For belly discomfort, digestive concerns, and generalized malaise.
Treatments are based on the premise that for organs to function well they need to be supported and suspended comfortably among surrounding structures. They also need to be mobile, and slide easily relative to each other to mechanically process and move digestive and bodily fluids. Organs can become restricted by fibrous adhesions that develop from a history of inflammatory conditions, surgeries, injuries or emotional holdings.
The quality of touch listens and follows, and with a calm, open presence gradually evaluates and releases an organ’s ligamentous and fascial connective tissue restrictions. Receiving the work is comfortable, gentle, and relieving.
The muscular tension in sphincters and the smooth muscle walls of organs and ducts can also be addressed allowing for improved fluid movement, and reduced pain.
Each organ also has its inherent, internal motion - its ‘motility’, and gently, with my hands, persuading a restored synchronization of these subtle, rhythmic movement patterns can bring about a great feeling of ease.
Belly Soup
Hands on the Belly
Slowly
Listening
Following
What is here? saying?
A tautness, a fatigue.
Feeling the line
Is that a little stretch? a stitch?
Easy, only easy
On the sea
Rocking
Lulled
Lapping waves
A little gasp with a catch
A stumble in the rhythm
Can I oh so carefully hold on?
A teeny slow-motion help-along
Where is the relax, going
In this bowl of belly soup
– Jaymi Devans
Photo of the inside of a conch shell, by Sarah Puyans