As many have learned in recent decades, a holistic approach to bodywork provides truly impressive results, whether as a significant improvement in one's overall sense of well being, or improving the health of those with a wide variety of specific conditions,  including chronic pain.  Indeed, these extraordinary practices have led to near miraculous healings for many patients who had otherwise despaired of finding relief, let alone permanent and deep resolution of their underlying health issues. Christine's reputation has developed with the support of her teachers, her community and most importantly, her enthusiastic clientèle who have always offered her the highest praise possible: outstanding word of mouth.

Christine uses a systematic ‘hands on’ process working with the connective tissue to realign the entire musculo-skeletal structure, restoring balance and ease to the body. Relying on her skills with Visceral Manipulation, she also evaluates the interplay of organs and other internal elements, discerning opportunities for improving wellness and balance among various bodily systems.  Whether the cause for a client's less than optimal experience of well being is structural in nature, as in bones and muscles, or more internal as in organs and soft tissues, Christine is able to skillfully discern the problem and restore the body to its innately healthy functioning.  The client's experience is a mind - body - spirit connection in which all parts are now smoothly integrated and in harmony with one another. 

Clients are encouraged to dialogue on the table, a process which leads to the exploration of how one's thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and feelings impact and resonate throughout the body.  Remarkable connections between past injuries, somatic crises and ongoing physical and emotional issues allow clients to release stagnant patterns and memories and to move on to a state of higher well being.  With a greater freedom of movement and mind, clients now experience improved breathing, postural alignment, increased range of motion, freedom from chronic pain, reduction of stress and an enhanced sense of vitality and joy.

Christine believes that the body already knows how to be healthy and that we can best help it to do so by simply allowing it its own restorative processes.   Empowering us to take these results out into daily life, Christine also offers her clients customized movements to do at home.  Designed to further enhance the work and results achieved on the table, these movements empower the client to continue their healing journey in a practical, safe and guided way.  Unlike many bodyworkers, she does not cultivate a client's utter reliance on her alone as a remedy, but rather aids the client in their journey towards discovering their own perfection and healing systems that are already fully in place. 

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Hellerwork 

Hellerwork Structural Integration is state-of-the-art therapy for the body-mind-spirit. Hellerwork Practitioners receive holistic vocational training in deep-tissue structural bodywork, movement education, and attitude awareness through dialogue that is truly innovative.  Through the deep-tissue myofascial bodywork component of Hellerwork, clients find their bodies are more aligned with the forces of gravity, experiencing more ease in their movements, increased flexibility, a return of lost range of motion, improved balance, more comfort in joints and a greater sense of stability and support. Clients maintain a more youthful appearance, overcome the effects of a lifetime of soft tissue injuries and have a better chance of avoiding painful deterioration in the future.

Visceral Manipulation

The visceral system relies on the interconnected synchronicity between the motions of all the organs and structures of the body. At optimal health, this harmonious relationship remains stable despite the body's endless varieties of motion. But when one organ cannot move in harmony with its viscera due to abnormal tone, adhesions or displacement, it works against the body's other organs and muscular, membranous, fascial and osseous structures. This disharmony creates fixed, abnormal points of tension that the body is forced to move around. And that chronic irritation, in turn, paves the way for postural distortion, neuromuscular dysfunction, and disease processes.

Visceral Manipulation relies on the palpation of normal and abnormal forces within the body. By using specific techniques, therapists can evaluate how abnormal forces interplay, overlap and affect the normal body forces at work. The goal is to help the body's normal forces remove abnormal effects, whatever their sources. Those effects can be global, encompassing many areas of bodily function.

Bio Mechanics of Alignment

The Biomechanics of Alignment is a full body approach for correcting the structural misalignments that create pain and joint degeneration and greatly disturb equilibrium, balance and integrated movement.  Synthesizing various bodywork approaches into a holistic system, the Biomechanics of Alignment provide a totally fresh way of looking at the entire connective tissue and myofascial network. This approach, rooted in the work of Dr. Ida Rolf and the practice of Structural Integration, goes beyond basic biomechanics and visceral manipulation to create a reliable system of work that restores maximum health and function to the whole body.   

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