Pain Relief and TVM
Physical Pain Relief. Mental & Emotional Balance. Somatic Trauma Therapy.
What makes my techniques for pain relief unique?
Working with fascia can relieve physical pain profoundly because fascia, the connective tissue network surrounding muscles, nerves, and organs, plays a crucial role in movement, stability, and body alignment. When fascia becomes tight or restricted due to injury, poor posture, or trauma, it can create tension throughout the body, leading to pain and dysfunction. By addressing these fascial restrictions, techniques like those influenced by Tom Myers' Anatomy Trains can release tension, restore balance, and improve movement. This holistic approach recognizes the interconnectedness of the body, allowing pain relief to be felt in areas distant from the original restriction, offering deep and lasting healing.
This understanding aligns with how fascia serves as both a support structure and a communication network within the body, making its release key to freeing both physical and emotional stress.
What is TVM?
The Triple Vagal Method (TVM) is a potent somatic trauma transformation therapy that facilitates the release and healing of trauma while building vagal tone. By skillfully manipulating the nervous system, tissues, organs, and fascia, TVM targets specific areas of the body where stress and trauma are stored. Through the gentle progression of the nervous system cascade from sympathetic and dorsal states to a regulated ventral state, stress surfaces and is then released. Each TVM session becomes a transformative journey where clients lay down, relax, and embrace their emotions, allowing for the profound building of vagal tone, enhanced nervous system function, and lasting transformation.
Some practitioners follow a “formula” and just go through the motions and techniques they were taught. I have found this limiting to the client’s healing process.
Instead, I approach your body with intention, listening will my senses and energetic awareness. Allowing your body to achieve a state of ease and relaxation is a given—but more interesting to me is offering the personalized care and conditions to address your body’s most immediate needs.
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Here are 3 important facets of my approach to massage therapy.
Fascia
To find the root cause of pain, we often need to look beyond the site of physical pain. Why? Because the entire body—bones, muscles, and organs—are interconnected by a spiderweb-like network of connective tissue known as fascia.
Fascia literally covers everything in the body—every nerve, blood vessel, organ, bone and tendon. Not only does fascia physically hold the body together, it provides the structure for fluid movement—and the movement of fluid is essential to EVERY single biological function that the body performs.
This means that caring for your fascia could help you avoid or deal with nearly any health issue. Here are some of the main issues clients come to me with:
Injuries
Inflammation
Back Pain
Joint Pain - hips, knees, ankles
Digestive Issues
Emotions
Stress and Anxiety
Low Energy or Fatigue
Luckily, fascia is highly adaptive. Taking care of the body through movement, rest, hydration, and diet go a long way—and receiving personalized, hands-on support from a bodywork professional can be a real turning point in your recovery.
Abdominal Work
Many Eastern medicine traditions believe that all disease and illness tends to have its origin in the abdominal region of the body. In the West, we’re seeing a slow adoption of this knowing—and it’s revolutionizing the way we see and care for our organs!
Abdominal massage is an important component of Hawaiian LomiLomi Massage Therapy, from which my work draws great influence from. Abdominal massage not only assists with digestion and elimination, it can offer relief from nearly any symptom of dis-ease since the organs are involved in nearly every function the body performs.
Finding Emotional and Mental Ease
Emotionally, the abdomen plays a significant role in healing. Just like the heart is known to hold positive emotions of love and happiness, so too does the heart hold emotions of disconnection and sadness. That’s right—organs store emotions, and there’s always a positive and negative pole that seeks to be balanced. Emotions are not expressed in the mind—thoughts are. And this is what causes much of our mental unrest.
By incorporating Abdominal Work with more traditional massage therapy, as well as energy therapy, I’m able to tune into more subtle aspects of healing. I can sense and resolve emotional connections to physical ailments in ways that still feel miraculous to me.
360-Degree Spherical Approach
I see the body in 3 dimensions
Restoring Physical and Energetic Wellbeing
By using my hands more spherically 360-degrees around the body, I’m able to better sense the source of dis-ease and any emotional or psychological tethering, which assists in restores the physical and energetic wellbeing.
My Healing Philosophy is based on 4 Insights.
Jake Goldas
TVM Practitioner
“I offer a rehabilitative approach to massage therapy combined with an energetic awareness of the body so your treatments can be subtle, yet produce powerful results.”