Veronica's Therapeutic Bodywork

07/25/2025

Would you like the chance to try a mini-session to see what Ortho-bionomy is all about before committing to a full session? Come to the Elma Farmer's Market on Fridays from 3pm until 7pm. I'm offering 20 minute sessions for $20, a special market price!

11/14/2024

When I was a kid, the boys at school used to stomp on the Bumble Bees as they were feeding from the clover flowers. It used to make me so angry. I would yell at them and push them off. Then I would scoop up the Bumble Bee to protect it. I would give it safety while I watched it writhing in it's deformed little body. Legs would be mangled, and wings bent in weird directions. I would watch them as they went through the process of fixing themselves. They would attend to each leg and wing, wiggling, and giggling. Slowly over many minutes they would straighten themselves out. Eventually, when they were finished, they would fly away.

As I have been studying Bodywork I can see how humans can be like that too. If we can focus inward, and move into comfort, we can realign our own bodies, using our pain and tensions to guide us, letting gravity do the work of adding compression or traction; if we just take the time to do it...

10/17/2024

Hello folks.
I've found a fantastic podcast hosted by an Ortho-bionomy Practitioner from Australia named Rob Rich. They talk about the body's ability to self correct among many other things. Please check it out (if you have Spotify, I haven't found it elsewhere yet) and let me know what you think.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3WEU0h0m8WZ7yWDpyb9iEG

08/02/2024

I'll be at the Elma Farmer's Market today from 330 to 7pm, offering mini Ortho-bionomy sessions on the massage chair.
Come by for a community visit and see what else you might find.

07/02/2024

I'm planning to be at the Elma Market this Friday. I will be set up in the pool hall incase anyone would like a session.

(Picture for cuteness effect ;))

04/18/2024

I want to share some exciting news!

Thanks to a generous birthday gift from my parents and a discounted price on the course, I have decided to level up my herbalist skills to become a Master Herbalist with the Midwest School of Herbal studies.

I have been studying plants and healing for over 20 years on my own and I am more sure than ever that it is an important part of the healing path for me!

There will be exams, and I need to write a thesis. I am planning to take three years to complete the course.

Near the end of the program I will need to take on 80 clients in two years, if I want to go for a membership with the American Herbalist Guild, which I am pretty sure I do. These sessions will be free for those that choose and get selected to partake.

My ultimate goal is to be able to offer holistic healing for body, mind, and soul!

I have already been offering herbal suggestions to clients if they are interested. Feel free to reach out anytime if you would like to talk about your own health and healing, working with our plant allys. I am already confident enough and able to offer this service.

(Picture taken from the Midwest School of Herbal Studies for affect.)

04/18/2024

ENTER TO WIN A THERAPEUTIC BODYWORK SESSION!! POTENTIALLY MULTIPLE PRIZES TO BE WON!

I will offer one free session for every 30 participants.

You must be 13 or over to enter but, if you are younger than 18 you will need a parent to give permission (sign a waiver) before the session.

What does the Spicy Radish have to do with Therapeutic Bodywork?

Shannon is graciously sharing her space with me. We have created a cozy little space in the back.
I am offering sessions there on Mondays while the restaurant is closed.

How to enter?

Like this post and Comment below (on this business page post), sharing which area of your body is experiencing discomfort (example: shoulder, neck, low back, pelvis, foot, etc.) If you don't have pain but want to experiece the relaxation that Therapeutic Bodywork can bring please let me know that in the comments too! The winners will be picked randomly by an app that picks a random comment. Only one entry per person.

It would also mean a lot to me if you would like my page and share this post, though it is not necessary to win. If you do share this post, please direct your friends to comment on this original business page post.

As a bonus, I would like to offer a 4 for 3 discount; meaning you pay for three sessions upfront and get the fourth session for free! Sessions are $80. DM me to learn more.

I believe Ortho-bionomy has the potential to help you help yourself, by showing you the nuance between "good pain" and true comfort (which is the position that releases tensions and stuck traumas). Having multiple sessions will allow you to get to know your body better and learn to listen to what it is telling you, so that you may be able to release your own tensions in the future.

The contest will be open for one week, with the draws happening next Friday, April 26th, 2024.

This contest is not associated with or endorsed by Facebook.

04/18/2024

My healing journey part 4.

About a month ago, when Daniel was working on my neck, it felt really good for him to add a fairly strong twist to the left and push up towards my head. It brought me back to the time I thought I was going to die during a freak accident while snowboarding.

I was going up the T-Bar when I lost control and fell, but I stupidly hung on, thinking I could get back up, but then I ended up loosing my grip and as I started sliding over the edge of a drop off, into some tress and bushes, the T-Bar got my head stuck to a tree, compressing my head into that tree. I find it hard to explain, but I was stuck, my body being pulled in two directions. As my snowboard and body was sliding and being pulled by gravity over a drop off edge my head was stuck against this tree with my neck at an extreme angle. I remember the feeling of my head being compressed so hard I thought it was going to explode!

Luckily the T-Bar slid off my head, scraping my face. I blacked out and fell over the edge.
When I came to I was upside down, board up, deep in the snow, covered in snow. I don't get claustrophobic but I remember feeling panicked as I realized I was upside down, strapped to my snowboard, mostly buried in snow. I worked hard to get myself upright and took a while to release the scary feeling.

Even though I have witnessed people remembering past injuries during a session, it is still so awe-some to me. We really do hold the memories, energies, and tensions in our bodies, and incorporate them, if we do not actively release them.

(Not my picture but a beautiful image sharing some of the patterns of life, from a sacred geometry page.)

01/22/2024

I am booking sessions in Beausejour at Health Quest.

Sessions are 1 hour on the massage table with time before and after for consult and self-care techniques.

Sessions are $80.

Please text, call, email or message me here to book.

204-232-3786
veronicafurney@gmail.com

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12/14/2023

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The History of Strain-Counterstain

Ortho-Bionomy is based on the Osteopathic Technique of “Strain and Counterstrain.” In 1954, Lawrence Hugh Jones, DO, FAAO (1912–1996), made an observation that led to the development of his Strain and Counterstrain Technique. A graduate of the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons in California in 1936, Dr. Jones was running a successful practice in Oregon when he attempted to treat a patient who had been suffering with back pain for two-and-a- half-months.

After six weeks of treatment, the patient had not improved. The patient was unable to sleep for more than 15 minutes at a time. Dr. Jones spent one visit only attempting to find a comfortable position for the patient. He passively put the patient in a variety of positions until he "achieved a position of surprising amount of comfort, the only benefit he had received in four month's treatment." Afterwards, Jones began to experiment with this discovery.

He initially called this approach to pain “Spontaneous Release by Positioning.” His paper that describes his new approach was published in The DO, January 1964, and made a large impression on the Osteopathic community. Later, he began to call his work "Strain and Counterstrain." This form of therapy is now known generically as "Positional Release."

​In most cases, the position created is the original position of injury or an abnormal bony relationship. As in Ortho-Bionomy, the basic premise behind this technique is that shortening a muscle in spasm "turns off" that muscle and allows it to "reset" itself to a more normal state. The theory behind this method is based on resetting a malfunctioning proprioceptor, specifically the spindle cell.

Learn more about Ortho-Bionomy at: discover-ortho-bionomy.com

03/02/2023

Here are the different ways you can access my services.

I work out of the Spicy Radish in Whitemouth on Mondays.

I work out of Health Quest in Beausejour on Tuesdays.

Session slots are:
930am to 1100am
1100am to 1230pm
100pm to 230pm
230pm to 400pm
Sessions cost $80. (Includes an hour on the table plus time for intake, self care instructions, and time for me to record session notes.)

In Home Sessions

Did you know that if more than one person is booked at a location (back to back) then simply add another $60 for each additional session. That makes for a big savings for each client!

Session Pricing Per Location:

Seven Sisters Falls $80
Whitemouth $90
Pinawa $100
Lac Du Bonnet $100
Lee River $120
Elma $100
Beausejour $110
Hadashville $120
Anola $135
Pine Falls $140
Winnipeg $150

11/09/2022

I haven't trained with horses but I still love reading about the work that we do.

I was told that this mare had a sore back and possible lesions on both superficial digital flexors of the hind legs.

In my experience problems and lameness in the legs, are often caused by structural misalignments in the body and this was no exception. A misaligned hyoid bone, a tense jaw and poll, a locked up rib cage and diaphragm, a twisted sacrum and blocked sacroiliac joints. No wonder the poor back and legs, often the weakest part of the body, were sore!

A nervous horse and wary of strangers she initially was not keen on letting me approach her sore back end. But we quickly struck up a relationship and her body language indicated that she wanted me to work around her head and neck. Her hyoid bone was severely misaligned which was causing tension in her lower jaw, in the poll, as well as in the omohyoid muscle which connects this little bone with the shoulder blade. Following the treatment of these, she visibly relaxed, yawning and chewing.

Continuing her treatment the thorax (rib cage) was blocked as was her diaphragm, but this responded well to the impulse given and she took a few deep breaths, relaxing more and more. Her kidneys and adrenals, organs which respond sensitively to physical as well as emotional stress, were tense and felt locked up but again responded well, a deep warmth emanating from under my hand. Both these organs have sensitive reflex points around the middle to lower back.....

I could, now work with her back and her pelvis which was, as expected, misaligned; the fascial connections between the hyoid bone, the lower jaw and the pelvis contributing to this. She thoroughly enjoyed the gentle yet effective work with the sacrum and the treatment of the sacroiliac joints, which on lifting the tail to the vertical position showed that these joints were now free. A gentle release of the fascia down each hind leg finished off the treatment and she moved to the stable door, indicating clearly that she was finished.

A lovely, yet sensitive mare who quickly accepted and enjoyed this gentle bodywork, relaxing into the process and working together with me to help heal herself.