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During the CO-VID19 pandemic I can’t offer in-person Ortho-Bionomy bodywork sessions to help you relieve pain and stress.

But I’m determined to continue helping all my clients as much as I can.

So during the lockdown you can meet with me for pain relief sessions on Zoom for 30 or 60 minutes.

During these sessions we can:

  • examine the pain, discomfort or reduced functionality you experience,
  • consider the impact your daily activities (e.g. working from home) are having on your body
  • explore how your current postural habits are contributing to your pain/discomfort/reduced mobility
  • discuss pain relief techniques, movements and positioning you can use to improve your daily experience in your body
  • develop new habits of posture and movement to help you create a new relationship with your body and support your transition to sustainable, authentic wellbeing

Your body is always trying return to its primal state of wellbeing. It has enormous resources for self-healing and regeneration. Physical tension and emotional/mental stress create resistance that blocks your natural healing processes. Relaxation and ease are the keys to release this resistance and allow your cells to return to their natural state of vitality.

So now you don’t have to miss out on the benefits of Ortho-Bionomy sessions due to our forced social isolation. Book your appointment online HERE  or contact me by SMS on 0422 266 190 or email janine@ortho-bionomymelbourne.com

Here’s what some of my clients are saying about the video consultations:

“I worked with Janine online and it was a really useful session: we were able to review progress and add some new strategies to the mix. Working this way underlines the ‘teamwork’ aspect of her treatment and succeeds because Janine is so clear in her understanding and perceptive about the feedback she is receiving. It can also be helpful to address issues in the home environment where from day to day we move, live and work.” EM

“I booked a video session with Janine after feeling pain in my lower back and shoulders. This session was very helpful as Janine demonstrated the movements, showing me in great detail and with patience how to apply a range of exercises to ease the pain. I have had better posture since, which is very helpful considering all the time spent in front of the computer working from home.” MA

“Last year I started working with Janine to reduce my neck and shoulder pain and associated headaches and this had been so effective going from 3 or 4 headaches a week to now only once or twice a month. But my neck and shoulders got really jammed up just after the (COVID-19) shutdown and I got a headache that had persisted for a few days. So I asked Janine for an online session. It was really effective, we released the neck and shoulder pain and the headache went away. I felt so much better. I was so relieved that I could still work with Janine from home, I don’t know what I would do without this. I am going to keep doing regular online sessions with Janine to manage my headaches, yay!” SB

“I booked a video session with Janine because I’d sustained an injury right at a part of my body that I’ve been working with her for many months. There was also a bit of unresolved tension in that area still, and stress had been affecting my ability to listen to my body. During the session Janine recommended techniques I could use at home and gave me support and encouragement to apply them for myself reminding me that just because my body isn’t yelling at me (with pain) that it doesn’t mean I should stop listening to it. Since that session, I have been using the practices every day. Not only do they help physically relieve pain, but also I’m giving attention to my body in calming, conscious and intentional ways, which really helps to relieve stress and feel nurtured.” MK

 

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Simple self care for pain relief

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Do you or a friend need pain relief? Are you looking for a simple, quick, natural solution?

Then this class is for you:

Simple Self Care for Pain Relief
Saturday 28 Sept 2019 12.30-2.30pm

If you experience pain on a daily basis or even just sometimes, you’ll know that it gets in your way. It makes you tired and grumpy. It makes you scared that something is wrong with your body.

There are lots of options out there for pain relief. Many of us are told we have pain because we don’t have enough ‘core strength’ or we should ‘stretch more’ or we have ‘bad posture’ and should ‘just straighten up’, ‘put those shoulders back’ or ‘tuck your tailbone under’. We’re told to do repetitive (and sometimes painful) exercises. We reach for the painkillers but worry that we might become dependent on them or take too many.

I’m here to tell you that your body knows how to relieve most pain all by itself. Our bodies have evolved over thousands of years to look after themselves when something goes wrong. And they’re REALLY good at it.

In this class you’ll learn simple techniques for relieving pain from all major regions of the body, with no special props or equipment. They’re quick and easy to use and most importantly THEY DON’T HURT.

You’ll be blown away by how simple it is to feel better.

The class is suitable for all ages from children to elderly. Bring your friends, children and family members and learn to tap into your body’s natural self-correcting ability.

The class will be held in the peaceful One Heart Yoga Studio at Abbotsford Convent. Numbers are limited so BOOK NOW to secure your place.

Call Janine on 0422266190 or email janine@ortho-bionomymelbourne.com for more information.

Walking without pain

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I received this moving letter about walking without pain from a client (aged late 60’s) recently. I hope it’s helpful for others who have similar pain – if that’s you, call your local Ortho-Bionomy practitioner to get some help.

Hi Janine,

I wonder if you realise how much pain and suffering you have saved me.

Every morning when I walk down for the paper I am reminded of how painful, and distressing this walk used to be before you worked on my feet. I used to think that the stiffening and pain would slowly get worse as I aged and I would just have to put up with it and quit walking for exercise.

I recall that when we went to Queensland for seven weeks a few years ago I had to hobble along the beach, unable to keep up with my wife, and really concerned that exercise would be impossible if my feet didn’t improve. Slowly, slowly I improved, but the problem never went away. I had to be careful not to walk too much or too quickly. Running was definitely out of the question.
Well the sessions with you fixed all that and we walked for hours each day on our recent holiday without any pain and I congratulate and thank you for that. I have even run for short periods without ill effect. I keep telling everyone how your Ortho-Bionomy ‘fixed’ me.

Thank you.

Ortho-Bionomy harnesses neuroplasticity to relieve pain.

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The latest research into the brain’s neuroplasticity explains how Ortho-Bionomy gives lasting pain relief:

Norman Doidge writes in “The Brain’s Way of Healing” that the pain specialist Michael Moskowitz has developed a way of curing chronic pain using visualisations. He discovered that parts of the brain normally used for other functions (processing visual information, movements, thoughts etc) were being co-opted to process pain, so he suspected that they could be co-opted back again for their original functions and stop processing pain. He distracted the brain from its habit of processing pain sensations by visualizing his brain processing other information and giving it other sensations to focus on.

It seems to me this is also why Ortho-Bionomy helps people become pain-free. When we give gentle compression into joints the proprioceptive nerves in the joint send feedback to the brain, giving it information to process. When we find positions or movements that give a sense of ease or relaxation, we ask the brain to suspend its processing of chronic pain and instead use those same neural networks for processing (noticing) pain relief and increased comfort. When we ask the client to visualize making a comfortable movement during an isometric exercise, we help them train their brain to associate ‘no pain’ with that movement.

So I agree with Michael Moskowitz when he says “I don’t believe in pain management anymore. I believe in trying to cure persistent pain.” I have seen clients recover from excruciating chronic pain from such conditions as fibromyalgia, post-surgery ‘psychosomatic’ pain, severe sciatic pain and unexplained cranial nerve pain after brain tumor removal. Ortho-Bionomy gives these pain sufferers hope for a pain-free future.

© Janine McCarthy 2015.