ADHESIONS AND BEYOND : with Isabel Spradlin
Well, after a long and somewhat arduous process, the practitioner training program for abdominal work is finally up online! Yaay! Angela Severson and I have spent the last year planning and working on the whole project and it’s kind of surreal to have the whole thing up and running. In every big, long-term project there … Continue reading …
Intestinal adhesions come in many forms. For some it is Chron’s Disease with the lesions and adhesions inside the intestines. For some it is small bowel obstructions caused by adhesions around the intestines (e.g. the intestines get stuck to the abdominal wall) that bind them and keep them from passing their contents on through. For … Continue reading …
For some reason this always cracks me up (and not always in the funny way, sometimes it’s in the Lady Macbeth wrenching of the hands way). I think I’ve just been working with adhesions for so long it’s hard for me to understand the idea of using drugs or surgery to break up what is … Continue reading …
“So, now your videos helped me to understand the process of adhesions and to become more gentle and kind with my belly which obviously is part of me and to try to work with “her” and not against “her”, as things are what they are because there is a reason for it. . .” This … Continue reading …
I gave a very brief (10 minutes) talk about my abdominal adhesion videos to a group of wellness practitioners a couple of weeks ago. My only goal was to let them know that the videos existed as a resource for their clients should they ever feel compelled to take a look at them. After the … Continue reading …
It happens every few months that I need to work on my own belly. I do a lot of leg lifts and other core work in yoga, I walk/hike/bike a ton, I am almost constantly injured in one way or another. It’s a very exciting life. And what it all adds up to is that … Continue reading …