Stacey Lynn Lifestyles and Bodywork

06/19/2024

Your body is talking to you… are you listening?

Sensations are how your body communicates what you need. Your unconscious mind is wired to move toward what feels pleasant and away from what feels unpleasant. Only moving toward what feels pleasant can actually be bad for you. Like eating too much sugar, there may be short term benefits but long-term stress. Becoming curious about unpleasant sensations tells you how much stress your body is experiencing. Judging your unpleasant sensations as bad layers the stress up and pushes you towards short term fixes. In this busy world, it makes sense to tune out all the layers of stress. The key to unwinding the stress is to tune back in and ask your body what you really need.

06/17/2024

So. Freakin. Cool.

Fibroblasts: “… they discovered that fibroblasts, a type of connective tissue cell, behave like a sheet of water that breaks up into droplets. They describe this mechanism, which under a microscope looks like rain on a windshield, as “dewetting.” Using a mathematical model, the investigators found that cells follow the same physical principles as water to form droplet-like cellular aggregates that fold tissue into villi.”

“Some people have atrophied villi that are blunted or completely flattened due to disease or damage, causing malabsorption and other digestive disorders,”

- Tyler Huycke, PhD

Image by Getty [A Cedars-Sinai research collaboration has described the first steps in how the body forms villi, the finger-like projections that cover the surface of the small intestine.] (in Rats)

Cedars-Sinai
Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine
Cell

06/10/2024

Tuning into your body's sensations with genuine curiosity is guaranteed to bring awareness to your authentic needs. Your needs could be as simple as needing sleep or as deep as needing to align with a value you didn't know you had. If you've been tuned out of your authentic needs, you've likely had to direct your attention to the needs of others. Doing this for too long puts our unconscious mind of charge of trying to help us feel good. Giving the reign to our unconscious mind can have us judging what our body is telling us by making us fearful of unpleasant sensations. It's time to stop judging what your body is telling you and become curious about what you need.

06/10/2024

Our next dance is coming right up! I heard ya'll when you mentioned feeling resistance at our last class and this dance is all about tuning into and melting that resistance away. Looking forward to seeing you there!

06/09/2024

Hello all!

I’ve had one spot come available in the Deep Flow In Motion workshop happening July 8-11.

If you’ve been interested in developing an eye for functional movement as a means of identifying patterns of chronic tension and developing optimal treatment plans this is the workshop for you.

DM me if you’re interested!

description

06/07/2024

Your body is talking to you! Are you listening?

Becoming curious about unpleasant sensations is a great first step in the process of letting go. Letting go is the experience of unwinding patterns of chronic tension. If you are holding on to chronic tension, what does it feel like to hold on?

Let me know in the comments what holding on feels like for you!

You can't let go of what you don't know you're holding onto.

05/31/2024

So very proud of the most recent graduates of the Bodywork Therapy Program!

05/04/2024

05/03/2024

The theme for this next movement practice is Funk Your Funk!

We will be dissolving Funky Feelings to Funky Tunes while practicing the very important functional movement of hip hinging and hip rotations.

Our hips can get super sticky and stiff when we're feeling funky and playing with these movements will not only dissolve the tension in your hips but also your funky thoughts.

03/25/2024

Dance As Medicine is a playful movement practice where you are guided into your authentic experience making room to unwind conditioned patterns of tension in the body, mind, and spirit.

Each class has a theme of functional movement patterning where your teacher will cue you into present moment awareness while encouraging you to align with your unique expression of self.
bodywork will be your teacher Sunday March 31, Sunday April 28 and Sunday May 25.

Register at the following link! https://shalayoga.ca/booking

01/22/2024

11/16/2023

Why does massage hurt?

Years ago, I came across a fantastic YouTube video by Tom Myers, creator of Anatomy Trains titled 'Why does Massage Hurt'. In the video, Myers describes "pain as sensation combined with the motor intention to withdraw". Myers continues by saying that without the motor intention to withdraw there is....

10/22/2023

✨ T R U T H ✨

09/25/2023

09/24/2023

Releasing the SCM with movement. My fingers are at rest and my thumb melts into the anterior fibers as Amanda moves her head up, down, and side to side.

09/18/2023

08/03/2023

I was watching a tiktok of a baby that was only a couple of weeks old. Her mother was holding her and all the sudden she started crying.

Immediately her mother said “no don’t cry” then her dad said “Aw no it’s ok.” When she kept crying her mom said “you’re too pretty to cry.”

This is almost all of our habit responses to tears. We don’t even notice it. “Stop crying” has been programmed into all of us at young ages.

We’re uncomfortable when people cry. It brings up feelings of helplessness, a desire to fix, and a belief that we must have “bad” feelings stop.

Crying is a regulator of the body. It releases sympathetic energy. It brings the body back to homeostasis. After a good cry, we always feel calmer and more at ease after. The body has gone through its natural resolution of an emotion.

But so many of us don’t let this happen. We block or repress tears. We apologize for our physiological reactions. We struggle with the vulnerability of someone crying in front of us.

Are you comfortable crying in front of people?

07/26/2023

Bodywork is, by far, my favourite tool to develop awareness around our bodies capacity to genuinely return to rest response. It’s not always comfortable, in fact, it often is not. But, we can’t let go of what we don’t know we’re holding onto. And so, let’s bring attention to the tension in a safe and supported way.

07/12/2023

A lot of us take this personally because it’s painful. The reality is many adults can’t deal with their emotions. When they see someone self expressing or being vulnerable, they’re uncomfortable. They cope with this discomfort by deflecting. They call people too sensitive or too dramatic because they haven’t learned to engage emotionally. Typically they’re completely shut down from what they feel as a way to self protect.

They haven’t learned to hold space.

To just listen. To allow someone’s emotions even when it’s uncomfortable. And to be curious about *why* someone is feeling something.

The next time you hear this, remind yourself sensitivity is a gift. That feeling makes you human. That not everyone is capable of emotional intimacy

07/04/2023

When experiencing pain so many people think the solution requires “doing something about it”.

There are two types of tension, restriction and resistance. Restriction is when the tissues become knotted up but that only happens when there has been extended periods of resistance. What is being resisted? The experience of doing absolutely nothing.

The brain talks to the muscles whether you are conscious of it or not. Your muscles resisting the experience of resting is because you are either consciously or unconsciously telling your body to be doing something. To be in action, activity or anticipation. I like to call this, ‘ doing mode’.

teaches you to consciously let go of the unconscious request to keep your body in ‘doing mode’ so your muscles can rest.

When in ‘doing mode’ your body tenses up, grips up, pulls up away from gravity. Placing your body in a posture that shifts your alignment towards neutral (the posture of rest response), and using props to build the ground up to meet all of the areas your body has been stuck in anticipation reminds you what it feels like to rest. Rest down into gravity. No more resistance. Just of the need to do anything at all.

07/03/2023

Absolutely. The greatest medicine is to witness and to be witnessed.

Virginia says it perfectly...

07/03/2023

Currently teaching the first segment of deep tissue at the Vancouver School Healing Arts Bodywork Therapy program. Leading up to this profound modality I’ve offered the students Body Mind integration classes giving them many important tips on how to stay connected to their own physical and emotional experience while being present with the experience of their future clients. I am so amazingly blessed to hold space for this work!

Taking care of our body is a lifelong commitment that yields invaluable rewards. Nourishing it with healthy choices and engaging in regular care nurtures our physical and mental well-being, empowering us to live life to the fullest.

06/17/2023

What may be traumatic for one person, may not be the reality for someone else.
💛🌻

01/28/2023

Found her!! Been on the search for a Personal Trainer in Squamish I feel excited to send all my clients to and here she is!! knows exactly how to help you move with perfect integrity. I’m here to help you turn off areas of extraneous muscle tension and Jess is here to help you turn on important muscle
tone to support optimal range of motion and beyond. GO SEE HER!

01/02/2023

So frickin’ cool

Incredible view on the human's nervous system, showing the brain, spinal cord, cauda equina, spinal nerves and the lumbar plexus! :)

Credit: Gunther von Hagens, Body Worlds

01/01/2023

Ain’t that the truth!

Letting go of what is no longer serving you is a practice 💜
www.sacredspacebodywork.com