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Visceral Release & Belly Massage
Applying hand pressure, energy and breath to the belly is a time-honored practice around the world, the benefits of this work are now flourishing in our country. From Taoist techniques brought here by Mantak Chia and his school of Chi Nei Tsang (Chee-neh-song) to the wisdom that Rosita Arvigo culled through years spent with a Peruvian Shaman, Belly Massage is gaining widespread attention and respect for it’s ability to address the “issues in our tissues”, otherwise often left behind in other forms of bodywork.
Belly Massage uses a gentle and specific massage approach, coaching the viscera to soften, tonify and organize in the belly. You will invariably experience a personal education, by which you learn to feel, recognize and release internal organs, also helping them to work more efficiently. Sessions are designed to detoxify, strengthen, and refine organ energy. The result is an experience of greater health and well-being.
People who benefit greatly from this work include those who:
experience chronic low and mid-back pain
experience digestive issues such as constipation, irregularity or bloating
want to enhance the benefits of a detoxification or cleansing program
experience painful menstruation or painful intercourse
experience trigger bladder or incontinence
are post-partum women who will benefit from realignment of soft tissue and organs
that were displaced during pregnancy and labor
Belly Massage is also supportive to those whose personal growth and healing leads them to seek greater connection with their body and energy.
Sessions often begin and end with breath and awareness practices that both relax your mind and body and heighten the experience of sensation in your abdomen. This initial tuning to your body greatly enhances the effects of the manual massage. The approaches used within a session are gentle and sometimes quite profound as we experience parts of ourselves that have never been awakened by touch. As a client is ready, the work deepens into all layers of the abdomen, reaching each organ with specific, intent-full guidance. The strokes encourage movement, release, balance and tone. We unwind knots and tangles in the organs and the tissue surrounding the organs. This releases stagnant energy and matter, and a client leaves feeling deeply calm and yet energized from their very core.
It is widely accepted that our physical bodies can store emotional trauma and unprocessed emotions we experience throughout our lives. If there were a “Grand Central Station” for this phenomenon, it would be our bellies. There is no more vulnerable place we own, no area more full of blood, lymph, nerve and energy than our dear, beloved bellies. It is a sweet tribute to the great need to become intimate with and accept our bellies that my teacher, Marti Ryan, dubbed his course work, “Love Your Guts Seminars”!
So it is that this work often transcends the physical experience and guides us to heal and reclaim the energy and vitality available to us if we only really understood the power lying within our belly.
It is important to mention that symptoms and ailments experienced in the organs should be supervised and treated by a licensed physician. Belly Massage is not designed to be the sole care for any illness. It is my practice to refer my clients to healthcare practitioners that will better serve in the complexities of each situation.
That said, Belly Massage can be a much-needed adjunct in your healing process; a physical and energetic medicine and a transformative education in self-awareness and self-care.
"Aimee offers a powerful blend of intuitive guidance and movement, integrated with sound, organ and muscle massage. It seems to me as though she orchestrates each session as a song tailored to me specifically. Her ability to hold space and be present with what is in me allows for deep and lasting transformation to take place within. I am eternally grateful for the healing work I've done with Aimee and look forward to more!"
Nature Lindsay, Herbalist/Musician