What is Ortho-Bionomy?
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Ortho-Bionomy®
Ortho-Bionomy® is a gentle system of bodywork healing that moves muscles, bones, and joints into new arrangements that reduce pain and restore natural function. When everything is in its proper place transformation is possible. The founder of Ortho-Bionomy, Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls, D.O., believed that the body had an innate intelligence that knew how to self-correct.
During a session we place the body into specific, often comfortable, positions. The correct position helps to reset neurological sensors in the body known collectively as proprioceptors. Clients may get significant improvement in 1-3 sessions depending on individual factors.
Finding the best position for release was not just about the pressure and distortion of the proprioceptors, but depended on the intention of the practitioner to encounter (and be in relationship with) our natural self-healing. Dr. Pauls also developed Ortho-Bionomy energy techniques to access more subtle levels of healing.
Ortho-Bionomy Therapy treats a remarkable number of painful and debilitating physical conditions such as headache, back pain, sprains/strains, sports injuries, acute injuries, restricted movement, knee problems, acute and chronic pain, neuromuscular dysfunction. It can have a profound impact on physical, emotional and spiritual trauma. This holistic perspective takes into account the client's complete experience of pain and suffering and the means of resolving it. In Ortho-Bionomy the client is empowered to take control of his or her own healing.
I have an Ortho-Bionomy practice in Chicago, IL. Read more at "Healing Body Therapeutics."
Ortho-Bionomy® is a registered trademark of the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International, Inc. and is used with permission.
During a session we place the body into specific, often comfortable, positions. The correct position helps to reset neurological sensors in the body known collectively as proprioceptors. Clients may get significant improvement in 1-3 sessions depending on individual factors.
Finding the best position for release was not just about the pressure and distortion of the proprioceptors, but depended on the intention of the practitioner to encounter (and be in relationship with) our natural self-healing. Dr. Pauls also developed Ortho-Bionomy energy techniques to access more subtle levels of healing.
Ortho-Bionomy Therapy treats a remarkable number of painful and debilitating physical conditions such as headache, back pain, sprains/strains, sports injuries, acute injuries, restricted movement, knee problems, acute and chronic pain, neuromuscular dysfunction. It can have a profound impact on physical, emotional and spiritual trauma. This holistic perspective takes into account the client's complete experience of pain and suffering and the means of resolving it. In Ortho-Bionomy the client is empowered to take control of his or her own healing.
I have an Ortho-Bionomy practice in Chicago, IL. Read more at "Healing Body Therapeutics."
Ortho-Bionomy® is a registered trademark of the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International, Inc. and is used with permission.
Ortho-Bionomy for the Low Back
A Brief History of Ortho-Bionomy
A British trained Osteopath, named Arthur Lincoln Pauls, developed Ortho-Bionomy in the 1970's after being exposed to Lawrence Jone's 1964 article entitled "Spontaneous Release By Positioning." Dr. Pauls added his own unique elements including his knowledge of judo and an emphasis on using energy to achieve the same results.Pauls chose the word "Ortho-Bionomy" for his variation on positional release. The word "Ortho" or straight, "bio" or life, and "nomy" which means the principles or laws governing. Together it meant "the correct application of the natural laws of life." In 1976 Dr. Pauls began to teach Ortho-Bionomy to students in the USA. He passed away in 1996.
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Ortho-Bionomy Links
- Society of Ortho-Bionomy International
- Information on Ortho-Bionomy and help finding a Practitioner.
- An Introduction to Ortho-Bionomy®
- By Richard Karasik, CMT, BSEE, M, Eng
"I came to Ortho-Bionomy® after many years of working in other modalities. I was looking for a way to help my daughter who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and had the trauma of several car accidents. As soon as I took my first class, I realized I had found something that was remarkable in its simplicity, yet powerful and effective for people with mind/body trauma." - Ortho-Bionomy: Teaching the Body to Remember
- by Barry Kapke, ACST, CI
"Ease and harmony - that's what the body seeks to rediscover with Ortho-Bionomy®, a gentle osteopathically-based system for working with the body's self-corrective reflexes. According to Ortho-Bionomy founder Arthur Lincoln Pauls, D.O., ease and harmony are things we already know, and Ortho-Bionomy is one way of remembering. It is an educational tool "of a high order." - Ortho-Bionomy: The Homeopathy of Bodywork
- By Luann Overmyer
"Ortho-Bionomy is a gentle, effective approach to somatic re-education that uses
comfortable positioning and relaxing movements to unlock tension, relieve pain,
promote structural balance, reduce stress and increase personal awareness and wellbeing."
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Five Ortho-Bionomy Videos with Terri Lee
Terri Lee was my advisor during my Ortho-Bionomy Training. She is great. Terri has been actively practicing and teaching Ortho-Bionomy since 1982. She is an artist of this extremely effective, subtle, gentle bodywork.There are 5 different DVDs available.
Click here to find out more information and to purchase the DVD!
Blog Posts on Ortho-Bionomy
- A hands-on healer wins a big award
- Since Veselack first offered to do free massages six years ago, the program has expanded to free ortho-bionomy sessions, donated by local practitioners. Ortho-bionomy uses gentle movements, comfortable positioning, brief compression and subtle contact ...
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- ... il massaggio cinese Tuina, l'antica arte marziale Qi Gong, la floriterapia, la naturopatia, l'indiana Ayurveda, il Tai chi, il Reiki, l'"Ortho bionomy", la pranopratica, il craniosacrale, la kinesologia specializzata e sperimentale.
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