Integrative Physical Therapy (IPT) regards both movement and stillness as essential to support health, healing and well-being. Creating a right balance of enjoyable movement /activity and comfortable stillness/rest is a dynamic process unique to each of us. IPT sessions work with you to create enjoyable movement experiences, manual therapies and guided stillness practices that may generate insights that help you recognize right balance for YOU. IPT practice is guided by evidence informed medicine and time tested practices from a variety of wisdom traditions. It is valuable complement to integrative self-care practices.

Both the tag line, Because Your Movement Matters  and this company’s name, Health in Motion  message the importance of movement.

Matter is that which occupies space and has mass. Energy is the capacity to move matter. Your body (as matter) is a community of trillions of cells amazingly comprised of only 4 elements: oxygen, hydrogen, carbon & nitrogen. The energy that moves cells to configure in unique forms and to organize into the varied tissue types making up human body systems(muscular, cardiovascular respiratory, etc) presently eludes modern science. Atomic and subatomic levels of matter contain far more space than matter! Every cell has intracellular and extracellular space in which movement is continually happening.

Mindfulness is a state of kind attention to  what presently happening around us and within us. Applied to movement, mindfulness makes us more aware of how we move through space. We learn to notice our bodily sensations ( warmth, breath, heart beat, muscle tension, gut gurgles etc), thoughts and emotions that accompany  our physical actions and behaviors.  Mindfulness applied to our movement can make it meditative, a soothing stepping stone into meditation where we become still to turn our attention more deeply into the spaces within us and where insight may arise.