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Body Awareness Coaching
Learn How to Be Healthier and Feel Better by Understanding Your Body’s Signals by Pattie Cinelli
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rances Reed helps people take back their power. She practices body awareness coaching, a technique that assists clients in recognizing clues from their body so they can change what is not beneficial to them. Frances guides them into developing a more in-tune relationship with their bodies. “I teach them how to go deep into their center-their core-and listen. Their body is their magic eight ball. If people focus and listen, their body will tell them how to navigate confidently through the everyday decisions as well as the major life changes of their lives.” Frances’ business, Freed Bodyworks is at 1418 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, a few doors from Trustees. Do you feel overwhelmed with all you have to do? Are you unable to make decisions? Do you feel tired a lot? Do you have a high stress job? Do you live a high stress life? Do you want to be healthier? Would you like to feel happier? If you answered yes to any of these questions then body awareness coaching may be right for you.
What is Body Awareness Coaching?
Body awareness coaching is a technique that Frances developed from her massage practice, which she describes as “a little bit different. “ I give 132 H hillrag.com
my clients a no-charge 30-minute intake before a massage. The questions I ask give me the information I need to know in order to target their issues during the massage.” For example, she said a client may come in with tightness in the upper body. She asks where? The client says she doesn’t know. She
She then asks what motion they perform regularly. The pain is very different for a baker whisking a bowl versus an office worker manipulating a mouse all day. As Frances’ massage practice grew, she said, about six months ago clients began complaining that she no longer had time to Frances Reed with a client at Freed Bodyworks at 1418 Penn. Ave. SE. chat. They told her “I need the coaching part in addition to a massage!” Body Awareness Coaching was born. Frances uses role playing and interviewing skills she developed in her first career as an activist and antipoverty proponent. “I worked with people coming out of prison on life skills in a job training program. For a decade I observed how people deal with changing their behavior patterns.”
What is Body Awareness So Important?
breaks it down. Is it the crest of the shoulder? Is the tightness between the shoulder blades? Is it the neck? Is it located on the back pack straps? She asks if any of those areas resonate with them. A client can usually identify one of those areas. Then Frances asks, “Is it more on the left or right?” She said at first most aren’t sure, but after they think about it they figure it out.
Last month I was teaching one of my regular classes. While performing a standing exercise my left leg made a very loud popping noise. It startled me and several of my students. I paused, breathed, remained calm and inwardly took an assessment. I listened and felt. The chronic tightness I had felt behind my knee and down my shin into my ankle was instantly gone. I could walk. There was no pain.