Issue, Date Breath Body Works 1625 Hwy. 88, Ste. 101, Minden Nevada, 775.782.6767 Wellness Wisdom November 2014

Classes & Workshops

First YOGA NIDRA Tuesday of (Added to Yoga Schedule) Happy Thanksgiving The Month with Molly Dahl From Breath Body Works

Oct. 21 MEDITATION - Dec 30 Moving Into Stillness with Molly Dahl

November 1,8,15 YIN YOGA Limited Series Workshop with Ed Kingham

November LADY NIGUMA YOGA 17 (Added to Yoga Schedule) with Molly Dahl

November RISE & SHINE YOGA 19 (Added to Yoga Schedule) with Chanel Walker

November YOGA & GONG Immersion 22 with Journey Harason and Chanel Walker

November CLOSED 27, 28 Happy Thanksgiving May you always have love to share, health to spare Find additional information about our therapists, teachers, classes and workshops at: and friends that care. BreathBodyWorks.net

WELCOME to Deb Nalder, LMT She will be joining Breath Body Works starting December 1, 2014. If you would like to make an appointment, please call her at 775.790.3514. Learn more about Deb on our web site: BreathBodyWorks.net/debnalder.html

Breath Body Works November 2014 Myofascial Release & Egoscue® By Marta Olson, LMT, PAS2 What’s the difference?

Last month I discussed how Myofascial Release (MFR) and The length of appointments, treatment you receive and the Egoscue® worked “Hand in Hand.” These therapies are therapist who treats you vary for these two disciplines. But complementary to one another, but they are also very the goals are identical. We want to restore function, return different. you to health and reduce pain. Many clients arrive at Breath Body Works after a series of tests (x-ray, myelograms, CAT scans) have led to an Myofascial Release versus Egoscue® unresolved understanding of the origin of their pain. Their physicians have prescribed pain and anti-inflammatory medications along with muscles relaxers for temporary relief. In other words, the best they have offered is masking the pain with drugs.

With this in mind, appointments for both MFR and Egoscue® start with a detailed review of your medical history and a discussion involving your pain issues. It is not unusual for a client to arrive in our office for a “massage” only to be advised that Egoscue® might be a better remedy.

Myofascial Release Therapy is a highly specialized stretching technique performed by a Licensed Massage Therapist who has received advanced training. During this therapeutic bodywork, the therapist will find areas of tightness (Myofascial Trigger Points) and apply a light stretch. After the tissue relaxes, the stretch will be increased. This is repeated until the area is fully relaxed. As your body responds, your therapist determines which muscles are stretched and in what order. The goal of this technique is to reduce the size and sensitivity of these Myofascial Trigger Points. This is a slow, methodical process so appointments are 90 minutes in duration.

A Certified Egoscue Method Specialist will guide you through your postural alignment therapy. The initial Egoscue® appointment is a two-hour session. It involves assessment and photographs of your posture, gait analysis and functional tests. After the personalized assessment, you If you suffer from chronic pain that limits your activities or will participate in an exercise therapy session. This session notice your posture getting worse, call us and schedule an involves a series of gentle corrective exercises tailored to appointment for a free 30-minute consultation. Proper your individual needs and designed to restore full, natural posture alignment helps you keep doing what you love or function to muscles and joints. You will be sent home with need to do. a “menu” of exercises and online support including detailed illustrations, instructions and videos. Maintenance or Marta Olson is the owner of Breath Body Works, LLC. She is follow-up visits are 90 minutes. The average treatment plan a Licensed Massage Therapist (NVMT #133) and a Certified Egoscue Method® Specialist. She has 26 years of pain involves 8-16 visits. We often recommend that you combine management experience. Myofascial Release and Egoscue® for better results. 2 Breath Body Works November 2014

“Take Five” we have with our families, the same especially, causing us not only By Chanel Walker one that drives us crazy, yet we love temporary physical discomfort but them because they are family. also throwing us into the cycle of With the holidays quickly feeling guilty for eating as much as approaching, stress levels are on the Next, the holidays mean gift giving, we did. rise for a couple of different which is a stressor for everyone, reasons. whether it be a financial burden or So, do you want another piece of just another thing to check off the pumpkin pie? Is your aunt driving First off, travel; Thanksgiving is the “to do” list. Don’t forget those you insane with all the personal busiest travel weekend all year, awkward exchanges either, when a questions? Are tensions running meaning more congestion in the distant aunt gives you a gift and high in the kitchen? Have you not airports or on the roads. Many of then you realize you didn’t buy her moved an inch in your car for the us will be traveling to spend time anything because you have only past hour? “Take Five!” with relatives whom we don’t see met her once five years ago at a regularly, unfortunately getting family reunion – oops! This doesn’t mean to step outside caught in that holiday travel traffic. for five minutes and regroup, it is That in itself is stressful, then add Lastly, what are the holidays actually much more simple than the stress of family dynamics into without food? The majority of us that. All you have to do is inhale the mix, that love/hate relationship overeat during Thanksgiving for a count of five, and then exhale

Thanksgiving is the busiest travel weekend all year.

for a count of five. Immediately, this calms your nervous system, which allows you to react more logically to the stressor rather than responding with reactivity and survival impulse. So if you encounter a stressful situation this holiday season or anytime during your life, for that matter, I encourage you to “take five”

Chanel Walker manages the yoga studio at Breath Body Works. She is a yoga therapist and holistic health coach. 3 Breath Body Works November 2014

Thoughts on Ayurveda By Mardi Lester, LMT, CAS, PKS

Focus on the feeling of when your body was at it’s healthiest and hang on to that feeling through the day.

The sugars in honey are fructose, glucose and sucrose. How are you feeling today? With these big winds lately you Honey has 22 amino acids, 28 minerals, 11 enzymes, 14 may be feeling a little spacey, a little uneasy and certainly fatty acids and 11 carbohydrates. Much of this these are lost drier than usual. The cold has started to show itself with the in commercial use when heated. Honey is easily digested frost in the mornings. Your stomach may be unsettled and and goes straight to the blood stream for instantaneous you have constipation. Your skin is dry and feels like it will energy. Used with a half a lemon and warm water taken crack. You may be feeling old pains coming to the surface. first thing in the morning is a great remedy for constipation You may have a dry throat that feels sore and wonder if you and hyperacidity. Because it is easily digested and are catching something. Your mind is going a hundred assimilated it is the best sweet food to not form flatulence. miles an hour and you feel a bit anxious. Your nose is Fasting on lemon honey water is helpful in the treatment of constantly running. Mucous forms because the body is weight loss without loss of energy or appetite. Honey helps trying to protect itself from dryness. It may be that you are with so many things such as anemia, heart health, the skin, experiencing the full effects of Vata. and coughs by soothing mucous membranes and insomnia. Honey in Ayurvedic texts is used for keeping a healthy What can you do to help not feel this way? Add some mouth. Applied daily over the teeth and gums it prevents cinnamon to your morning hot beverage. Drink warm water tartar build up. with a little lemon or lime, a bit of raw honey and a tiny pinch of pink salt or sea salt several times a day. Learn to The Vata dosha, which will really kick in next month, is use a Neti pot with sea salt and a bit of sesame oil. Give sometimes referred to as the “king of doshas” because it yourself an oil massage. Keep your ears and neck covered drives the workings of the other doshas. It moves everything when you go out. Eat warm fresh food with warming spices. in our bodies. Without Vata the other doshas cannot Meditate ten minutes 3x a day. Walk in nature for 20 function. Vata is the first dosha to go out of balance and it minutes a day. Get a massage. Do grounding yoga poses can happen quickly. The good thing since Vata is like the such as warrior pose. Take warm baths. Avoid stress at all wind, it can come back into balance just as quick. We costs. Focus on the feeling of when your body was at it’s naturally crave comfort foods this time of year and more healthiest and hang on to that feeling through the day. sweets. It turns out that comfort foods and sweets help balance Vata. You have to be careful not to overdue these Take a teaspoon full of local honey and let it melt slowly foods though because they can cause weight gain which will down your throat. If you are catching something, honey be harder to loose in the Spring which is the Kapha time of with its antibacterial properties will definitely be beneficial. I year. think honey is overlooked quite a bit. It is one the world’s oldest medicines being used as a drug, a nutrient and an So Kapha is the opposite of Vata and the things that make ointment. It helps with wound healing and has recently been up Kapha balance Vata and vice versa. Salty, sweet, moist ‘rediscovered’ by the medical profession especially where and warm foods pacify Vata and are the things, which some of the modern therapeutic agents fail. The increase Kapha. Astringent, pungent, bitter dry and light antimicrobial activity in uncooked honey is due to the foods aggravate Vata but are great to pacify Kapha. enzymatic production of hydrogen peroxide. There is a non- peroxide kind of honey, but I won’t get into that now. Mardi Lester is a Certified Ayurveda Specialist, CAS, and a Honey makes a great facial and body mask leaving your Pancha Karma Specialist, PKS as well as a Massage skin so soft. Practitioner (NVMT#3203) since 1988.

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