What to Expect from a SessionA myofascial bodywork session with Hamid allows time to share your story. Sessions are individually tailored with short and long-term goals in mind. Session length includes talk-time to share your health history, assessment, education and hands-on treatment. 60 and 90 minute sessions are available.
Please wear light clothing suitable for stretching and movement. A clothing-on practice allows for expanded movement and client positioning options, while also reducing the environmental impact of the massage therapy profession with less laundry. Hamid practices in the Sufi Room in Earth Body Wellness Center - East. There you will find a low electric lift table, Thai mat, body cushions, and hydrocolator. This is a bodywork practice of positioning options, ranging from standing, side-lying, seated, prone, and supine postures. Yoga poses and creative movement can also be explored, allowing your body to find it's own unwinding pattern. This is bodywork of awareness, breath, movement, and stillness, designed to integrate structural change over a series of sessions. A minimum of 3-6 sessions is highly recommended. Complex pain may need 12 or more sessions or ongoing management. Ideally, I encourage folk to find a way to build regular bodywork into their life. A bodywork session every 1-2 weeks to every 3-4 weeks is a good rhythm. Even once a season, during the seasonal transitions can be useful. We will always reevaluate what is best for your body along the way. |
Peer Supervision and Mentoring
The ongoing conversation of bodywork. Keeping in contact with the community. Professional and personal growth in the somatic field go hand in hand.
Hamid does individual and small group peer supervision and mentoring for newly licensed, as well as experienced, massage therapists. In the past, he has served as peer supervisor for the Oregon Board of Massage Therapists.
Peer supervision sessions can take on various forms. Some examples.
Hamid does individual and small group peer supervision and mentoring for newly licensed, as well as experienced, massage therapists. In the past, he has served as peer supervisor for the Oregon Board of Massage Therapists.
Peer supervision sessions can take on various forms. Some examples.
- Receive a session from Hamid. An ongoing conversation of developing your kinesthetic and proprioceptive awareness.
- Give a session to Hamid. A safe, open place to explore new ideas and techniques, while receiving constructive feedback about your bodywork.
- Have a conversation with Hamid. A check-in with an experienced bodyworker. How do you want to see your practice flourish?
FAQ
What do I wear to a bodywork session?
This is primarily a clothing-on practice. One, it greatly increases the possibilities for movement. Two, it's less impactful on the environment, having to wash fewer linens. Our earth's resources are limited. Three, it enhances trust. Puts therapist and client on even ground. It's work of dance, of breath, of movement, of allowing, of noticing, of change. Please wear light-clothing suitable for stretching and movement. Like what you might wear to yoga or dance. Please layer for your comfort. I am a survivor of trauma. Can I receive bodywork? Working with trauma begins with a discussion and mutual agreement. We must be able to hold space together. This is a place for mindful awareness. Peter Levine talks about the titration process in trauma release. Small awarenesses... Of movement, of breath, of noticing sensation in the physical body. The here and now of the breath. Tandem work is encouraged. You are welcome to bring your talk therapist along and we may both hold space for you, each within our own scope of practice. This is not the place for violent outburst. We all agree to keep one another safe. |
Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMTII
Phone/Text: 503-975-1259
E-mail: [email protected]
OBMT #301 • © 2013-2022
Phone/Text: 503-975-1259
E-mail: [email protected]
OBMT #301 • © 2013-2022