Bodywork w/ Becky Rosenthal

This week we talk with Becky Rosenthal about the lost art of Shiatsu, a Japanese form of bodywork that uses the practitioner’s fingers (Shiatsu translates to “finger pressure”), thumbs and palms to apply pressure to certain areas of the body called meridian channels, where the focus is on bringing the body back to homeostasis by working with the “energy body”. To help demystify this process of reading and working with stuck energy, Becky shares how shaking Shanna’s legs during their session revealed the need for Shanna to dance more! (You have to tune in to find out!)

Becky blends her palpable understanding of the physical body from her background in health education and massage therapy with the deeper, intuitive art of knowing how energy flows through the body from her training in Shiatsu along with a mindful practice of compassionate listening from her background as an ordained Buddhist to offer clients a multi-layered approach to determining and addressing what is going in their physical and emotional bodies. As with many wellness practices and modalities, anyone can benefit from Shiatsu but Becky says it really opens the door to begin a healing process, so the people who benefit the most are those who are ready to commit to a healing journey.

According to Becky’s favorite quote and a strong tenant to her practice, “stopping, calming and resting are preconditions for healing”. With today’s world being so fast paced and highly stressful, along with the effects of isolation from 2020, people are, unknowingly, energetically locked in freeze or flight modes which is causing the body to not digest food (and life) in the most optimal ways. Booking a Shiatsu session with Becky begins this process of healing by stopping, calming and resting, at least for the time your with her and in her space, which she has intentionally created to honor these needed elements of healing. Often people come to Becky by referral, having no understanding of what Shiatsu is or what can come from the session; they just know someone they trust said to they benefitted from it. We hope SoLive’s personal experience can serve as a beneficial referral for you, should it resonate.

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SoLive host, Shanna Schulze, is a franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as Executive Director of So Live, Inc.

SoLive co-host, Tracey Keller, is is an Eating Psychology Coach and personal trainer. You can follow her on Facebook at RISE2IT.