Up-coming Events
- CPR/First Aid training: 5:00-9:00 pm on January 16,2008. Cost is $30.00 per person.
- CPR/First Aid training: 9:30-12:30 pm on February 14,2008. Cost is $30.00 per person.
- Evening YogaFit® Classes: 7:00-8:00pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, held at Lowell Cherry Creek Family Resource room. Cost is $40.00 for 8 classes (2 times a week) or $20.00 for 4 classes (1 time a week-Tuesdays only).Drop-in welcome for $6.00 per class. Register through Lowell Community Education.
- Why is my Child Struggling? Community Informational Workshop: January 15, 2008, from 6:30-8:30 pm. Workshop held at Caledonia Resource Center. Cost is $19.00 per person. Information on sensory integration irregularities, and how it affects individuals in their daily lives.
- Why is my Child Struggling? Community Informational Workshop: January 29, 2008, from 6:00-8:00 pm. Workshop held at The Hammock LLC Therapy-Wellness center. Cost is $10.00 per person. Information on sensory integration irregularities, and how it affects individuals in their daily lives.
- Myofascial Release Whole Body treatments and Occuptional Therapy Services: Call to schedule Services at The Hammock LLC for a professional evaluation and treatment.
- HANDLE Sreening: Scheduling now on Fridays, for individuals who struggle with concentrating, attention and focus is a challenge, has difficulty with completing reading or bookwork assignments, and has difficulty with memory or organizational issues. Call for more information.
Mondays 12:00 pm - 6:00pm
Fridays 10:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Please Contact The Hammock LLC to register for the classes/ workshops or to schedule a therapy appointment
at (616) 893-5661 or email us at: info@hammocklearning.com
Hammock Highlights
Great News!
We now offer whole body Myofascial Release Services:
Myofascial Release is a very effective hand-on technique that provides sustained pressure into the myofascial restrictions to eliminate pain, headaches,restore motion and opening up sensory channels.
Fascia is a tough connective tissue which spreads in a three dimensional web from your head to your feet without interruption. Trauma or inflammation can create a binding down of fascia resulting in excessive pressure on nerves, muscles, blood vessels, and organs. Since all of the standard tests such as X-rays, myelograms, CAT scans etc. do not show fascial restrictions, it is thought that many people surrering from pain, headaches, or even lack of motion may be having fascial problems, but most go undiagnosed.
The use of Myofaccial Release allows us to look at each person as a unique individual. Our one-on-one therapy sessions are hands-on treatments during which the therapist uses a multitude of Myofascial Release techniques and movement therapy. The goal of Myofascial Release is to restore the individual's freedom, so they may return to a pain free, active lifestyle.
We promote independence through education in proper body mechanics and movments, through the enhancement of strength, flexibility, and postural and movement awareness.
Myofacial Release techniques may help: pain of all kinds, Carpal Tunnel, Fibromyalgia, Scoliosis, Neurological Dysfunctions, Chronic Fatique Syndrome, Sports Injuries, Sensory Issues, Spasm/Spasticity, restriction of motion,and many others.
All people of various ages and abilities will benefit from Myofacial Release. Infants through adults welcome. For more information check outwww.myofascialrelease.com or contact The Hammock LLC. at (616)893-5661.
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Positive Step Forward
Did you know that yoga is really GOOD for you?
By exercising your brain and body; you will increase mental fitness, flexibility, and overall health.
Yoga is non-competivtive:
Yoga practice is being supportive and respectful because we must slow down, notice and work with our own experience. It possess-focused, not goal-focused. Eveyone can do yoga, feel good about it and even help each other with it.
Yoga requires staying present:
We develop focus, concentration and discipline through yoga. We experience how your own mind-body system works, and therefore learn how to work more productively with ourselves. We learn how to consciously change our mental and emotional states, becoming more responsible for our cohoices and health. We can choose to bring ourselves into balance with breathing and positive thinking.
Yoga is practical, low-cost preventative medicine:
We balance and restore ourselves by journeying inside of ourselves. Yoga serves as a balancing and restorative counter-pose to modern life we shift the stress response in to our autonomic nervous systems and move from fight-or-flight to creativity and enjoyment.
Yoga creates balance, integration, flexibility, and quiet:
We slow down our brain waves, align the body, breath and mind and become more present through yoga. We also release tensions and body toxins. We feel better, more relaxed, and can therefore focus and participate fully in learning processes.
Yoga expands and enriches awareness and the experience of our inner life:
We are less reactive, more self-aware and make better choices when practicing yoga. Yoga is a tool that we can use to navigate and fulfill our own destiny. We develop a greater sense of SELF; we are more creative, communicative, compassionate and alive.
Yoga is not an intellectual process; it is experiential and social:
We feel the difference in ourselves after doing yoga. We personally experience coherence and calm and take joy throughout our lives.
Power is in our breath:
Breathing is a powerful tool taught within in yoga; which allows us to uses these skills to calm, focus, and think clearly during stressful situations.Sometimes we don't realize that we hold our breaths during stressful times or when we are concentrating hard.Breathing puts oxygen back into our brains which nourishes and enhances our brain function.