Experience the 12 Stages

 

This is NOT me telling you to

just “breathe through it”

 

 

EXPERIENCE the 12 Stages

 

Good evening, sunshine! Thank you for opening my message to you

 

I have been having such a good time lately! Both in and out of New Day. I hope you have been too.

 

A recent highlight was going to Madison last weekend to see my mom and some old friends.

 

Especially getting to see Quad City DJs, Color Me Badd, and Digital Underground perform live on Sunday night #90s4eva

 

 

 

Out for a walk in Madison this weekend with one of my
high school besties!

 

 

And at New Day I have been feeling a great sense of fulfillment and connection my Wonderbook sunshines!

 

This week is the 12th and final week of our experiment where 50 bright souls from this community chose to journal every week after their time on the adjusting table with me.

 

I hope everyone who participated feels accomplished and I’m excited to hear from more of you about what you feel like being in this process brought to your lives over the past 3 months

 

Now, to get to the heart of what I want to tell you today.

 

Do you ever notice how I don’t call this practice “New Day Chiropractic”?

 

Instead I call it simply “New Day.” Here’s why.

 

Although I am a chiropractor, and although Network Spinal is a form of chiropractic, I sometimes feel like there’s a lot that can be misconstrued by just calling it “chiropractic.”

 

There’s a whole world– a world of racking, cracking, bones and joints, “bad backs,” and burly male chiropractors– that comes to many people’s minds just from hearing the word “chiropractic.”

 

Then I have to spend the next 10 minutes (or much longer!) helping the person I’m talking to find out that this is NOT that (it’s so much more )

 

Some of you had little to no context with chiropractic before you met me. So maybe not for you, but for many other people out in the world, a whole mental picture emerges when they hear the word “chiropractic.”

 

I’d much rather be talking about what I’m actually doing and why. Not spending all my time clearing up misperceptions!

 

I’ve been finding that the same thing is true with “breathwork.”

 

 

At the Focused Breath Workshop at New Day sometime last year

 

 

Donny Epstein, creator of Network Spinal care, also created a breathwork modality called Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI).

 

For years, I have practiced this work with you after your adjustments, at your reassessments, on zoom, and in person with New Day community members at the Focused Breath Workshop

 

This breathwork work helps people have breakthroughs with many of the very same things they’ve been looking for help with on the table when I’m adjusting them.

 

And yet. . . wow there are just so many meanings that I find are bound up in “breath” and “breathwork.”

 

More often than not, I end up spending inordinate time explaining what the work is not, just to create the space for people to experience it!

 

I do not recommend “breathwork” (or any practice, really) that is a method of overriding your physiology to create change in the body, emotionally, and mentally.

 

I do not recommend “breathwork” (again or any practice) that is being used as a distraction to have you not focus on your pain and problems.

 

Ideally you are not ‘breathing through” (presumably to get through something “bad” and get to something good) as much as you are breathing WITH what needs to be felt, focused on, and related to.

 

And I’m most certainly not telling you to do breathwork as a way to make you wrong, make you feel remedial, or tell you to leave me alone and work on your problems yourself

 

I had a breakthrough in my understanding of all of this when I attended Donny Epstein’s 12 Stages Phenonmenon program in Colorado back in November

 

For all of these 13+ years I, along with many others I’m sure, had been thinking that Donny’s SRI breathwork was this modality to teach and to do.  A destination unto itself.

 

 

This is the out-of-print book where Donny outlines a breath exercise for each of the 12 Stages of healing

 

 

But that was wrong, wrong, wrong!

 

Understandable that we thought that, but also wrong

 

The breathwork is a tool, an access point, an avenue. NOT the destination.

 

And by the way, there are other avenues! I would also consider Network Spinal one of the avenues (again, not the destination ).

 

The 12 Stages is actually the destination

 

Donny Epstein’s 12 Stages of Healing is actually the big picture, providing you with an overview and a roadmap for ways of experiencing yourself (and the world) through your nervous system.

 

I’ve been talking about the 12 Stages quite a lot lately to the Wonderbooks group. Because if you are pursuing care with me over any significant period of time, it sure would help to have a basis upon which to assess our “progress.”

 

The 12 Stages gives us that helpful birds eye view, and then, with the Network Spinal and the breathwork, ways to connect with each stage

 

I have scheduled an experience for those who are ready for more to join me for a small-group Experience the 12 Stages (the workshop formerly known as “Focused Breath”)

 

 

 

 

This experience will be amazing for participants who are newer to New Day, as well as the more experienced bright soul

 

And it would be great for someone coming direcly from the Wonderbooks process.

 

This is an opportunity for you to work more closely with me as you get into a deeper relationship with your body and awareness of your energy through your nervous system

 

It’s an opportunity for me to continue to deepen my understanding of the 12 Stages, and continue to evolve my relationship with you as we continue our work creatively together

 

I am only accepting 8 sunshines for this experience. Register now and claim your seat!