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Fascial Release & Rehabilitation/Freedom

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24.01.2022 I just did a sensory awareness workshop on Monday where i was talking about why developing students hippocampus through movement is so important to their learning and then this pops up... What is it i've been telling you all to do after treatment for years? Put the music on and wiggle those hips, shake that bootie, feel the rhythm in your body and go with the flow....radio on in the shed guys and get your swagger back on .guess i'm going to have to finally run those belly dancing lessons i've always talked about...amongst all the other workshops!. ;) kt

23.01.2022 So I'm giving a massive shout out to the very underrated but dedicated soft tissue therapists/fascial bodyworkers/occupational therapists I know, whose work mak...es a profound difference to the people who see them. Like me, they rarely advertise or rely on social media for the most part because work comes by word of mouth referrals. They are folk who have put their hearts and heads into their work for years & all continue to learn & grow as practitioners. Everyone works a little bit differently but they are all more than good at what they do. This is the start of an alphabetical list which I will add more therapists and descriptions to soon: Ashley Kemp at Bodywork Integration, Casey Gordon at Anatomica Remedial Massage & Bodywork Christine Hinde-McCormack at Devotion to Motion Frady Luz Peranda at Revitalised Touch Greg Murphy at Joondalup Sports Remedial Massage Helen De Jong at Perth Scar & Pain Clinic Julie Hammond at Bodywork Integration Karina Pink at Unique Balance Mandurah Kati Cooper at Fascial Freedom Nikita Hill at Motion Movement Clinic Ramona Miranda at Growing with Grace Sandra Tolj at Living Tonic Wellness Silvia Gonzalez-Quinones at Be Alive Physiotherapy Subhadra Gerard at Shambhala Soft Tissue Therapy at Mt Lawley

22.01.2022 Thanks to everyone who attended the workshops yesterday. I hope now you understand why it’s so incredibly important for me to teach this in person so you can ...feel hands-on, exactly how to work your own soft tissue. We are very lucky to be able to do that here in Western Australia. It’s crucial to understand what this should feel like because people who are not experienced with this work tend to go way too fast and way too hard and work the tissue far too often. That is why i do not like to teach this online unless you have felt this work in person. I have a professional and ethical responsibility (duty of care) as a rehabilitation therapist to ensure you understand what you are doing and the way to appropriately do it to suit your needs. I’ve been using & teaching these techniques for a very long time and take it very seriously as my personal & professional reputation for caring for others, mean far more to me than money ever will. As a therapist i’m sharing what i know and how i work, in these workshops to help more people have a better understanding of their soft tissue and how to look after it without causing further damage. Less is always more. See more

22.01.2022 Please note and take care everyone

22.01.2022 i put this up a few days ago & then somehow it disappeared...not sure what happened there...but here it is again...

21.01.2022 Hi folks. This is just to help clarify the confusion re whether allied health workers can still work. Things may change daily so check your associations updates every day. Reducing any risk of cross contamination is, as always, absolutely paramount. Strictly screen and have your clients come clean, if you are continuing to practice.

21.01.2022 "mindfulness in motion" is the key...being aware of what your body is telling you...tuning in to how you feel and what you feel when you move is the way to stimulate real change in your soft tissue...thank you Michelle.

19.01.2022 2018 is going to be a big year...

18.01.2022 and the world is finally waking up...

17.01.2022 There are a few spaces left in the afternoon Self Fascial Release workshop this Saturday Jan 16th at 1pm to 3.30pm. If you’re interested in learning how to deve...lop your fascial sense & learn to sequence appropriate fascial release techniques to help stimulate progressive & positive change in your body (without damaging your soft tissue) please message me or email [email protected]. It’s all about enhancing blood flow & your elasticity/flexibility. Physical resilience is the ability to bend without breaking. kt See more

16.01.2022 i have always believed we are the sum total of everyone that has come before us...it's just logical...knowing this is about having a greater understanding of yourself but not, repeat not using it as another excuse to be a victim...use it to know your line has survived many things to make it to this generation...this information is about helping us to understand that the capacity to change also lies within our biology...so do what you can for yourself and for all those who will come after you...don't live the label...rip it off & change things for the better...kt

13.01.2022 Fascia finally being acknowledged as an organ...this is something many of us have known and been waiting for...thanks to so many dedicated researchers who have contributed to the growing body of knowledge...and to those who have developed the technology which allows us to explore our anatomy in ever increasing detail...there will always be more to learn & there is so much to be gained in treating so many health conditions...keep working fellow therapists...a more malleable medical viewpoint is coming but like fascia it will take time to change...kt

09.01.2022 ...take a leaf out of these little guys book when you're doing self release work....relax...let your body slow down....go very very slowly...cos less is more...kt

09.01.2022 Edit 2: A lot of people have been attempting to connect via friend requests, so I thought it best to create a professional page that people could like and follo...w. Please connect for future information via Eileen M Feliciano, Psy.D. At the request of readers, I will share a mental health tip of the day until quarantine is over! I will also be posting useful mental health articles related to the pandemic, as well as general mental health. Edit 1: I am surprised and heartened that this has been shared so widely! People have asked me to credential myself, so to that end, I am a doctoral level Psychologist in NYS with a Psy.D. in the specialities of School and Clinical Psychology. After having thirty-one sessions this week with patients where the singular focus was COVID-19 and how to cope, I decided to consolidate my advice and make a list that I hope is helpful to all. I can't control a lot of what is going on right now, but I can contribute this. MENTAL HEALTH WELLNESS TIPS FOR QUARANTINE 1. Stick to a routine. Go to sleep and wake up at a reasonable time, write a schedule that is varied and includes time for work as well as self-care. 2. Dress for the social life you want, not the social life you have. Get showered and dressed in comfortable clothes, wash your face, brush your teeth. Take the time to do a bath or a facial. Put on some bright colors. It is amazing how our dress can impact our mood. 3. Get out at least once a day, for at least thirty minutes. If you are concerned of contact, try first thing in the morning, or later in the evening, and try less traveled streets and avenues. If you are high risk or living with those who are high risk, open the windows and blast the fan. It is amazing how much fresh air can do for spirits. 4. Find some time to move each day, again daily for at least thirty minutes. If you don’t feel comfortable going outside, there are many YouTube videos that offer free movement classes, and if all else fails, turn on the music and have a dance party! 5. Reach out to others, you guessed it, at least once daily for thirty minutes. Try to do FaceTime, Skype, phone calls, textingconnect with other people to seek and provide support. Don’t forget to do this for your children as well. Set up virtual playdates with friends daily via FaceTime, Facebook Messenger Kids, Zoom, etcyour kids miss their friends, too! 6. Stay hydrated and eat well. This one may seem obvious, but stress and eating often don’t mix well, and we find ourselves over-indulging, forgetting to eat, and avoiding food. Drink plenty of water, eat some good and nutritious foods, and challenge yourself to learn how to cook something new! 7. Develop a self-care toolkit. This can look different for everyone. A lot of successful self-care strategies involve a sensory component (seven senses: touch, taste, sight, hearing, smell, vestibular (movement) and proprioceptive (comforting pressure). An idea for each: a soft blanket or stuffed animal, a hot chocolate, photos of vacations, comforting music, lavender or eucalyptus oil, a small swing or rocking chair, a weighted blanket. A journal, an inspirational book, or a mandala coloring book is wonderful, bubbles to blow or blowing watercolor on paper through a straw are visually appealing as well as work on controlled breath. Mint gum, Listerine strips, ginger ale, frozen Starburst, ice packs, and cold are also good for anxiety regulation. For children, it is great to help them create a self-regulation comfort box (often a shoe-box or bin they can decorate) that they can use on the ready for first-aid when overwhelmed. 8. Spend extra time playing with children. Children will rarely communicate how they are feeling, but will often make a bid for attention and communication through play. Don’t be surprised to see therapeutic themes of illness, doctor visits, and isolation play through. Understand that play is cathartic and helpful for childrenit is how they process their world and problem solve, and there’s a lot they are seeing and experiencing in the now. 9. Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and a wide berth. A lot of cooped up time can bring out the worst in everyone. Each person will have moments when they will not be at their best. It is important to move with grace through blowups, to not show up to every argument you are invited to, and to not hold grudges and continue disagreements. Everyone is doing the best they can to make it through this. 10. Everyone find their own retreat space. Space is at a premium, particularly with city living. It is important that people think through their own separate space for work and for relaxation. For children, help them identify a place where they can go to retreat when stressed. You can make this place cozy by using blankets, pillows, cushions, scarves, beanbags, tents, and forts. It is good to know that even when we are on top of each other, we have our own special place to go to be alone. 11. Expect behavioral issues in children, and respond gently. We are all struggling with disruption in routine, none more than children, who rely on routines constructed by others to make them feel safe and to know what comes next. Expect increased anxiety, worries and fears, nightmares, difficulty separating or sleeping, testing limits, and meltdowns. Do not introduce major behavioral plans or consequences at this timehold stable and focus on emotional connection. 12. Focus on safety and attachment. We are going to be living for a bit with the unprecedented demand of meeting all work deadlines, homeschooling children, running a sterile household, and making a whole lot of entertainment in confinement. We can get wrapped up in meeting expectations in all domains, but we must remember that these are scary and unpredictable times for children. Focus on strengthening the connection through time spent following their lead, through physical touch, through play, through therapeutic books, and via verbal reassurances that you will be there for them in this time. 13. Lower expectations and practice radical self-acceptance. This idea is connected with #12. We are doing too many things in this moment, under fear and stress. This does not make a formula for excellence. Instead, give yourself what psychologists call radical self acceptance: accepting everything about yourself, your current situation, and your life without question, blame, or pushback. You cannot fail at thisthere is no roadmap, no precedent for this, and we are all truly doing the best we can in an impossible situation. 14. Limit social media and COVID conversation, especially around children. One can find tons of information on COVID-19 to consume, and it changes minute to minute. The information is often sensationalized, negatively skewed, and alarmist. Find a few trusted sources that you can check in with consistently, limit it to a few times a day, and set a time limit for yourself on how much you consume (again 30 minutes tops, 2-3 times daily). Keep news and alarming conversations out of earshot from childrenthey see and hear everything, and can become very frightened by what they hear. 15. Notice the good in the world, the helpers. There is a lot of scary, negative, and overwhelming information to take in regarding this pandemic. There are also a ton of stories of people sacrificing, donating, and supporting one another in miraculous ways. It is important to counter-balance the heavy information with the hopeful information. 16. Help others. Find ways, big and small, to give back to others. Support restaurants, offer to grocery shop, check in with elderly neighbors, write psychological wellness tips for othershelping others gives us a sense of agency when things seem out of control. 17. Find something you can control, and control the heck out of it. In moments of big uncertainty and overwhelm, control your little corner of the world. Organize your bookshelf, purge your closet, put together that furniture, group your toys. It helps to anchor and ground us when the bigger things are chaotic. 18. Find a long-term project to dive into. Now is the time to learn how to play the keyboard, put together a huge jigsaw puzzle, start a 15 hour game of Risk, paint a picture, read the Harry Potter series, binge watch an 8-season show, crochet a blanket, solve a Rubix cube, or develop a new town in Animal Crossing. Find something that will keep you busy, distracted, and engaged to take breaks from what is going on in the outside world. 19. Engage in repetitive movements and left-right movements. Research has shown that repetitive movement (knitting, coloring, painting, clay sculpting, jump roping etc) especially left-right movement (running, drumming, skating, hopping) can be effective at self-soothing and maintaining self-regulation in moments of distress. 20. Find an expressive art and go for it. Our emotional brain is very receptive to the creative arts, and it is a direct portal for release of feeling. Find something that is creative (sculpting, drawing, dancing, music, singing, playing) and give it your all. See how relieved you can feel. It is a very effective way of helping kids to emote and communicate as well! 21. Find lightness and humor in each day. There is a lot to be worried about, and with good reason. Counterbalance this heaviness with something funny each day: cat videos on YouTube, a stand-up show on Netflix, a funny moviewe all need a little comedic relief in our day, every day. 22. Reach out for helpyour team is there for you. If you have a therapist or psychiatrist, they are available to you, even at a distance. Keep up your medications and your therapy sessions the best you can. If you are having difficulty coping, seek out help for the first time. There are mental health people on the ready to help you through this crisis. Your children’s teachers and related service providers will do anything within their power to help, especially for those parents tasked with the difficult task of being a whole treatment team to their child with special challenges. Seek support groups of fellow home-schoolers, parents, and neighbors to feel connected. There is help and support out there, any time of the dayalthough we are physically distant, we can always connect virtually. 23. Chunk your quarantine, take it moment by moment. We have no road map for this. We don’t know what this will look like in 1 day, 1 week, or 1 month from now. Often, when I work with patients who have anxiety around overwhelming issues, I suggest that they engage in a strategy called chunkingfocusing on whatever bite-sized piece of a challenge that feels manageable. Whether that be 5 minutes, a day, or a week at a timefind what feels doable for you, and set a time stamp for how far ahead in the future you will let yourself worry. Take each chunk one at a time, and move through stress in pieces. 24. Remind yourself daily that this is temporary. It seems in the midst of this quarantine that it will never end. It is terrifying to think of the road stretching ahead of us. Please take time to remind yourself that although this is very scary and difficult, and will go on for an undetermined amount of time, it is a season of life and it will pass. We will return to feeing free, safe, busy, and connected in the days ahead. 25. Find the lesson. This whole crisis can seem sad, senseless, and at times, avoidable. When psychologists work with trauma, a key feature to helping someone work through said trauma is to help them find their agency, the potential positive outcomes they can effect, the meaning and construction that can come out of destruction. What can each of us learn here, in big and small ways, from this crisis? What needs to change in ourselves, our homes, our communities, our nation, and our world?

09.01.2022 I belong to an animal species that seems to have forgotten that from start to finish the gift of life is a game of survival. We are blessed to live on a planet ...that possesses everything we really need to survive. But we are also the species that continues to destroy our chances for life on this planet for things that are not necessary for our survival. Earth Day was yesterday but Earth Day should be everyday for the species that claims to be the most intelligent. At the end of the day stop and think about what it is you really need to survive. See more

08.01.2022 Hi folks. I know I'm not normally active on fb but I'm just letting everyone know I'm here & healthy & have not been travelling at all this year. I just wanted to check in & touch base with you & send my energy out to the everyone this way.

07.01.2022 The capacity to heal lies within our own biology...the research behind this has been ongoing for many years...far from being the much maligned tissue that most people think, fat cells are key to our survival & they are a part of the fascial network, a type of fascial/connective tissue. Stimulating tissue repair this way is a brilliant development but don't forget that the health of that tissue will then depend on how you treat it and maintain it...feed your tissue with what it needs, rub where it tells you it needs you too & move your body! Take responsibility for your health, especially when others are doing so much to try and help you...kt

07.01.2022 Free information evening this Thursday in Melros if you’re interested in attending workshops to learn more about self fascial release & safely enhancing elasticity in the body. Please email me at [email protected] if you want to attend so we know numbers.

07.01.2022 no matter what you're doing remember to breathe.

06.01.2022 Time for a little online study....

06.01.2022 It’s late & i can’t sleep so i write my thoughts as i have always done. Being back on fb is reminding me of all the folk i have worked on over the years. All on... your own journeys of finding & appreciating yourselves for who you are, discovering your strengths & finding your paths & passions. It’s nice to see what you have found out about yourselves. Some of you have even become therapists since i saw you last. I’ve always believed that my job as a therapist/messenger was to stimulate your innate capacity to heal & change your soft tissue/yourselves & to teach you everything i feel will help you continue to do this. Sometimes that means our paths no longer cross but that does not mean i no longer care. In the last few years i have continued to quietly practice & teach in my corner of the world but much of my time & energy has been with those who have my heart in their hands. That is why i have not been here & why i may yet disappear again. It’s not fame or fortune or the need to be right, that i seek. It may sound corny but i am happiest when i am able to help those i love & those around me, survive the game of life. Stay safe & well & look after each other. See more

05.01.2022 sharing my dawn & thoughts for the day...

04.01.2022 Sharing Michelle Norton's yoga with you. Time to find your inner calm and strength.

04.01.2022 that was day two. Roll on day three...

04.01.2022 no matter how much we learn, no matter how much we think we know, no matter how much time and experience we have doing what we do....there will always always be more to learn.

01.01.2022 hey ho folks...check your emails soon for dates & times re the self fascial release workshops combining the best of everything i have used and learnt over a lifetime of sinking into soft tissue...kt