Integrative Movement
Integrative Movement sessions focuses on your individual needs and creates growth in awareness and understanding about your body mechanics. The work is in conditioning, re-patterning and integration.
KiaOra teaches her clients to understand their body and patterns so that they can take what they learn and apply that support to all their movement classes and daily life. Her work room is equipped to catalyze the client on their path to greater wellness, ease and enjoyment overall.
In every movement session KiaOra works with three main elements: breath, fascia, and alignment. She offers different types of movement sessions: yoga, Pilates, and hands on massage for realignment.
Learning to breathe is by far the most essential ingredient to healing and embodiment
The two diaphragms at the lungs and pelvis expand on the inhale and contract on the exhale, creating support for your physical and emotional bodies by assisting in healthy posture and a relaxed nervous system.
A lot of people don’t let their pelvic floor move with their breath which creates a lack of support. This can cause the nervous system to stay in fear responses.
Shallow breathing can come from using the diaphragm of the lungs as a postural muscle, creating limitation in expansion and/or contraction.
In every movement session we use our proper breath awareness to help access functional movement.
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Fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle in place.
Healthy fascia is mobile and can change shape
Unhealthy fascia is stuck, holding, and tight which can cause nerve pain
If you’re stretching and have nerve pain after, chances are you need more fascial stretching or flossing
If one part gets tight whether from stress or scar tissue then it pulls on all the rest of the fascia just like grabbing a part of a t-shirt would pull on the whole t-shirt
It holds the emotional memory and is directly connected to the nervous system
When we have a traumatic event, big or small, our bodies physically react. and create twists, tension, tightness, pressure. If we don’t properly process the event, the fascia will store that memory and create a holding pattern in the musculature. This pulls your body out of alignment.
To help our fascia learn how to change shape, we use repetitive resistance stretching and flossing techniques
We work with the fascia first so when we begin our stretch and strength practices the muscles are more responsive and the results are longer lasting, often leaving you feeling like you just had a massage.
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When we are out of alignment, pain always happens whether it be immediate or over time.
The body is made of bones and like puzzle pieces, they fit together. Muscles move our bones and are able to move in many directions but will not create proper alignment on their own. Learning how your bones move and fit together is what creates easy and functional movement.
