Spinal Flow with Mashenka

06/10/2024

Goodness the last few months have been a whirlwind of activity.

I have been to Europe to go see my family, I have launched a new business which is fast becoming very big and my whole life is rejigging. I have blessed myself with a pure pleasure trip to Egypt for 2 weeks upcoming Friday!

I feel so humbled. This was not in the cards not long ago. I am on a completely different trajectory.

I feel so alive, happy and clear headed.
I am loving the conversations I am having with the people in my life. I am loving my sense of well-being and vitality.

I love life, I love MY life.

Powerfully contributing to an increased sense of community. Connecting in on what's important to each of us. Having inspired and bold conversations. Being generous and creative.

We also had a beautiful family lunch today. It was enriching and yummie.
My ex partner and his family celebrated a birthday. It was wonderful to come together. I really am a stand for families working. Even after a primary relationship alters.

So this is a photo of the sunset at Rainbow Bay.m. This is why I moved to Australia. So that I can experience this kind of beautiful on my doorstep on an ordinary Sunday evening.

That I can raise my kids in a (relatively) safe, spacious, warm and gobsmackingly beautiful country.

Life does not always make sense to it. But I am learning to trust it.

07/09/2024

SHILAJIT.

I have just received a fresh batch of Shilajit. Who is keen for some?

Are you familiar with this superfood? It provides most of the essential minerals to the body and has been used in ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years.

Shilajit is a resinous exudates pressed out from layers of rock on cliff of Himalayan Mountains at an altitude above 3000m

⛏️ Shilajit is known for its adaptogenic properties, shilajit resin helps your body adapt to stress while promoting overall vitality.
🏃‍♂️ Promotes superior brain functioning
🧠 Anti-Alzheimer properties,
🩸Blood sugar-lowering effect,
🩻 Anti-asthmatic properties,
🧷 Anti-tumour activity,
💪 Support cardiovascular health.
💩 Support gut health
🛏️ Help in seizure
❤️ Benefits the heart, kidney and liver health,
🥑 Digestive properties.
🧓Anti aging and helps to improve the appearance of your skin and hair.
🤾 Boosting the immune system
powerful anti inflammatory,
🎢 Supports Adrenals
🙇‍♂️ Helps with Mental clarity and ⚡️Improves memory, concentration, and energy levels.
🗡️It helps detox the body
🛡️ Powerful antioxidant to protect cells from damage.
🚴 Aid athletic performance and recovery.
🧽 Absorption of vital nutrients
💪 Enhanced potency and effectiveness of other nutrients
🥽 It is effective and safe

It contains:
✨ 84 types of essential minerals and trace elements, including the primary bioactive component,
✨Fulvic acid.
✨Humic and Uronic Acids.
✨Plant and microbial metabolites, along with antioxidants.
contains various oligoelements, ✨including selenium
✨Peptides and amino acids.
✨A minute quantity of lipids.
✨Phenolic Glycosides.
✨Carbon-60.

✔ Suggested internal use:
For adults 0.5g to be taken per day during the meal. Shilajit may be dissolved in warm water, milk or tea. You can add some to (raw) milk, cacao and turmeric
Or drink it daily with Chaga mushroom tea
You can make chocolate bliss balls, chocolate, smoothies, and just straight up as a hot shot or under the tongue.
✔ Our product is harvested in the Himalayan mountains in both India and Nepal.
✔ Each batch is tested for purity.
✔ Shilajit is ethically extracted following traditional Ayurvedic principles, ensuring the highest quality. It is filtered with spring water and sun dried below 40°C. Never heated or cooked on fire.

Here is a list of 18 scientist studies on Shilajit: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/HaqJBNp9E9r92524/?mibextid=K35XfP

If you’re feeling low on energy or looking for that extra boost try it out.

Pick up in Ashmore Only $65 for 30 grams.

Testimonial from Melanie Hunter
"Mashenka I have been taking your shilajit for a week now and having amazing results already for my digestive tract and energy, plus sleeping better."

27/07/2024

🌿🌿SHILAJIT RESIN 🌿🌿
My Shilajit Resin has arrived and people are loving it!

Are you familiar with this awesome Aruvedic superfood?

Shilajit is a resin from the cliffs of the Himalayan Mountains at an altitude above 3000m

It contains:
✨ 84 types of essential minerals and trace elements, including the primary bioactive component,
✨Fulvic acid.
✨Humic and Uronic Acids.
✨Plant and microbial metabolites, along with antioxidants.
contains various oligoelements, ✨including selenium
✨Peptides and amino acids.
✨A minute quantity of lipids.
✨Phenolic Glycosides.
✨Carbon-60.

⛏️ Shilajit is known for its adaptogenic properties helping your body adapt to stress while promoting vitality.

🙇‍♀️ Promotes superior brain functioning, Mental clarity and Improves memory,
🧠 Anti-Alzheimer properties,
🩸Blood sugar-lowering effect,
🩻 Anti-asthmatic properties,
🧷 Anti-tumour activity,
💪 Support cardiovascular health.
💩 Support gut health
🛏️ Help in seizure
❤️ Benefits the heart, kidney and liver health,
🥑 Digestive properties.
🧓Anti aging and helps to improve the appearance of your skin and hair.
🤾 Boosting the immune system
powerful anti inflammatory,
🎢 Supports Adrenals
🙇‍♂️ concentration, and energy levels.
🗡️It helps detox the body
🛡️ Powerful antioxidant to protect cells from damage.
🚴 Aid athletic performance and recovery.
🧽 Absorption of vital nutrients
💪 Enhanced potency and effectiveness of other nutrients
🥽 It is effective and safe

✔ Suggested internal use:
For adults 0.5g to be taken per day during the meal. Shilajit may be dissolved in warm water, milk or tea. You can add some to (raw) milk, cacao and turmeric
Or drink it daily with Chaga mushroom tea
You can make chocolate bliss balls, chocolate, smoothies, and just straight up as a hot shot or under the tongue.

✔ Our product is harvested in the Himalayan mountains in both India and Nepal.

✔ Each batch is tested for purity.

✔ Shilajit is ethically extracted following traditional Ayurvedic principles, ensuring the highest quality. It is filtered with spring water and sun dried below 40°C. Never heated or cooked on fire.

Ayurveda has this as in the top 5 of their 10,000 herb pharmacopeia!

The story goes, when india collided into Asia, it pushed up the Himalayas and the forests and plants decomposed and the result is this sticky, oily tar loaded with living ionic minerals.

If you’re feeling low on energy or looking for that extra boost, try it out.

Pick up in Ashmore or I can post
Only $65 for 30 grams.
I have limited stock at this stage so get I. Quick!

I have ordered more

16/07/2024

09/06/2024

🧡🧡Natural Health First Aid kits! 🧡🧡

I have 10 kits available for $99 instead of $135!

Just pm me to order. You can pick up or I can post!

https://www.facebook.com/share/w4BxGsKPXnWb1vfT/?mibextid=WC7FNe

01/06/2024

Huddle up, 3 months of winter starting today!

WINTER has arrived ... allegedly. The Gold Coast winter anyway, which is a very distinct beast from most other winters in the world. Here are some seasonal survival tips only a Gold Coaster would understand...

1. Yes, you can still wear thongs, but please don’t forget the pedicures. White, goosebumped feet need all the pimping and primping they can get. And uggs always qualify as going-out shoes.

2. It’s a good idea to cover-up … trade in your bikini for a one-piece before you brave the waves.

3. Make the most of our low-season tourist attractions. At last, the theme parks are all ours. Giant Drop it like it’s hot.

4. Open a credit account at the school uniform shop … you know your child is going to take off his jumper after morning tea and lose it. Every. Damn. Day. Or take the miser’s way out and let them freeze for the first few lessons. Keeps them awake, at least.

5. Invest in patio furniture … the only place colder than outside is inside our tiled, non-insulated GC homes.

6. Leggings and a denim jacket are literally your entire winter wardrobe. Just add to summer dresses. And you’ll probably just take the extra layers off by lunchtime anyway.

7. Crank the fireplace if you’re lucky enough to have one … then open all the doors and windows before you pass out from heat exhaustion.

8. While you’re at it, indulge in a giant, snugly doona … just don’t forget to leave the fan on low lest you drown in a pool of sweat.

9. Tis the season to start your fitness regimen. For at least five minutes you will be able to run without breaking into a full-body sweat. Why not go full ma*****st and enter the marathon? There’s a reason it’s in July.

10. Cuddle your coffee. Find a sunny spot in your local caff and enjoy the fact that you can savour rather than suffer through your hot drink.

11. Indulge in sheer schadenfreude. If you’re feeling the chill of sub-25C temperatures, search out selfies from your southern friends. One look at a Melbourne morning will have you celebrating our sunshine.

12. Start a savings account with all that spare spray tan and waxing money now that it’s cool to be covered up.

13. Make the most of daytime events like the races so your nights are free for the couch, Netflix and a bottle of red.

14. Feel the joy of parking in the Pacific Fair rooftop carpark and not igniting in flames upon re-entry.

15. Even though you’ve been sweating since October, make sure you complain every day about how you can’t wait for summer.

16. Keep a keen eye out for hipsters in their natural habitat. The scarfs, the tight pants, the beanies, the facial rug … this is the one season they look mildly sensible. But still ridiculous.

17. Try not to look at fashion magazines flaunting fabulous faux fur coats and luxe leather jackets. There may be a three-hour window in which they are appropriate for a GC winter, but guaranteed it will be at 3am.

18. See the sunrise. With the sun getting out of bed later, now is the time to get out of yours earlier. Plus the cooler weather makes for more spectacular colours.

19. Revel in leaving crumbs all over the counter … our tropical-loving cockroaches keep a lower profile in winter.

20. Spice up your child discipline schedule — forget the naughty corner, enrol your kids in some early morning swimming lessons.

21. Taunt the surfers. They may rule the beaches for the rest of the year, but nothing puts a surfer in his place like looking down and uttering “Reeeeeally cold out there, huh?” as they exit the water.

22. You know how the sand burns in summer? Well, only foolhardy feet brave shadowed sands in the winter … good thing you can warm your tootsies up in the water.

23. Stake your claim early at Burleigh. A hilltop location is the perfect spot to whale watch for free … and the people-watching isn’t bad either.

X###

https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/23-tips-to-surviving-winter-of-the-gold-coast/news-story/872a128d7f49067699a1f78b6af4bdf2

07/02/2024

Thought this will be of interest:

Did you know:

💊1. Adderall depletes: Vitamin B12, vitamin C, and potassium.

💊2. Prozac depletes: Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.

💊3. Paxil depletes: Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.

💊4. Zoloft depletes: Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10,
calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.

💊5. Celexa depletes: Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.

💊6. Wellbutrin/Zyban depletes: Vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, and sodium.

💊7. Remeron depletes: Vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, and sodium.

💊8. Effexor depletes: Vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, calcium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, sodium, zinc, and glutathione.

💊9. Risperdal depletes: Vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid, carnitine, inositol, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin K, and calcium.

💊10. Zyprexa depletes: Vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid, carnitine, inositol, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin K, and calcium.

💊11. Seroquel depletes: Vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid, carnitine, inositol, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin K, and calcium.

💊12. Depakote depletes: Vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, biotin, folic acid, carnitine, inositol, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin K, calcium, magnesium, and Essential Fatty Acids."

📚 From the book; Antidepressants,
Antipsychotics and Stimulants by Dr. David W. Tanton, Ph.D

Now let this sink in - approximately 50% of Australians 50% of Americans are estimated to be on prescription medications.

07/02/2024

🍊🍊WHOOPING COUGH? 🍑🍑

Concerned about WHOOPING COUGH?
It currently rampant on the Gold Coast!

But not to worry there is an easy solution! Want to get educated? Here is a detailed article by Suzanne Humpries and her vitamin c protocol.

You can use our liposomal Vit c as it's much more readily absorbed than powdered vitamin c. Plus the jar contains ascorbate. One teaspoon has 1000 mg of vitamin c!! It only cost $50 per jar

We stock both the soy based lecithin as well as sunflower lecithin liposomal vitamin c

Writes Suzanne:
"Liposomal ascorbate is the same chemical but embedded into a fatty layer that does not require the transporters in the bowel for absorption. Therefore, it gets into the body differently and probably faster, using less of the body’s energy to bring it in. It is really easy to dose infants because all you have to do is take your clean finger with a dab on it and swipe it inside the cheek. Babies don’t love the taste but they tolerate it fine. Infants as young as two weeks of age have been taking it with good effect"

Abbreviations: SA sodium ascorbate AA ascorbic acid LSA liposomal/lipospheric sodium ascorbate PSA powdered sodium ascorbate WC Whooping cough

31/12/2023

I've been a spinal flow practitioner for almost five years, and I have the distinction of being the first certified practitioner in Queensland!

Let me know if you would like to make a booking in 2024

17/12/2023

The journey of healing is not linear.
It can be one messy chaotic ride as you unravel and release trapped emotions.

Spinal flow is a non invasive gentle technique that facilitates the unravelling of trauma and stress stored in your body

20/01/2023

ARE YOU IN PAIN?

If you are in pain, it's because one of your 7 Spinal Gateways has become blocked. When a Gateway is blocked, pain, illness, and disease will result.

What you need to learn to begin healing is to identify:

WHERE is the blockage in your body? Come and have an assessment and I can demonstrate where they are.

WHY did it become blocked? There are three main causes: emotional, chemical, and physical.

Emotional could be a past trauma that is stored in your body - yes, stored there - the body goes into fight/flight mode and it stays stuck there, sometimes for years.

Chemical could be pollution, processed foods, household chemicals, alcohol, ci******es, and drugs.

Physical could be too much sitting, not enough movement, repetitive movements, childbirth - there are many.

If there's one thing you must understand before you can begin healing it is to understand your pain first.

You must make the connections between your past, and present life to understand your pain. 💕

If you are looking for support in your health journey please book in a session so we can create a health support package for you.

Pm me to book

18/11/2022

Feedback on a elderly client I had yesterday from her daughter who booked her in with me.

" Hi Mashenka , I wanted to let you know mum is feeling terrific since you treated her and has done since she left you.

She thought perhaps she might be sore today but nothing and no stiffness or pain has returned... She also said she has noted the veins in her right foot have gone down and she’s much more upright in her stance and has ditched her walking stick as does not need it. She said has never had this kind of treatment and is so pleased with the relief..."

The lady was almost 90 and the kindest soul I have met in a long time.

I am so glad to hear she feels better.

05/09/2022

A spinal blockage happens when our bodies can’t properly process or deal with stress, whether it is chemical, physical or emotional.

I can assess people using the 7 gateways of the spine and identify what and how you store your stressors.

Using The Spinal Flow Technique, we release the blockages using the 33 access points of the spine.

It is important that you can identify these blockages and stressors in order to begin your healing journey.

Symptoms of blockages can include:

👉 low energy, spaciness dizziness,
👉 memory issues brain fog
👉 headaches, migraines, sinus problems
👉 sleep disorders, snoring
👉 sore throat, thyroid issues, swollen glands
👉 breathing issues, asthma
👉 gas, burping, digestive issues
👉 lower back pain, disc problems sciatica
👉 hip, groin, knee, leg pain
👉 anxiety, depression, nervous system issues
👉 neurological disorders

15/05/2022

23/04/2022

THE SPIRAL LINE- how your muscles support your body.

The Spiral Line (SPL) loops around the body in a double helix, joining each side of the skull across the upper back to the opposite shoulder, and then around the ribs to cross in the front at the level of the navel to the same hip.

From the hip, the Spiral Line passes like a 'jump rope' along the anterolateral thigh and shin to the medial longitudinal arch, passing under the foot and running up the back and outside of the leg to the ischium and across the midline to the long dorsal sacroiliac ligament, and from there to the erectors, so that we end up on the opposite side of the skull from where we started.

This line stabilizes the body in all planes through its double enclosing loop. It connects the foot with the pelvis and is important in the regulation of the knee position when we walk.

Credit: muscleandmotion

https://youtu.be/JCjMVxNC3pI

SPIRAL LINE (SPL):The Spiral Line (SPL) loops around the body in a double helix, joining each side of the skull across the upper back to the opposite shoulde...

22/04/2022

Spinal Flow Technique is about helping a client’s bodies to let go of any stored blockages from the spine and nervous system so healing can happen.

There are 33 access points in the body. The Spinal Wave goes through the body to generate healing

Everybody has these access points and we make contact with them to enable healing to happen

The body knows how to heal itself

22/04/2022

A spinal blockage happens when our bodies can’t properly process or deal with stress, whether that’s chemical, physical or emotional.

As a Spinal Flow Technique practitioner, I assess my clients using the 7 gateways of the spine and release those blockages by introducing the Spinal Wave to flow. I use the 33 access points of the spine.

It is vital to identify the blockages and stressors in order to begin your healing journey.

My clinic is open to new clients again. Please pm to book

26/11/2021

A Hug

The average length of a hug between two people is 3 seconds. But the researchers have discovered something fantastic. When a hug lasts 20 seconds, there is a therapeutic effect on the body and mind.

The reason is that a sincere embrace produces a hormone called "oxytocin", also known as the love hormone. This substance has many benefits in our physical and mental health, helps us, among other things, to relax, to feel safe and calm our fears and anxiety.

This wonderful tranquilizer is offered free of charge every time we have a person in our arms, who cradled a child, who cherish a dog or a cat, that we are dancing with our partner, the closer we get to someone or simply hold the Shoulders of a friend.

A famous quote by psychotherapist Virginia Satir goes, “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” Whether those exact numbers have been scientifically proven remains to be seen, but there is a great deal of scientific evidence related to the importance of hugs and physical contact. Here are some reasons why we should hug::

1. STIMULATES OXYTOCIN

Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter that acts on the limbic system, the brain’s emotional centre, promoting feelings of contentment, reducing anxiety and stress, and even making mammals monogamous.

It is the hormone responsible for us all being here today. You see this little gem is released during childbirth, making our mothers forget about all of the excruciating pain they endured expelling us from their bodies and making them want to still love and spend time with us.

New research from the University of California suggests that it has a similarly civilising effect on human males, making them more affectionate and better at forming relationships and social bonding. And it dramatically increased the libido and sexual performance of test subjects. When we hug someone, oxytocin is released into our bodies by our pituitary gland, lowering both our heart rates and our cortisol levels.

Cortisol is the hormone responsible for stress, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

2. CULTIVATES PATIENCE

Connections are fostered when people take the time to appreciate and acknowledge one another. A hug is one of the easiest ways to show appreciation and acknowledgement of another person.

The world is a busy, hustle-bustle place and we’re constantly rushing to the next task. By slowing down and taking a moment to offer sincere hugs throughout the day, we’re benefiting ourselves, others, and cultivating better patience within ourselves.

3. PREVENTS DISEASE

Affection also has a direct response on the reduction of stress which prevents many diseases. The Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine says it has carried out more than 100 studies into touch and found evidence of significant effects, including faster growth in premature babies, reduced pain, decreased autoimmune disease symptoms, lowered glucose levels in children with diabetes, and improved immune systems in people with cancer.

4. STIMULATES THYMUS GLAND

Hugs strengthen the immune system. The gentle pressure on the sternum and the emotional charge this creates activates the Solar Plexus Chakra. This stimulates the thymus gland, which regulates and balances the body’s production of white blood cells, which keep you healthy and disease free.

5. COMMUNICATION WITHOUT SAYING A WORD

Almost 70 percent of communication is nonverbal. The interpretation of body language can be based on a single gesture and hugging is an excellent method of expressing yourself nonverbally to another human being or animal. Not only can they feel the love and care in your embrace, but they can actually be receptive enough to pay it forward to others based on your initiative alone.

6. SELF-ESTEEM

Hugging boosts self-esteem, especially in children. The tactile sense is all-important in infants. A baby recognizes its parents initially by touch. From the time we’re born our family’s touch shows us that we’re loved and special. The associations of self-worth and tactile sensations from our early years are still imbedded in our nervous system as adults.

The cuddles we received from our Mom and Dad while growing up remain imprinted at a cellular level, and hugs remind us at a somatic level of that. Hugs, therefore, connect us to our ability to self love.

7. STIMULATES DOPAMINE

Everything everyone does involves protecting and triggering dopamine flow. Low dopamine levels play a role in the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s as well as mood disorders such as depression.

Dopamine is responsible for giving us that feel-good feeling, and it’s also responsible for motivation! Hugs stimulate brains to release dopamine, the pleasure hormone. Dopamine sensors are the areas that many stimulating drugs such as co***ne and methamphetamine target.

The presence of a certain kinds of dopamine receptors are also associated with sensation-seeking.

8. STIMULATES SEROTONIN

Reaching out and hugging releases endorphins and serotonin into the blood vessels and the released endorphins and serotonin cause pleasure and negate pain and sadness and decrease the chances of getting heart problems, helps fight excess weight and prolongs life.

Even the cuddling of pets has a soothing effect that reduces the stress levels. Hugging for an extended time lifts one’s serotonin levels, elevating mood and creating happiness.

9. PARASYMPATHETIC BALANCE

Hugs balance out the nervous system. The skin contains a network of tiny, egg-shaped pressure centres called Pacinian corpuscles that can sense touch and which are in contact with the brain through the vagus nerve.

The galvanic skin response of someone receiving and giving a hug shows a change in skin conductance. The effect in moisture and electricity in the skin suggests a more balanced state in the nervous system – parasympathetic.
Embrace, embrace with your heart.~~

art: Dorina Costras