Serene Wave Spinal Flow

11/15/2025

I received this breakdown from Sarah Kleiner Wellness, and the moment I read it, I knew it needed to be shared. It puts words and science to what so many parents, grandparents, and teachers have been quietly noticing:

Kids today are not okay — and it’s showing in their nervous systems, their behaviour, their sleep, their emotional stability, and their ability to regulate.

Screen use is one reason why.

1. Kids experience screens and artificial light very differently than adults.
We often think kids are “just using screens more,” but biologically, they’re absorbing more and processing more than we are.

Their eyes let in more blue light.
A child’s eye lens is clearer and less yellow than an adult’s. That means:

More blue light reaches the retina in children than adults, because their developing lens absorbs less short-wavelength light.
One clinical article notes children can absorb ~45% more “toxic” blue light through the retina than adults over 25, and they tend to hold devices closer → even higher effective dose.

This means:
~~they take in significantly more blue light to the retina
~~they hold screens closer, multiplying intensity
~~the blue from a screen is concentrated and high-contrast, not naturally balanced with red/infrared like sunlight

Blue light at night suppresses melatonin, and melatonin isn’t just a sleep hormone — it plays roles in:
~~DNA repair
~~mitochondrial function
~~immune regulation
~~circadian timing

When a 5-year-old is on an iPad at night, they’re receiving more retinal blue light per kilogram of body weight than an adult scrolling in bed.

2. Their developing brain is wired for dopamine — and screens hijack it.

Children are supposed to get dopamine from:
~~novelty in nature
~~physical play
~~exploration
~~social interaction
~~problem-solving

But now, for many kids, the “environment” their brains are learning to map is:
~~fast-paced, quick-cut videos
~~infinite scroll
~~auto-play loops
~~high-intensity sensory stimulation

This rewires dopamine pathways toward instant gratification instead of real-world exploration.

3. This overlaps with a critical window of neurodevelopment — especially myelination.
Childhood and adolescence are periods where the brain:
~~forms neural pathways
~~prunes unused synapses
~~and rapidly myelinates nerve fibres

Myelin is the fatty coating that helps signals travel smoothly and quickly through the nervous system.

Chronic overstimulation, stress, poor sleep, constant novelty hits, and irregular circadian rhythms can all:
~~slow or disrupt myelination
~~weaken the stability of developing pathways
~~affect emotional regulation, memory, focus, and executive function

This means the biology of childhood is now directly colliding with the pace and intensity of modern technology.

4. Teachers are seeing the fallout in real time

Across schools, educators are reporting an unmistakable shift that began rising sharply around 2010–2013 — the same period smartphones became universal and LED lighting replaced more incandescent bulbs.

Teachers are describing more children who arrive:
~~already dysregulated
~~anxious or overwhelmed
~~fatigued or shut down
~~unable to filter noise
~~quick to frustration or tears
~~struggling with eye contact
~~more socially unsure
~~more emotionally volatile
~~less able to focus without external stimulation
~~delayed in speech, communication, or problem-solving

This isn’t “bad behaviour.”
This is nervous system overload meeting an environment they’re not biologically built for.

Many teachers quietly say:
“Kids aren’t okay — and we’re seeing it every day.”

5. The rise in struggles matches the rise in screen saturation

From early childhood on:
~~more blue-light exposure
~~more dopamine-driven content
~~less outdoor time
~~less restorative sleep
~~more sensory input
~~and more emotional overwhelm

All of this compounds.

Even when parents try to limit screens, kids are still surrounded by:
~~school devices
~~tablets used for assignments
~~LED lighting
~~online homework portals
~~constant digital stimulation

We are now raising children in a landscape that their biology has not evolved to handle.

6. This is a nervous system issue — not a discipline issue

When a child’s nervous system stays in sympathetic activation (fight/flight), the body prioritizes survival, not learning or social connection.

A dysregulated child cannot:
~~self-soothe
~~focus
~~listen
~~integrate information
~~regulate emotions
~~connect confidently

Their behaviour is a reflection of their physiology, not their character.

7. So much affects a child’s nervous system — more than we often realize.

Screens, blue light, sleep, nutrition, stress, emotional environment, sensory load, outdoor exposure, social dynamics, and myelination all shape how a child shows up in their body each day.

The nervous system is always adapting — and it’s telling us very clearly that kids are overwhelmed.

And this is why Spinal Flow has become so meaningful in my work with children and families.
It meets the nervous system where it actually lives — not in behaviour, not in “good choices,” not in willpower — but in the parasympathetic system, the place where the body finally feels safe enough to:
~~soften
~~regulate
~~repair
~~integrate experiences
~~and rebuild the pathways that daily stress disrupts

When the nervous system shifts into safety, kids become more themselves again.
Their resilience grows.
Their sleep improves.
Their digestion calms.
Their emotional world steadies.
And the body can finally create space for healing and growth.

Our children don’t need more pressure.
They need space — and a physiology that feels safe enough to thrive in the world they’re growing up in.

If you’d like to explore Spinal Flow sessions for your child or your family, I’m here.

11/14/2025

11/12/2025

🎄 Christmas Special – Give Your Nervous System a Gift of Calm

The holidays are a time for celebration — but they can also push our bodies into constant stress mode. Between shopping, social obligations, travel, disrupted routines, and emotional ups and downs, our nervous system can become overloaded.

The result?

~~Elevated heart rate and tension — tight shoulders, neck aches, clenched jaw, and heavy-feeling muscles.
~~Shallow or irregular breathing — leaving you short of breath or unable to fully relax.
~~Weakened digestion and immunity — bloating, acid reflux, constipation, or more frequent colds.
~~Mood changes and fatigue — irritability, anxiety, brain fog, or restless sleep.
~~Headaches or migraines — from chronic muscle tension and stress.
~~Digestive discomfort or food sensitivities — your gut reacts to stress in surprising ways.
~~Emotional overwhelm — feeling “on edge” or reactive to small triggers.
~~Low energy or adrenal fatigue — craving caffeine or sugar just to get through the day.

Spinal Flow Technique works with the nervous system to guide the body back into a parasympathetic (healing) state, where rest, repair, and restoration can naturally occur. By gently working with access points along the spine, tension is released, communication between brain and body is restored, and your energy flow returns.

This holiday season, give yourself — or someone you love — the gift of a calm, balanced, and better regulated nervous system. Step into 2026 feeling grounded, renewed, and ready to thrive.

11/12/2025

🌿 Your Body Is Not Getting Worse, It’s Getting Wiser

One of the most common concerns clients have after a Spinal Flow session is:
“Why am I feeling different — or even uncomfortable — after my treatment?”

It’s a natural question — and the answer lies in understanding how your body’s innate intelligence operates.

During every session, I often remind clients:
“Your body is going to undergo changes within this 30-minute session, and I have no idea exactly how that will look for you. Your system will determine that — based on the best possible outcome for your functionality and survival.”

When you leave here, I don’t know your current stress levels, how you’re sleeping, what your diet looks like, or what emotional circumstances are unfolding. All of this contributes to what I call “the noise in the body.”

Your nervous system is constantly reading that noise — adjusting, repairing, and doing its best to restore balance. But healing is rarely linear.

🌀 Hering’s Law of Cure and “Retracing”
This process is beautifully described by Hering’s Law of Cure, which teaches that:

“When we use the drugless healing arts, all illness is reversed and we go through a period in which we pick up again our old troubles. Thus, gradually, we reverse from the chronic stage of disease toward good health by entering a healing crisis when an acute stage has been reached.”

Since imbalance takes time to develop, releasing it takes time too.
As the body begins to heal — whether through Spinal Flow, improved diet, or any natural modality — it often brings old symptoms or sensations to the surface.

A powerful illustration of this was shared with patients at the Gerson Cancer Clinic in 1982, describing what they called Retracing with diet:

“As a person continues on an improved diet and supplement program and gradually raises his or her food quality, interesting symptoms begin to appear. The body begins a process called retracing.

The cellular intelligence reasons something like this: ‘Oh, look at all these fine materials coming in. How wonderful — now we have a chance to get rid of this old garbage and build a beautiful new house. Let’s get started immediately.’

First the body begins to clean house — everywhere. This is when you are likely to have a healing reaction, sometimes called a healing crisis or cleansing reaction. During this period, the body ‘removes the ashes from the furnace preparatory to getting a better fire.’

This first stage persists for a while and then the body begins to form and replace what was discarded; this is the second stage.

The third stage is a build-up period — lean muscle mass and internal organ regeneration.

At this point, much or more of the interfering wastes have already been discarded — the tissues that have been formed since the diet was raised in quality are more durable and do not break down easily. Also, new tissues are now being formed faster. This is due to the improved assimilation of nutrients that occurs when wastes have been removed and the necessary nutrients are available.”

They went on to explain that as the body becomes more alive and functional, temporary symptoms may appear — even as health improves:

“People who have had tendencies in the past to recurring skin rashes or eruptions will frequently tend to eliminate poisons and harmful drugs through the skin with new rashes or eruptions.

The patient asks, ‘Why do I have a rash? I’m eating better now than I ever did before — and instead of getting better, I’m getting worse!’ They don’t understand that the body is retracing. The body is getting more alive and active. It is throwing out poisons more rapidly now that the body has more power.”

“With some, colds or fevers may reappear. This is nature’s way of house cleaning. Understand that these actions are constructive, even though unpleasant at the moment. Don’t try to stop these symptoms by the use of drugs.”

“Headaches may occur at the beginning; there may be a short interval of bowel sluggishness, occasional diarrhea, tiredness, irritability, or emotional sensitivity. However, the great majority of people find these reactions tolerable — and they begin to notice improvements daily. That becomes an inspirational force to them.”

🌬️ The Same Principle in Spinal Flow
What the Gerson practitioners described through changes in diet is the same principle seen through the Spinal Flow Technique.

When the nervous system reconnects and energy begins to move, your body starts to “clean house.” It releases old debris — chemical, emotional, and physical — stored from years of stress and adaptation.

Your system is intelligent beyond measure. It will always choose the most efficient path back to balance. Sometimes that looks like deep fatigue, emotional release, or the temporary return of old sensations — all signs that your body is reorganizing itself toward greater health.

So if you notice changes after a session — trust the process.
Rest. Hydrate. Nourish your body.

Because healing isn’t always comfortable… but it’s always intelligent. 🌿

11/12/2025

The Butterfly Effect — Through the Lens of Robert Sapolsky and the Wisdom of Spinal Flow

It’s extraordinary to think that a single, gentle touch on the spine — or even the smallest act of safety felt in the body — could begin to change everything. Yet biology shows us this is exactly how transformation begins: not through force, but through subtle ripples that reorganize the entire system.

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neuroscientist and primatologist, has spent decades exploring the intricate biology of human behavior — from stress physiology to the neurobiology of emotion, compassion, and trauma. One of his teachings mirrors the principle known as the butterfly effect — the idea that small, seemingly insignificant events can create vast ripples of consequence through complex systems.

In the physical world, a butterfly’s wings may disturb a few air molecules that, through a cascade of interconnected shifts, eventually influence weather patterns half a world away. In the biological world, the same principle holds true: every subtle experience, hormone fluctuation, emotional state, or sensory cue contributes to the story of who we are in each moment.

Sapolsky often emphasizes that human behavior cannot be reduced to simple cause and effect. Instead, it’s shaped by layers of influence — what hormones are surging thousands of a millisecond before an action, what nutrients or salt we’ve taken in that morning, what our blood sugar levels are doing, how much sleep we’ve had, or whether inflammation and cortisol are subtly elevated from a week of stress. The brain is constantly responding to the body’s internal landscape: insulin regulates energy supply, dopamine fuels motivation, oxytocin shapes trust and connection, and cortisol determines whether we feel safe or on alert. Even micronutrients — sodium, magnesium, B vitamins — alter the electrical stability of our neurons and the way our nervous system fires.

In Sapolsky’s view, this complexity is not chaos — it’s the exquisite orchestration of biology. Every input matters, every moment counts. From our earliest experiences of attachment and safety, to the way we eat, rest, and think today, the nervous system is perpetually interpreting signals and adjusting the body to maintain balance.

And just as small causes can create big outcomes, small acts of safety can begin to unravel deep patterns of stress.
This is where Spinal Flow beautifully echoes Sapolsky’s biology.

When a gentle contact is made on an access point along the spine, it communicates directly with the nervous system — specifically the parasympathetic branch, the part responsible for restoration, digestion, and healing. That soft signal tells the body, “You are safe.” And just like the butterfly’s wings, that one small signal ripples throughout the system: breath deepens, heart rate slows, blood flow shifts to the organs, digestion recalibrates, and the hormonal orchestra begins to retune itself. Over time, layers of stored tension begin to unwind as the body reorganizes.

What Sapolsky teaches through science, Spinal Flow brings alive through touch.
Both remind us that profound transformation rarely begins with force. It begins with the smallest of movements — the soft, consistent signals of safety that allow the nervous system to rewire itself, moment by moment.

When we honor the butterfly effect within the body, we remember that healing doesn’t always arrive in one grand event. It unfolds through gentle ripples of change — a shift in breath, a single point of contact, a softening where there was once defense — that, over time, transform the entire internal weather of our lives.

11/10/2025

🧠 How the Healing Process Unfolds
Both German New Medicine (GNM) and the Cell Danger Response (CDR) describe precise, biological stages the body moves through when safety is restored and healing begins. These stages mirror what we observe in the body during Spinal Flow sessions — the rhythmic dance between activation (sympathetic tone) and restoration (parasympathetic tone).

🌀 The GNM Healing Cycle
Once a conflict is resolved, the body moves through three biological healing phases:

PCL-A (First Repair Phase):
The nervous system shifts from “fight or flight” into “rest and repair.”
Inflammation increases, tissues rebuild, and energy often drops. You might feel emotional, sleepy, or even yawn repeatedly — all signs that your cells are busy repairing.

Crisis Phase:
Midway through healing, the body temporarily reactivates the stress response to complete repair. You may feel restlessness, heat, anxiety, or tension. This isn’t a setback — it’s the nervous system rebooting and releasing built-up charge.

PCL-B (Second Repair Phase):
The system calms, inflammation decreases, and strength returns. The body integrates what it has learned — physically, emotionally, and energetically.

⚛️ The Cell Danger Response
At the cellular level, this same rhythm is directed by your mitochondria — the tiny energy factories within every cell.

Their main job is to create ATP, the molecule that powers all life processes — breathing, thinking, moving, digesting, healing. But mitochondria are also sensors. They detect danger (like emotional conflict, infection, or toxicity) and shift from “energy production” to “protection mode.”

This begins Stage 1 of the CDR, where energy drops so the body can focus on safety.
When the threat passes, Stage 2 begins — repair and regeneration. This is when many people feel tired, emotional, or even restless again, as energy reorganizes.
Finally, in Stage 3, the mitochondria return to full energy flow, and true recovery takes place.

⏳ The Time Factor — Healing Is Not Linear
A healing phase can last seconds, minutes, hours, days, or even years, depending on the depth of the original conflict and the amount of stress still influencing the system.

When emotional, chemical or physical stress continues before the body can complete its repair, the process can get stuck in a loop — the nervous system oscillating between protection and healing. Over time, this unresolved loop can manifest as chronic pain, fatigue, inflammation, or anxiety.

This is why knowledge of the body’s intelligence is essential for sustainable health.
When we understand what the body is doing — when we recognize that yawning, restlessness, fatigue, or inflammation can be signs of repair rather than dysfunction — we stop interrupting the process and begin supporting completion.

Through Spinal Flow, and activating the parasympathetic nervous system to sense safety, communication between the brain, spine, and cells begin. This allows every system in the body to return to their natural rhythm of energy, repair, and regeneration.

Healing is never random or linear.
It’s rhythmic, intelligent, and profoundly biological and cellular.
When the body feels safe, it always knows how to heal.

11/05/2025

The Physiology of Stress and How Spinal Flow Supports the Body’s Return to Health

When the body is under constant stress — physical, emotional, or environmental — the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system becomes dominant. This is known as the stress response or sympathetic tone.

In this state, the brain perceives threat and sends signals through the spinal cord to prepare the body for action. The adrenal glands release adrenaline and cortisol, heart rate and blood pressure increase, and blood is redirected away from the digestive and reproductive organs toward the muscles.

If this state becomes chronic, the body’s internal systems begin to suffer:
❤️ Cardiovascular system: Persistent elevation of blood pressure and heart rate can strain the heart and blood vessels.
🍽️ Digestive system: Reduced blood flow impairs enzyme release and nutrient absorption, often leading to bloating, discomfort, or irregularity.
⚖️ Endocrine system: Prolonged cortisol release disrupts hormone balance, contributing to fatigue, inflammation, and immune suppression.
💪 Musculoskeletal system: The spine and surrounding musculature remain in tension, creating stiffness and limiting mobility.

How Spinal Flow Assists

Spinal Flow Technique works by accessing specific points along the spine that correspond with the body’s main neural gateways — areas where the nervous system communicates directly with the rest of the body.

Through light, precise touch, Spinal Flow helps the brain and body identify stored tension patterns and switch from sympathetic dominance into parasympathetic regulation — the body’s “rest, repair, and digest” mode.

When the parasympathetic system is activated:
🌊 Heart rate and blood pressure begin to normalize.
🌊 Blood flow returns to the organs and tissues.
🌊 The digestive and reproductive systems resume proper function.
🌊 The immune system re-engages in cellular repair and healing.
🌊 Muscular tension around the spine and fascia begins to release.

Healing occurs when the nervous system feels safe enough to restore internal balance.
Spinal Flow doesn’t force the body to change — it reminds it how to.

If your body has been living in a constant state of stress, I invite you to experience a Spinal Flow session in a calm space designed to help your nervous system unwind, reconnect, and remember what safety feels like.

11/03/2025

Emotions and the Space In Between

Neuroscientists, Robert Sapolsky and Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, state emotions like love and hate aren’t fixed, universal experiences. They’re constructed — meaning, they’re categories our brains assign to patterns of internal sensations.

What we often label as “love” or “hate” is our mind’s interpretation of physiological states — changes in heart rate, muscle tension, hormonal activity, or neurotransmitter shifts. It’s the story we tell ourselves about what’s happening inside our body.

When we begin to understand this, something powerful happens:
we realize that indifference — not coldness, but neutrality — can actually be a deeply peaceful state.

Indifference doesn’t mean you don’t care; it means your nervous system is balanced enough not to swing to extremes. You can observe sensations without immediately needing to label them, fix them, or react from them.

In that space - there’s just presence. Awareness. Regulation.

That’s where the deepest form of freedom begins — not in controlling what you feel, but in understanding what your brain and body are creating moment by moment.

11/01/2025

The other day after my treatment, I asked my practitioner, “Am I obsessed with this kind of work? Can someone receive this too much?” She smiled and said, “No, not at all — a lot of people come very regularly. We have thousands upon thousands of layers, and each one needs to be worked through.”

That really resonated with me. Each layer, each pattern within us, can be undone. The deeper they go, the more uncomfortable or confronting it can feel — and yet, that’s often where the greatest transformation begins.

As I reflect on my own journey, I understand now why I’m so passionate about this work. I’ve had at least 150 treatment sessions (probably more), and I live the power of this healing. True, lasting healing and change isn’t always easy or comfortable to be with — it asks us to face, to feel, what we’ve stored for years, maybe decades.

We are biologically designed to create patterns for our survival. But we are also biologically designed to adapt — to reorganize, to change, and to heal.

Spinal Flow works directly with this innate intelligence of the body — helping the nervous system move out of stress and into a state where healing and new patterns can emerge. Not everything that feels uncomfortable in the body is “bad.” Often, it’s energy moving, emotions releasing, or the body finding a new way to communicate within itself and its environment, both internally and externally. Sometimes the changes are immediate, other times - it is a process.

We simply haven’t been taught how to sit within ourselves and feel what’s there. But when we do, the body begins to reorganize — and life starts to flow again.

10/31/2025

American Heart Association! Excellent! This information is slowly getting into the right hands! I pray everyone eventually takes notice!
It takes one day to implement - don't wait for Western Medicine to get on board - please take health into your own hands and remember it's a biological process 🤲🙏🫵 We are CONSTANTLY adapting to our environments. We are not biologically made to live under this much artificial light.

Even the centralized MDs are getting the wake up call.
https://ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001388

Circadian biology = More sun = darkness at night = more water production by the mitochondrial matrix = more mitocondrial melatonin production = proper cortisol levels in AM = optimized BDNF levels = less chance of leptin resistance = less chance of chronic disease.

Any light at night causes leptin resistance = Blue light at night is by far the worst offender = because it makes melatonin vanish = leptin resistance = mitochondriac and melanopsin wisdom and proves the food guru fail......

LIGHT'S EFFECT > FOOD EFFECT
All food is at its core is matter created downstream from sunlight. Photosynthesis wisdom on display.
When the world is moving away from your biologic necessities becoming fearful is fruitless. That's not the point given a dire situation. It's learning how to control your fear, harness it and use it as fuel to change your conditions of existence. Fear shouldn't shut us down; it should wake us up to increase the fidelity of our awareness and focus to overcome the present challenge we face and crush it.