Ascension and Bodywork
You may call it the Galactic Underworld of the Mayan Calendar, you may call it the grand Saturn-Uranus opposition, or you might just go bleary-eyed and call it the Apocalypse. You could also focus on the economic instability, the Earth changes, or the electro-magnetic anomalies, but suffice it to conclude that we are in a time of great change. Indeed, the Apocalypse means the "revealing of the truth," and the truth is often ugly, uncomfortable and stranger than fiction. This is a time when everything in our personal lives is coming up to be healed and released so that we may move on to lighter and greener pastures. This is also a time to consider outside-of-the-box healing modalities which take you out of the rut of your painful stories and ancient wounds and into true healing and an ever-lightening load. Contemplate first that when it comes to your personal spiritual awakening, what is in the way IS the way. And while many consider the time-honored leather couch and the prescription-peddling psychiatrist to be the path to healing our issues, I suggest you ask yourself, "how does my body feel about that?" For, indeed, beyond our cherished-yet-verbose tales of victory and victimhood, there patiently lays a novella that has yet to find a receptive ear: the body's story. And every cutting-edge, body-mind modality these days is saying the same thing: get out of the story and go back to the body. The body is our map, our temple and the jeep that has treaded fearlessly over every obstacle in our trail leading to unconditional love for self and others. Your early experiences with bodywork may have been a blissful feast for the senses and yet lately you may find that you have difficulty deeply relaxing into the work and that what once felt good now feels numb. With each successive session, you ask for deeper and deeper work but you only wind up feeling more sore, less relaxed and tighter than ever. This is a good thing; this is evolution in all its quirky glory. And this is also where your body-centered, trauma-work-trained massage therapist can help you move through lifetime after lifetime of wounding and self-criticizing into the realm of the unified self beyond right/wrong and pain/bliss. It all begins with physical sensation. When the therapist begins to knead the upper traps in your right shoulder, you may remember your bike accident and feel compelled to share how this shoulder came to be so jacked up. The therapist, trained in tracking sensation in self and others, may interrupt you and say, "when you said 'lost control of the bike,' I noticed a twitching in your right foot." In that moment, you drop the story and all its fascinating content and you listen to the subtle musings of the body. Your right foot is twitching, your left hand is cold, and your heart is racing. This is all the information we need - no police report, no eye-witness testimony, no hidden-camera recording - and we can begin to heal this story. We stay with sensation. We keep a gentle awareness of and a full presence with what is uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. And once the old wound thaws, the jets in the hot tub of euphoria putter up and what before the session felt numb or painful now starts to feel good. Real good. This whole process may only take 15 minutes but it will make the rest of your session feel profoundly more relaxing. And after you get redressed, down 2 glasses of water, scribble in your journal and take a nap, you may find that the traumatic injury and its effects on you don't pack the same punch. The electricity has been turned off, the bomb has been defused, the eyelash has been removed from the soda. And soon the world around you begins to change, too. The frustration you felt on the inside that you always experienced outside yourself is no longer there, and suddenly the peace you feel in your heart is infused in every interaction and in every dynamic that you experience. The world has changed because you have changed, and as we heal individually, so do we heal collectively for our paths all lead to the same road and our streams all flow into the same ocean. This is the kind of work that I am most passionate about and would be honored to share with you the next time you come into the spa. In the context of one session, it's about letting the work go deeper and feeling more pleasure in your body. Over the span of a couple years, it's about packing up our etheric boxes in the attic and boarding the planes to timelessness and non-locality in which the past, present and future are but an ever-moving tapestry of NOW. All aboard? -Andrew Pollak Find out more about Andrew here. |
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Sensorielle Spa
1801 13th St, Ste 150 (One Boulder Plaza)
Boulder, CO 80302
phone 303.247.9932
fax 303.247.0062
email: experience@sensoriellespa.com
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