Alchemy Center For Healing Therapies

06/19/2025

📣 Research Highlights the Power of Manual Therapy for Chronic Pelvic Pain

Manual therapists trained in Barral and Upledger approaches understand: Male Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (MCPPS) isn't just about the prostate. It’s a whole-body issue—musculoskeletal, visceral, neural, and more.

👐 A comprehensive, hands-on evaluation found:
✔️ Restrictions in kidney, bladder, prostate & femoral nerve mobility
✔️ Spasms in iliopsoas & levator ani
✔️ 85%+ symptom improvement using manual therapy

✨ The study supports integrative treatments we teach at the Barral and Upledger Institutes:
• Visceral Manipulation (kidney, bladder, liver, prostate)
• Neural Manipulation (femoral, pudendal, sciatic nerves)
• CranioSacral Therapy (nervous system regulation)
• Manual Prostate Assessment (fascial & structural release)

Read here:https://www.iahe.com/storage/docs/articles/A_comprehensive_physical_therapy_evaluation_for_Male_Chronic_Pelvic_Pain_Syndrome-A_case_series_exploring_common_findings_1.pdf or Barralinstitute.com Searchable Article Database

06/19/2025

Most people have no idea the tongue connects to the nervous system in a way that directly impacts the heart and lungs.

Here’s how it works.

The trigeminal nerve connects your jaw, teeth, and tongue to parts of the brain that control how you breathe, how your heart beats, and how your body responds to stress.

The vagus nerve travels from your brainstem to your lungs, heart, and gut. It controls your rest, digest, and recovery state.

If your tongue is low, your jaw is off, or your bite is misaligned, that sends bad input to the brain. It disrupts the vagus nerve. Your body starts compensating.

That means shallow breathing, poor digestion, irregular heart rhythm, and constant tension. Your nervous system gets stuck in fight or flight.

Change the tongue, change the input, and the whole system rebalances.

This is not a dental issue. It’s a brain issue.
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06/12/2025

🌿 Visceral Manipulation & Whole-Person Wellness 🌿
Did you know?
Comparative studies have shown that Visceral Manipulation can be a powerful approach to addressing both women’s and men’s health issues—from pelvic pain and bladder dysfunction to reproductive concerns and post-surgical recovery.

📚 We’ve curated a list of key resources and research exploring how Visceral Manipulation supports conditions such as:
Endometriosis
Prostatitis
Incontinence
Pelvic floor dysfunction
And more...

✨ Empower your healing or expand your clinical insight.
🔗 Take a look at the research and case studies here:
🔍 visit: https://info.barralinstitute.com/conditions/womens-and-mens-health-issues/?

06/12/2025

📢 How Do Your Organs Influence Your Emotions and Decisions?

🌿 Did you know that your gut, heart, and other internal organs are constantly communicating with your brain—shaping your thoughts, emotions, and even your sense of self?

🧠 According to neuroscience research, this “interoceptive” feedback influences behavior, memory, mood, and motivation. It even affects how we perceive fear, safety, and connection to others.

✨ Manual therapy, especially approaches like Visceral Manipulation and CranioSacral Therapy, works directly with these pathways—supporting the body’s ability to regulate from the inside out.

👉 By gently addressing restrictions in the organs, fascia, and autonomic nervous system, these therapies help restore internal balance and improve emotional and cognitive function. This is more than just muscle work—it's about optimizing the whole-body communication network.

Read here:https://www.iahe.com/storage/docs/articles/visceral-influences-on-brain-and-behavior.pdf or Barralinstitute.com Searchable Article Database

06/06/2025

🦴🤲 Frozen Shoulder... From the Gut?

A 2020 study explored how Visceral Manipulation (VM) helped people with adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)—and the results were remarkable:
🔹 Decreased pain
🔹 Increased shoulder mobility
🔹 Improved daily function

By addressing visceral restrictions—especially in the liver and stomach—the study showed how manual therapy can influence joint health from the inside out.

📖 Read the full research here:
https://www.barralinstitute.com/docs/articles/Effect-of-visceral-manipulation-on-pain-mobility-and-fun.pdf

04/14/2025

incredible article for Manual Medicine

Read more: https://bit.ly/3QWFp0s or Barralinstitute.com Searchable Article Database

Mental processes and their neural substrates are intimately linked to the homeostatic control on internal bodily state. There are a set of distinct interoceptive pathways that directly and indirectly influence brain functions. The anatomical organization of these pathways and the psychological/behavioral expressions of their influence appear along discrete, evolutionarily conserved dimensions that are tractable to a mechanistic understanding. Here, we review the role of these pathways as sources of biases to perception, cognition, emotion, and behavior and arguably the dynamic basis to the concept of self.

10/16/2024

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06/26/2024

05/30/2024

Read more: https://bit.ly/3QWFp0s or Barralinstitute.com Searchable Article Database

Mental processes and their neural substrates are intimately linked to the homeostatic control on internal bodily state. There are a set of distinct interoceptive pathways that directly and indirectly influence brain functions. The anatomical organization of these pathways and the psychological/behavioral expressions of their influence appear along discrete, evolutionarily conserved dimensions that are tractable to a mechanistic understanding. Here, we review the role of these pathways as sources of biases to perception, cognition, emotion, and behavior and arguably the dynamic basis to the concept of self.

02/03/2024

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02/01/2024

Coming to Asheville 3/10

Discover the wonders of the nervous system! Immerse yourself in Gil Hedley’s Nerve Tour. This is an unprecedented opportunity you won’t want to miss! Brought to you by The Barral Institute (BI) and Upledger Institute International (UII) in collaboration with Gil Hedley, our BI and UII network is eligible for a discount of 20% off the normal registration, with the use of a promotion coupon.

More details, dates and to receive your BI/UII discount: https://bit.ly/3SFjVpp

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