Shibui Gardens Spa & Wellness Center
Merges with the Marin Center for Somatic Education
"Serving the Community for Over 40 Years"
Call (415) 457-0283
(Please call back if you haven't heard from us within an hour - we may be in session)
I've been trying for seven years to sell the business so it would still be available to the community in its original location, but it hasn't worked. Although there have been wonderful offers from qualified and eager buyers, the landlord has placed the property in a family trust. The trust couldn't agree to give more than a year's lease to any interested party, so it just wasn't going to work. Unfortunately, this amazing sanctuary in the city has timed out. It's doors in all the subsequent forms have shuttered.
It's Official:
SHIBUI GARDENS IS NOW CLOSED!
SHIBUI GARDENS IS NOW CLOSED!
*If you like, I can refer you to a good therapist:
- Barbara Stein, who has worked many years for Shibui, has a home office in Fairfax, but also does outcalls.
- Maurice Whitlock, who also worked quite a while for us, has a home office in Sebastopol and is available for home visits.
- Marineria Welch is in our old location on Lincoln Ave. can be reached here: www.neriatherapy.com
- Bodywise has been downtown San Rafael for many years, has several therapists and is able to do couples: https://www.bodywisemassageinc.com/
- Bren Danielson is well-trained, has been practicing for a long time and also has an office downtown San Rafael: www.brendanielson.com/
- Jocelyn Olivier is a highly-skilled bodyworker who's been working and teaching in the area for a few decades. Her office is in Mill Valley: healus.com/
* Barbara or Maurice don't have websites, but give me a call and I'll pass your information on to them. They'll get back to you within 24 hours.
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Retirement is fantastic, and....
What a joy is has been to be able to serve the community for all of these years in so many ways. Thank you! Over the years, in preparation for this time, I began writing books that spell out so much of what I've learned through classes, trainings, and experience in working with thousands of clients and many, many injuries. In keeping with the life-long passion for helping people using prevention and mindfulness, the ways to better understand and help your body/mind maintain health and well-being are in those volumes of Somatic Intelligence. Check them out here: Our Services
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For your support in how to choose a type of practitioner that would be best at this time, in case you'd want to seek out a somatic practitioner or manual therapist or osteopathic bodyworker, this site will remain available for a few more months.
What's the Marin Center for Somatic Education About?
It's based in an approach called NeuroSomatic Integration™.
What is the NeuroSomatic Approach Accomplishing for Your Body?
NSI is a specialty designed by the owner of Shibui after decades of study and practice, working with thousands of patients with countless types of injuries and issues. This method approaches your system from a variety of layers in order to reeducate, open, and release each layer. It incorporates the principles and techniques of osteopathy including very gentle touch that listens to your body’s internal rhythms and monitors fluid dynamics as in Cranial Sacral Therapy. It also releases compression within bone and joints, opens restrictions in soft tissue, addresses motility of the internal organs, enhances the potency in the vascular system, and helps to down-regulate sympathetic nervous system overdrive. Methods similar to positional release and muscle energy are employed to either passively or actively reset muscle imbalances, and more subtle techniques to ease stresses within brain nuclei are also employed where needed. When the ‘noise’ in the system is more pronounced, the pressure used is increased to insure that the system will be able to ‘hear’ and respond to the input that facilitates balance.
How Does it Accomplish These Things?
The techniques use the body’s own language and communication networks to teach it how to release contracted muscles or stiff achy joints and resume to relaxed openness. It communicates through the fluids, through the nervous system, through fascia/connective tissue, and through bones, trusting the mechanoreceptors to send the feedback to the brain, and waits to be sure the information was received before proceeding.
NSI acknowledges that the body needs certain things in order to make changes on several levels. It needs safety, comfort, gentleness, context, intention, quietude or the stillness of neutrality inside, and repetition for the learning process to become a long-term memory. Sometimes buried emotions buried in the body may surface to be released in the context of the initial trauma, surgery, accident, or life experience that have been somaticized and associated with the area of tension. The body and brain need to arise from a subconscious place to a conscious, aware one by way of the person inhabiting the body and brain, so that waking up ‘sleeping’ areas can shift to a conscious place and be on alert to exactly what changes need to be made.
The techniques use the body’s own language and communication networks to teach it how to release contracted muscles or stiff achy joints and resume to relaxed openness. It communicates through the fluids, through the nervous system, through fascia/connective tissue, and through bones, trusting the mechanoreceptors to send the feedback to the brain, and waits to be sure the information was received before proceeding.
NSI acknowledges that the body needs certain things in order to make changes on several levels. It needs safety, comfort, gentleness, context, intention, quietude or the stillness of neutrality inside, and repetition for the learning process to become a long-term memory. Sometimes buried emotions buried in the body may surface to be released in the context of the initial trauma, surgery, accident, or life experience that have been somaticized and associated with the area of tension. The body and brain need to arise from a subconscious place to a conscious, aware one by way of the person inhabiting the body and brain, so that waking up ‘sleeping’ areas can shift to a conscious place and be on alert to exactly what changes need to be made.
What Can it Help?
NSI is very helpful in staying well and moving freely in your body, potentially greatly enhancing performance that affords increased responsiveness and suppleness. It can spare elders the cumulative wear and tear that leads to painful arthritis, aches and pains, loss of balance and consequent falls. It’s useful for both chronic and acute conditions alike. In cases of structural damage or deformation as in herniated discs, torn ligaments, or adhesive capsulitis, range of motion returns more slowly, but pain still diminishes quickly. Some examples include:
muscle spasms repetitive strain fibromyalgia scoliosis sciatica headaches
arthritis symptoms joint stiffness frozen shoulder inflammation whiplash head injuries
As well as:
- post-operative adhesions
- computer syndrome
- stress-related tension
- reflexive imbalances from poor posture
- compensatory patterns from old injuries
- post-concussive syndrome
Ease Arthritis Symptoms
Most people have wear and tear arthritis after the age of 60, and earlier if you've enjoyed an athletic life, have had surgery, or wore pointed toe shoes. If you keep the joints mobilized, they won't generate that painful buildup that distorts and locks the joints. You can see that the actual bones in the hands and feet can dislocate and create irritation, inflammation, and swelling. It may not be too late to reverse some of the body's reactions to the malalignments. It can improve and feel more mobile again with less discomfort.
If you already have some stiff achy places, let us open them up and release the build-up of painful biochemistry, and if you're active and care about preventive maintenance, come in and have one of our therapists balance the muscles and connective tissue surrounding them, open and hydrate them and mobilize them for you. It'll help with any sport, dance, hiking, or even getting up and down from the floor or low chair more easily. Stiffness or restriction anywhere will lead to stiffness and restriction in other places, but luckily, there are simple remedies that we hope you'll take advantage of.
(Images courtesy of Drahreg01, CC BY-SA 3.0, J. Lengerke 21:37, 27 Mai 2009 (CEST) CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, and Hellerhoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
Most people have wear and tear arthritis after the age of 60, and earlier if you've enjoyed an athletic life, have had surgery, or wore pointed toe shoes. If you keep the joints mobilized, they won't generate that painful buildup that distorts and locks the joints. You can see that the actual bones in the hands and feet can dislocate and create irritation, inflammation, and swelling. It may not be too late to reverse some of the body's reactions to the malalignments. It can improve and feel more mobile again with less discomfort.
If you already have some stiff achy places, let us open them up and release the build-up of painful biochemistry, and if you're active and care about preventive maintenance, come in and have one of our therapists balance the muscles and connective tissue surrounding them, open and hydrate them and mobilize them for you. It'll help with any sport, dance, hiking, or even getting up and down from the floor or low chair more easily. Stiffness or restriction anywhere will lead to stiffness and restriction in other places, but luckily, there are simple remedies that we hope you'll take advantage of.
(Images courtesy of Drahreg01, CC BY-SA 3.0, J. Lengerke 21:37, 27 Mai 2009 (CEST) CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, and Hellerhoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
Concussions Can Heal if You Get Treatment
However, left untreated the symptoms can worsen over time and remain undiagnosed!
It's rare that anyone can make it from one end to the other of their lives without accidents or falls, and many of us have engaged or are still active in sports. The movie, "Concussion" has brought the attention to this area in a way that can help a lot of people. Be aware that it's not only in the NFL that serious brain changes can happen from repeated contact with the head.
When you're young, everything seems to heals so fast you don't notice residuals like headaches, neck stiffness, tinnitis, memory loss and cognitive issues, or dyslexia until later when you may not attribute the changes during middle age or older to those early injuries. It's easy to recognize a tear or a sprain, but not so easy to recognize effects of a head injury. There are many ways to treat the brain, so don't hesitate to get it checked!.
Young Athlete has the Brain of a 65 year-old
If someone you care about plays football - no matter what age - please consider reading this article and letting them know about the helpful potential of cranial sacral treatments, which have already shown beneficial results in the improvement of CTE and concussion symptoms. www.yahoo.com/sports/parents-tyler-hilinski-cte-committed-suicide-124846146.html
Brain Damage Found in College Football Students Who Didn't Have a Concussion
This study found that athletes who had several hits during a game had elevated levels of a certain protein call S100B which led to a leak in the blood brain barrier, activating an immune response. It also showed that the elevation levels were cumulative throughout the school year and could persist after the season ended, causing personality changes.
www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-damage-found-in-college-football-players-who-didnt-suffer-concussions-study-suggests/
However, left untreated the symptoms can worsen over time and remain undiagnosed!
It's rare that anyone can make it from one end to the other of their lives without accidents or falls, and many of us have engaged or are still active in sports. The movie, "Concussion" has brought the attention to this area in a way that can help a lot of people. Be aware that it's not only in the NFL that serious brain changes can happen from repeated contact with the head.
When you're young, everything seems to heals so fast you don't notice residuals like headaches, neck stiffness, tinnitis, memory loss and cognitive issues, or dyslexia until later when you may not attribute the changes during middle age or older to those early injuries. It's easy to recognize a tear or a sprain, but not so easy to recognize effects of a head injury. There are many ways to treat the brain, so don't hesitate to get it checked!.
Young Athlete has the Brain of a 65 year-old
If someone you care about plays football - no matter what age - please consider reading this article and letting them know about the helpful potential of cranial sacral treatments, which have already shown beneficial results in the improvement of CTE and concussion symptoms. www.yahoo.com/sports/parents-tyler-hilinski-cte-committed-suicide-124846146.html
Brain Damage Found in College Football Students Who Didn't Have a Concussion
This study found that athletes who had several hits during a game had elevated levels of a certain protein call S100B which led to a leak in the blood brain barrier, activating an immune response. It also showed that the elevation levels were cumulative throughout the school year and could persist after the season ended, causing personality changes.
www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-damage-found-in-college-football-players-who-didnt-suffer-concussions-study-suggests/
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What's the difference between Massage and Manual medicine?
Massage is always therapeutic in the ways that it releases stress and tension, increases circulation with the flow of nutrients and in how it eases the mind and soothes the soul. Manual Medicine is more clinical/advanced and focuses in on specific areas of the system and how they interrelate to one another and contribute to solving and sourcing issues. Please check our "Styles of Bodywork" page for a more detailed description of each modality. Since the body is multidimensional, it responds on more levels if you address more of its dimensions..*
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