Kat Binding CranioSacral Therapy
Unit 101 - 900 Harrow Street East R3L 1M7 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

This is why, sometimes to get at a sore shoulder, I have to release the sacrum or possibly even further down to the feet.

Get uncomfortable! You can do it! #frankgjata #getuncomfortable #courage #love

Here's my prescription for you for today. Let me know your activity of choice.

More recent studies including those by former non-profit project Blue Gym have found that people who live near the coast are generally healthier and happier.... Other studies have found that when shown photographs of natural green spaces, people’s stress levels drop, plus the more blue spaces in the photos, the more they prefer them. See more

Beautiful Message from Precious Thay:

Are you getting enough rest?

Each time your head hits the pillow, it doesn’t take long for a wave of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to wash over your neurons taking out the cellular junk with each rhythmic pulse.

It’s All In Your Mind https://buff.ly/3h7ouUe If worrying yourself sick is completely plausible, then shouldn’t you be able to think yourself well? #mind #mentalhealth #placebo #power #think #thoughts

#bruceliptonquotes #brucelipton #manifestation #quantumphysics

"A patient approach will bring much knowledge." ~ B.K.S. Iyengar #patience #wisdom #bksiyengar

It's been known since the late 1800's that the body alternates between predominantly using the left and right nostrils to breathe -- in anywhere from 30 minute ...to 4 hour cycles. At the time, no one really knew what it was for and offered multiple dubious explanations. What has since been learned is that the body does this to help regulate a number of bodily functions and processes. Air taken through the right nostril stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, increasing circulation, cortisol levels, blood pressure, heart rate, etc. Air taken through the left nostril stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, lowering blood pressure, heart rate, cooling the body and reducing anxiety. And to answer the obvious question, yes -- selectively breathing through one nostril or the other CAN be used therapeutically. See more

Wow! Very good reasons to keep coming back for more & more brain cleansing CranioSacral Therapy.

Start small. Little changes can add up to make a big difference. Easy Things You Can Do To Get A Happier Brain Right Now https://buff.ly/2FpHNqR #mentalhealth #happiness #emotions #brain #depression

Essential oils for sleep.....and therefore, for better brain health. I can set you up with any (or all) of these essential oils. Feel free to inquire.

Essential Oil du Jour: Rose A major oil in aromatherapy, popular and a favourite at Ambrosia! It's important to seek out Rose grown in an ecological or tradi...tional manner. Rose is prone to adulteration. With over 300 medicinal constituents, any grown with pesticides or herbicides prevents the full expression of Rose, the full range of its constituents from being produced, reducing the healing potential for body, mind, energetic field and chakras. It is common for Rose to be 'concocted' in the lab from a fraction of its full possible range of constituents. This is a product 'nature-identical' the label may say, but far from natural! Seeking out a better Rose rich and complex in healing constituents is akin to eating whole foods and whole grains for better nutrition. Ambrosia typically stocks a range of steam-distilled Rose essential oils, and absolues (another extraction method) from Bulgaria, Turkey and France, where the best Rose is acknowledged to come from. Caveat emptor, buyer beware! Here are a few facts about the properties of Rose. Rose is sedative: relaxing, calming and uplifting. It can be usefully added to a Lavender-based blend for better sleep, especially if the reason for sleeplessness is stress or racing thoughts from the day. Rose is a tonic to the reproductive system, and this applies to both women and men! For women, it is healing to the reproductive system, helpful at all stages of menstruation, and a boon to all aspects of female sexuality, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. It can also help men with emotional issues to support a more fulfilling sex life and deeper connection with a partner, and physically helps increase semen and sperm count. (A skilled aromatherapist and perfumer can make blends that need not smell overly rosy so that anyone can enjoy the benefits of Rose.) Rose is useful in skincare for all skin types particularly dry, mature and sensitive skin, balancing inflammation. Rose is beneficial for the heart and lungs (think of Heart Chakra) and its toning effect on capillaries is what helps lift the skin. 1st photo: Rose harvest, Bulgaria. 2nd photo: The Roses of Heliogabalus, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888.

One reason we do Mouthwork....

Modern medical imaging technology is an absolute wonder. Like many good things, however, there can sometimes be a downside. It goes beyond just the trauma of fa...lse positives and the dangers of false negatives, though. In fact, it's common enough that there's even a popular (though perhaps overstated) acronym for it; victims of medical imaging technology, or VOMIT. One thing imaging is often unable to establish is that an abnormal finding on an image is actually RELATED to a given symptom or complaint. For example, fully HALF of those 60 or older with NO shoulder pain show rotator cuff tears on imaging. Yet, if someone were to get some imaging done for shoulder pain, and it revealed a tear, all too often that would mark the end of the investigation, even if the tear were ultimately unrelated. Such an individual may even end up getting surgery for that incidental tear and wondering why their shoulder pain hasn't improved. Additionally, patients often become "married" to these incidental findings. By that, I mean they identify so strongly with the diagnosis stemming from the imaging that, if the abnormal finding is either one that they are told can't be fixed or perhaps requires surgery, they form limiting beliefs around their own healing. Those limiting beliefs may include such perennial troublemakers as, "I'm stuck with this pain forever" or "This will never stop hurting unless I get surgery". Admittedly, there's no easy answer for what to do about this. That said, I have an approach I use with clients when they want to discuss existing imaging results or ask about the possibility of having some imaging done. Barring the presence of red flags that point to serious or emergent conditions, I often prefer a wait and see approach. That is, let's see what we can do for your issue FIRST. If we can resolve it, perhaps you don't really need the pictures after all. If we take our best shot and aren't getting anywhere, then perhaps imaging would be useful. Typically, if my clients fail to see fairly rapid improvement, it's ended up being because there was a connected underlying pathology such as a tear, fracture, tumor etc. At that point, the likelihood that such a finding on imaging would actually be related to the complaint is much higher. Food for thought.

My backyard yoga space is far from "perfect" - there are dead leaves all over the deck, everything is a little dusty, there are weeds poking through the deck, a...nd there are spider webs all over everything because it hasn't rained in days. But instead of cleaning my space first, I just rolled out my mat and did my practice. Then, at the end of my practice, I got to see the beautiful trees & sky in savasana, and got a closer look at an amazing spider web. So maybe there was more perfection there than I originally saw at a quick glance. What is seemingly imperfect around you that upon closer look is holds hidden beauty? - Kat

Its common and often a delayed symptom of shock and trauma ___ Dont relax. Youll fall apart. Thats the undercurrent message of your nervous system __ Tell...ing someone to stop thinking about a stressor and just relax is like telling someone dont think about a white elephant. The only thing youre going to think about is a white elephant ___ The key is to bypass the elephant. How? Do mindful sensory awareness movement ____ The worst thing you can do after a stressful situation is relax. You will have too much time to think about the stressor/white elephant. Move and focus on moving. Slowly melting away at the underlying protective response ____ Mindful movement is active rest ___ Try this: Go for a walk and pay attention to all the sounds you can. No phone. No music. Just environment. From birds, your steps, your breath, planes, wind, voices, anything and everything. Single them out. Especially helpful in nature. Your #1 priority is sounds focus. Youll be blown away by the results ___ STOPCHASINGPAIN.comSTOPCHASINGPAIN Tap link in IG PROFILE for all things #stopchasingpain Memberships, community, videos, workshops, love, support, crazy shit path, podcasts ___ #stopchasingpain #chronicpain #move #chiropractic #fitness #exercise #movement #inflammation #LTAS #trauma #shock See more

Do your best without hurting yourself.

The stress response begins in the brain. Where does pain live? In the brain ___ One of the largest contributors to pain is fear and lack of control. Uncertainty... feeds anxiety. You become caught in a pain cycle loop ____ Pain. Guarding. Muscle spasm/Inflammation. Restricted mobility. Muscle weakness. Loss of function. Anger/frustration/helplessness. Repeat loop over and over and the brain grooves the loop ____ Helping a person control their helplessness and fear is just as important if not more important than what you do with your hands _____ E3: Empathy. Education. Empowerment. Powerful mojo. _____ And we wonder why with the world pandemic cloaked in fear and anxiety and uncertainty and not knowing and contradictions and fighting and anger and loneliness our immune system becomes weaker and more vulnerable. There will be repercussions on biology for decades and centuries. That stuff gets imprinted in your DNA ____ Now more than ever its up to you to focus on finding joy whenever and wherever you can. Thats where we need each other ____ STOPCHASINGPAIN.com STOPCHASINGPAIN Tap link in IG PROFILE for all things #stopchasingpain Memberships, community, videos, workshops, love, support, crazy shit path, podcasts ____ #stopchasingpain #chronicpain #move #chiropractic #fitness #exercise #movement #inflammation #LTAS See more

The skull and face consist of about 22 bones, depending on how you count them. Each is mobile. Each can create problems if restricted. These bones are subdivide...d into the neurocranium and viscerocranium. The neurocranium consists of the bones with attachments to the dura mater, the fibrous lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. The bones of the viscerocranium do not. Because of the dural attachments, the bones of the neurocranium are more easily affected by other areas of the body. Problems in the feet can cause restrictions in the sphenoid bone, for example. The bones of the viscerocranium tend to me more affected by local stresses rather than global. See more

I'll have to try this later....this is why releasing the tongue in CranioSacral Therapy can be so effective for helping with neck & head pain.

When it comes to regulating difficult emotions, there are two ways most people respond: they act out or they suppress. What many people arent aware of is that theres another way to regulate our emotions: Feel the feeling in real time.

Knee pain is all too common. I usually find that incidents of knee pain are actually hip or ankle problems in disguise. True knee problems are typically simple. However, when the hip/ankle are tight or unstable, the knee is forced to move in complex ways it wasn't designed to.

Feeling safe = healing. Period.

Metacognitive therapy is a new form of therapy that focuses not on how to identify and change thoughts (like traditional cognitive therapies), but instead explores the nature of thought itself.

The Psoas is: (A) A remote tribe in Papua, New Guinea. (B) A revolutionary computer operating system. (C) The muscle that is the key to your structural stabilit...y. By Liz Koch If you guessed C, you're correct. Buried deep within the core of your body, the psoas (pronounced "so-az") affects every facet of your life, from your physical well-being to who you feel yourself to be and how you relate to the world. A bridge linking the trunk to the legs, the psoas is critical for balanced alignment, proper joint rotation, and full muscular range of motion. In yoga, the psoas plays an important role in every asana. In backbends, a released psoas allows the front of the thighs to lengthen and the leg to move independently from the pelvis. In standing poses and forward bends, the thighs can't fully rotate outward unless the psoas releases. All yoga poses are enhanced by a released rather than shortened psoas. (When you reverse your orientation to gravity in inversions, however, the psoas must be toned as well as released to maintain proper spinal stability.) Whether you suffer from a sore back or anxiety, from knee strain or exhaustion, there's a good chance that a constricted psoas muscle might be contributing to your woes. Getting in touch with this deeply buried muscle can be humbling at first. You may discover that you've been doing many poses by contracting your core, instead of relying on your skeleton for support and allowing your more peripheral muscles to organize around a toned but flowing and spacious center. But if you persevere, psoas work can add new insight, openness, and stability to your practice. Though your psoas may not be as easy to sense as your biceps or hamstrings, improving your awareness of this crucial muscle can greatly enhance your physical and emotional health. Along with improving your structural stability, developing awareness of your psoas can bring to light fears long locked in the body as unconscious physical tension. Intimately involved in the fight or flight response, the psoas can curl you into a protective fetal ball or flex you to prepare the powerful back and leg muscles to spring into action. Because the psoas is so intimately involved in such basic physical and emotional reactions, a chronically tightened psoas continually signals your body that you're in danger, eventually exhausting the adrenal glands and depleting the immune system. As you learn to approach the world without this chronic tension, psoas awareness can open the door to a more sensitive attunement to your body's inner signals about safety and danger, and to a greater sense of inner peace. Meet Your Psoas To locate this powerful muscle, imagine peeling your body like an onion. The first layer is the skin; next come the abdominal muscles in front and the massive muscles of the sides and back. One layer deeper lie the intestines and another layer of back muscles. Continue peeling each layer until just before you reach your skeletal core: There in the center of your inner universe rest the psoas muscles. One on each side of the spine, each working independently yet harmoniously, the psoas attaches to the side and toward the front of the 12th thoracic vertebra and each of the lumbar vertebra. Moving through the pelvis without attaching to bone, the psoas inserts along with the iliacus muscle in a common tendon at the top of the femur. A healthily functioning psoas provides a sensitive suspension bridge between the trunk and the legs. Ideally, the psoas guides the transfer of weight from the trunk into the legs and also acts as a grounding wire guiding the flow of subtle energies. Working properly, the psoas functions like the rigging of a circus tent, stabilizing your spine just as guy wires help stabilize the main pole of the big top. In addition, the psoas provides a diagonal support through the trunk, forming a shelf for the vital organs of the abdominal core. In walking, a healthy psoas moves freely and joins with a released diaphragm to continuously massage the spine as well as the organs, blood vessels, and nerves of the trunk. Working as a hydraulic pump, a freely moving psoas stimulates the flow of fluids throughout the body. And a released, flowing psoas, combined with a stable, weight-bearing pelvis, contributes to the sensations of feeling grounded and centered. Psoas/Pelvis Relationship Think of your pelvis as the foundation of a balanced skeletal structure. For your pelvis to provide this stable base, it must function as part of the trunk rather than as part of the legs. Many people mistakenly think of their legs as starting at the waist, perhaps because so many major leg muscles attach to the pelvis. But skeletally and structurally, your legs start at your hip sockets. If your pelvis tilts forward or back or side to side every time you move your legs, the bones can't bear and transfer weight properly. Your psoas will then be called upon to help protect the spine by stabilizing your skeleton. Since the psoas can contract and release independently at any of its joint attachments, it can compensate for structural imbalances in many ways. But if you constantly contract the psoas to correct for skeletal instability, the muscle eventually begins to shorten and lose flexibility. Shortening the psoas leads to a host of unfortunate conditions. Inevitably, other muscle groups become involved in compensating for the loss of structural integrity. The pelvic bowl tips forward, shrinking the distance between the pelvic crests and the legs, and the femurs are compressed into the hip sockets. To compensate for this constriction, the thigh muscles become overdeveloped. Since full rotation of the thighbones can no longer occur in the hip joints, much of the rotational torque is transferred to the knees and the lumbar spinea recipe for knee and lower back injuries. In your yoga practice, if you feel strain in your knees or lower back in seated and standing poses, your body may be telling you that you need to lengthen your psoas. In addition to structural problems, shortening the psoas limits space in the pelvis and abdomen, constricting the organs, putting pressure on nerves, interfering with the movement of fluids, and impairing diaphragmatic breathing. Finally, by limiting your options for movement and by constricting your center, a shortened psoas decreases both your vitality and your connection to the sensations at your skeleto-muscular and emotional core. Losing touch with your core can happen in myriad ways. You may be born with structural imbalances that eventually lead you to engage the psoas for support. All sorts of physical traumas can compromise the optimal, healthy functioning of your psoas: injuries to the pelvis or spine, surgery, broken bones and joint injuries in your feet and legs, even a torn ligament from overexuberant stretching in yoga. No matter what their source, muscular imbalances that compensate for injuries, overdeveloped muscles, and chronic muscular tension all add to structural instability that affects the psoas. In addition, our living environment often does not support the proper use of the psoas. From car seats to constrictive clothing, from chairs to shoes that distort posture, many features of modern life curtail our natural movement patterns. In fact, a chronically tightened psoas may date back to your first steps. Baby shoes that constrict the foot, impair the movement of bones, or limit ankle mobility can alter a child's skeletal balance and stifle psoas vitality. Other child-rearing paraphernalia can add to the problem. Rigid plastic baby carriers limit movement, eliminating the natural protection and give-and-take of a mother's body, and playpens restrict the crawling essential for neuromuscular and skeletal maturation. Walkers give infants a false sense of stability, encouraging them to stand and walk before the bones are fully formed and ready to bear weight. Rushing development in this way teaches children to rely on their psoas muscles, rather than their skeletons, for support. Either emotional trauma or an ongoing lack of emotional support can also lead to a chronically contracted psoas, and thus to a loss of core awareness. If your fight/flight syndrome is triggered into constant arousal, eventually you lose contact with your inner world. One psoas workshop participant, for example, recalled her mother repeatedly admonishing her, "Look where you're going, young lady." Constantly receiving the message that her body couldn't be trusted led her into chronic anxiety. She realized she literally watched every step she took, forcing her skeleton to sag under the weight of a drooping head. As an adult, learning to consciously release your psoas can rekindle vital energies by re-establishing your connection to your body's internal signalsyour instinctual somatic wisdom. Releasing your psoas encourages this process by allowing you to trust your skeletal stability instead of holding yourself up by muscular effort. Sensing your bones supporting weight translates into a physical and emotional feeling of "standing on your own two feet." With a properly functioning psoas, the bones bear weight, the muscles move the bones, and the joints connect the subtle energies of the body. Energy flows through the joints, offering a sense of continuity, like the string flowing through a pearl necklace that transforms it into something more than the sum of its parts. The psoas, by conducting energy, grounds us to the earth, just as a grounding wire prevents shocks and eliminates static on a radio. Freed and grounded, the spine can awaken. Once you've learned to sense and release your psoas, you can apply these lessons to your yoga practice and everyday life. Keeping your psoas released during yoga practice liberates attention previously directed toward your contracted core, allowing you to sense more clearly the delicate balance of action between other muscle groups. And freeing your center creates a sense of relaxation and calm that can infuse all your activities. In his poem "Burnt Norton," T.S. Eliot wrote a phrase that perfectly captures the inner stability and peacefulness that accompanies a properly functioning psoas: "the still point of the turning world." Article and more info here: http://bit.ly/XSzPKI Image From Yoganatomy

Do this. Dont do that. Suppression. Conformity. Fit in. Good. Bad ____ Conform to the norm. Other words to describe it: comply (with), follow, observe, obey, ...respect, abide by, adapt or adjust (to): _____ It takes a lot of courage to stand out and embrace the uniqueness of you. Maybe you are tall and you are self conscious so you slouch. Maybe you have large or small breasts and you want to hide them and you slouch. Maybe you... ____ Unspoken beliefs we were taught to adapt as a way of being acceptable or likable. Powerful drivers in your tension and chronic pain _____ As a teenager I was very obese and didnt like myself. I wanted to slouch, curl inwards and hide. I was relentlessly teased and ridiculed for having man boobs. That shit cuts deep and leaves a permanent mark on your nervous system and your soul ____ Im now 53 years old and that pattern finds itself creeping back when I have moments of vulnerability. The body never forgets anything. So Im always mixing body work with emotions ____ Easing tension isnt just about changing tissue, it about changing beliefs too. About your world and yourself. You come to discover in time its the more powerful of the two ___ Thats the habits and behaviors driver ___ Open your eyes and see the Matrix. Then take the right color pill. See ya there Neo __ An easy way to help it: DO DIFFERENT. Change your routine. Even just a small way. Who says you have to walk from your car to the front door? Try skipping _____ Who says you have to sit in a chair and eat at the table? Eat on the floor ____ Get the idea? Novelty _____ STOPCHASINGPAIN.com STOPCHASINGPAIN Tap link in IG PROFILE for all things #stopchasingpain Memberships, community, videos, workshops, love, support, crazy shit path, podcasts See more

Autonomic Nerve System

CranioSacral therapy can help keep those glial cells healthy, and help you get a better night's sleep. Win-win.

Maybe for today, try not to be as hard on yourself. Healing happens more fluidly once when we accept & respect who we are, the situations that brought us to where we are, and the strength & will to continue this fascinating life of constant change #mondaymotivation

The is the secret.

Essential Oil du Jour: Ylang-Ylang For any type of stress, Ylang-Ylang offers a relaxing, calming, slightly hypnotic "serenity now" sort of feeling. The vibrant... yellow colour of its petals point to a connection to the third, Solar Plexus Chakra (bolstering self-confidence); and its ability to deepen breathing, slow a rapid heartbeat and lower blood pressure speak to an affinity with Heart Chakra as well. Ylang-ylang features in Ambrosia Apothecary's classic diffuser blends Comfort & Calm and Breathe Easy, and also 'Ambrosia' signature diffuser blend, which also includes Tangerine essential oil and exotic Osmanthus Absolue. Ylang-ylang is an aphrodisiac and hormone-balancer for both women and men, and its sebum-regulating properties make it useful to balance both oil-rich and dry skins. Ylang-ylang essential oil is a wonderful addition to scalp oil treatments since it promotes luxurious hair growth, and thus is used in a great many skin, hair, and scalp preparations.

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Craniosacral therapy helps to quiet the "screaming".

With its deep effects on the nervous system, it's not unusual for clients to report interesting and even surreal experiences after receiving cranial work. One b...it of feedback I receive quite often, and have experienced myself, is the sense that the world has come into "hi-def" after treatment. Everything looks brighter, sharper and more vivid. See more

Gratitude could help us get through the pandemic without turning on each other, a new study suggests.

Even watching the breath (rather than controlling it) helps to bring stress levels down. This is also a reason why released no the respiratory diaphragm in CranioSacral is so important....to breath more consciously, the diaphragm must be able to move.

The serratus posterior inferior is a respiratory muscle near the low back. It helps with exhalation, torso rotation and stabilization of the upper lumbar and lo...wer thoracic areas. It tends to be chronically under strain (due mostly to faulty breathing patterns) and this can lead to adhesion. Among other things, it commonly adheres to the latissimus dorsi muscle, leading to spasm and restriction in both muscles. Rolling out the lower lat, in the area where the two muscles overlap, with your arm overhead can help restore relative motion to the area. See more

Many people are wondering if that bad cold they had back in February or March was actually the new coronavirus. In principle, an antibody test could tell you that, but most of the tests out there right now arent very good.

Treating & affecting the heart by releasing the neck and diaphragm...

Here's an experiment. Lightly clack your teeth together. Feel where they touch. Now tilt your pelvis forward and back, checking how your teeth meet in each position. It changes. This is because pelvis alignment influences jaw position... and vice versa.

The bones of the skull are supposed to move; albeit not a lot. When something that is supposed to move does so incorrectly or gets misaligned, problems ensue. E...ach cranial bone has its own characteristic issues associated with misalignment/restriction. The sphenoid bone is no exception. Symptoms of sphenoid misalignment/restriction include: - Headache and migraines - Eye pain and other visual disturbances - Hormone balance - Insomnia - Psychological disturbances/personality changes, depression - Symptoms of impaired brain function including memory loss, dyslexia, lack of ability to concentrate, brain fog - Sinus related issues - Dental issues including teeth grinding and dental malocclusion - Asthma - Upper gastric conditions and transverse colon problems - Problems of the trigeminal nerve (including Bells Palsy and Trigeminal Neuralgia) - Neck or lower back problems - Scoliosis

Essential Oil du Jour: Rosemary Ambrosia carries several different varieties (chemotypes) of Rosemary, good for concentration and focus; rheumatic, muscle, and ...headache pain; respiration; and in skincare. Rosemary certainly has a long culinary history, used both to flavour and preserve meat. Rosemary has the honour of being a prominent ingredient of Hungary Water, one of the first alcohol-based perfumes made in Europe, 14th century. The water may also have had up to a great many other ingredients including Lemon, Rose, Neroli, Peppermint, Thyme and Melissa, as well as brandy or wine. Diluted, it was famously used as an anti-wrinkle face wash by Queen Elizabeth (a.k.a. Isabella) of Hungary. Hungary Water was likely invented in response to the bubonic plague and was burnt in French hospitals during epidemics. All of these uses point to Rosemary's preservative, rejuvenating and antiseptic (preventing tissue degeneration and controlling infection) properties.