Ensoma Body Works

As a bodyworker (think of a skill set from massage therapy, physical therapy and the art and science of movement all wrapped into one) Marty’s skill set is unique with a common thread of creating a functionally strong and structurally sound body. Sessions are 30 – 90 minutes depending on treatment goals. Lower body work  clients wear shorts and upper body work tank tops or sport bras or equivalent. Marty also provides traditional massages in which clients are fully draped.

Neuromuscular and soft tissue therapy is a significant methodology for assessing, treating and preventing soft tissue injuries and chronic pain.Click here for more information.

Self-care postural exercises and functional movement give the body the necessary and functional motion modern living deprives us of maintaining deprives us of leading to muscular pain and dysfunction. (www.egoscue.com) – (www.tragerus.com) Click here for more information

Marty provides education to help clients understand and prevent underlying causes of pain and orthopedic  conditions.

• Once  understood from a whole body and underlying causes (not symptoms) of how your back or hip got to be such a mess  you can take new and empowered action to reverse the condition.Click here for more information.

Almost all clients receive the above services incorporated into their treatment plans.

Meditation can help heal body and mind.
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Bodytherapy. Many clients choose to engage the Rols – Royce of soft tissue and postural therapy called Bodytherapy.  Bodytherapy is a 10 session program that  gets to the core of most musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. It  incorporates Rolfing, Feldenkrais, Postural Therapy, Trigger  Point Therapy and emotional release /  muscular de armoring methods). Many clients, in  addition  to feeling much better than when they first come in  are taller (yes, taller)  and emotionally more grounded with less fear and anxiety. Click here for more information.

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Neuromuscular and soft tissue therapy is a combination of Trigger Point, active and passive release techniques and traditional deep tissue and sports massage.  Clients are typically in shorts and tank tops or similar and are active participants on the treatment table.

Self-care postural exercises and functional movement are designed to de reduce muscular dysfunction and restore muscular health and function. Modern living denies our bodies the necessary and functional movement to maintain basic muscular function and balance, thus negatively impacting joint health. Marty was trained and certified as an Advanced Postural Analysis Specialist in the Egoscue Method of health Through Motion. www.egoscue.com

Education to understand and prevent underlying causes of pain and orthopaedic conditions. This educational component in your treatment plan with Marty is the one most often left out in Western medicine. Clients often say, “Why did my treatment provider never tell me this?”  Usually they do not have the time or their training is based on symptom alleviation and focuses on joint and nerve causes of pain.

Meditation. Science has now validated what the Eastern mystics, Yogis, and contemplative Christians have known for thousands of years: that meditation, done regularly, has profound physical and emotional benefits. Meditation will decrease your pain, improve your outlook on life, decrease anxiety and fear and improve relationships. Marty has studied in the Rinzai Zen tradition and now practices the meditations of Kundalini yoga.

Bodytherapy gets to the core of most musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction.  Marty created Bodytherapy in response to seeing the physical body and peoples emotions intimately linked together and affecting one another greatly.  His training and work as a social worker and counselor left him frustrated by the lack of  understanding the body’s role  in mental health and the existing model’s ignorance of this.  As a neuromuscular therapist, he has seen clients’ progress be very slow and limited due to the emotional guarding of past hurts and trauma which manifests as muscular tightness, pain, muscular dysfunction and disassociation from self and body.

The techniques in Bodytherapy are nothing new. Bodytherapy stands on the shoulders of giants like Dub Leigh, Pete Egoscue and Janet Travel, MD, and David Simons, MD.   Marty was trained by Dub Leigh (founder of Zen Bodytherapy) in 1995. Dub Leigh trained personally with Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, Milton Trager, Lauren Berry, and Raymond Nimmo. Marty’s training at the Egoscue University in 2004 greatly affected his understanding of  the human musculoskeletal system.  Dr.’s Travel and Simons are The authorities on myofascial pain and dysfunction. Their clinical manual “Myofascial pain and Dysfunction, The Trigger Point Manual,” is legendary in physical medicine and the neuromuscular field.  Marty studies their texts and trains in seminars based on their work.