What is Body Balancing?

Every day you experience stresses and strains that your body absorbs ~ but after a while this tension can cause the tissues of the body to tighten and become imbalanced. This can compromise not only your musculoskeletal system, but your central nervous system as well.

Body Balancing is a unique combination of evidence-based manual therapy techniques and complimentary medicine that optimizes health and restores balance to your body/mind. Based on your initial visit assessment and personal goals your sessions may include a mixture of:

• Manual Therapy

• CranioSacral Therapy

• Physical Therapy

• Fascial Mobilization

• Cupping Therapy

• Reiki

• Yoga/ Ayurveda

• Sound Therapy

• Meditation/ Breath-work/ Guided Relaxation

• Personalized Exercise Program

• SomatoEmotional Release

CranioSacral Therapy

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on approach that releases tensions deep in the body . Light touch allows the smooth and skeletal muscles to relax enhancing the body’s ability to self-correct. This relaxation response is deeply nourishing to the central nervous system as well, helping to normalized the environment around the brain and spinal cord. By freeing the central nervous system to perform at its best, CST may be valuable in helping :

• Ease chronic and acute musculoskeletal pain

• Relieve headaches and migraines

• Encourage the body’s self-correcting abilities

• Enhance immune system efficiency

• Deeply nourish the nervous system to help reduce feelings of anxiety and depression.

Additional Resources:

• An overview of CranioSacral Therapy from the Cleveland Clinic here.

• Discover CranioSacral and SomatoEmotional Release here

• CranioSacral Therapy for concussion and traumatic brain injury here

Physical Therapy

Personalized, one-on-one rehabilitation for neurological disorders, decreased strength, balance and mobility.

• Balance and coordination training for fall prevention including home safety recommendations

• Strength, range of motion and flexibility training

• Personalized home exercise program

• Manual therapy to restore soft tissue mobility, improve posture and decrease pain

  HOME-BASED PHYSICAL THERAPY :

  Out-patient physical therapy in the privacy of your own home. A nice option for patients who no longer qualify for home-bound services but don’t yet feel ready to go out for physical therapy, or for anyone who prefers treatment in the comfort and safety of their own home. * Available in and around the Geneseo area , call for details*

Yoga

Carrie is a certified yoga instructor through Yoga Alliance. Based on your goals and initial visit assessment, she can add a therapeutic yoga routine to your home exercise program or consider a private yoga/movement therapy session.

According to John Hopkins Medicine: “Yoga offers physical and mental health benefits for people of all ages and abilities. If you’re going through an illness, recovering from surgery or living with a chronic condition, yoga can become an integral part of your treatment plan.”

The benefits of yoga from Johns Hopkins Medicine here.

Carrie teaches yoga and meditation at RITZ MOUNTAIN YOGA LAKEVILLE, N.Y. and THE HAMMOCK’S AT GENESEO

Meditation/Relaxation Practices

Carrie is a certified instructor through the Himalayan Institute in Vishoka Meditation ~the Yoga of Inner Radiance. Meditation allows the mind to rest and be nourished in it’s home-base - the body. Vishoka meditation uses a sequence of practices including breath training (pranayama) and systematic relaxation to train your mind to remain clear, focused, and joyful in all circumstances in life. Begin your journey today.

More about Vishoka meditation here.
https://vishokameditation.org/certified-teachers/carrie-ruffner/

Call for individual or group class schedule. Learn Vishoka Meditation from home via Remote Wellness Sessions.

Reiki

Carrie is a certified Reiki Master. Reiki, a Japanese art form that promotes healing through gentle touch, is now one of the top three complementary in-patient therapies in U.S. hospitals, according to an American hospital Association survey. Reiki can locate lines of tension in the body causing distress. Treatments can work at releasing both emotional blockages and easing physical pain present within the body and mind.

Cleveland Clinic’s information on Reiki here.

Ayurveda

Ayurveda is an ancient system of healing that has been practiced for over 5,000 years. By treating the whole being, it emphasizes getting to the root cause of an imbalance for the prevention and treatment of illness. Identify your unique constitution (or dosha), get recommendations including foods and daily practices that help keep your body type in balance. Carrie has studied Ayurveda with Dr Vasant Lad - a physician and educator respected throughout the world for his knowledge of Ayurveda- , Sonam Targee, and the Himalayan Institute.

Banyan Botanicals introduction to Ayurveda here.

Sound Therapy

Applying vibration using tuning forks and sound has been utilized in Eastern cultures for thousands of years to help remove blockages in the body’s energetic pathways, reduce pain and inflammation, promote healing of muscles, tendons and ligaments, and balance vital energy centers or Chakras. Today institutes such as M.I.T and Columbia are researching how sound therapy can help patients with Alzheimers and other health challenges.

Healing with sound waves here.

Cupping Therapy

Cupping is an ancient form of alternative medicine that rapidly increases circulation to an area, bringing nourishment and flushing away waste products. Cupping is performed by placing special cups on your skin and leaving them on for several minutes to create suction. Cupping can reduce pain and inflammation, enhance blood flow and lymphatic drainage while improving fascial mobility and range of motion.

Cleveland Clinic benefits of Cupping Therapy here.

Personalized Home Exercise Program

Support your progress with a personalized, individual home exercise program either written or in video format for your phone.

SomatoEmotional Release

SomatoEmotional Release (SER) is a therapeutic process based on the concept that physical forces going into a body are dealt with in one of two ways:

1. The injuried body may immediately dissipate or release these forces and the natural healing process will follow.

2. The forces may be held in the body rather than released. The second can become an area of chronic pain or dysfunction. SER facilitates a gentle process for releasing this tissue memory and helping the body move towards wellness and optimal function.

Discover CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release here

Remote Sessions

Consider supporting your healing journey with a remote session :

• Practice or expand your personalized exercise program.

• Dive deeper into meditation , breath-work or relaxation techniques.

• Reiki distance session

• Begin or strengthen your Ayurvedic journey. Build a daily routine, learn how to use the foods, movement and breath-work to balance and deeply nourish all the seasons of your life.

Outpatient Home-Based Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy

Personalized, one-on-one rehabilitation for neurological disorders, decreased strength, balance and mobility, and post-operative rehab.

• Balance and coordination training for fall prevention including home safety recommendations

• Strength, range of motion and flexibility training

• Personalized home exercise program

• Manual therapy to restore soft tissue mobility, improving posture and decreasing pain

• OUTPATIENT HOME-BASED THERAPY AVAILABLE : Receive out-patient rehabilitation services in your home ~ for when your progressing from home-bound status and don’t feel ready to venture out or you just prefer treatment is the comfort of your own home. * call to verify if your home address qualifies*

Pricing & Details

Manual Therapy

• Initial visit : Evaluation and Body Balancing (90 mins) - $125.00

• Additional Body Balancing Sessions (55 mins) - $110.00

  or 3 additional Body Balancing Sessions for $300.00 after initial visit.

Yoga / Exercise

• Telehealth/ Remote support session 30 mins - $30.00

• Telehealth/ Remote support sessions 60 mins - $60.00

• Private breath ~ work and mobility training sessions in person or remotely

• Group or private meditation classes

All sessions are one and one with Carrie.

Initial manual therapy sessions consist of an evaluation and treatment which takes approx. 90 mins. Subsequent manual therapy sessions are 60 mins.

Consider scheduling a second Body Balancing session 7- 10 days after initial visit, followed by less frequent sessions as your body integrates the changes . Once you have reached your goals, consider having a maintenance visit once a month or every change of season.

In-home and virtual appointments may also available.

Cash, Check, Stripe on line payments, and HSA cards accepted

I am an out-of-network provider and request payment at the time of service. If your insurance coverage includes out- of- network benefits (PPO) and you are currently being treated by a medical professional for a physical therapy related health condition there is a good chance that you will receive some reimbursement from your insurance company. I can give you an itemized super bill or in many cases submit a claim on your behalf depending on your insurance.

It’s best to contact your insurance carrier directly for specific questions concerning your out-of-network benefits. Please let me know if I can assist you with this process.