What Is Healing Gateway's Bodywork?

Many people think the term Bodywork and Massage are interchangeable, they are not.

There are several major distinctions.

There are many well-known styles of massage i.e.: Swedish, Esalen, Sports, Russian, Lymphatic, Craniosacral Sacral, and Sensual massage just to name a few. One of the primary goals of massage is the relaxation of the physical body by releasing stored physical tension. Most practitioners use lubricants, special strokes on bare skin, and body movements. Massage practitioners work on the soft tissues, muscles, and fascia with strokes, manipulation, and movement; to improve circulation, range of motion, and to increase energy flow and vitality.

In Massage the client is normally a passive receiver during the session. There are also many well-known styles of Bodywork, i.e Tragger, Rolfing, Hellerwork, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Reiki, Lomi Lomi and many more.

In bodywork from our perspective all disease has a foundation of spiritual disharmony.

At Healing Gateways we offer a variety of bodywork disciplines that begins with a spiritual intention. We work in a partnership with our clients to discover and explore the sources of body, mind, and/or spirit stress or dis-ease. Most sessions are done fully clothed, with just shoes, socks, and jewelry removed.

The client and bodyworker work together discover how to release stored emotions, pain, and memories to enhance the experience of wellness, inner-balance, wholeness, and self-healing, thereby, enabling a recognition of an awareness that self-loving choices are available in all areas of life. The client's initial spiritual connection is to his or her own Self, and this experience of Self-love allows for the sharing of an intimate connection, an experience safety and trust with their bodyworker.

The desire of many of our clients is to complete their past to enhance their experience of living a joyful life in the present moment. Clients often carry hurts, disappointments, traumas, disharmony, and pain in their spirit, mind, and body. They come ready and willing to release this old baggage, and to rediscover their capacity to love, are well, be whole, and be happy. We facilitate their journey by offering a safe place to release the stored or blocked energy (old patterns) that cause these stresses.

Our bodywork techniques are designed to encourage the client to connect and integrate their spirit, mind, and body, to discover and experience self-love, release pain and be in harmony with Self.

Clients are able release stored energy and emotions, promote self-realizations, and break from old non-preferred patterns of behavior and experiences in a bodywork session. Loving touch is experienced in all Healing Gateway's bodywork sessions, even when there is physical or mental discomfort, the client knows and experiences that they are not going through the experience alone, that the discomfort is temporary, and has a purpose in their healing.

Some of the results experienced include; a profound sense of well-being and wholeness, a deep feeling of relaxation, a transformational experience of emotional freedom, and the recognition, connection, and experience of inner Self-love and peace.