All the issues are in the tissues or: the journey of a bodywork session

I often tell clients: „Every treatment is like an expedition, where new worlds are discovered.“ They sometimes look a bit puzzled, but mostly they understand somehow intuitively what I mean…. that we have been on a journey, an exploration-tour, an expedition through body, mind and spirit.
When a session starts, I never know what is showing up, what will show itself. In which level, in what layer we will move and be, and what will be discovered.
Sometimes there is a strong pull into some sort of vast space around us, or even further away, sometimes it feels like a dive into a deep ocean, sometimes it is like being stuck in a shoe-box.

And all of this is coming from the pathways in the body, which show the way, inviting us to follow them. Pathways are existing in the connective tissue itself, as well as in the connection between the different tissues (for example the organs, blood vessels, bones, nerve system).
The movements which are created, stored, remembered and often repeatedly experienced in the connective tissue, are inviting us to (re)discover them.
Sometimes they are frozen, stiff and captured, so there is only very little movement possible, and need to be „melted“ to be able to move again.
They also need space around them to be able to move.

I use „us“ and „we“, because both are participating, the bodyworker as well as the client.
When I am giving a treatment, my body reacts clearly on what I notice in myself and in the same moment my body is reacting on the connection with the client.
My body functions sometimes like the expansion of something I feel under my hands, it can increase a tiny movement by copying this movement, enlarging it, and thus helping the client to let go of tension and stress. The body can become motionless when there is a confusion or lack of clarity, and can wait in stillness, until something starts to express itself in the client. Then, my body is supporting this process by changing position, or starting to move too.
Sometimes my body functions like some instrument which is actively initiating the process of setting free the frozen movements in the client. To support this process I have to ignore the resistance which is coming to the surface. Being frozen often means, that a certain state or condition (mostly coming from emotions like fear, anger, sadness, grief, sorrow) is blocking the free flow of movement. This condition shows itself in certain structures like how the tissues are aligned, how they can fully function or not and so on.

Throughout the years I learned to trust on the body, this fine-tuned receiving and giving instrument, and continue from there.
There hardly ever has been a situation, where I was „wrong“, or that it did not fit the situation.

It is such an intense and wonderful work, being a bodyworker!