Build Resilience with Neurovascular Release—with Kier Schumaker - EP003
Holistic High Performance Podcast
English - November 25, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement athletes sports energymedicine fitness health hellerwork massage mindset structuralintegration wellness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Where are you stuck in your body? As athletes, we turn to body work to ease restrictions and improve our mobility. But only neurovascular release (NVR) addresses the underlying causes of our stuck-ness, helping us rehabilitate old injuries and prevent new ones. So, how does NVR work to cultivate resilience and fine tune our bodies for high performance?
With two decades of experience as a manual practitioner, Kier Schumaker is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Board Certified Structural Integrator and Certified Teacher of Anatomy Trains SI. For the past eight years, Kier has been teaching their own unique curriculum on neurovascular release, and they serve as the Director of the NVR Advanced Certification Program. Since COVID, they have adapted their approach to balancing the body to work with clients in remote sessions online.
On this episode of Holistic High Performance, Kier joins Daniel to explain how the injuries they sustained as an athlete led to their interest in body work. They describe how structural integration helped them achieve more mobility, but neurovascular release work addressed the underlying issues and facilitated more permanent change. Listen in for insight on why we get stuck in our bodies and learn how Kier’s online trainings can help you resolve those restrictions with NVR.
What You Will LearnHow the injuries Kier sustained as an athlete led to their interest in body work
The other modalities Kier tried to alleviate their pain before discovering structural integration
How Kier describes SI as landing somewhere between physical therapy and massage
How SI helped Kier release their compensations but didn’t address their underlying issues
Why the subtle touch of osteopathic techniques has such a profound effect on movement
What inspired Kier to develop their own neurovascular release protocol
What differentiates NVR from other modalities and how it facilitates more permanent change
How sprinters, golfers and pitchers can benefit from NVR techniques
How Kier shifted her practice during COVID to train practitioners on NVR in a virtual setting
How Kier is teaching people a version of the tiger stripes technique to use on themselves
The 4 reasons why we get stuck in our bodies and how NVR resolves such restrictions
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