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At Bodies In Training we start Phase 1 of rehabilitating your life by completing a three part assessment of your body.

The first part of the assessment consists of a body scan to determine your weight, % of body fat, % of visceral fat, body mass index, and your percentage of hydration as well as calories needed to maintain your current body.

The second part of the assessment is done with an Asyra machine The Asyra is an Electro-Dermal Screening Device designed by G-Tech and approved by the FDA. It is designed to non-invasively screen a patient for energetic imbalances. Energetic imbalances identified may indicate physiological imbalances or the presence of allergens or toxins. What makes the Asyra machine special is its unique filtering technology. If the system identifies an energetic disturbance in the body, it will then cycle through an extensive list of homoeopathic treatments, sending a unique energy frequency into the body for each one. The machine uses the body’s response to these energy frequencies to determines which treatment will be most effective for an individual so that allergens or toxins can be eliminated. The machine will also determine if bach flower remedies or essential oils are needed to balance the clients’ emotional well being. The Asyra can also test to make sure that any supplement you may be currently taking is the best for your body and accurately determine how much of it your body needs. The Asyra machine does not diagnose illness or make recommendations of medications to treat specific illnesses. It should not be used instead of regular medical testing and visiting your physician but instead be considered an added tool to use in assessing your whole body.

The third step in the assessment is to assess the structural alignment of the body. Trauma, poor postural habits, and muscular imbalances anywhere from the jaw to the feet can cause our bodies to move out of optimum alignment. Then over time our brain begins to think our current posture is normal. Yet misalignment can cause a myriad of health issues all on its own.

Phase 2 will begin by determining the best way to align your body, your mind and your soul using the information gained from your Three Step earlier assessment. Primarily we will use

• Homeopathic Remedies
• Essential Oils
• Detoxification and Nutritional Supplementation
• Cranial Sacral Therapy/Emotional Release Therapy
• Manual Lymphatic Drainage
• Myofascial Release Therapy

"Think about when you put a sheet on a bed. You pull on one corner of the sheet and can see tension across to the other side of the mattress. Likewise, when you have an injury, surgery, illness, or over use of an area this creates a tension pattern in the body that can impact tissue far removed from the original site. CST (Cranial Sacral Therapy) and MFR (Myofascial Release Therapy) is a way to release this tension in the body." By releasing the soft tissue restrictions and compensations of the body we allow the bony structure to align itself. However, there are times when other work is needed to achieve this alignment. That is where the Emotional Release work and other techniques come into play.

All information is stored in the tissues of your body clear down to the cellular level.

CST, MFR and ERT (Emotional Release Therapy) are excellent tools in releasing pain and trauma trapped in the tissues of your body. The nervous system is vital to allowing your body to relax enough to allow for the tissues of the body to open and release. These therapies will calm the nervous system and allow your bodies’ energy and muscle tissue to help release energy blockages and muscle restrictions.

As your body releases this pain, new spaces open up within the tissues allowing for new neuropathways to be imprinted with a feeling of wellness.

The body holds trauma in much the same way as the mind. Both areas need to be addressed in order for the pain and trauma to be released. These above therapies are a great addition to your traditional counseling therapy to help you on your path to health and wellness.

One thing you need to know, here at Bodies In Training, we expect our clients to be full participants in their quest for greater health and freedom. You will be given homework to be accomplished between visits. You’ll learn to use visualization, meditation, and breathing. You will be given the occasion to explore your inner dialogues and how they affect your daily routine and those with whom you interact. Once we achieve a habitually correct alignment you will be ready to go on to Phase 3 of your program.

Now that you are starting to feel better and move with less effort we need to decrease the inflammation and toxin load in your body.
At this point you are feeling better physically, with decreased pain levels, sleeping better at night, having more stamina and energy to get through your day, feeling more confident and better about yourself and life in general….BUT IT DOESN’T END HERE!!
Phase three is about cleansing the body and getting it to function at an optimal level so you can do the things you want to in life. But to appreciate how we will do this we need to know a little about E.A.V. To understand E.A.V. (Electro- acupuncture According to Voll), it is helpful to first learn some simple principles of acupuncture. In acupuncture, there are areas along channels of energy or meridians that have a different electrical conductivity called acupuncture points which connect all the systems of the body together. These points and channels of energy can correspond to specific areas, systems and organs of the body. Most of these channels have control end points located on the ears, hands and feet. In the 1950's, a German physician, Dr. Reinhold Voll, developed an electrical device called a dermatron to measure and monitor the conductivity of acupuncture points. Dr. Voll's device had a meter with a scale that went from 0 to 100, with a reading of 50 representing optimal or good health. Above 55 might indicate too much energy or inflammation; below 45 could indicate low energy or a degenerated condition. Currently in many parts of the world, these types of electrical devices are used in doctor's offices, hospitals and clinics to aid the health practitioner to determine food allergies, toxicity or to indicate specific supplements a person might need or use to improve their condition. The Asyra Machine is one such device. It will help us determine what specifically your body needs to rid itself of toxins, allergens or other stagnant energy causing issues with your body.

TOXINS AND WEIGHT LOSS
Your body – like everyone’s – accumulates impurities known as toxins. Whenever your body has too many impurities from stress, illness, medications, pollution, and incomplete nutrition it’s ability to eliminate them is significantly reduced. Then the body, in trying to protect itself from this foreign substance encapsulates it in fat cells.

These stored toxins make your body less efficient, decreasing metabolism, which regulates nutrition usage, energy production and weight. This often times leaves you feeling sluggish, not sleeping well, trouble concentrating and even prone to illness. All people who live with stress (and who doesn’t) and incomplete nutrition (again who doesn’t) should cleanse on a regular basis. What that regularity is and to what depth of cleansing you need is individual.

As I mentioned the toxins are stored in the fat cells as a means of protecting the body. So when someone wants to loose weight they need to decrease the number and size of the fat cells. However, if the toxin load of the body is too high, and the individual’s elimination and drainage systems of the body are not healthy enough to handle the flood of toxins that will be released into the body, then answering the call of survival, the body will not allow itself to breakdown the fat cells. This is why it is crucial that cleansing the toxins from the body becomes the focus and weight loss becomes the result.

Determining the type and regularity of cleanse for your individual body will be determined by the Asyra machine and our experience over the years.

Somewhere during these three phases we will ask you to concentrate on flexibility and strengthening of your body with particular focus to the core muscle through a variety of yoga classes or Pilates. The additional benefits of this is increased energy, increased self confidence, improved posture, and redesigning of the way your body looks. To accomplish this we will recommend studios or training programs that will fit your fitness level and goals. Pilates is a contemporary, anatomically based exercise method of stretching, breathing, and strengthening core muscles of the body. Joseph H. Pilates developed it in the 1920s for dancers and athletes who needed to trade high-impact, repetitive workouts for a more methodical system of exercise. Physical therapists, professional athletes, and many sports enthusiasts such as golfers, tennis players, skiers and runners are using this "mind-body" approach to optimal fitness. Pilates is an all-gain, no-pain system of exercise that is quickly gaining popularity among the injured or repetitive natured athletes and workers in our country. It is a low impact neuromuscular system of exercising that achieves significant results and feels so good to do that people are becoming hooked on it from their first session.

We would like to say, at this point, you are finished, but at Bodies In Training we understand the more we know, the more we realize what we don’t know and so the journey will continue. You will persist in that journey with a new YOU and many more tools to assist you in that journey.