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GROWING OUR COMMUNITY.
July 6, 2010 – 6:50 pm
We’ve been working hard to increase the SHC community over the last years. We find that it’s not just about the people we serve, but also about building a strong referral network and community of other practitioners/businesses so you can find what you need for your health and vitality!
Through building these relationships, we’re not only meeting cool folks, we’re learning about other services provided in Greensboro and that helps us do our jobs better.
Here are just a few local people/businesses we thought you’d like to know about:
Mind|Body|Fitness Yoga Studio
A variety of yoga classes in different styles and levels. They also offer meditation classes and special events on healthy living. This studio supports the whole individual by incorporating the 8 paths of yoga.
This is a special place because it’s where SHC is also located! Here you can receive acupuncture, herbal medicine and other traditional oriental medical treatments.
Our good friend, Brent Lester, is a personal trainer at this gym where it’s ALL PRIVATE personal training. This is a small gym with a laid back atmosphere that provides individual support in getting your body where you want it.
This practice, which is in their home, is a comforting way to get your body moving again. They combine patient education, manual therapy, and prescription exercise to get you exactly where you want to be.
Zen Cat Gluten Free Baked Goods
These are AMAZING gluten and dairy free baked goods all made by our friend, Angie Kenny. She does the baking and then delivers these tasty treats to many restaurants and coffee shops around town. Even those of you who enjoy gluten and dairy will love these baked goods.
We hope you’ll enjoy checking some of these amazing resources out.
Building A Touch-Positive Community
June 4, 2010 – 7:44 pm
Sustainable Health Choices hosting a massage class
In our highly sexualized, high liability culture, our social norm has come to avoid touch. We are inundated with sexually suggestive messages and our country has high rates of sexual violence. Oftentimes we have not been taught positive, healthy boundaries. We commonly only associate touch with sexuality. This reinforces the risk to touch one another.
As a massage therapist, I witness the ways in which healthy touch can heal, nurture, and strengthen.
In the newborn massage classes I teach, I have been able to witness how it is a powerful tool for healing. For newborns, touch is essential for bonding, social development, and neural pathway development. This need for touch does not change as we grow up.
In my Partner massage and Newborn massage classes, you leave with:
- Solid routines that have effective and therapeutic techniques
- Information to feel confident about what you’re doing so you know for sure you’re providing something beneficial
- Tactics for and understanding the necessity of strong communication. It does not matter how strong your hands are, or how many techniques you possess. If you do not ask how the person is receiving it, you may close a door that was opening whether it be with a friend or partner.
Everyone has a different sensitivity to touch, physically and emotionally. We all have different perceptions of boundaries, trust, and affection. This should always be respected. So during any kind of massage, it is essential to ask: How are you doing with this? Please let me know if I need to increase my pressure or lessen.
How do we become a touch positive community? Could massage therapy be one of many ways toward strengthening our relationships, our ability to communicate, and our sense of safety and calm in the world. I think so. We all need to help each other and this is one way we can.
Are You Pregnant and Need Some Relief?
May 26, 2010 – 9:01 pm
Kammaleathahh is certified in Pregnancy and Postpartum Massage, Newborn Massage, and has had training as a Doula. She has attended a number of births and knows from experience how much massage therapy can help with the various issues that can come up. She also teaches Pregnancy Massage Workshops so a friend or partner can help you out in the comfort of your own home.
SHC wants to let you know how beneficial this work can be. Below is a summary of some research conducted on the efficacy of pregnancy massage, and the results were great!
A study with 26 pregnant women during their last trimester, divided into a relaxation group and a massage therapy group found that both groups reported feeling less anxious, and less leg pain. Only the massage therapy group had decreased stress hormone (norepinephrine), had fewer obstetric complications; fewer postnatal complications including less premature births; decreased lower back pain; less disrupted sleep; and perceived social support increased.
Field, T., Hernandez-Reif, M., Hart, S., Theakston, H., Schanberg, S., Kuhn, C., & Burman, I. (1999). Pregnant Women Benefit From Massage Therapy. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 19, 31-38.