3 effective self massage techniques

For PMS, Body blues and just deep relaxation

1) check out acupressure points: good guide
http://www.acupressureonline.org/iPMS.htm
for PMS and other femalecentric ideas.
2) Take a deep breath and hold it for 5 seconds, on the exhale, press between your index finger and your thumb and let out an "ahhhhh"...
3) Take your hand, clasp your neck from behind and squeeze the muscles to release tension. You should feel this all over your body.

COMING SOON: alison leigh will be demonstrating these techniques on UTUBE.
check back in July for more details.
askalisonleigh@gmail.com
http://movingmindfulness.blogspot.com/

3 effective self massage techniques

For PMS, Body blues and just deep relaxation

1) check out acupressure points: good guide
http://www.acupressureonline.org/iPMS.htm
for PMS and other femalecentric ideas.
2) Take a deep breath and hold it for 5 seconds, on the exhale, press between your index finger and your thumb and let out an "ahhhhh"...
3) Take your hand, clasp your neck from behind and squeeze the muscles to release tension. You should feel this all over your body.

COMING SOON: alison leigh will be demonstrating these techniques on UTUBE.
check back in July for more details.
askalisonleigh@gmail.com
http://movingmindfulness.blogspot.com/

Massage, Mindfulness, and the way of the warrior princess

To be pink, is to be proud. To be free is also a proud expression of love in the community of healers on this planet working feverishly to produce new ways of integrating movement, dance and the arts into creative expression for healing women all over the world.

think globally act locally...and we do.
Do you have a gal/women friend who you know is doing great things for herself and then turning that into more empowerment for others?
Send me some links and i'll include these women and their efforts on this blog.
http://justbegoodtoyourself.blogspot.com/
http://movingmindfulness.blogspot.com/

don't forget to check out the MESSY GIRLS CLUB of San Francisco
will be holding their first launch party on June 28th, 2009
at
Just Be Therapy and Healing Lounge
2121 26th Street #202
San Francisco, Ca 94107
http://www.yelp.com/biz/alison-leigh-siegel-mft-san-francisco-2

Massage, Mindfulness, and the way of the warrior princess

To be pink, is to be proud. To be free is also a proud expression of love in the community of healers on this planet working feverishly to produce new ways of integrating movement, dance and the arts into creative expression for healing women all over the world.

think globally act locally...and we do.
Do you have a gal/women friend who you know is doing great things for herself and then turning that into more empowerment for others?
Send me some links and i'll include these women and their efforts on this blog.
http://justbegoodtoyourself.blogspot.com/
http://movingmindfulness.blogspot.com/

don't forget to check out the MESSY GIRLS CLUB of San Francisco
will be holding their first launch party on June 28th, 2009
at
Just Be Therapy and Healing Lounge
2121 26th Street #202
San Francisco, Ca 94107
http://www.yelp.com/biz/alison-leigh-siegel-mft-san-francisco-2

Sexual Trauma transposed using Integrative Medicine

To offer intellectual solutions for women (and men) whom have had their bodies (and minds) altered, drugged, and sacrificed would be just another western medicinal attempt at fixing the problem to rape, cruelty and incest. Western tactics and medical science view the body as not a whole entity, but pieces to be "fixed". The attempt at fixing each part is completely contrary to what integrative medicine is trying to solve. Coming from a somatic perspective, we treat the whole body/mind as one entity. That means that if someone comes to us for help, we look at all cause and effects of the human experience at large.

To be more detailed, treating someone of rape doesn't fit into a medicinal body of pills, but rather in movement and creative somatic expression. Take Elayne Doghy, MFT of http://brightbeautifulwomen.blogspot.com/ whom is helping Congolese women "move through" their trauma. The same can be said by using mindful practices in every day life. http://movingmindfulness.blogspot.com/
For more information on somatics, somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness, contact
askalisonleigh@gmail.com or elayne_doughty@hotmail.com

Sexual Trauma transposed using Integrative Medicine

To offer intellectual solutions for women (and men) whom have had their bodies (and minds) altered, drugged, and sacrificed would be just another western medicinal attempt at fixing the problem to rape, cruelty and incest. Western tactics and medical science view the body as not a whole entity, but pieces to be "fixed". The attempt at fixing each part is completely contrary to what integrative medicine is trying to solve. Coming from a somatic perspective, we treat the whole body/mind as one entity. That means that if someone comes to us for help, we look at all cause and effects of the human experience at large.

To be more detailed, treating someone of rape doesn't fit into a medicinal body of pills, but rather in movement and creative somatic expression. Take Elayne Doghy, MFT of http://brightbeautifulwomen.blogspot.com/ whom is helping Congolese women "move through" their trauma. The same can be said by using mindful practices in every day life. http://movingmindfulness.blogspot.com/
For more information on somatics, somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness, contact
askalisonleigh@gmail.com or elayne_doughty@hotmail.com

women with rage

As it is so profoundly seen, witnessed and experienced by so many people for whom i work with, my dear friends Elayne and Sylvia are currently sharing their time learning and helping the Congolese women in Africa who have also suffered great sexual abuse in their lifetime. They are exploring their past and present and how their political and sexual torture has affected them on all levels, physical, mental and emotional. As this has become a common experience in their culture and as stated by Elayne , "a norm in their society", i am deeply saddened by the effect it has left on women all over the world including the special women i work with here in San Francisco. Everyone whether male or female are affected by the sexual cruelty of inhumane rape, crisis, and molestation at one point in their lives or another. Question is, what can we do now? Being a survivor myself, what i know about this is that one of the most important things about using the rage and anger is to be 1) in touch with it and 2) be aware that it is stronger than you might think. Being "in touch", however is so difficult because the body and mind protect ourselves so we can "survive". This issue of survival is something i am talking more about these days and will be writing about in blogs to come. The point is, that the residual effect of trauma is that it can become locked in the cellular structure of the body, thus compromising it of its natural and flowing resources.


When this happens, (also called "stagnation, or stagnant chi") a women's (or man's) body is thus suspended in time and basically "frozen", as if they resemble a deer in headlights. Yes, you might not be able to tell from afar but we all have some trauma held back in our bodies and working with that is one of the most important and least covered rituals in our society. Due to this increase in awareness in consciousness around trauma held in the body and the necessity of it to be released comes a new wave of bodymind techniques that offer somatic expressions. These kind of mind/body works were developed years ago but are now gaining more popularity among trauma survivors each day. Some of the work you may find out there is called, "somatic psychotherapy", "dance and movement psychotherapy", "mind/body therapy", "emotional release bodywork". More on this later...