Celebrate Intention 

I hope this is Holiday season are filling you with happiness and joy. As the weather outside invites us to get cozy, these are the short days and the dark nights are longer. We may have family in town or we are traveling and hustling to get the gifts, the groceries, the finishing touches to make everything special this time of year. For some of us who may have experienced loss, or family hardships it could be a rougher time of year. Just acknowledging it can be both, and.

Often times family time is a great time to get together with our loved ones. To celebrate our wins and give each other support for the losses we’ve had throughout the years together. And it can also bring up a lot of family and friendship dynamics, or if we are separated from family, it can bring up grief, sadness or anxiety too.

As we celebrate the holidays and the New Year, there is a tendency to indulge with the decadence. We allow ourselves the celebratory drinks, pies, the cakes and cookies, the socializing, the jovial frolicking, the hours of dancing, the late nights and relaxing days, the fresh powder, the shopping, the cooking and cleaning. And at the end of it all, after the extended period of celebration, we tend to feel the effects of the indulgence, and we start thinking, maybe need a reset. It’s a good time of year to give yourself permission to indulge and to rest. We can take on so much expectation around the holidays and just by acknowledging both sides. The outward expression and the in. We can find the balance. In this winter time it is important to keep making some time to nurture yourself.

As the New Years approaches we begin to look towards the resolution, the commitment to ourselves, to be the best version of ourselves possible. We look at our addictions, our habits, and patterns in behavior, in thinking, in our unconscious, subconscious and conscious minds. Who we are and what we want to become. We get to feel into whats going well, what needs change and what we can do to support our growth and newness. This is a time where we get to reinvent ourselves.

Rest is an integral part of relaxation. Enjoying the winter break...what does this look like for you? How do you balance activity and inactivity? Maybe you take a longer walk and climb the hills, maybe you play in the snow for hours, or work out. How do you get feeling good in your body and the movement that helps your energy to flow. Maybe then you lavishly bask in your favorite spot in the sunlight for a midday nap. How do you balance, what do you do in the winter time to stay active and to rest, restore and rejuvenate? Balance is having both.

Creating optimum health means having a whole body movement that works you in a dynamic way, at a pace that feels personally challenging for you and also respecting your limits and boundaries. It also might be laying off the knee, or not pushing yourself too hard. Only you know what your body needs, if you listen and can interpret your body’s language and needs.

Integration takes place during rest and relaxation. Rest is integral for your body to uptake, to grok to assimilate the new education you have received during your activities and movement. It’s the contraction expansion principle. We come in closer and squeeze the contraction and then the expansion is in the let go.

Balance occurs when we counter, when we allow the Both, And. This time of year is a perfect example of this contraction to expansion, the balance of doing and not doing. Coming inside together and then expanding into the New Year, into the mystery of what your future holds.

Balance also occurs when we center ourselves, in the middle. This can be done by moving into our edges, the outer limits of our boundaries on opposite sides. Finding an extreme, and then finding the counter or opposite extreme (in movement terms this means the farthest range of motion.) This helps us to measure where we are at in space and time, and we can then find equal distance between the extremes. This proprioception takes place throughout the body.

And is enhanced during moments where you are called to tune into the body. How do you find center in your body?

Proprioception matters because we want to be able to move with full mobility, and accurately measure where we are so we don’t run into things, trip and fall, stumble, have dexterity to complete our daily activities with ease and grace. During bodywork and movement forms, our reeducation happens by releasing the restrictions in the tissues that blocks the neurological communication, and so we can more accurately propriocept. When we take the time to tune into the left and right front and back sides of our body, and the segments that stack to build ourselves from the ground up, we give ourselves the moments necessary to relate to a deeper part of us.

When we observe, centered in awareness, the autonomic operational systems have down time to readjust, the ligaments and tendons at the joints in the ankles, knees and hips, the joint articulations of the vertebrae and the shoulders, elbow and wrists. Each joint has an opportunity to synchronize and recalibrate. There are certain junctions in the body that are holding tension and restricting the function of the joint, and the surrounding organs, and tissues, this can cause adhesions scarring and fascial restriction. The fascial restriction can be holding in this particular place and can also be gluing and holding down other structures including organs.

Centering means we need to clear the restrictions so the adhered tissue has full range of motion without pain, or inflammation.

We have a map of the body, the anatomy and structure presented in a drawing, researched and yet static, not living. In reality the body has developed and had a life of activity that is very personal and unique. In an assessment, the body read is understand how the body is holding itself upright and which areas of the body are too tight, or being pulled, crowded or pushed out of alignment. I use Myofascial Release techniques to reorganize the issues, and to restore the function and mobility in this area. When the balance is restored the body’s a higher level of function moving fluidly as a unit instead of dysfunctional parts.

I have clients who have been in chronic pain, who have suffered from accidents which resulted in injury and trauma. I work with people who have suffered from stroke, have sciatica, are recovering from drop foot, sports injuries and cancer. I work with people who understand the connection of the body, mind and emotions. Clients who are looking for a way to heal from mental and emotional trauma. I am an injury specialist, I help clients who want more freedom, ease and joy in their bodies.

I have presence and awareness tools as well as advanced tools from my 20 plus years as a bodyworker. I weave these bodies of work into sessions designed unique to each individual, based upon what I see they need to bring them into a centered, present state. Which then reflects in the tissues.

I practice Myofascial Release exclusively with my clients because in all my years, I have seen the biggest results using this therapy. Myofascial Release allows me to recall and utilize all of my former training in a way that is the most effective.

Angela is an Injury Specialist and a Myofascial Release Therapist at Sol Bodyworks in Grass Valley. Her clients benefit from her more than 20 years of experience working with Fascia.

Angela Rose treats clients with Myofascial Release Therapy in individualized sessions, series and intensives. She has very substantial positive outcomes and the results are incredible. She works with clients to walk again, to run faster and to heal from pain, so they find their freedom and ease to live their best lives.

Schedule your session and treat your body right, Get back to the active lifestyle you deserve, and book today.

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