Neither the LMP or CN licenses include training or certification for Colon Hydrotherapy.
| Shelly, LMP, Massage Therapy |
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 I am delighted and honored to be joining the team at the Tummy Temple! I have been collaborating in health care with Kristi Zimmer, owner of the Tummy Temple, personally and professionally since 2002. While my foundation is Structural Integration (SI),I have learned first hand the magic of combining the synchronistic modalities of SI and belly work. Simply put, the belly work addresses the deep holdings and patterns of the organs and the structural work opens the musculoskeletal space to accomodate the change. Having had severe digestive and musculoskeletal issues since childhood, Soma Bodywork (a form of SI) first experienced in 1989, took me a long way down the road to better health. However, it was belly work with Kristi that was the tipping point. The combined power of the two modalities has taken me from a place of chronic back and belly pain and dysfunction to a "normal", functioning body, belly and all. Let me emphasize "normal" is not "average". The average experience is sadly not a normally functioning body. Pain and digestive discomfort that many of us regard as normal require enormous amounts of energy to negotiate. I was among those who assumed "that's just how it is." because it had been my experience since I could remember. An abundance of freedom and liberation comes from from throwing off those beliefs and delving into healing whatever it requires. There we become acquainted with another aspect of ourseleves, a primal self, a wildness that is expressive and free and not bound by cultural ideals of average. Rather it is the essence of human experience to awaken and honor a relationship with the primal self. It is when this relationship is out of balance that the body, our most primal expression of self, suffers.  In thirteen years of working with clients I have observed that until this primal power is liberated by whatever means necessary, the full experience of living in a body that can function, express and FEEL all variations of sensation, pleasure and joy is rarely attainable. I believe in living in and loving in your body. Just like any living organism, it responds best to kindness and love and when approached in this manner consistently will respond in kind. "If I could pinpoint one facet of the SOMA I've received from Shelly that keeps drawing me back, it would be this: The realization and continuing evolution of a borderless connection between body, mind, and spirit. Whether or not one believes in this trinity, it is the closest I can come in the moment to describing the sensation of unity and blessedness which engulfs me during the moments when I can sense my body at this level. Truly, it is in these times when I feel most at home as a respectful tenant in this God-given body, with a clear sense of my responsibilities in regards to its care and tending. Humbled, I vow to love my body forever..." - SPD, Dance Instructor/Graphic Designer Shelly Donovan, LMP is a Certified Advanced SOMA Practitioner, Somatic (body) Awareness Educator, Registered Counselor and Reiki Practitioner. In addition to her private practice, Shelly has served as a post-graduate instructor and workshop facilitator for the SOMA Institute. She continues to expand her body of knowledge and experience through her own regular yoga/movement studies and a variety of other continuing education. It is Shelly's goal to assist her clients in sharpening their own ability to listen to the wise council of their body and live a life of vitality, authenticity and meaning.
"(re: Shelly and a 2 hour SOMA session) I couldn't believe it. The day after (the session) I felt totally crummy. BUT, for the rest of the week I have been feeling like a 20 year old! - JB, Seattle, WA (mid 40s)" "My SOMA journey was quite simply the most amazing life-changing experience I have ever had. It is now three months since I completed the series and my body is continuing to change, integrate and surprise me on a daily basis. I managed to achieve what I set out to at the beginning of the journey; my tai chi has come on in leaps and bounds with huge improvements in both movement and posture; I was able to make massive progress on the sexual abuse front by being able to accept, integrate and love those parts of me that were hurt so badly so that I now feel happy, whole and strong rather than damaged, broken and afraid, and my body was indeed able to "let go" of the memories it was holding onto; finally, I got all the fun I had hoped for and more besides, laughing more than at any other time in my life! And I ended up with plenty I didn't expect -- two trips to Spain, crying (and "releasing") for hours on end, the introduction to wine and coffee, divine orgasms, a dear friend in Shelly, the list could go on forever. One of the loveliest and most lasting changes of all of this has been the new improved relationship with my belly and with food. I went from hating my belly to loving it, caring for it, nurturing it, feeding it; from fearing food to delighting in it; from relying on precooked and processed meals to cooking everything from scratch. Shelly helped me see that eating could be playful and a lot of fun and nothing to be scared of. More importantly she taught me that I deserved the nurturing that good cooked food can provide and that this was something I could do for myself. So holding onto the thought, "I am worth feeding", I began to play and experiment in the kitchen and found it to be both grounding and delightful. I realized that even on the really difficult days when the crying won't stop no matter how much I want it to, I can still feed myself and that in itself kind of makes me feel better. And my belly loves feeling full, nourished, loved. I baked bread for the first time today (using spelt as it's easier to digest!) and was amazed at it being such a whole body experience. All the senses were involved throughout the entire process and I found myself kneading the dough using strength from and moving with my entire body...I also found myself talking to the dough as I was doing this! As it was baking the scent entered every room, and I was so happy and excited to discover that it had turned out perfectly I emailed Shelly right away! But I was a little tearful too, realizing that I had baked bread for me because I'm worth feeding, worth nurturing, worth loving...those thoughts/feelings almost always make me want to cry as they're still very new, having come up for the first time during SOMA. I don't think I would be feeling those things about me if I hadn't met Shelly and gone through the SOMA series and I certainly know that I wouldn't have spent today baking bread! After the last session, Shelly said, "you've got your wings, go fly!" I just want to let whoever is reading this know that I'm flying in every sense of the word, and moreover, I have a yummy snack for the rest of the journey! And thank you, Shelly, thank you so much for helping me get my life, my body and my belly back :O) " - Sarah Moscrop |
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