I am a body worker, a performing arts professional, and practitioner of Yoga, Alexander, dance,…read moreFitzmaurice tremoring technique, and am a teacher of Acting and Voice. I have trained in massage techniques and multiple healing therapies and have gone to internationally renown body workers throughout my twenty year career for work on my own body - more recently for healing with major spinal injuries and tissue repair. Irina is one of the few people in the world I have found who can read the body inside out, offer intense immediate relief AND longer term repair, guiding the body back to healthy rejuvenation, fluid use, and tissue growth.
Irina has a true gift, she reads the body and works so intensely, so consciously along each strand of fascia and releases nerves balled up in scar tissue then deeply contacting muscle strands and tracing them from first connection along the entire length - never losing contact. Those little balls of tension or pain that seem inaccessible, she finds immediately and guides into total release / you can actually sense your body repairing itself as she works. It's a constant embodied re-education of ones own anatomy to work with her.
The first time she worked on me, a profoundly deep and necessarily excruciating release of my shrunken scarred fascia around the neck, lats, pecs - releasing my jaw from its toehold in the back of my neck - an hour later I was walking down the sidewalk and my entire shoulder girdle gave way, one side fell 4 inches! And my left arm began to swing wildly in a 300 degree Torque with no effort as I walked - a bit freakishly in comparison, where it had previously been stuck to my side. An hour later again, the other side gave way too, and my neck elongated like a giraffe - my whole spine was freed of the girdle and felt I was reaching to the sky. My own "use" could not really shift it turned out, until the sticky scar tissue had a chance to let go -then the clumped up muscles had a chance to lengthen - and finally my skeleton had room to reach upward again, and I could return to my practice of a conscious opening and letting go. My spine had (I thought) shrunken over those years a whole inch, due to disk damage, but the next time my height was measured I was back to full height (6months later still retained that freedom Irina had brought me).
The session she released fascia deep around and under my occipital joint - I could actually feel the brain stem pulling restricted and finally, release - it was as if her hands were actually deep inside the skull - I could feel the blood flow and spinal fluid rush in, my thoughts cleared, and ongoing cluster headaches / migraines I'd almost forgotten were there they were so constant, washed away. Pain I'd become accustomed to for several years, coursing throughout my entire neuro-muscular system was gone.
This enormous freedom happened in a single one hour session. Irina listened to my body and catered the treatment completely to the deeper information she received.
Irina re-educates your cellular, neuromuscular being as she works. She is truly brilliant.
