Intrinsic Body Works

09/19/2025

What clients say:
Karin, remember my telling you i was concerned about my spinal stenosis coming back bc my arms started tingling and going numb?
Well your body work on my chest and shoulders took care of it!!! It was just the right fascia pulling things out of place. Thank you

04/08/2025

April is Stress Awareness Month, and we’re taking the opportunity to look beyond just “feeling stressed” and explore how stress physically shows up in your body—especially in your fascia and nervous system.

Stress isn't always obvious. Sometimes it lingers in your posture, your breath, your sleep, or how stiff your feet feel when you get out of bed. MELT helps you reconnect with those signals and reset your baseline—before tension takes over.

Why This Matters:

✔️ Chronic stress wears on fascia – Stuck stress leads to dehydration, rigidity, and discomfort.

✔️ MELT supports nervous system regulation – Gentle compression signals safety and recovery.

✔️ Awareness = PREVENTION – Daily check-ins reduce the chance of stress becoming pain

01/24/2025

In order to help people out of pain I rely on clients to bring a willingness for change, the commitment to being aware and pay attention to the table. I have found that by incorporating the MELT Method as a tool is crucial for long lasting success in shedding dysfunctional patterns and gaining resilience and proper response-ability.

Learn the 4 R’s of MELT: Reconnect, Rebalance, Rehydrate, and Release. These are the recipes for getting out of pain and living a happier life. Watch this vi...

07/14/2024

Why Intrinsic Bodyworks?

Everything that we do in our everyday depends on our posture. Our ability to lie down, sit, stand, and walk in comfort is directly related to the template of centered body posture. Yet many of us have deep, seemingly unchanging structural snags in our body that throw us off balance, sometimes just by years of compensation.
Take, for example, a snag, say in your sweater: it might begin at the shoulder of the sweater, but what you notice is that the cuff is short on that side. There’s a left and a right side to the psoas major, and with core snags, if there is excessive pulling or shearing force on the upper or the lower fibers, then each will have different effects on whether that pulls the spine into flexion or extension. Then, because that’s at the hub of the body, all the other parts of the body are calibrating themselves off of the center point. So if the center point is off balance, your arms are off balance, your neck and head are off balance, and your legs are off balance.
When people go about trying to strengthen their core, they often start from a very superficial place; in the general culture, the idea of strengthening the abdominal muscles means strengthening the back muscles. However, if there are deep imbalances in the deep core muscles, then all you end up doing is reinforcing the snags. To effectively address any imbalances, you need to be specific, e.g. you may have to stretch one psoas and lengthen the other and on top of that you may have to address the upper fibers differently than the lower, then also the antagonist muscles are most likely off in a corresponding pattern and have to be addressed. If this sounds complicated….well it can be, or once you understand basic principles of Intrinsic Bodywork you are on your way to applying your discoveries in everything you do. It just takes some awareness of HOW you are doing WHAT you are doing.

Call 307.690.1571 for a free 15 min consultation and check out www.intrinsicbodyworks.com

05/18/2024

Thanks to all participants of the MELT Intro Workshop 5/14/2024. We changed our body experience in just minutes and left some long-nagging pains behind. We are empowering people with bodywork, energy work, awareness practices and by teaching them simple self-treatment techniques address their pain and inflammation.

05/11/2024

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04/26/2024

04/18/2024

Self-care isn't an indulgence. It's a discipline. Prioritize your well-being. 💪✨

Consider the analogy of a muscle: Just as we need to exercise regularly to keep our muscles strong and healthy, we must regularly engage in self-care practices to maintain our overall well-being. Self-care isn't just a one-time event or an occasional indulgence; it's an ongoing process that requires conscious attention and effort.

By approaching self-care as a discipline, we remind ourselves that it's not something to be done only when we have extra time or feel particularly stressed. Instead, it's fundamental to maintaining our overall well-being and resilience in facing life's challenges. Like any other discipline, the more we practice self-care, the easier it becomes to integrate it into our daily lives, and the greater the benefits we'll experience regarding our physical, emotional, and mental health. 🌱🧘‍♀️🌟

04/13/2024

Summer is here: Are you ready to hit the go button? A little self-care goes a looking way. Learn how with this intriguing self-treatment system of the MELT Method

04/11/2024

Here is a great podcast about MELT Method

‎Show Yoga With Jake Podcast, Ep Sue Hitzmann: How to rewire your neural patterning to alleviate pain using her MELT Method. - Apr 8, 2024

04/08/2024

Find out more about the May 14 MELT Intro Workshop here:
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04/03/2024

Learn how to support your body and optimal performance this summer during this 90 min Melt MELT Method Intro Workshop right here in Grand Junction in the heart of nature.
May 14, 2024 530-7 pm 249 Grand Avenue
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