Release Restrictions in Your Body (also available as an online service)
Health implies movement. All your body parts must be free to move in relation to each other for maximum wellness and performance. This includes not only your muscles and bones, but also your organs, nerves, and the myriad connective tissues throughout your body.
My bodywork is designed to identify areas of restricted mobility in your body and to release these restrictions. In every session, you will likely experience profound relaxation and a sense of increased freedom, internal and external. You will feel lighter, more spacious, liberated.
The benefits are particularly significant for singers.
Sometimes, even when your technique is good, you may be held back from progressing vocally by tensions within your body that you have no control over. I will determine if the source of the problem lies in your tissues, not in your technique, and take corrective action.
If in the course of your lessons we come up against bodily restrictions that are interfering with your singing, we will schedule a session of bodywork. During the session, as you lie (fully clothed) on the table, I will gently guide your body into releasing the restrictions and returning to full health and functionality. I can also work with you remotely (with phone or video connection) as you relax comfortably in your own home. You will appreciate, along with the profound state of relaxation that generally results, an increased freedom in all the organs involved in singing:
Jaw & tongue
Neck, shoulders, & back
Laryngeal musculature
Facial musculature
Diaphragm & lungs
The bodywork I do is my own fusion of elements from the many modalities in which I have trained: Craniosacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Neural Manipulation, Reiki, and the Alexander Technique. Bodywork sessions are available individually or—since three sessions is the usual minimum recommended course of treatment—in discounted packages of three 60-minute sessions. Online bodywork sessions are 30 minutes in length. See chart on fees page for details.
Michael’s intuitive sense of the human body is profound, his energy awareness is clear, and his presence is deeply healing. I had been experiencing several physical challenges for some time, and I knew from my health history that they were rooted in stress. During my phone session with Michael, he gently guided my own awareness to the energetic channels within my body, helping me to establish a healthy, grounding flow. Not only did he share his own clear and accurate intuitive perceptions, he honored that which I received intuitively as well. Many times, our intuitive senses seemed to merge into one, as the energy guided the session and Michael and I both responded. This was an empowering experience, both in receiving care from a skilled healer and in receiving care from my own inner self. Within a day or two of my session, many of my stress-related symptoms began to disappear. It has been over a month, and those challenges have not returned. I continue to work with the energetic flow from that session, and I continue to be deeply grateful for Michael’s work and his presence in my life.
—Harmony Harrison, artist/poet/singer