GatesWay Therapy and Wellness Skills

06/13/2025

06/09/2025

For students past and future. This is your body. Get familiar with it.

06/05/2025

One of the worst things that contribute to destroying our health.

Still drinking soda? Read this and think again.

05/24/2025

I think walking is the best exercise. It does so much for the body.

Walking can help reduce visceral fat. Try out this 7-day walking plan created by certified trainers and lower your chronic disease risk.

05/13/2025

05/13/2025

The vagus nerve is a primary carrier of information describing the state of the body to the brain, and transmitting information from the brain back to the body. It’s a feedback mechanism which is responsible for maintaining homeostasis for many of our vital organs and brain/body functions. Research over the past few decades shows that the vagus plays a key role in managing our levels of stress as well as our body’s inflammation; in this age of stress- and inflammation-related disease, it is perhaps the most important nerve in the body for us to be paying attention to.

Come learn more at the 2025 PVI International Gathering, The Vagus Nerve: A Path to Wellness, happening this fall, Oct 31-Nov 2, live in-person and online.
Early Bird tickets available now at polyvagal.org/2025gathering

05/11/2025

For those of you who are interested in learning about about wellness skills -maybe you are in the early stages of that journey. Maybe you are more advanced. I welcome whoever wants to learn. As you are welcome to be my students. Share this page with like minded friends.

05/11/2025

I feel it is very important to learn about the physiology of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system. I am nearing my 70th birthday and I have been actively learning natural health practices since I was a teenager. My mother was a reflexologist since I was 7 years old. I witnessed so many amazing “miracles” from childhood.
We always had a lot of stress in this world. And disease comes so easy to a stressed out body. After 9/11/2001 I saw how most everyone was locked into a sympathetic nerve response of “fight or flight” and the parasympathetic nervous system could not get the brakes applied. I saw more people with shingles, herpes, mono, and anxiety in the years after that. They were still living in a heightened state of terror unseen. Now we have the same situation in our post Covid world.
I feel it is very important to understand this system and how we might can help calm and heal it.

First make sure you understand this magnificent system that can give mothers strength to lift a car off of their trapped child at a moments notice. One that helps you stand against the strongest adversity. And how those things need to end as when the child is pulled to safety. So many of us live in a state of UNRELENTING STRESS. Stress with our jobs, homes, families, as well as boogers we can’t even see. Stress produces inflammation and the two of them, stress and inflammation, create a terrain in our body that can and most likely will host disease.

Your sympathetic nervous system is the network of nerves behind the “fight-or-flight” response. It helps your brain manage body systems in times of stress or danger.

05/11/2025

I hope that those who are students of mine read the previous posts on the vagus nerve and the solar plexus. These are very significant players of the central nervous system.

You should also study about the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic system. If you have studied these please comment you thoughts.

05/06/2025

https://www.theeducatedpatient.com/view/unlocking-the-power-of-the-vagus-nerve-a-natural-way-to-de-stress

A healthy vagus nerve means a healthier you — learn how stimulating this vital nerve can boost digestion, reduce anxiety and enhance resilience.

10/05/2024

More info on the Solar Plexus. This includes several health modalities.

Your solar plexus is found below the breastbone at the top of the diaphragm. This article lists physical, emotional, and solar plexus blockage symptoms.

10/05/2024

For my massage therapists in the Skills group.

I feel this is a very important area to focus on. Do you understand what this is and how to stimulate or calm the area?

The solar plexus — or celiac plexus — is a complex system of radiating nerves and ganglia. It’s found in the pit of the stomach in front of the aorta. It plays an important role in the functioning of the stomach, kidneys, liver, and adrenal glands. A number of different conditions can cause so...