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Ruth is proud to have studied with the Barral Institute, Herman and Wallace Institute, APTA, Summit Education group, The Akashic Alliance, Tami Lynn Kent for Holistic Pelvic Care™,and the Birth Healing Institute. She has been a presenter at the South East Wise Women’s Herbal Conference, Midsouth Women’s Herbal Conference, AB tech, Asheville School of Massage and Yoga and for Asheville birth workers.
“I am a bridge between grounded science and grounded intuition. Intuition is a field of information we are all in all the time and the more we visit the more familiar it becomes.”
Many intuitive practitioners are limited in their diagnosis process by only seeing energetic patterns or soul-level blockages. I will offer this during intuitive sessions as well as a full physical therapy evaluation to discover which muscles, bones, tissues, organs and nerves are responding to this energetic displacement. Your body will guide the treatments depending on prioritizing each postural issue and we will incorporate the totality of causes both physical and meta-physical.With this combination approach, expect a permanent and complete resolution of symptoms- soul-level release, forgiveness and integration will allow the body total freedom to function optimally. Combined with exercise, self-care, nervous system reprogramming, and body awareness, these energetic clearings can stay cleared and new patterns can be formed. These multi-dimensional sessions offer the opportunity for complete and permanent resolution of symptoms
Physical therapy based self-massage, exercise, stretches and functional exercises tailored to your needs and your specific ability to perform your exercises can transform your body. What you do on a daily basis is the most influential message your body can receive and it is from YOU. We will incorporate positive affirmations and new body paradigms into your personalized program for the most powerful message you have ever given your body for healing. Clients who approach their self-care routine with enthusiasm experience empowered ability to relieve pain, feel stronger and more in control of their physical functioning. Retraining your daily habits can be a challenge but with clear direction can be a 21-day commitment that easily lasts forever.
I read the physical body’s patterns of fascial and energetic holding by placing hands gently on attachments points and ‘listening’ to the fascial tissues. The body guides my hands to the most important location that is asking for release- the ‘Big Boss’ who is pulling the other structures out of alignment. With intentional listening as taught in osteophathic physical medicine I am able to assess and treat efficiently often offering relief in 1 to 2 sessions. I work hard not to follow physical therapy recipes or cookie cutter protocols but instead I let your body guides what is our most important next step.
Reading and playing in the Akashic records (your souls record of its learning process) can truly open the deepest layers of change your physical body is ready for at any given moment. Asking the question ‘is this pain physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual’ can often open the floodgates of information your soul is wanting your body to have! You may come to an Akashic integration session with questions and open the doors to understanding the deepest ‘meaning’ of your pelvic pain or dysfunction. A healing at this level will inevitably stick with you, probably change your life, and you’ll likely start making up song and dance to illustrate your new found freedom! In all seriousness there is often crying and release as women find a connection to their deeper soul wisdom being taught to them by their bodies.
Combining yoga, therapeutic exercise, spinal stability, and any favorite martial art in a treatment program will help open the muscles and movement patterns to a new level of optimal function. Patients often know what their goals are and will also have an idea of how long they are willing to spend working on goals. I will work with each patient to design a complicated or simple personalized workout designed to CHALLENGE your body in just the right way. If you want to function in a new way then we have to get you to move in a new way too! The more focused and committed you are to the program the more results you can expect!
Ruth Elliot earned a master’s degree in Physical Therapy from Western Carolina University and a Bachelor of Arts with double major in Biology and Music in South Carolina. She then attended massage therapy school and is currently a licensed massage and body worker holding an advanced certification in neuromuscular massage therapy. Ruth completed her graduate research thesis studying urinary incontinence in collegiate female athletes and has been mentored by specialists in Women’s Health PT and osteopathic manual therapy.
In addition to advanced coursework in women’s health physical therapy (WHPT), she was certified in Holistic PelvicCare™ and Advanced Energy Techniques by Tami Lynn Kent in Portland Oregon. Ruth utilizes a holistic approach to WHPT improving the mind-body connection of her clients which helps manage pain, heal from pelvic trauma, improve physical alignment, and support emotional well-being. The specific osteopathic techniques she utilizes include visceral and neural manipulation to treat clients with chronic or acute abdominal, pelvic, and back pain.
She is a Pregnancy and Postpartum PT specialist and is passionate about educating and empowering women from a holistic perspective. Outside of the clinic Ruth enjoys singing opera and folk music, canning, backyard camping in her vintage 1990s tour bus, and hiking in the mountains of her native home. Ruth and her wife Brenda own AHPT and intend it to be a supportive therapeutic environment for skilled practitioners and resilient patients for many years to come.
Ruth is a pregnancy and postpartum specialist offering Holistic Pelvic Care™ with special emphasis on women who have experienced trauma. She also specializes in postpartum body mechanics and manual therapy techniques including positional release, myofascial release, osteopathic visceral manipulation and abdominal massage.
She is gifted to read the energetic patterns of the human body and largely incorporates this into a pelvic session using HPC™. She is also trained to addressing Soul-Level contributions to physical pain through reading the Akashic Records. With the combination of pelvic energy pattern and soul-level reading, many clients have found answers to challenging, chronic conditions that were anchored in a core belief or life-pattern.
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For more information please email Ruth directly at ruth@ashevilleholisticpt.com
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