TCM Psychiatry – Qing Zhi Bing – Bodywork and Neuro-Somatic Therapy

Supportive Therapies

After studying Qing Zhi Bing as a sub-specialty of Traditional Chinese medicine, you can also learn supportive therapies to explore your healing and experience of Life further, or be of service to others in more specific and beneficial ways.

Bodywork and Neuro-Somatic Therapy

What is Neuro Somatic Therapy?

As a system of healing, Neuro Somatic Therapy (NST) focus on the treatment of physical pain, emotional distress, trauma release, and recovery from exhaustion and overwhelm.  The most common and most erosive medical challenges that people face today.

As a form of Massage, NST is a combination of

• Neuro Muscular Therapy
• Myofascial Release Therapy
• Somato-Emotional Release Therapy
• Chinese Therapeutic Massage (Tui Na)
• Cranio-Sacral Therapy
• Postural Rehabilitation
• Therapeutic Breathwork
• Acupressure

The Experience of Neuro Somatic Therapy

As an experience, NST is a hands-on journey through tension, a restoring of injured tissues or the inner emptiness of exhaustion, and a release of embodied patterns of distress.

During this personal and revitalizing journey, NST focuses on several qualities of treatment, including:

• Guiding a person into deep states of Mind-Body and breath integration to assist them during their recovery from injury, exhaustion and/or personal trauma.
• Relieving sensations of distress throughout a person’s whole body.
• Increasing circulation to tired and sore muscles as well as the internal organs.
• Relaxing hyper-tonic (tight) muscles and encouraging full range of motion in all of the joints.
• Encouraging a conscious relationship with each person’s bodily sensations and to the way that their Mind-Body subconsciously protects itself from further injury.
• Creating a comfortable environment for a person to relax into, and let go of, old patterns of embodiment.

Exhaustion, in modern society, usually occurs as a gradual transition from struggling against something, to feeling unable to struggle or withdraw any farther. In some instances, exhaustion can occur very suddenly after an infection or a serious physical or emotional trauma; the proverbial “straw on the Camel’s back”.

As a society and as individuals, we must begin to respect the most erosive force in our lives, or we are just going to get better at believing that we are supposed to use our lives in this way.

In NST we focus on resolving the physical and energetic recruitment that keep our Mind-Body on red alert, exhausting our resources.

In Applied Neuro Somatics® theory there are Nine Layers of Complex Distress. The first three are instinctual and happen “before your mind”, three are determined by your relationship with others, and the last three are existential states of mental and emotional (personally experienced) distress.

Depending on where and why your nervous system is holding a larger pattern of Embodied Distress, the approach to treatment will meet you there.

Contents:

• Neuro-Somatic Therapy – Theory and Practice
• Embodiment of Instinctual Distress
• Embodiment of Visceral Distress
• Embodiment of Existential Distress
• Hands on Tissue Rehabilitation
• Routines for Assessment
• Routines for Body Regions
• Postural Rehabilitation
• Somato-mapping and Bodywork