Network Chiropractic Care – A Life-Enhancing Experience!
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Network Care is a “Chiro-Practice” approach to self health that’s experienced in an open- room format. Network offers a gentle and unique blend of clinical touch which has been gathered over 25 years of research and development. New-edge information from biological science, neuroscience, quantum physics and the field of somatics helped place this technique in its own category of what’s being referred to as “Reorganizational Healing”. (Reorganizing one’s health is much greater than simply restoring it to its previous state).
This “interactive” chiropractic approach offers an inner journey for those who wish to learn how to engage the bodymind’s self-healing language. Network Care will help you develop life-long, inner-awareness skills to manage stress, enhance your life and grow towards your human potential.
There are four levels of care;
Level I – focuses on pain management, stress reduction and developing the inner language of self correction.
Level II – assists in transforming body posturing and stuck-behavior patterns and brightens one’s outlook on life.
Level III – deepens the connection to one’s higher energy centers through the development of intuition, trust and the heart field.
Level IV – self referral care/integrative care of levels I – III
Network Chiropractic Entrainments (30 minutes, open room session)
Entrainments refer to a coordination of rhythms. Network Entrainments assist the bodymind to coordinate consciousness and ease through light touch. Rather than adjust the bones of the spine, an entrainment focuses on releasing tension from the rubberband- like sheath that anchors the spine to the vertebral column (no popping or snapping). Entrainments help the spinal system and the rest of the body to rhythmically groove into a more malleable, breathable and self-corrective whole. This “awakened” midline hologram helps to release, transform and integrate stress patterns into new outcomes for one’s body, mind and life. These sessions feel really good to receive and are extremely calming and centering.
On your first visit, I’ll be taking a “stress inventory” to find out where your body likes to store old patterns of information that create tension (this builds up from years of physical, chemical, emotional and mental stress). Stress or tension can be stored in various parts of the body such as muscles, bones, nerves and in the fields of energy that influence your physical body. (Muscle tension is one form of stress that most of us are familiar with because large muscles are on the body’s surface and can easily be touched and connected with). I will help you feel other areas that stress likes to hide.
This stress inventory includes a consultation, a postural/balance evaluation, gentle palpation of various subsystems and an assessment of your ranges of motion – which have a lot to do with “e – motions”.
You will also receive a scan of your nervous system to evaluate the patterns of stress that are unique to you and how they might be keeping you from performing at your best.
In accessing your bio-intelligence and learning how your bodymind moves and breathes through space/time (life), I’ll be able to serve you on a much deeper level and help you create sustainable changes through honest feedback and a personalized set of recommendations. Lastly, I’ll teach you a breathing exercise that can be done at home so that you can immediately take charge of your own health and well being.
Private Session
During these 1 hour private sessions Dr. Bjorn provides a combination of Network Care, Somato-Respiratory Integration and Upper Cervical Chiropractic (you can find full descriptions by clicking through the links.) $110
Visit 1-“Let’s connect and get you started” (1 hour private session)
On your first visit, I’ll be taking a “stress inventory” to find out where your body likes to store old patterns of information that create tension (this builds up from years of physical, chemical, emotional and mental stress). Stress or tension can be stored in various parts of the body such as muscles, bones, nerves and in the fields of energy that influence your physical body. (Muscle tension is one form of stress that most of us are familiar with because large muscles are on the body’s surface and can easily be touched and connected with). I will help you feel other areas that stress likes to hide.
This stress inventory includes a consultation, a postural/balance evaluation, gentle palpation of various subsystems and an assessment of your ranges of motion – which have a lot to do with “e – motions”.
You will also receive a scan of your nervous system to evaluate the patterns of stress that are unique to you and how they might be keeping you from performing at your best.
In accessing your bio-intelligence and learning how your bodymind moves and breathes through space/time (life), I’ll be able to serve you on a much deeper level and help you create sustainable changes through honest feedback and a personalized set of recommendations. Lastly, I’ll teach you a breathing exercise that can be done at home so that you can immediately take charge of your own health and well being.
Private Session
During these 1 hour private sessions Dr. Bjorn provides a combination of Network Care, Somato-Respiratory Integration and Upper Cervical Chiropractic (you can find full descriptions of these on our website at www.santacruzintegrativemedicine.net) $110
All other visits keep the same)
Upper Cervical Chiropractic (description for SCIMC website)
With specialized training, Dr. Bjorn’s approach to Upper Cervical is safe, effective and gentle. There is no popping or twisting of the neck. The Upper Cervical spine refers to the top two bones of your upper neck called the atlas and axis that sit on top of one another protecting the brainstem and allowing your head to move freely. This is the most fragile region of the spine as these two bones house the brainstem and don’t have any discs between them unlike the rest of your spine. The integrity and alignment of the upper cervical spine is essential for optimum brainstem function and complete spinal stability.
The brainstem is the master control center that controls and regulates many autonomic functions keeping you alive and doing the things you love to do. Some of these vital functions include sleep, blood pressure, breathing, heart rate, attention span, consciousness, movement, balance and posture. Every message your brain sends to your body has to pass through this intricate control center in your upper neck. If there is pressure on the brainstem from a misalignment of the atlas or axis, many of your vital functions can be jeopardized hindering your nervous system to function at its optimum potential.
How does the misalignment in the upper neck happen?
Accidents, injuries and chronic stress patterns can tear, stretch and weaken the loose connective tissues that hold this fragile region of the spine together. Often the very first trauma a human experiences to the head and neck is their very own birth. Emotional, physical and chemical stress throughout life can create weakness and imbalances that allows the spine to break down over time and lock into a stressed position creating poor posture, degeneration and altered muscle tone. This guarded and less than optimal state of being is expressed in many ways. You may notice that one shoulder is higher than the other in the mirror, or your head is tilted and/or rotated to one side. Maybe you have one side of your body that is always nagging you or creating problems but the other side seems just fine. Most often these imbalances occur due to a misalignment in the upper cervical region, particularly the atlas which can create a significant amount of tension on the entire spinal cord. The atlas, which looks like a donut ring holds your world on your shoulders. Your head alone can weigh up to 12 lbs. Have you checked to see if your head is on straight?
How does Upper Cervical Work?
Dr. Bjorn will guide you through an interactive experience that will reveal to you and him whether or not Upper Cervical care is appropriate for your spine at the current state you are in. In addition to a “stress inventory”, Dr. Bjorn will look closely at your body’s ability to balance, your posture, head/neck ranges of motion and areas of greatest tension. He will also take a scan of your nervous system to evaluate the patterns of stress that are unique to you and how they might be keeping your body from performing at its best.
The Upper Cervical Experience
There are many ways of adjusting the upper cervical spine, however Dr. Bjorn’s Upper Cervical care is very gentle, specific and done by hand. There is no twisting or popping of the upper neck. Most people say it feels like a light pressure or vibration behind the ear. With results from your initial visit, Dr. Bjorn determines the specific vector that is unique to you for the best adjustment possible. He uses the atlas as a lever and the weight of your head to guide the atlas and you spine back into its natural state of alignment. With gravity and the inner wisdom of your body responding to the adjustment, the atlas will return to its optimal position naturally without the need to force or fix it. When you are holding your adjustment, this state of being allows for a tremendous amount of healing benefit while your posture improves rapidly, and the nervous system is given the chance to flow in its most free state. By tapping into your body’s own inner wisdom for healing, you are taking responsibility for your health and the endless possibilities that await you with a spine free from interference. This process can provide tremendous relief from a myriad of symptoms such as headaches, neck pain and vertigo to name a few. Most importantly, create lasting results for reorganization within your body for a new awareness of being.
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