Dear health enthusiast
friend!
Greetings to you!
I am happy to report to you that my
video which I produced and uploaded onto YouTube in order to help you combat
neck pain and neck stiffness, titled The
"2-Minute Functional Movement Education Miracle" to Free Up Your Stiff Neck, has now passed
the 10,000 mark!
Since I originally put this video up on YouTube last
summer, I am honored with "10,000 hits", rather, 10,000 viewers have tuned in to
it.
I am elated that 10,000 of you have allowed me to come in to your
homes in order to help you take better care of your body. I thank you for your
trust.
My neck video can be seen at the following URL address on
YouTube.:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9p7_XPK6lM
Please feel free to continue to use my video
for your great health and comfort.
After all, as my motto since the
90's pervades, "Health is
all that Matters!"
For a healthy, full, 40-minute, hands-on,
uplifting, Functional Movement Education treatment by me to completely address your neck or back
pain, please contact me at tel. 310-395-1952.
FYI. I might add that
a full 40-minute Functional Movement Education treatment has been proven to do wonders for
combating your neck pain as has been scientifically validated and documented in
the following, eye-opening, four Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal
Publications.:
Ruth S, Kegerreis S. Facilitating Cervical Flexion
Using a Feldenkrais Method: Awareness Through Movement. Journal of Sports and Physical
Therapy16(1): 25-29, 1992. Peer Reviewed.
Lundblad I. Elert J. Gerdle B. Randomized
controlled trial of physiotherapy and Feldenkrais interventions in female
workers with neck-shoulder complaints. [Journal Article: Clinical Trial]
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 1999 Sep; 9(3): 179-94. (46 ref). Peer
Reviewed.
Emerich KA. Nontraditional tools helpful in the treatment of
certain types of voice disturbances. [23 refs]. [Journal Article. Review.
Review: Tutorial] Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head & Neck
Surgery. 11(3):149-53, 2003 Jun. Peer Reviewed.Miller TM. Decision
Making Processes of Physical Therapists and Feldenkrais Practitioners. PhD
dissertation, Temple University, 2007; Advisors: Shepard KF, Stephens J, Hack
L.
Please feel free to
forward on this spectacular information pertaining to Peer-Reviewed Research, as
well as my YouTube neck video, to any of your friends, family, or associates
that are currently experiencing neck issues and you feel could greatly benefit
from learning how to alleviate their neck pain and
stiffness.Please
remember for any activity you choose to enjoy or safely indulge in, that I am
your "Safety Buffer". Subsequently, "Sometimes even a Mercedes needs a
tune-up". :-)
I can give you the sensory-motor experience of being able
to move easily and comfortably without pain!
Call me to enjoy your
wonderfully relaxing and rejuvenating Movement Education session today at tel.
310-395-1952.
Say,
Hello! to Relaxing, and Goodbye! to Stiffness and Pain.
All the best to you in
great health!
James
Guan Yin Acupuncture & Movement-Education Center
Dr. Lin Cheng Speer, LAc, OMD, PhD
James Speer, Injury Rehab Therapist
Functional Movement-Education Therapist
Practitioner of the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais
1003 Wilshire Blvd. Suites #203, #208
Santa Monica, CA 90401
tel. 310-395-1952www.drlinspeer.com
www.feldenkraisjamesspeer.com
"Health Is All that Matters!"
"If
you’re in pain, or your body aches, I give you the sensory motor
experience to be able to move freely, effortlessly, pleasantly, without
strain or discomfort. Say 'Hello' to relaxing, and 'Goodbye' to
stiffness and pain!"
To
see my popular YouTube video of me demonstrating the wonderful
"'2-Minute Movement-Education Miracle' to Free Up Your Stiff Neck", Click Here
Thank you for coming here to my blogspot. :-) Please
let me start by saying that my background to become a Functional Movement
Education Therapist, I completed a 4-year training in order to become a
Practitioner of the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, he being the famed Israeli
neuro-physiologist. The curriculum included 1600 hours of course work,
spread over 4 years, which is necessary before a student finally “gets
it”. In this light, let’s explore together what I as a Functional
Movement Education Therapist do. ...
Are you able to recognize an approaching acquaintance long before you can see
his or her face? The way we move is an identifiable part of who we are.
We, as human beings, enjoy movement. We love to move. Babies love
to move. They love to learn.
It’s within the innate desire and curiosity of a child (and adult) to
learn about themselves and their environment. They enjoy to learn how to,
for instance, roll, turn, bend, walk, or run. It’s within our being the
natural desire for rotation or rotating, flexing, extending, twisting or other
kinds of movements.
Functional Movement Education is about learning.
It’s a way to learn. However, in order for someone to learn, it has to be fun and interesting to
the individual, as well as comfortable.
Thus, trying to, say, abruptly do a somersault or roll on the ground, or to
strain by forcing your hands to touch your toes with locked knees, if this is
uncomfortable, your Self (your body) is not learning.
Clients originally come to me because of an injury … a back or neck injury,
joint pain in the shoulder, wrist, elbow, knee or other orthopedic
problem.
As a Functional Movement Education Therapist, I do not directly go in with the
intention to “fix” the other person or to even change the other person.
However, I stay in tune with the “process”. I do the “process”. As
part of the “process”, I am always staying observant, to be observant or aware,
of the “process” that is happening or continues to occur between myself and the
client before me. By me, as the Functional Movement Educator, being
engaged in this “process”, this ultimately has wonderful therapeutic results,
such as eliminating pain or improving the quality of life function, actions, or
activities for the client.
As I am working with a client before me, the following are questions that
continue to reverberate in my thinking as I am engaged in the process, or
"working" in my relation to the client.:
"How can we 'dance' together? ... How can we move
together? ... How do we move together? ... What
movement is it that we want to do together? What is it (from preventing
us) from moving together? What do I put out? What energy do I put
out? Where do they meet me? ..."
"Where my hands currently are on this person, rather, from where I'm
currently working, what else within this person moves? ... How much
of them goes along with this movement? Where along them does this
movement stop? How can I 'catch' the rest of themselves within this
movement? ... Are we dancing together differently?
..." "As I push here, how much or how far does this movement or
action trickle along them? ..."
I may or may not get immediate answers, or, at least, no cognitive or
articulate answers to my questions. This is very typical. As part
of the process that I am engaged in, I continue to move or “dance” with the
individual, or continue to see where I can dance or move with this person,
continuing to re-circulate these kinds of questions.
A physical example of what I do would be the following. A client comes to
me complaining of back pain. I ask the client to lie down on my table on
their back with supporting rollers placed under their bent knees for further
comfort. I am having them lie down in order to give their body the
opportunity to be taken out of their habitual pattern of holding or tension
while upright, in order to make them more comfortable, so that they can be more
open to Learning.
Questions that begin to pervade my thinking as I am engaged with this person
are.:
"What am I attracted to or drawn to within this person? ...
What catches my eye? ... What 'dance' do I wish to do? What
dance do we wish to do together? Where does this person want me to touch
them? ... to dance with them? ... to move with
them?"
Sometimes, I might be drawn to the shoulder area. Yes, the shoulder, even
though the client complained of back pain. As I "work" the
shoulder, I allow myself to stay aware and observant of where does this shoulder
wish to move? Where does it want to go? How much of the rest of the
person comes along with this movement of the shoulder?
Where within them, how can I "catch" the rest of their body within
this movement? I may then move to another place that I am drawn to.
I decide to lift their leg. As I lift, what else of this individual is
connected to this movement? I continue to move and dance with the
individual and allow myself to remain aware and observant of the process.
After a session, a client will sometimes say how she was surprised
that I never touched her back but her "back pain" is gone now.
Again, I don't "fix", or rather, I don't go in with the intention to
fix. However, this Functional Movement Education work, a.k.a. movement
education, this cultivation of body awareness, brings therapeutic
benefits. Thus, it ultimately brings helpful results or fixes.
Another word we Functional Movement Education Therapists use is to refer to
this session with a client as a session for improving "Functionality".
Note how I continue to use the words Functional, Functionality, or their
derivatives. We are working with a person's functionality, or how they
function, how they move or act. Functional Movement Education is functional
work. It is not structural work. We Functional Movement Educators
don't have the direct intention to change or manipulate a person’s structure,
albeit, their physical anatomy. This may happen ultimately, but it is not
my direct intention. The functional work is unlike other structural
workers such as, for instance, rolfers, who's intention is to manipulate or
work the fascia structure of an individual, or the chiropractor, who
manipulates or adjusts bone placement.
Every single Functional Movement Education session is different. Each
session is customized to the individual. Each individual, each
individual's body, his or her needs, is unique, just as each snowflake.
As a Functional Movement Educator, using my
hands-on tactical feedback, I help to expand a client's kinesthetic, or bodily,
awareness of themselves. By a person encompassing more of themselves, rather, a
greater self-image, pain or discomfort is eliminated.Conclusively, I have given this individual the
sensory-motor experience of moving easily, rather, what it is like to move
effortlessly without strain or discomfort. Thus, they now have a better
“organized” body for movement. Having a better organization, they are now
pain-free. They have learned a new pattern for movement.
Some of the conditions I have successfully treated include:
Acute and chronic joint pain - including back, neck, shoulder, hip, and knee
pain, arthritis, sciatica, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, balance
issues, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, as well as other orthopedic or
neurological conditions.
As a keyboardist, as well as former all-state trumpet player and all-county
cross-country runner, I especially enjoy working with musicians and athletes,
for enlarging their body and self-awareness to enhance performance. I was
previously honored to have presented Movement Education, twice, to the
International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA) at their 1996 and
1997 World Fitness Expo & Conventions, as well as at the 1996 North
American Feldenkrais Guild conference.
If you haven't already, you may be interested in viewing a short,
2-minute video of me (made within a full, 45-minute session) working
with a client, by clicking on the link above.
Please feel free to contact me for any further questions you might have.
Your first Functional Movement Education session with me:
Functional Movement Education is a wonderful,
body-centered method for self-exploration using movement. I recommend to
my clients to wear loose, comfortable clothes. You will find that this
special form of bodywork is very relaxing. In fact, you’ll probably find
that as a result of the pleasant unwinding experienced, your body begins to
slow down. Therefore, you may have a tendency to more easily feel cold
during a session. For this reason, you probably do not want to wear
shorts. Thus, I recommend you wear long pants. Some clients like to
wear sweats.
Also, you may want to wear socks and possibly even a sweat shirt if you might
need, otherwise, to avoid feeling cold.
After the session, you will be in a nice, calm, relaxed state. Some
clients after receiving my work desire some quiet time afterward to be by
themselves to be alone. This may be as little as 15 minutes, or
substantially longer. After your session, your body is still continuing
to nicely process the “lesson” for some time afterward. Therefore, you
probably don’t want to do anything especially hectic or active, or any heavy
lifting, after a session. Preferably, you may want to wait until the next
day before doing anything especially active as your body continues to process.
However, living in today’s fast times, within our fast, familial and societal
obligatory world, this isn’t always possible. Therefore, I usually tell
clients to at least not do anything especially active for at least 3 hours
after a session.
Clients ask me about "working out", or a "workout",
afterward. I tell them that it’s better if they work out before they see
me, and then they have the nice, relaxing session with me to look forward to
afterward. This is more productive than the opposite, that is, to receive
my work and then to immediately afterward go out and do a rigorous workout.
However, I should add that if you have decided for yourself that it is
imperative that you work out, and there is no other time to schedule your
workout than for after a session with me, then, fine. Receiving my work
before working out and then working out afterward, … this is probably better
for you than only solely working out and never receiving any Functional
Movement Education work at all.
Come on in and enjoy!
The best of health to all!
James
Guan Yin Acupuncture & Movement-Education Center
Dr. Lin Cheng Speer, LAc, OMD, PhD
James Speer, Injury Rehab Therapist
Functional Movement-Education Therapist
Practitioner of the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais
1003 Wilshire Blvd. Suites #203, #208
Santa Monica, CA 90401
tel. 310-395-1952www.drlinspeer.com
www.feldenkraisjamesspeer.com
"Health Is All that Matters!"
"If
you’re in pain, or your body aches, I give you the sensory motor
experience to be able to move freely, effortlessly, pleasantly, without
strain or discomfort. Say 'Hello' to relaxing, and 'Goodbye' to
stiffness and pain!"
To
see my popular YouTube video of me demonstrating the wonderful
"'2-Minute Movement-Education Miracle' to Free Up Your Stiff Neck", Click Here
