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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 by phone or video on Zoom for a 30 or 60 minute consultation for self-care, postural re-education and wellbeing support.

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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Support your baby’s natural posture from the start

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Have you noticed the epidemic of poor posture in our society lately? How does this happen? How can you help your children develop good posture habits so they can avoid the chronic back, neck and shoulder pain so widespread in adults today?

The first thing you can do right at the start of their lives which supports your own and your baby’s natural posture at the same time is to carry your baby on your back. This is not new; mothers in traditional societies have been doing this for thousands of years. In combination with very active lives this has ensured that these people rarely, if ever, had the forward-hunching, excessively curved spinal posture so prevalent in our society today.

There are many ‘baby carrier’ products on the market today, most of which carry the baby on the front of the parent’s body. This is okay while your baby is tiny, but after the first month or two they are heavy enough to go on your back. This doesn’t require expensive equipment – just search the internet for instructions for wrapping your baby in a sling on your back. Any new parent knows there are many demands on your back when you have a new baby to carry around, so minimizing the impact on your body is important too.  It is far better for your own posture to carry any heavy weight on your back, which is why Sherpas and other people who carry heavy weights for a living do the same. (They often carry big items on their heads too, though this is unsuitable for a baby!). With your baby on your back you will be holding much of their weight evenly balanced on your hips, and as long as you lean your body weight slightly forward FROM THE HIPS rather than from the shoulders, you will support your own back to remain upright.

When you carry your baby on your front, their weight pulls your shoulders and torso forward and your body has to counter this pull by tightening the muscles of the upper back around and between the shoulder blades and push the pelvis forward to avoid falling forwards. This can create stabbing pains in the upper back and pain in the lower back because your pelvis should be directly under your torso and slightly behind you when carrying a weight.

Your baby’s own posture is also supported better when carried on your back because their own pelvis sits slightly behind them while their upper body is resting along your straight back. When they are carried on your front their body is crumpled up in a curve. Unfortunately baby car capsules and most child car seats do the same thing, pushing the pelvis forward and curving the baby’s upper spine forwards.

So give their posture the best start you can by carrying them on your back when you need to be mobile. Be sure to give them plenty of time to lie on the floor during the day when they’re awake as well (with equal time on their back and their front) to stretch out their spines and move their arms and legs.

 

 

This information is offered as my opinion and should not replace medical diagnosis or treatment.