What is Yoga? | Your Instructors | Note from Robin | Featured Articles | Archived Notes Viniyoga & Resonant Massage: A Healing Partnership Our health depends on a balanced relationship with the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of our being. Yoga and massage are both transformational practices through which we can experience unity and balance. As a yoga student and massage practitioner, I've discovered these practices to be gentle pathways through my life's healing journey. Viniyoga engages our whole selves through asana, pranayama, meditation and prayer. It enhances our kinesthetic awareness. Resonant bodywork, such as massage, amplifies many of the benefits we realize through our yoga practice, deepening our experience of relaxation, flexibility and strength. It brings postural and energetic balance to our bodies and helps release tension in the muscles and joints. In combination, yoga and massage can transform an experience of injury from a time of helplessness and pain, to a period of increased awareness, growth and overall improved health. Studies have shown that yoga and massage relieve muscles spasms, increase oxygen to tissues, prevents atrophy and improves muscles tone, reduces swelling and pain, and has a tranquilizing effect on the nervous system. Additionally, the integration of yoga with massage therapy can facilitate a powerful release of energetic and emotional tension. Gentle, nurturing touch engenders a feeling of wholeness. This sense of wholeness is dramatically different from the experience of contraction and separation we feel when in pain, grief or loss. In both yoga and bodywork the essential element to healing is the expanded consciousness that grows with direct experience. It is this direct experience of release, which enables us to shift from responding to life situations with judgment to opening with acceptance. As a massage therapist and counselor, I am my client's partner in healing. I have witnessed the amazing capacity of the body to heal. The Yoga Barn offers us a safe space in which to explore and experience physical, emotional and spiritual healing. My colleague, Gina Da Silva-Villalobos and I, invite the students of The Yoga Barn to experience healing touch in the form of resonant bodywork, prenatal and treatment massage. Namaste, Catherine de Marin is a graduate of the BodyMind Academy. BodyMind training integrates traditional Western massage techniques with Eastern awareness practices of energetic healing. A BodyMind practitioner since October 1998, she became a certified prenatal massage therapist in August of 1999. Catherine has been a Reiki master since March 1997. She created DharmaTouch Massage to offer clients resonant bodywork. Gina Da Silva-Villalobos is a graduate of Seattle Massage School August of 1993. Her training integrates Chinese Tuina Sports Massage, Hawaiian Lomi Lomi since 1993, Deep Tissue Blends since 1999, and specializes in the treatment of the neck due to whiplash injury or chronic conditions since 1994. She combines hydrotherapy treatment with her clinical injury work to facilitate deeper healing and nurturing. |
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