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| Learn To Heal |
| Spinal Awareness is a way of learning, not a therapy
or treatment. It is taught with Individual Hands-on
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| Feldenkrais® Healing |
| Moshe Feldenkrais created a very unusual method
of movement and touch. His methods are based on
the movements we learned as infants that enabled
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| Heal with Awareness |
| Organizing
the multitude of muscles and bones of the
body into a coordinated movement is no small
task. The nervous system has this job, sending
messages with nervous impulses to the various
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Most People, No Matter How Challenged, Can Improve.
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CEREBRAL
PALSY
From a Spinal Awareness view we can approach persons
suffering from this and many other neurological
disorders. We look at the limitations in the mind
and body as confusions in the nervous system's ability
to function. This becomes part of a condition in
which the skeleton becomes malformed and the muscles
not working as they could.
By using the educational approaches of Spinal Awareness,
the nervous system of the afflicted individual can
be taught to begin to correct itself. With time,
movements can often be regained. As the use of the
body is improved, the deformities in the musculature
and skeleton can begin to heal.
An example is illustrated in the following case
history.
Patrick was asked to help a 13-year old Balinese
boy with Cerebral Palsy a few years ago. When the
boy was first met, his condition was very severe.
His whole body pulsed with spasms. He could not
use his hands, roll on his side, sit-up, whatever.
His legs were deformed and stuck together, his knees
black, and his feet not correctly on the end of
his legs and black with poor circulation.
His one blessing was his attitude, a happy, sensitive
face, and his unique inner essence.
Within the first seven or eight hands-on hour sessions,
he regained the use of his hands, learned to roll
side to side, sit-up, and push his wheelchair. He
could feed, wash, move about and began a marvelous
transformation.
Miracle? When the confusion in his nervous system
was reeducated to eliminate the destructive spasms,
he could relearn the use of his body.
Continuing with weekly sessions for various periods
of time over 3 years, he today has an upper body
that looks like an athlete. His legs are normal
color, his feet almost aligned on the end of his legs,
and he can crawl separating his knees. He is being
tutored in addition and has learned to read and
write. One of the special persons who encouraged
Patrick to help this young man, is now teaching
him art as well.
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