Stretch For Health | Free eBook

Before becoming a facilitator of healing through energy, I was a massage therapist. In the early 90s, I was continually looking for stretches that would help my body so that I could stay physically healthy with the demands of my vocation. Overtime, I collected a rich assortment...a best of the best, of more than 10 modalities including Yoga, Chi Gung, Alexander Technique, Trager, Feldenkrais, Do-In, Electromagnetic Field Balancing, Polarity, Brain Gym, Chakra Balancing and more. As I learned energy techniques, I began adding them to the "soup." What really made these special techniques powerful, however, was the order and flow in which I did them. They became a complete head to toe work-out with benefits far beyond what I could have imagined.

In the late 90s, I began teaching small classes. I decided to share my own stretching with energy routine, which I called Harmonic Movement. People loved it and began reporting amazing results, including decrease in migraines, improvement in eye sight and eye problems such as macular degeneration, relief of back pain, greater hand mobility, emotional stability, improvement in hypertension and freedom from physical discomfort and pain.

Now in it's next reincarnation, I am offering it as a free eBook. Let me repeat that. This amazing routine is...FREE. All I ask, is that you share your stories of success with Harmonic Movement in the comments below.

In this lens I share 5 reasons why Harmonic Movement is so effective and more information about the different modalities that are incorporated into it. And of course, I share where you can get it! Want to skip all the info and get on with it...click on the link below. Or get more info about the different modalities used in the routine and THEN click on the link. Your choice!

Some people have a hard time believing these exercises can be as profound for your health as I claim. "They seem too simple and are too gentle to be effective," the practitioners state.

Although each one is easy, it's the combination of all of them that makes them so powerfully profound. They are designed to align the body from head to toe and this helps prevent common injuries when you are working out.

Hips are aligned to each other and to gravity, the spine is stretched and straightened, joints are gently opened and muscles get "lubricated" or hydrated throughout this routine.

Prepare to feel good in your body!

Almost everyone has heard of yoga. The yoga used in Harmonic Movement promotes balance, stretching of the legs and hips, arms and shoulders and of course...the spine!

Stretching isn't really sexy. Lifting weights and "turbo" work outs are. But if muscles are only contracted, without stretching them out, then they can not truly achieve optimal health. When muscles contract and stay that way, they become oxygen starved and are unable to release their toxins. The remedy is that for all vigorous workouts that you do, you should do equal amounts of stretching.

Do you include stretching in your workouts?

Whether it's the energy that is part of the exercises, or the repetition of the routine, my students know that after about 5 days they are going to experience a HUGE difference in their vital well-being. It's hard to imagine it, but 5 times seems to be the lucky number.

It doesn't have to be five consecutive days either. You can do 5 sets in 2 weeks and still get that amazing leap of well-being.

In Harmonic Movement Exercises, an Alexander exercise is used for lengthening the spine and opening the hips. Based on how babies roll over.

I am a virtual roadmap of scars. From cesareans to horse accidents with barbed wire, to car accidents, and Oh! my favorite...sitting on a broken glass Coke bottle, I have an abundance of scarring.

So I know how scar tissue can pull and distort the structural alignment of the body. It also impedes the flow of energy through the meridians and other energy channels.

These exercises break up the restrictions created by scars and help them become fluid and less bulky.

Do-In is used for the hands, eyes, ears, neck, shoulders and arms.

Many factors determine a healthy CNS, including a good flow of craniosacral fluid from the sacrum to the cranium, balancing of right and left brain hemispheres, balancing of sympathetic and parasympathetic systems and release of cranium and connective restrictions on the brain.

This in turns improves the endocrine system, our mental abilities, balance and agility and the enhancement of all of the organs and system of our body.

Along with Trager and Alexander, Moshe Feldenkrais was the originator of his own system of movement. In the Harmonic Movement, some of his work is incorporated for releasing the sacrum and hips.

Meridians, grounding cord, hara line (the emotional grounding cord), the Aryuvedic doshas, chakras and other energy channels that run through the body also need clearing, healing and balancing and stabilizing. This helps eliminate pain and supports the health of the organ system, the emotional body, mental clarity and much more.

Adding this part to these classic exercises is what makes this such a powerhouse. And it's simple!

I've added two mp3 files on my blog for the two positions that include the most energy work: The Polarity Squat and balancing the Chakras at the end. The link for those files is further down in the lens.

Brain Gym exercises have been used with great results with children because they are so simple. In Harmonic Movement they help balance left and right brain hemispheres and establish that important connection between the right side of the brain and the left side of the body, and the left side of the brain with the right side of the body. This promotes greater coordination and balance. Brain Gym is also used to help center the energy into the central core of the body promoting peace and calm as well as releasing anxiety and overwhelm.

Easy and profound, chi gung is immediately effective. It feels or looks like Tai Chi but it doesn't take a lifetime to learn.

Used to open up the joints and create an expansiveness through your being.

This beautiful music by Paul Baker balances different energies including chakras.

Any questions? What results would you like to see happen? Share your stories with us all.