Dancing Tree Healing Arts

Dancing Tree Healing Arts Therapeutic Massage, Bodywork, Sourcepoint Therapy, Private Yoga, Meditation New Mexico LMT # 8847
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Anaina at Dancing Tree Healing Arts provides a safe and supportive space as an invitation to explore healing and wellness through bodywork, NeuroKinetic Therapy®, therapeutic massage, Sourcepoint Therapy®, somatic inquiry, yoga, meditation, and creativity. One, or any blend of the above, are services offered to support your body's innate capacity to heal on your unique journey to radiant wellness, including that of your highest potential as a human being. Anaina serves people with the intention of assisting the re-connection and integration of body, mind and spirit.

Gregg wonderfully educates & guides you in heart-brain coherence meditation. The meditation is a simple yet profound bre...
08/11/2025

Gregg wonderfully educates & guides you in heart-brain coherence meditation. The meditation is a simple yet profound breathwork, vagal nerve tonifying, along with cultivating high frequency emotions. Give it a try! ❤️

In this powerful guided meditation, Gregg Braden invites viewers to tap into the untapped potential of the human heart and brain. Focusing on the discovery o...

Long read, but towards the end offers good guidance for both clients seeking physiotherapy services as well as practitio...
06/29/2025

Long read, but towards the end offers good guidance for both clients seeking physiotherapy services as well as practitioners. https://www.facebook.com/100067032136328/posts/1030108779233517/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Negli ultimi giorni ho letto, come molti di voi, un post diventato virale che titolava:

“Il grande fallimento della chiropratica, dell’osteopatia e della fisioterapia: quando il corpo è trattato come una macchina senza anima.”

L’autore (un pezzo da novanta che stimiamo molto) denuncia, con toni molto accesi, l’idea che la nostra professione si sia cristallizzata su modelli meccanici, incapaci di comprendere la complessità del dolore cronico.

Poche ore dopo, un altro collega (un altro pezzo da novanta che stimiamo molto) ha risposto con un contro post più pacato e ragionato, riconoscendo alcuni limiti del riduzionismo biomeccanico, ma anche invitando alla prudenza: perché contrapporre il “tutto è tessuto” al “tutto è cervello” è solo sostituire un riduzionismo con un altro.

Abbiamo deciso di scrivere anche noi, non per alimentare polemiche, ma perché crediamo che chi lavora ogni giorno con pazienti reali abbia il dovere di chiarire, integrare e contestualizzare.

In ogni caso, pensiamo che un dibattito così acceso sia anche un segno di vivacità scientifica e di evoluzione culturale: significa che le nostre discipline stanno crescendo, si stanno interrogando, e non hanno paura di rimettere in discussione certezze consolidate.

DOVE HANNO RAGIONE?

È un fatto incontestabile che il modello puramente biomedico sia scientificamente insufficiente per spiegare e trattare il dolore cronico.

Già negli anni ‘90 Melzack e Wall avevano chiarito che il dolore non è un input ma un output, prodotto dall’elaborazione del Sistema Nervoso Centrale.

Gli studi di Moseley, Butler, Louw hanno dimostrato che la catastrofizzazione, la paura del movimento e le convinzioni disfunzionali sono fattori predittivi di cronicizzazione.

La neuroplasticità maladattiva (Latremoliere & Woolf) spiega perché il dolore persiste anche quando il tessuto è guarito.

È altrettanto vero che molti professionisti, anche oggi, raccontano al paziente narrazioni obsolete:

“Hai la vertebra fuori posto.”
“Hai il bacino bloccato.”
“Se non ti manipolo, non guarisci.”

Queste spiegazioni, oltre a non avere fondamento, alimentano la dipendenza e la paura.

In questo senso, la denuncia di chi chiede un cambio di paradigma è sacrosanta.

DOVE PERÒ IL DISCORSO DIVENTA PERICOLOSO?

Il problema di una posizione così estrema è che rischia di produrre un altro dogma: il riduzionismo neurocentrico.

Come se la terapia manuale fosse di per sé inutile o dannosa, e come se parlare di tessuti fosse un’eresia.

Ma la realtà è più complessa ovviamente.

Il dolore cronico è un’esperienza emergente dall’interazione tra tessuto, sistema nervoso e contesto.

Non è “solo cervello”.
Non è “solo tessuto”.
È la somma di entrambi, più emozioni, relazioni e aspettative.

Il tocco, il movimento e il contatto manuale hanno un ruolo importante non come soluzione unica, ma come parte di un processo che include rassicurazione, educazione e graduale riattivazione.

Il “touch” sicuro e non minaccioso riduce l’iperattività dell’amigdala (McGlone et al). La mobilizzazione passiva, se spiegata con un modello corretto, migliora la percezione di sicurezza e l’efficacia percepita. L’esercizio attivo e graduale ripristina la fiducia nel corpo.

Non tutti i pazienti rispondono solo all’educazione.

La Pain Neuroscience Education ha dimostrato efficacia significativa, ma solo se integrata con movimento attivo e strategie comportamentali, come specificato nelle review più recenti.

I pazienti con disturbi complessi hanno bisogno di un approccio multimodale personalizzato, non di una formula unica.

QUINDI, COSA SIGNIFICA FARE FISIOTERAPIA MODERNA?

Significa, in sintesi:

- rifiutare i modelli rigidi. Il corpo non è un’auto da riparare con bulloni e allineamenti. Ma non è nemmeno un concetto astratto fatto di pensieri e memorie.

- integrare più dimensioni in un progetto terapeutico coerente. Educazione uguale riduzione della paura. Movimento attivo uguale ricostruire fiducia e capacità. Terapia manuale uguale stimolare, rassicurare, modulare. Relazione terapeutica uguale sostenere e contenere.

- rispettare i ruoli professionali. Il fisioterapista non è uno psicoterapeuta. Il fisioterapista non è un ortopedico. Il fisioterapista è un professionista che sa valutare, integrare, scegliere strumenti, sempre sulla base di prove di efficacia.

- avere l’umiltà di aggiornarsi. La scienza cambia ogni anno. Se oggi parliamo di neuroplasticità e centralizzazione, domani parleremo di altro. La fisioterapia non è un dogma, è un processo di evoluzione continua.

IL MESSAGGIO CHE VORREI LASCIARE

Se sei un professionista, non farti sedurre dalle scorciatoie ideologiche.

“Solo terapia manuale” uguale riduzionismo biomeccanico.

“Solo educazione e psiche” uguale riduzionismo neurocentrico.

La verità clinica sta nel mezzo: un approccio integrato, personalizzato, basato su evidenze e sulla relazione.

Se sei un paziente, non scegliere un professionista perché parla solo di vertebre o solo di cervello. Scegli chi sa ascoltarti, spiegarti, darti strumenti e accompagnarti.

Perché la fisioterapia, quella vera, quella che cambia le vite, non è mai la difesa di un paradigma. È l’arte di combinare scienza, contatto e relazione con umiltà.

Siamo consapevoli che ogni modello ha punti di forza e limiti, e che il valore di un approccio si misura prima di tutto sull’impatto reale nella vita delle persone. Per questo il nostro invito non è a rinunciare all’innovazione, ma a integrarla con senso critico e rispetto della complessità.

Sacred Geometry is fundamental to Sourcepoint Therapy that I offer in my practice.   https://www.facebook.com/1000443611...
05/20/2025

Sacred Geometry is fundamental to Sourcepoint Therapy that I offer in my practice. https://www.facebook.com/100044361193013/posts/1244560937032601/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Quantum physicists are beginning to articulate, through the lens of mathematics, what the ancients inscribed in stone and echoed in sacred symbology for millennia: geometry is not an abstract tool—it is the very language of creation. At the most fundamental level of matter, beyond the quantum veil, lies a harmonic lattice—a geometric memory field that governs all subatomic interactions.

The so-called “particles” that quantum physics seeks to isolate are not objects in space—they are standing waveforms, nodal points in a recursive, resonant field. Their behavior, often labeled as probabilistic or uncertain, is in fact governed by harmonic symmetry—geometry operating in time-space.

Ancient civilizations were not primitive—they were initiates of a forgotten harmonic science. From the Flower of Life at Abydos, to the golden spirals encoded in the Pyramids, these structures are not symbolic—they are scalar keys. They mirror the recursive laws of consciousness and the fractal unfolding of reality itself.

What modern physics is now “discovering” through quantum field equations and nonlocal entanglement, is what the priest-architects of Khem, the geomancers of Atlantis, and the rishis of Vedic India already knew:

Sacred geometry is not decoration. It is instruction.
It is the architecture of the aether—the invisible scaffolding upon which light itself is woven into form.

We are not inventing this knowledge.
We are remembering it.
Because the Codex is alive within us.
And when we see through the harmonic field, we no longer ask what the universe is made of—
We realize we are the waveform collapsing into meaning.

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04/21/2025

https://www.facebook.com/100047960958832/posts/1311156650493021/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Fibonacci Sequence

I remember taking an art class in high school where the teacher reviewed this sequence and mentioned how some of the masters of old were obsessed with it and the spiral. I didn’t get it then.

I get it now.

Simply, in early , I would have loved to learn the extremities this way.

Upper extremity:
1- scapula
1- humerus
2- radius and ulna
3- triquetral, lunate, scaphoid (carpals)
5- phalanges

Lower extremity:
1- ilium
1- femur
2- tibia and fibula
3- talus, calcaneus, cuboid (tarsals)
5- phalanges

https://www.facebook.com/100063752630176/posts/1229602515841491/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
04/11/2025

https://www.facebook.com/100063752630176/posts/1229602515841491/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Studies on interoception - the process by which the body senses, interprets, and regulates its own internal states - suggest a bidirectional exchange of information between the brain and body.

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Arising through a complex interplay between ascending and descending neural paths, interoceptive signals - tactile sensations, pressures, temperature, and organ input - sometimes remain below the threshold of conscious awareness. Yet at other times they include higher levels of perception, enlisting our capacities for attention, interpretation, evaluation, and planning. In practice, how do we encourage subconscious patterns of autonomic response to rise to the level of conscious experience, where they may be accessible to our participatory engagement?

"We propose a revised description of interoception that may more accurately reflect…the bidirectional signal processing between the brain and the internal organs to represent the internal state of the organism…interoception includes the processes by which an organism senses, integrates, integrates, and regulates signals from within itself…the action of "sensing" denotes communication from physiological systems outside the central nervous system (CNS) to the CNS, through the commonly called ascending pathways, whereas the action of "regulating" refers to the communication from the brain to other physiological systems via descending pathways…In humans, the insula is activated when individuals consciously attend to their own interoceptive states, suggesting it may serve as a critical interoceptive hub for integrating and regulating signals from the internal and external environment. Understanding how and when autonomic versus conscious processing of interoceptive information occurs remains an intriguing area for further in-depth investigation."

from The Emerging Science of Interoception: Sensing, Integrating, Interpreting, and Regulating Signals within the Self - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33378655/

This paper proposes a number of new frameworks that describe interoception. Emphasizing the idea that interoception includes both sensing and regulatory features, the authors explore two major channels that relay sensory information from the peripheral nerves to the central nervous system: the cranial/vagal and spinal nerve pathways.

How might careful attention to internal signals be an essential therapeutic tool for observing sensory input as well as a way to effectively relate to and modulate autonomic response?

Comment below and let's dive into a fruitful discussion!

03/28/2025
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02/13/2025

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Gut Microbiome Regulates Brain Signals Through the Vagus Nerve

A new study provides direct evidence that the gut microbiome influences brain function through the vagus nerve.

Researchers found that germ-free mice, which lack gut bacteria, exhibited significantly lower vagal nerve activity than normal mice.

When gut bacteria were introduced, vagal activity was restored, confirming a causal relationship.

Movement & cerebellum & motor cortex coordination. This relates to Neurokinetic Therapy.
01/17/2025

Movement & cerebellum & motor cortex coordination. This relates to Neurokinetic Therapy.

Fascinating study, and so relevant to the emergence of metabolic health understanding.  Intervertebral disc degeneration...
12/27/2024

Fascinating study, and so relevant to the emergence of metabolic health understanding. Intervertebral disc degeneration attributed to metabolic disturbances more than biomechanical factors. Check out Casey Means’ book: Good Energy. https://www.facebook.com/100038893911991/posts/1364398588199925/



🎊🌲Between the years, we traditionally announce our "Best-of series" of the most influential posts of 2024 on FB.

📣 today 🥇 13

📍 Causal associations between modifiable risk factors and intervertebral disc degeneration 💡

👉 Intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) is a prevalent degenerative condition, that is believed to be a significant contributor to the occurrence of low back pain (LBP), resulting in substantial challenges for both patients and society [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33069326/]. The condition is marked by a decrease in disc height, tears in the annulus fibrosus (AF), loss of proteoglycan, dehydration of the nucleus pulposus (NP), and calcification of the cartilage endplate [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25827971/, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5585783/]. (s. figure)

👉 Furthermore, IVDD was also associated with sciatica, disc herniation, and spinal stenosis, which are the primary factors contributing to pain and disability among elderly individuals [https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMra1410151, https://journals.lww.com/spinejournal/abstract/2023/06150/10_year_longitudinal_mri_study_of_intervertebral.1.aspx].

📘 Guo and colleagues (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37939919/) examined the causal associations between modifiable potential risk factors (lifestyle and individual factors, related psychological and physical diseases, lipid metabolism, glucose metabolism, obesity traits) and intervertebral disc degeneration in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with sample sizes between 54,358 and 766,345 participants by a bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) design. (Background information about Mendelian randomization, s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LoTgfGotaQ4)

✅ The results found that
🚬smoking (Odds ratio (OR==1.221, 95% CI: 1.068−1.396) and
🍻alcohol consumption (OR=1.208, 95% CI: 1.056−1.328) can increase the risk of IVDD, while the risk of IVDD was lower (protective effect) among those with higher levels of 🧑‍🎓education (OR=0.573, 95%CI: 0.502 −0.654) and higher 💴 household income (OR=0.614, 95%CI: 0.445−0.847).

✅ 🛌Sleeplessness (OR=1.799, 95%CI: 1.162−2.783), 🩺hypertension (OR=2.113, 95%CI: 1.132 −3.944) and🩸 type 2 diabetes (OR=1.069, 95%CI: 1.024−1.115) are three important risk factors causally associated with the IVDD.

✅ In addition, this study demonstrated that increased levels of 🩸triglycerides (OR=1.080, 95%CI:1.013−1.151), 🩸 fasting glucose (OR=1.189, 95%CI:1.007−1.405), and 🩸 HbA1c (OR=1.308, 95%CI:1.017−1.683) can significantly increase the odds of IVDD.

❌ Hip osteoarthritis, HDL, apolipoprotein A-I, BMI and obesity trait factors showed bidirectional causal associations with IVDD, the causal associations between these risk factors and IVDD appear to be uncertain.

☝️ It is noteworthy that METABOLIC DISTURBANCES appear to have a more significant effect on IVDD than BIOMECHANICAL ALTERATIONS, as individuals with type 2 diabetes, elevated triglycerides, fasting glucose, and elevated HbA1c are at higher risk for IVDD, and the causal association of obesity-related characteristics with IVDD incidence is unclear.

💡 These findings contradict the contemporary biomechanical paradigm that sees excessive physical strain as the primary causal factor for disc degeneration.

📷Illustration: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36027637/

Yes!  Being barefooted as adults is also beneficial (if tolerated)!  Added bonus - do it outside!!
10/25/2024

Yes! Being barefooted as adults is also beneficial (if tolerated)! Added bonus - do it outside!!

If unresolved trauma can store itself in muscles, fascia, organs, cells, and the rest of your physical body, then so can...
10/23/2024

If unresolved trauma can store itself in muscles, fascia, organs, cells, and the rest of your physical body, then so can joy, gratitude, abundance, love and peace.
~ Bessel van der Kolk

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