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Hello this is Athena Jezik!

We're back at

doing some more

massage work,

bodywork, whatever seems to come up today.

I've been getting a lot of really good emails

and i appreciate that and

thank you for all the comments on the site and the thumbs up because that helps

us to know if we're doing a good job.

So please continue to make comments and maybe offer suggestions or ask

questions and

see how we can accommodate that.

I've been getting some really good emails

so I thought I might

take this a little bit further and show you a few more things

that

won't probably give you much to practice with, but it will give you

some ideas of what all there is out there in the realm of body work.

Some of it is moving into more of an energetic

position which the lymphatic and the cranial sacral therapy

does work a little more energetically

but you can find that in the muscles as well.

So we're just going to start out

working

like a general massage but what I'm gonna do

right away is, there's a thing that we do in

bodywork, more advanced bodywork, involving

mapping the body

but not mapping it like the cranial mapping but

scanning the body with the hand and you can oftentimes feel where there is

disturbances in the

energetic field,

which will relate to something going on underneath the body.

I know for some of your it's gonna seem like very weird things

but until you

experience it or find it in your hands,

it's best to reserve your criticism

until you understand a little bit more

how the energy works, how the body works, and what's going on

at many other levels that were not accustomed to knowing about.

Right in this area is where I'm

finding some

stress going on. There's not a good feel to the energy field right there. It

feels a little agitated. It kind of feels like a wash machine agitator.

So I would guess that in here there's some kind of tightness and

there is.

Does this feel like tightness to you Corrina?

And you can use the

skills of

scanning the body.

You come up with a lot more

things that are connected at different areas of the body.

So I'm gonna focus there a little bit inside of

all of the regular work that I would do

in a massage session.

Please bear in mind that I do very little massage anymore.

I incorporate it in

to help muscles relax or to

move a little bit of fluid. When the fluids are moved out I will

go over it

with manual work.

But I'm gonna concentrate here

to start with.

What I'm doing is just

bringing a nice thumb iron

up through this area that was tight going crosswise

and just using the finger along there.

When you find an area that has a little bit of weakness or tension in it

you can focus in on just working that area.

There's quite a bit of tension actually right in through this entire area.

Checking both sides

to see exactly how the tension is. If it's symmetrical

then there is more of a balance than if it's

not.

Okay so I'm gonna come back up here,

back to that. Let's open up some of the muscles that are around that area

because as you are well aware

the muscles and the attachments and the way pain refers around the body

it's like

reading some kind of a map that changes all the time

because there's not any direct thing that happens.

There's tendencies that happen. There's

things that you

kinda figure but

really and truly when you're working with body work they are so many things

that can happen

to take a body out of balance that

the more intuitive that you work

and the less

step one step two step three that you work

with your thinking

process

the more effective you're going to be

in the results that you have.

It's a very good idea to have a good thorough routine to pick up these things

but when you get more advanced in the work and start to

pickup energies of the body then

that's when the work begins to change and becomes much more personalized

for each person.

So i'm doing my basic old

forever

massage routine here.

Making sure that the rest of the muscles of the body are

at least relaxing down and then I can focus a little more on the muscles that are

having a difficult time

relaxing

probably because of a

twisting

or contortion,

being overstressed, overworked,

being held into an abnormal position for a long period of time.

Different things like that can all bring

muscles into a

little more stressed situation.

Here's where it is.

And I'm just, you know,

following that.

There's really not anything that's

exact in what you do as a body worker.

You can do whatever comes to you to do because oftentimes

you'll have an intuitive sense about it

and when I talk like this, this is really much more advanced type of work.

The people that have

gone into this work for a while and

practiced and have a lot of different

bodies under their hands,

they begin to really see the body in a completely different way.

The techniques are good but

when we get too much that, you know, "to correct this we have to do this this

this and this..."

I've seen over the years

way way way too many people that aren't getting helped and they go back and

back to these different modalities and

there's very little change that happens over long periods of time.

Those are not effective therapies for whatever's going on.

They may have had some assistance and help

along the way but when the

therapy

is not giving you

a good

clear forward momentum in

it's correction then you may want to look for

something else that would better assist the body.

So i'm just doing the normal

routine

again

and being quite thorough with it

and coming into that tension. You can feel the tension. It's still there

but it's softening

quite a bit.

So because it doesn't feel like it's wanting to come out

very quickly with just the massage technique

there apparently is more going on.

So I'm going to go a little more subtly with this area and see if we can unlock some

of this going on.

It's right along the edge of the

erector spinae.

It's coming up a little bit into the trapezius, so there is some of that

involved.

I don't think the rhomboid is involved in this, which feels like it's

the trapezius and the erector spinae

primarily

that is doing the

work and getting itself a little bit out of sync.

Here I have my fingers along the edge of the muscle along where the

vertebrae is. I'm kind of pulling it aside

and i'm just gonna hold it here and there's not a lot of pressure.

It may look like there's some pressure but it's really not very forceful at

all.

What I'm gonna do from here is I'm gonna lighten it up even more. Just lighten

it

and lighten it.

Take less and less force, pulling it all the way up until

it feels like i'm just barely interfacing with

the skin.

When I get to a point where it feels like there's

no resistance

on the back or the fingers, which right now I've got it.

It's going to start to do it's unwinding.

And it's important to stay connected to it.

It's important to pay attention to what's going on.

What we're seeing here is it's turning itself into

a direction

which is probably gonna help it to

release.

This is where the body knows what to do, the consciousness of the body.

I know that's very hard for some of you out there to grasp

but it's time for us to start to think about

things in a different way than what we've been taught bacause much of what we've

been taught hasn't been

accurate.

If we were taught these sorts of techniques and different things like

this in alternative medicine,

good eating,

healing serous diseases with food,

we would have a whole different scene as far as

the medical scene.

There wouldn't be as much sickness going on.

So it's time for us

to realize that

you know, industry

in medicine is maybe

in order to make a profit.

We may want to examine what it is that brings profit and

start to look at things a little more objectively and

not so much out of fear.

lWe've lost our connection

with a lot of things. It's time to get that back.

And I know there's a lot of you out there that understand this. Now, what's happening

under here

is there's a lot more softening and it doesn't feel like there's that ridge

at all.

It's been dissolved.

That's an easy

one to fix.

Actually, I didn't fix it I just held the space for it to be

able to

work its way through.

Then of course the same thing can go on with the other side.

I'm just gonna do a little here. The cameras are set up in a way that i can't get to that

side.

So fortunately her

trauma side was on the right side that we needed.

This way you can just see it's a work with the hands and the fingers and

the connection with it all.

When you're working with energy of the body or you're even going in

more intuitively into something

the way that that's done is you have to really get out of your head to

do that. It's a different

knowing.

it's a different place of knowing.

you kind of have to split your head and

know what you're doing and kind of have an understanding in that regard but you also have to

trust

what you're getting at another level

and that's a very hard thing to come into but it does make a lot of difference.

Just yielding over to what is

out there rather than trying to figure it out.

Just a little circular stuff and then I'm gonna

give a nice vertebral

stretch going up the back.

And checking the sacrum

and occiput.

And this again comes to lightening. It's a good thing to do this because then you

have the dural tube also being able to unwind.

Particularly after there's been wound up muscles along the vertebrae.

It's been my experience with my hands to notice that this is a very good way to

just assure that the deepest core part of the body is able to find it's way to

its correction as well

as everything lays out from that spot, from that whole core.

So if that isn't in alignment nothing else will really be in alignment