Your body is your interface with the world. It is how you experience your "one wild and precious life" (Mary Oliver). Aside from pain as a warning signal, feeling energized and able to move freely without pain is the body's default state. As we age, however, we begin to treat background pain and loss of mobility as inevitable. It doesn't have to be that way. There are practices rooted in time-honored, empirically-tested systems of healing that have the potential to restore much, if not all, of the ease and joy of movement that is inherent in the body. 

Shiatsu balances and harmonizes the energy of the body, removing obstructions, increasing flow. It treats the whole person, rather than an isolated system. Working with the acupoints and channels, it supports the optimal function of the whole organism, addressing pain and "the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to" (William Shakespeare, Hamlet). 

Ortho-Bionomy is Self-Empowerment Through Bodywork, honoring the processes and the wisdom of the body. Because it is rooted in osteopathy, it is particularly good at improving joint mobility and easing discomfort. 

Together, Ortho-Bionomy and Shiatsu unwind the knots and tangles that come through the process of living, helping us knit together a joyful wholeness, a completeness of being.