BENEFITS

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Through the energetic balancing of this vital center, we can truly value the state of the organs and their respective emotions. Some benefits you will experience include:

 

• Regulate and harmonize digestive function

• Reduce symptoms such as constipation, gastritis, irritable bowel, gases, etc

• Treat problems of the reproductive system

• Calm problems of the respiratory system

• Diminish pain in the lumbar spine

• Release toxins

• Strengthen the immune system

• Stimulate the production of serotonin (the happiness hormone, 95% of which is created in the gut), dopamine (pleasure sensations), opiates (feeling of tranquility and happiness) and benzodiazepines (relaxing the central nervous system)

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WHY THE ABDOMEN?

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While investigating ancient manuscripts and developing his theory of Zen Shiatsu, Shizuto Masunaga began to consider the Hara to be the origin of all meridians. From this understanding, he defined the Hara as a zone of diagnosis and treatment. He also considered that from the abdomen one can energetically influence the entire body.

Many schools of martial arts like Aikido and Tai Chi consider the abdomen to be the vital center and it is thought to be fundamental to work from the Hara/Tan Tien to achieve a good technique. Many systems of yoga and meditation recognize the essential importance of the abdomen. It is the center of Qi, strength and serenity.

 

Today, thanks to science, we know that the abdomen possesses a great number of neurotransmitters and has been named the Second Brain.  This system not only functions in an autonomic form while controlling multiple digestive functions and absorption of nutrients, but according to certain scientific studies, it is capable of memorizing emotions and can suffer from stress. Investigations show that its tasks also include producing psychoactive substances that influence the emotional state, like the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine, different opiates that calm pain, and benzodiazepines that relax the body.

 

 

The core is a center of life and energy, even though it also can carry tensions. Exploring Ampuku allows you to gain emotional equilibrium that rejuvenates the entire organism.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

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Like all therapies, this work is an encounter between two beings. I do my part and you do yours.

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What can you do to maximize the experience and arrive more deeply to healing?

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OPEN

 

Open yourself to receive. Sometimes it’s difficult, but to accept that we need a guide, a tool, and a helping hand is a big step. The second step is to allow yourself to RECEIVE once you are on the table. The more resistance you have, the more difficult it will be for your body to receive Source Energy. If you stay open and trust, you leave this energy to do its work and go where it needs to.

 

LET GO

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Hand in hand with your openness to receive, comes letting go of everything that would prevent this healing energy to flow through you. I invite you to release and let go of your body: you don’t need to move it or help me when I am making adjustments, nor control the natural development of your body when it wants to move or feel. Allow your body to flow.

Let go of your mind: analyzing and losing yourself in thoughts won’t serve you.

Let go of your expectations: what will happen will be for your best wellbeing.

Let go of barriers and conditionings: you are in a safe place.

 

EXPRESS

 

This is a constant dialogue between your Being and my hands. I can feel what your body needs even though you don’t speak during the session, and no doubt, you can express everything that you need to and it is better that way. In fact, every session is a space completely free of judgement, so that you can express what you need to, often without words. If you need to express with tears, sighs, screams, laughs, a change in your breath, whatever it may be, it is the perfect moment because we are working in the liberation and cleansing of your energy. If you want or need to release something, please do. Express with a movement, a gesture, a sound. Feel yourself in trust and security.

 

FEEL

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Everything from pleasure to pain. Many times in life, we avoid pain (its uncomfortable and no one likes to be uncomfortable). Well, that is where the work resides, in the discomfort. Everything that brings discomfort in life is because there is an internal process to be worked and understood. During the session, if you feel pain in a certain point or area of your body (which is normal and expected) then communicate that to me. You can work with it, to go more deeply. The idea is that, through the respiration, you can release the pain, after integrating it first. For that, do this: when you inhale, feel the pain. Instead of tensing the body and resisting the sensation, bring consciousness, gratitude, harmony, and healing to this area. Bring all the intentions that you brought with you to transform this sensation. Then exhale and release everything, giving thanks for the new understanding that it brings. Give peace to this energy that is in tension and obstructing you, liberating it and liberating you. Between you and I, we do this work and the result will be even more beneficial and efficient. Also when you feel pleasure, feel free to receive it because you deserve it!

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∞ THANK YOU FOR TRUST ∞

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