Eden Bodywork

Whether you are on a healing journey, or seeking bodywork as preventative medicine, I am humbled to work with you to better understand your own health.

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Holistic Pelvic Care

Holistic Pelvic Care™ is ‘a holistic practice consisting of physical and energetic tools designed to evaluate, restore balance, and enhance vibrant flow in the pelvic bowl of the female body by working with an individual’s core patterns.’ Holistic Pelvic Care™ is a bodywork practice created by Tami Lynn Kent.
This therapy works with body’s energetics through the fascia (the layer of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle). Here, we use guided visualization, external fascial unwinding, and breathwork.With a referral note from a medical professional, internal fascial work may be done. A series of 3-5 treatments are recommended.
Craniosacral Therapy

‘CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on approach that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. It was pioneered and developed by Osteopathic Physician John E. Upledger after years of clinical testing and research at Michigan State University where he served as professor of biomechanics.

Using a soft touch which is generally no greater than 5 grams - about the weight of a nickel - practitioners release restrictions in the soft tissues that surround the central nervous system. CST is increasingly used as a preventive health measure for its ability to bolster resistance to disease, and it's effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction.’ -Upledger Institute
Sessions are conducted fully clothed , 60 minute session.
Therapeutic Bodywork

Sessions address the energetic and physical body alignment through nervous system courting and gentle breathwork. Treatments are unique to the client’s needs, and are often an artful synthesis of Tui Na, Trigger Point Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, and Abdominal Massage. Sessions may also include, Gua Sha, cupping, hot towels, aromatherapy, and breathwork.
Offering 90, & 120 minute sessions. Up to 30 minutes may be devoted to consultation.
Vibrational Sound Therapy

Explore the deep therapeutic effects of sound healing. Grounding sessions are a way to re-connect the positive and negative energy terminals of the body. These sessions are conducted fully clothed in a resting position. Sessions include light touch along meridian points, tuning fork therapy both on and off the body (within the human biofield), and binaural beats.
Experience vibrational therapy on its own in the form of a 50 minute grounding session, or integrated into a Therapeutic Bodywork Session.

Modalities and a deeper look into our bodies and the natural world

Ayurvedic Abdominal Massage

Abdominal Massage is a window into our nervous system. Working within this area of the body can promote proper digestion, relieve tension, expand the flexibility of the diaphragm, address tension patterns, and nourish our core energetic posture.

Interested in full Abhyanga or Panchakarma Treatments? I practice with Blue Lotus Ayureveda in Asheville NC. Book through https://bluelotusayurveda.com/

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Nervous System Level Work

This approach works with the body’s ability to self correct. Instead of working with the muscles through manual manipulation, we are allowing the system to re-align with the help of the therapist’s gentle fascial manipulation, rocking and guided breathwork. We are courting and encouraging alignment and full flow of Qi throughout the body.

What is the Nervous System?

The Nervous System is an intricate and complex system of nerves and cells which carry information between the brain and spinal chord, and different parts of the body.

It is broken down into : The Central nervous system (The Brain and Spinal Chord) and the Peripheral Nervous System (Somatic and Autonomic Nervous System).

Lets look closer at the Autonomic Nervous system…

The Autonomic N.S regulates involuntary movement, and organ function within the body. It’s two parts consist of:

1. Parasympathetic N.S
(Rest/digest - controls relaxation response)

2. Sympathetic N.S
(Fight/flight - diverts blood away from the organs towards major muscle groups, preparing the body to either fight or flee from danger)

Together they work together to help maintain the body’s homeostasis.

Trauma and How it Can Live Within the Body

Have you ever seen an animal ‘shake it off’? Animals have a natural response to stress, their bodies know how to release the tension that builds up during a stressful experience through the act of tremoring.

When we experience an event that triggers the survival mode within our bodies/ns, fight/flight/freeze, and we do not fully express the full arc of this response, the tension is stored within our bodies. The tension can be re-awakened in our day to day life, we may see this as PTSD, as chronic pain, depression, or as idiopathic illnesses.

By working with stored trauma on a somatic level, we can begin to look at and gently release stories and experiences of past events.

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Holistic Pelvic Care

Holistic Pelvic Care™ is ‘a holistic practice consisting of physical and energetic tools designed to evaluate, restore balance, and enhance vibrant flow in the pelvic bowl of the female body by working with an individual’s core patterns.’ HPC™ is a bodywork practice created by Tami Lynn Kent.

This therapy works with body’s energetics through the fascia (the layer of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle).

The pelvis holds so many of our organs and connective tissues and can become a place of congestion. Just like how we can feel tight muscles form in our shoulders, we can have tight knots form in the muscles of our pelvis. Through gently working directly with these tissues, we can work to create free flow and relieve symptoms. In addition to helping with basic connection to our felt sense of our pelvis, HPC™ can help support:

-urinary leakage

-uterine prolapse

-pelvic heaviness or instability

-pelvic muscle weakness

-pelvic pain

-pain with intercourse.

In the state of NC LMBTs require a doctor’s note to practice this internal work. Please reach out with any questions regarding HPC™.

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Vibrational Sound Therapy

What is Frequency?

The number of waves that pass a fixed point per unit time; also, the number of cycles or vibrations undergone in unit time by a body in periodic motion. Frequency f is the reciprocal of the time T taken to complete one cycle (the period), or 1/T. The frequency with which earth rotates is once per 24 hours. Frequency is usually expressed in units called hertz (HZ). One hertz is equal to one cycle per second; one kilohertz (kHz) is 1,000 Hz, and one megahertz (MHz) is 1,000,000 Hz.

-Merriam-Webster

Tuning Forks, Why are They Used?

[A coherent frequency is one that is ordered, consistent, clear and in phase. In phase means “operating at the same frequencey or wave length.” An incoherent frequency is disordered, inconsistent, not clear and out of phase. A tuning fork produces a coherent frequency, and that is why it is useful as a healing tool….

The human body is wired to be exquisitely sensitive to sound. The faculty of hearing is one of the first senses to devolop in utero and the last to depart before death. In addition to perceiving sound through our ears, we also “hear” the pressure waves of sound through our skin and the water that makes up approximately 70 percent of us conducts sound four to five times faster than air…

In addition to the traditionally viewed lock-and-key structure of receptors on cell membranes that receive and respond to physical molecules, there are also antenna-like structures (i.e., primary cilium) that respond to vibrational frequencies. teeny reciprocal tuning forks on each cell membrane, [produce] either incoherent or coherent frequencies, [and] “[change] their tune” as it were, when bathed in coherent sound. ]

-Eileen Day McKusick, Tuning the Human Biofield

What are Binaural Beats?

A binaural beat is an illusion created by the brain when you listen to two tones with slightly different frequencies at the same time.

Your brain interprets the two tones as a beat of its own. The two tones align with your brain waves to produce a beat with a different frequency. This frequency is the difference in hertz (Hz) between the frequencies of the two tones.

For example, if you are listening to a 440 Hz tone with your left ear and a 444 Hz tone with your right ear, you would be hearing a 4 Hz tone.

When you listen to binaural beats, your brain activity matches the frequency set by the frequency of the beat. This is called the frequency-following effect. This means you can use binaural beats to entrain your mind to reach a certain mental state.

What is the Human Biofield?

[Biofield Tuning is based on the premise that the human biofield - the energy field that surrounds and permeates our bodies - is inextricably connected with our conscious and subconscious mind, including all of our memories. All physical, mental and emotional disorders can be perceived as "dissonance" in our energy fields. Biofield Tuning is able to diminish and resolve this dissonance and in doing so, alleviate and even eradicate the corresponding physical, mental and/or emotional symptoms.]

-From Biofeild Tuning

-Read more here

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Peristeam Consultation and Facilitation

(Coming Soon! )

‘Peristeaming (Yoni Steaming) is a traditional self-care practice whereby someone sits or kneels over a warm pot of boiled water, gently exposing the entire pelvic region to the rising steam. The individual may choose to kneel over the source of steam, or sit on a designated sauna or seat. specifically designed for this purpose. To enhance the effect of steaming, herbs may be infused in the water to give the steam added therapeutic properties. Yoni steaming also has a dry variation that relies on the use of herbal smoke instead of steam.

Peristeaming is a widespread and universal practice not isolated to one single origin. Ancient records document the use of yoni steam practices in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceana and the Americas.

Despite historical worldwide use of yoni steaming, the practice has gradually fallen into decline. The reason for this is two-fold:

Several hundred years ago Europe passed laws making it illegal for anyone other than medical doctors to practice medicine. These laws were violently enforced and eliminated most female health practitioners who at the time were often barred from attending medical school. in their absence, the knowledge of multiple traditional reproductive health practices, including vaginal steaming, went into obscurity.
During the European colonization period, the patriarchal system of medicine that had developed in the absence of female physicians was imposed worldwide while at the same time outlawing indigenous medicine in colonial settlements. These practices further pushed steaming into obscurity.
In recent years, women are reclaiming autonomy over their own health and, with this awakening, the traditional practice of yoni steaming has re-emerged. Gaining renown for its potential ability to improve a long list of gynecological health concerns, vaginal steaming is growing quickly in popularity and becoming used widely once again.’
-Text from Steamychick.com