Experience the VASPER System – efficient, safe, rapid conditioning!

Published: 26 February 2017
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: Conditioning

Dear Colleagues:

The enclosed flyer announces what promises to be an advancement in the field of rehabilitation for those whose poor conditioning is affecting their metabolism and safety. It unifies several features to create a conditioning environment that builds muscle mass quickly in a safe and time efficient way.

The Vasper System boosts metabolism, builds muscle, and limits the overheating of muscles that contributes to O2 loss and longer recovery times accompanied by sore muscles. Vasper acts as a natural anti-inflammatory, keeping O2 in the muscle where it is used to quickly manufacture more energy for maximum muscle output.

It is currently being utilized in medical offices, in fitness centers, and training environments with sports teams and the military. The results in boosting testosterone and growth hormone have been astonishing. Vasper has even produced unexpected benefits with post concussive patients. I include one such testimonial below.

A Vasper Story –

“Since using Vasper I’ve rarely had a headache, and my depression, outbursts, and isolation have improved. I’ve regained physical stamina, muscle mass, and begun to lose the weight I’d gained as a side effect of taking meds. I know that treating PCS was not your intention, but I am forever grateful. I feel alive again.” K. M., R I

My own story of immediate results in energy production and increased muscle mass within a VERY short time (after trying numerous other more familiar ways to restore my strength and failing) has created the impulse to acquire this workout system to share with others who, like me, have fallen below the black hole event horizon of the need to recondition and the inability to do so due to lack of energy or joint vulnerability.

We hope you take advantage of us soon, both Vasper and NMR will be invaluable to you! You are welcome to call and make an appointment to check it out for free. The front office line is 415 388 9945.

Sincerely,
Jocelyn Olivier
Founder, Director
Healus Center

An efficient, safe, rapid conditioning system that can produce dramatic changes in just 30 minutes 2 times a week

First session is FREE!
So nothing to lose…just give it a try.

Vasper is based on three scientifically proven principles – compression technology, cooling and interval training. When all principles are working together, the results are extraordinary.

Compression and cooling create the effect of a high intensity (anaerobic) exercise without the time, effort, and muscle damage it takes to achieve the same results with conventional exercise. Instead of feeling tired and sore, Vasper leaves you energized and rejuvenated, alleviating your body aches and pains.

The goal with Vasper is to minimally stress the muscles, still triggering a systemic recovery response. This new, patented health and rehabilitation technology stimulates the natural production of anabolic hormones, which have wide-ranging health, rehabilitation and performance benefits.

Individual Vasper sessions $50
Buy a Prepaid Package of 10 and save 20% ~ $40 each session!  Maximize your strength and metabolic efficiency… Buy a package of 20 ~ $30 per session.

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Schedule your FREE first session today! Ask about contraindications when you call.

The first week I ever worked with Vasper I noticed an immediate pick up in my capacity for energy output. My legs were stronger and more stable walking up stairs. I had been using the words ‘bone tired’ about how my legs felt walking upstairs. They had also been very unstable and I was holding on to handrails to steady myself. Now I feel like I did in my 40’s, and wouldn’t think of using a hand rail to walk down stairs.”  – Jocelyn Olivier, Director of Healus Neuro Rehab Center

Vasper’s Low Impact NuStep T5XR

A perfect conditioning environment for people who are recuperating from musculoskeletal issues and haven’t been able to exercise and have lost muscle tone because of it.

Optimize your Vasper conditioning experience. Have a mini NMR tune up in conjunction with your workout. ~ Put your NMR corrections to work immediately.

Build muscle mass fast
Increase strength
Accelerate conditioning
Protect your joints
Enhance energy and stamina
Reduce inflammatory effects
Diminish joint pain
Raise mood and mental clarity
Reduce stress
Improve sleep
Boost balance

See VASPER in action 

Safe for All Ages.
Schedule your FREE first session today!  

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Breathing to Restore Emotional Resilience and Metabolic Health

Published: 15 February 2017
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: Breathing, Community Classes

The Breath of Life

Learn about normal and paradoxical breathing, how the structure of your head can interfere with breathing, how to use your breath to calm down or generate more energy.  Hear Facts, revelations, and engage in practices leading to mastery of your metabolism via your breathing patterns. Take part in a 4 part series on Breathing to Restore Resilience and Metabolic Health.

Breathe in silently through every pore of your skin.  

Breathe out silently through every pore of your skin.  

You are your breath. You came in with a breath. You go out with a breath.

 

Learning to Let Go Exercise…

Go to the bottom of your breath and don’t breathe at ALL (until you REALLY want to). It can be an incredible relief to NOT HAVE TO breathe. It can also restore your access to the relaxation response.  Practice every night before you drop off to sleep.

Let Your Tongue Rest on the roof of your mouth….

Your tongue is the spacer for the cranial bones; it keeps your upper palate wide and the nasal passages open so you can breathe through your nose as we were designed to. Mouth breathing leads to hidden hyperventilation.   People who breathe through their mouth will think they have to because the nasal passages are blocked. Breathing through your mouth CREATES blocked nasal passages.   Asthma can be eliminated by correcting overbreathing and hidden hyperventilation. (Look up Eucapnic Buteyko Breathing.)

Breathing for Life 3.17  (pdf)

Did You KNOW?

The Diaphragm is your gear shift lever between the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System?

It massages the vital organs and keeps them healthy?

It can get twisted and collapse?

That the problems with your feet can be a consequence of problems in your Diaphragm?

Watch this video (in French) and attend a 4 part series on Breathing to Restore Emotional Resilience and Metabolic Health at Healus Neuro Rehab Center

 

Roger Fiammetti

Speeding Up Your Body’s Healing

Published: 5 February 2017
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: Brain Function

Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic functions of the nervous system:

Our nervous system has 2 interweaving sides: excitatory and vegetative. The excitatory side takes care of emergencies and the vegetative rest and regeneration.  When we are stuck in a chronic tension pattern from a past accident or incident or a prolonged period of unremitting stress our ability to heal ourselves is seriously impaired.   A new client came in for a free neuromuscular assessment/consultation.  She’d been such a hard driving producer that her whole nervous system collapsed into chronic fatigue and inability to heal.  The result was systemic infections that wouldn’t heal.  The antibiotics further destroyed her gut biome and compromised her ability to take nutrition out of her food.  She put on weight and had no energy for exercise.   The end point was extreme: bed ridden for 2 years, too weak to walk, with PTSD from all the attempted interventions. This sketch of her situation (many details have been left out) is a perfect description of the failure to thrive that is marked by a fixation in the sympathetic side of the nervous system.

What the Parasympathetic side of the Autonomic Nervous System does:

  • Meditation; enables you to reach states of at oneness.
  • Relaxation; the ability to calm the mind.
  • Digestion; secretion of enzymes and moving of the bowel
  • Restoration; the efficiency and priorities of our body’s cellular metabolism are directly affected by whether we are at ease or anxious
  • Sleep; the ability to access the deep sleep states of youth.
  • Cell regeneration; all the metabolic chemistry that is used in healing and making new tissue.

What the Sympathetic nervous system does:

  • Constricts blood vessels; raises blood pressure
  • Shortens breath and limits it to the chest muscles
  • Contracts pupils and produces focused “tunnel vision”
  • Reverts to reactive responses based on past experience
  • Inhibits higher brain functions (conceptual, integrative, problem solving and creativity)
  • Suppresses immune response
  • Disintegrates learned, refined movements and smooth muscle tone (colon)
  • Produces physical awkwardness resulting in loss of self esteem
  • Difficulty focusing and concentrating
  • Difficulty falling or staying asleep or waking up still tired

Chronic Stress creates Sympathetic Hyper-arousal or Hyper-vigilance.  Muscles are tight constantly in an overall hypertension ready for the need to fight, flight or freeze; always “at the ready.”

Areas expressive of the “the startle reflex” such as the back of the neck and elevation of the shoulders, sub-occipitals, eyes, low back, calf muscles, psoas and iliacus maintain the most tension.

The end result:

  • Chronic tension and pain in muscles, especially those expressive of the startle reflex
  • High levels of stress hormones and tension over time create high fluid levels in the tissue.
  • Stiff, sore muscles, poor circulation, taut, pale and thick skin
  • High fluid levels produce poor cellular nutrition, sluggish energy metabolism, poor recovery time from activity, and cell wall fragility.

Neck Pain Can Cause Headaches, Shoulder Pain, Middle and Low Back Pain

Published: 1 February 2017
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: Techniques

The Biomechanics of the Neck

The neck is the most vulnerable structure in our bodies. It is composed of only small moving parts supported by a myriad of very small muscles fastening one vertebra to another and the segments of the column to the head and ribcage.  The head itself weighs a good 14 pounds in the average adult with nothing to hold it up but a moving column of bones and the tone and integrated function of the neck and shoulder muscles.

Why the Neck Develops Pain and Restriction

In addition to having very little support to start with, we engage casually in high velocity activities such as driving and take our kids to amusement park rides. Our preferred exercise activities such as snowboarding, surfing, rollerblading, skiing, provide further risk of potential whiplash injuries to the neck. The current fashion of extreme sports takes these risks to the limit.

When we injure our necks we don’t always know it.  Sometimes it takes a couple of years for the effects of a whiplash accident to show up. This is why the current auto insurance environment provides for a year to 2 years for a claim to be open pending the long-range results of even a minor impact injury.   By the time the effects are noticed the habits in the motor coordination system are long established patterns in the cerebellum. Our movement strategy has been permanently altered by the event and we don’t even know it.  All we know is that our neck hurts and doesn’t move as freely in some direction.

What is the Anatomy of a Neck Injury? 

How do we know when we’ve been injured?  How do we define an injury?  Typically our medical approach overlooks any disruption of function that is not sprained or broken or torn and bleeding.  Survival is the measure of importance when remediating problems.  Is this a life threatening issue?   Where is the branch of medicine that deals with dysfunctional coordination strategies?  What injures those strategies?   Any abrupt jolt that involves an overstretch of some tissue while other muscles spasm or contract abruptly to protect the intrinsic structures and the integrity of the spinal column can disrupt the motor coordination information governing normal function.  This disruption can have long-range effects. Once the motor coordination is disrupted we build compensation patterns or coping strategies.  Neighboring muscles begin substituting for what isn’t working.  A coping strategy is a memorized coordination for getting a movement done.  We are now using big muscles to do what the smaller muscles should be doing.  We notice we can’t turn our head without turning the whole ribcage. We feel pain when we tip our head to one side but not the other.

What corrects neck pain?

Is it enough to find all the tight muscles and trigger point them into elasticity? Not really.  Muscles that are tight are that way because they are splinting a missing function.  If you use deep tissue releases to force those muscles to relax you can be left with a lack of support altogether and a vulnerability to further injury.  At best the body is going to have to put back the tension that was just forcefully removed by sustained pressure or fascial stretching.

Is it possible to really correct these dysfunctional coordination patterns once they’ve been disrupted?  The answer is YES. We need a strategy for re-educating the coordination among the muscles.

First, we need to look at all the movement potential built into the neck.

Second we need to determine which movement functions are not enabled.

Third we need a strategy for reprogramming the coordination system.

Fourth we need to know which patterns need to be corrected first.

How to Change Neck Pain

In order to understand neck problems one needs to understand what the normal movement potentials of the neck are.

At each segment of the neck it is able to Flex, Extend, Side bend, Forward Translate, Lateral Translate and Rotate.

Due to its preferred curvature in extension the flexion and extension functions need to be corrected first.  Side bending is always accomplished only when the extension function is enabled.

Because everything is being supported in gravity, the problems at the top are built on the problems at the base.  Even though many clients report symptoms at C2 (‘My neck is out of place’), you can’t change the top before you change the base.  The biggest problems in neck function, those that can send pain and weakness into the arms and hands are rotations and counter rotations at T2, C7, C6 and C5. This results in compression and nerve impingement. Trying to adjust this situation abruptly can make it worse.  Dealing with the upper thoracic rotations first enables the neck to even begin to be able to unpack the problem of rotations.

If the base is locked in flexion, rotation will not be possible. In a normal neck, rotation is enabled with the column in extension. Being locked in flexion is what causes herniation and bulging discs.  Simply relaxing the muscles of the neck will never solve these deep coordination dysfunctions.

In Conclusion…

A good strategy for correcting neck problems requires a detailed understand of the movement functions of the neck and a method for determining priorities in correcting them. More information on strategies for reprogramming the neck begins in Module 3 of NMR.  Find more information on training in NeuroMuscular Reprogramming NMR®  on www.NeuroMuscular-Reprogramming.com.

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Tired? Depressed? Anxious? Can’t Sleep?

Published: 23 August 2014
Written by Jocelyn Olivier
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Categories: Breathing, Community Classes, On The Path

Test yourself for Metabolic Imbalance.

Here’s How!

Breathe in and out normally and then, at the end of an exhale, don’t breathe in again until you absolutely have to…COUNT the seconds until you feel you absolutely HAVE to take another breath. You should be able to get to 35 seconds. If you can’t, you likely have hidden hyperventilation and need to come to our next client education class: It Begins with the Breath.

It all begins with the Breath. Breathing is fundamental to our metabolic efficiency. Abnormal breathing patterns produce abnormal metabolism and a host of conditions no one thinks to relate to breathing.

What does the breathing mechanism actually accomplish?

Sarah Young of Women of Movement FaceBook group sent me an amazing link on breathing by Roger Fiammetti, author of “Respire! Respiration Totale Pour Tous”. I want to share it here for all who are interested in the breathing mechanism in all it’s glory. It’s in French, but I think the pictures tell the whole story.

Translation
Total respiration allows for the restoration of the perfect balance of our bodies. It allows the mobilization of the different diaphragms. The most well-known being the Thoracic Diaphragm, but also the Cranial Diaphragm, the Cervical Diaphragm and the Pelvic Diaphragm. These different diaphragms are going to stimulate the various levels of the nervous plexus that appear on the screen.

These four diaphragms have an expansive ability to manage the cerebral flax and the tentorium. The cervical diaphragm is made up of the tongue and the muscles of the Sternocleidomastoid. The well-known thoracic diaphragm is a domed muscle that separates the abdomen from the thoracic cage. The Pelvic Diaphragm is a big basket of muscles that ties the sacrum to the bones of the iliac and the bones of the basin. These diaphragms work together in synergy and stimulate the circulatory system as well as stimulate the central nervous system.

The Thoracic Diaphragm is a very interesting and very important muscle that descends upon inspiration and ascends upon expiration. This mobilizes the viscera; the intestines, the liver, the pancreas, the bladder. These viscera will descend and ascend and will stimulate the pelvic diaphragm. This dynamic illustration shows the mobilization of the whole lumbar spine during respiration.

The diaphragms and respiration play a role in brewing the viscera. All the muscles go into action during respiration: the back muscles, the muscles at the level of the throat, the muscles at the level of the jaw, the muscles at the level of the neck. The ribs mobilize and expand during inspiration and retract during expiration. And during respiration, the muscles of the abdomen are not only important for forced expiration but also provide a certain resistance to the diaphragm. This allows you to breathe slowly into the stomach and the perineum.”