Welcome
ChiOrtho, the Energy of Balance™ is a book targeting massage practitioners, outlining the theory & application of effective movements for Swedish Massage. As a Metal Gemini Tiger, it is my nature to cover vast ground and try to lay foundations of strength and truth. It is also in my nature to see things with a second perspective, to see something in a 3-dimensional light, and I have attempted to use these gifts as a positive force. ChiOrtho, the Energy of Balance™ is simply seeing what already exists in a different light. It is one of my dreams in this lifetime to be honoured by sharing it with you.
What is ChiOrtho, The Energy of Balance™?
ChiOrtho in its essence, is the construct of the integration of three different forms of movement:
- Dance. In it’s training it is taught from the ground up. We are taught to plant our feet in set positions and work our way upwards through the body and our alignment. Once memorized (muscle memory) a dancer is free to no longer think of each step and its positions, and to think instead of the wondrous thoughts that provoke emotion during the performance.
- Orthotherapy. Swedish Massage and the intellectual understanding of being able to fix various musculoskeletal deficiencies. This form focuses on the hands and the mindful energetic flow around a client on a massage table.
- The Path within ChiOrtho, the Energy of Balance™. The Path brings together dance from the ground up and massage from the hands down creating a unique whole of these two halves. Although this whole is derived from the two halves, once they were integrated they created their own purpose and definition and would not fit back into the other two forms.
Without the understanding of all 3 forms, it would have been impossible to create ChiOrtho, the Energy of Balance™.