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Polarity Therapy can help you dissolve the deepest roots of stress in your body’s system so that you can experience freedom, joy and more fluid and efficient ways of being in the world. A Polarity Practitioner will listen deeply, facilitate a caring space and witness as you release and shift unhealthy patterns held in the body through awareness, acceptance and a loving shift in consciousness.

What is Polarity Therapy?

Polarity Therapy offers a profound body-mind-spiritual paradigm with a deep understanding of energy, Nature and the healing process .The underlying intention is to support the client’s awareness, self-responsibility and self-healing intelligence. Polarity Therapy is a natural health care system that works with the human energy field. 

Life is energy. As human beings, we embody the elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air and ether. We also exist in duality or polarity which arises out of an underlying unity. Balance between these poles creates a feeling of well being, radiant health, love, connection and gratitude.

Polarity Therapy understands the body as consciousness and works with the whole person as an evolving spiritual being. The ways in which we integrate and express life are embedded within the vital fields of our bodies and the energy patterns of our lifestyles. All of our emotions are registered through corresponding states of body tension. Each thought and emotion is a subjective state of openness or resistance that sends messages of relaxation or tension to our body. 

Polarity Therapy works with the wireless anatomy of the energy fields that animate the body.  When energy is blocked, unbalanced or fixed, pain, tension and dis-ease can arise.  Polarity Therapy seeks to resolve these blockages and to free unhealthy patterns in order to maintain the energy field in an open, fluid state and to bring the body back into harmony with the Soul, nature and the universe. Balance and health are said to be present when our inter — relationship between the Self and the environment is harmonious. 

Polarity practitioners work within a dynamic system that includes an exploration of the client’s relationship to food, movement, breath, thoughts/attitude, sound and bodywork through loving touch, deep presence, non-judgment and caring intention. The intention is to support and witness the innate healing intelligence of each client's unique system. 

Polarity therapy when combined with therapeutic massage can allow the client to drop into a deeper level of relaxation.  This work is deeply somatic in that underlying physical, emotional and traumatic patterns can surface safely and resolve. This occurs on a cellular level and affects all layers of the system.

What is a Polarity session like?

In a Polarity Therapy session, various contacts are used to stimulate, maintain and balance the body’s electromagnetic fields. The practitioner may also support and aid the client as they process feelings and emotional content as it arises. The practitioner will work with the client in developing strategies for reducing stress and teach them how to integrate energetic holds and exercises into their life.

A Somatic approach to bodywork involves a deep inquiry into body, feeling, emotion, sensation, and organic movement. The conscious touch, sound, breath or movement serves as an invitation to tenderly and lovingly gain access into and beyond the habitual patterns and responses that we hold and to shift into the place of choice, infinite possibility and the creative expressions of our evolving Self. As we learn how to feel and sense our natural inner state of deep presence, we then become able to perceive the health that we are naturally oriented to and that is always present. This discovery brings the understanding that the body is self-healing, self-regulating, and self-integrating. Our way of being in the world then becomes less about survival or performance and more and more about trust, nourishment and pleasure. This return to pleasure reconnects us to our fluid nature and the natural flow in our lives both within and without.

A somatic bodywork session is organic, intuitive, nourishing and deeply therapeutic. The body is encouraged to experience sensation, energy and different patterns of breath and movement. As we become conscious and curious, we begin to notice how deeply these patterns effect the entire structure and anatomy of the whole of our life. Gentle and loving shifts in awareness bring powerful and lasting change as we become oriented new ways.