Practitioner: Marion Miller

We just wanted to pass on our sincerest thanks to you for the time you spent with our son (two sessions).

He has blossomed both at home and school….NOTICEABLY!

He is managing more order and personal responsibility in his daily routine. He happily and regularly does his 5-minute exercise plan as he has made the connection with this and a successful day at school.

As a family we have also found it wonderfully manageable and all enjoy participating each morning.

The difference in our son feels like a blessing for us all but of most importance is the harmony and happiness that is evident within himself.

Many, many thanks.

2010 KANZ Conference
“Reading the Signs”
Observe beyond what you see
10 – 12 September, 2010
Vaughan Park Retreat, Long Bay, Auckland
Cost: $220 (includes meals)

This year’s conference is set to be a winner. The fantastic line-up of speakers outlined below have been confirmed. We are asking participants to bring with them an “outrageous accessory”. This is for the “I can’t believe your wore that to conference” walk off to start our theatre sports on the Saturday night.

The tranquil conference retreat is positioned at the south end of Long Bay, the most northern of Auckland’s North Shore beaches. It overlooks the bay and Regional Park. You can take a number of walks to enjoy the panoramic views or take a quiet meditative stroll in the park. Come along, learn, recharge, and enjoy the superb company and great catering at this wonderful venue.

Reducing Challenging Behaviours – Gillian Stuart
Looks at the positive effects movement intervention (Brain Gym®) has on improving self-esteem and well-being and the flow on effect this has on social-psychological health.

 Kinesiology in the Operating Theatre – Margaret Thomson
Sharing insights on how kinesiology can be used in the operating room when someone is about to have major surgery.

Belief System Elimination – Ann Parker
This procedure works very quickly to eliminate or reduce beliefs that are deeply held and are holding us back, keeping us in emotional captivity. Ann will also be giving a brief overview of Health Kinesiology.

NES machine – Jeanette Clark
A revolutionary approach to assessing the human body-field (HBF) and promoting well-being at all levels.

Ortho-Bionomy – Richard Rust
A gentle non-invasive form of bodywork that employs innate reflexes to activate the body’s inherent capacity for self correction.

Can Neurobics banish the F words – Louise Stevens
Use kinesiology to explore the relationship between Motion and E Motion in a joyful way.
 

For more information or to register, contact Secretary Marion Miller  mamiller@xtra.co.nz

 

Do you have students who never sit still? Are they constantly turning their heads, moving or wriggling? Do they delight in rocking on the back legs of their chairs? But then, when they’re working, they suddenly droop over their desks?

These children quite often have no appreciation of the space their bodies take up and will invade others’ without realising it. Think of the child who jostles other children when sitting on the mat or joining a line, because he just didn’t realise that he wouldn’t fit into that small space. They might even have been labelled as ADD or ADHD children.

Read the entire article by Marion Miller – Activating the Brain's Starter Motor (170)

There are many aspects that can be looked at, yet we could be missing a crucial part of the picture. If this child is stuck in ‘survival mode’, none of these external factors are going to have the impact we would like.

Read the entire article by Marion Miller – The Tiger in Your Classroom (164)

His grip is so tight that the whites of his knuckles show; he presses so hard that the indentation goes through three or four sheets of paper? He may even rotate his page by up to 90 degrees. Does the intense concentration he need to simply manipulate his tools hinder his creative process?

This could be the result of the lack of inhibition of the Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR), which is one of the primitive reflexes.

Download the entire article by Marion Miller - Gripping Issue in the Classroom (170)

part 2

Start  Date: 2010-11-19 End Date: 2010-11-22

Previously published: In Touch #7, Spring 1988 when I was practising at Centrepoint Community. Still one of my proudest wins. (Names of clients in all instances have been changed.)

Marjorie came to see me about a check up. She was six months pregnant and beginning to change shape with dramatic swiftness after the gradualness of the preceding months.

More to the point, her bedroom was at the top of the hill – about eighty brick and railway sleeper steps to climb to get there. The winter has been wet and the steps are often slippery, as are other steps and decks around the community sleeping, living, and working areas.

She felt fine, she said, but no longer felt confident of keeping her balance. Her changing centre of gravity and changed posture had left her uncertain and fearful of falling. Her worst days were those which she described as when she “felt really pregnant all day”.

I did a brief Touch for Health balance which confirmed her visible good health. I then carried out a full Hyperton-X balance, following each correction with a re-test, thumb and ring finger joined, to isolate any emotional content. Most of the corrections were free of emotional content, and those that weren’t related mainly to the anxieties surrounding a first pregnancy.

I was left with the feeling that I still hadn’t addressed the original problem. These tend to disappear in the course of a session as other stuff gets dealt with, but this time my doubt remained.

I asked her to imagine herself in one of the places she felt unsafe, and check out how she felt. I tested a double anterior deltoid IM, which collapsed. I carried out an alarm point check, which came up HEART. Subscapularis stayed strong through an “I feel angry/scared” affirmation (ex John Diamond – Life Energy). Not emotional.

At this point, as I neared the end of what I knew that I knew, I had a picture of myself walking a slippery surface with my arms out to help my balance – with the subscapularis contracted, arms abducted, bent forward at the elbows. Reactivity??

Sure enough, subscapularis turned off gluteus medeus and a number of other major walking muscles.

I stretched subscapularis and activated the walking muscles. The HEART alarm point was no longer active, but the visualisation still tested weak.

This time the alarm point test came up KIDNEY. Psoas was the villain this time. Correction as for subscapularis. Visualisation still weak. Recheck alarm points.

CIRCULATION-SEX and piriformis this time. Correction as before, and this time the visualisation tested strong.

I checked visualisations of several other areas in the community which she had said made her feel uneasy, and all of these now tested strong.

When I asked her to walk about a bit, her comment was that “she didn’t feel pregnant at all.” Success! (I shall have to do some more work next time reframing the word pregnant to have pleasant associations, or she may unwittingly set herself up for a very small family.)

I saw her the next day, after she and her husband had hiked two miles across muddy farmland. He, she remarked with satisfaction, had fallen over three times. She hadn’t slipped once

One year ago I was clinging to normal sanity. I had terrible anxiety attacks, which were stopping me from being the person I was, and the mother I loved being. Along with these attacks also came depression and chronic fatigue. I was not coping with day to day life at all.

After going to the doctor for medication (against my belief) but through my desperation, I was given some Lorazepam. These were for panic attacks. After taking a little less than a half a tablet I was drugged and realised there was no way I could function day to day on these tablets either. I also realised if I continued to take these I would not move from the scary place I was in.

Deciding I needed to look at what I was going to do, I thought straight of kinesiology. I had once had a balance for a minor physical complaint, I was so impressed with the end results I hoped this may work with a more dramatic situation. I went to the Natural Therapy Clinic to have a balance with Gayleen Hamersley-West. It was the best thing I could have ever done for my family and myself. I had kinesiology from 3 in 1 Concepts and Touch for Health along with some Aura Soma.

I had about four sessions, after this time I was completely back to my normal self.

I cannot express enough how powerful yet gentle this healing was for me. I believe with all my heart, if I did not know, or go for these balances, to this day I would be on some kind of anti depressants, and still fighting to have the normal life I have now, through having these kinesiology balances.
Happy again
Lee.

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