find that you then move forward in your day with more calmness, clarity and an increase in productivity. The quantity of what you is on your “to do” list may not change but your approach to getting it all done may change. It may not seem quite so monumental at all. Try it and be patient with yourself. It is a practice with much to be learned!