A CALL TO THE ELECTRICIAN

Imagine receiving something similar to a massage and acupuncture simultaneously! 

Believe it or not, massage therapists can impact the skeletal system directly.  Bones and ligaments hold tension and stress (commonly called "knots") just like soft tissue.  Bones are not dry, dead, inflexible structures.  They are vibrant, pliable and perform so many vital functions that give us life in addition to providing structure and protection for vital organs.  They are multi-layered and made up of nerves, blood vessels, marrow, lymphatics, cartileges and more.  They produce all of our red and white blood cells.

ZB practitioners apply direct pressure to bones as well as gentle traction to joints to help energy flow more freely through the skeleton and across joints.  As a result, clients feel more integrated, grounded, relaxed, organized and unified at the deepest level of who they are. Because ZB works so deeply in the body, it can affect the more superficial energy pathways above as well as tissues that attach to bones like ligaments, tendons/muscles and fascia.  The effects of ZB also last longer than traditional massage therapy.  The end result of ZB is that we function as a single unit versus 206 separate bones.  This work has its origins in both Eastern and Western medical models, acupuncture combined with osteopathy, chiropractic and massage.  

Tension held in bones can often relate to myoskeletal imbalances, patterns of movement and traumas from earlier in life.  Working in the bones can bring relief from long held tension and patterns of thinking and behaving that once served to protect us but no longer are necessary.  It can help people expand the limits of their capacity to heal and live whole, far beyond what they imagine because we are addressing physical structure and body energy simultaneously.

I amazed often how easily and quickly clients receiving ZB go quiet and enter a healing state.  ZB is the ultimate off-switch.   It seems to happen with little effort and great ease.  When older, deeper tension, begins to release, the body seems to "let go" with little resistance.  Often the room becomes very still and quiet.