Specialized Kinesiology Magazine - Microbiomes issue

Summer 2017, Issue 04

Specialized Kinesiology Magazine

Specialized Kinesiology Magazine

‘Little Things’ with Ian Stubbings

Do your Muscles Need Tuning? New Kinesiology course!

Befriend Your Friendly Bacteria

It’s the 42nd Annual Touch For Health Conference!

Making your own Kombucha and fermented Foods

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Ian Stubbings on somatids, microbiomes and the history of germ theory

page 7 Andrew Verity On why candida gets a bad rep and what might be at the root

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Editor/Publisher/Writer and flawed dictator: Alexis Costello

Contributors:

Andrew Verity Denise Cambiotti Elizabeth Hughes Heather Phillips Raina Lutz Robert Frost Sylvia Marina

Cover image by Aidan and Alexis Costello

Opinions expressed by contributors and advertisers are their own.

Contents: p. 4 Letter from the Editor p.5 Your turn: letters, questions and social media p. 7 Feature Interview: Ian Stubbings – It’s the Little Things p. 13 Simply Put p. 15 Making Friends with your Friendly Bacteria p. 18 Modality Profile: Muscle Tuning p.22 Candida Albicans: A Myth?

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p. 27 Marketing Maven: TFH Conference in Kansas City p.29 Muscle Profile: Levator Scapula p.31 Nutrition Corner:World Changing Experience of Kombucha p. 39 Classifieds p. 40 Health Should Be Fun!

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Right: my kombucha yeast sourdough starter

Since moving to Costa Rica a little over a year ago, we have been living in a tiny village on the edge of the rainforest in the middle of nowhere. But even here, at what we jokingly call The End of The World, people have some pretty serious opinions about probiotics. There is a group that gathers here monthly for Fermentation Fests where people meet, learn about fermenting various food and drink and sample each other’s wares.

Through these gatherings I have tasted herbal beers and fruit wines, learned how to make kimchi and traditional sauerkraut and shared my kombucha. Public opinion has come full circle on these delicacies in the past few generations – from being the typical way of eating to being declared unsanitary and unsafe, to being a hippie-­‐ fringe-­‐thing, to being validated by science and accepted back into culture.

Gut microbiomes and probiotics have become heavily researched and studied in the past decade, but these are not the only tiny worlds we need to be aware of. For instance, at the same meetings I mentioned above we cultivated a particular blend of natural bacteria from the rainforest for a spray prized by gardeners. By using the beneficial bacteria found locally, you can deter insects, encourage new growth, get rid of mold and help your compost break down faster.

This issue’s feature interview is with Ian Stubbings, creator of SIPS Kinesiology. Because SIPS is the world I live in when I’m working, I get really excited when Ian writes a new course. Two years ago, he told me about Somatids, and the research that eventually became SIPS Bio. You can read the full story here to find out more about these strange ‘little things’ and what they mean to our health.

It’s a small, small world. Thanks for reading!

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Your Turn – IASK Conference 2017, Bergamo, Italy Robert Frost: “This was my first IASK conference since 1993 -­‐ and like then near Lake Como, Italy. The narrow streets and narrow Italian cars wove their winding way through this ancient city of Bergamo. I arrived early and visited the old city on the hill with Anne Jensen on the morning before the conference. Her doctorate thesis upon the validity of muscle testing at Oxford University in England gives us all peer-­‐reviewed verification of the veracity of our muscle testing. Bravo! The conference was informative and delightful. At the start, Alexis Costello warmed up to with cross crawls, zip ups and switching point rubbing. Old friends and new, we learned so much from the many presenters. The presentations were sequential so we had the chance to hear and see each one. I had the delight of hearing the latest from my old friends and colleagues Andrew Verity, Maurizio PIva, Francisca Simon, Alfred Schatz and Charles Krebs. Alfred Schatz was honored for his long devotion to kinesiology. The slide show of him with almost all the greats of our occupation through his years in kinesiology was heartwarming and wonderful. The Italian food was delicious. The friendships warmed and the connections made will be cherished by all.”

Rachel Lead: I had such a 'Great time' at this IASK/A.K.S.I. Conference in Bergamo Italy. Meeting up with 'K friends' old and new. The sharing of 'kinesiology information' at the IASK meetings and conference along with my 'K buddy' Marcia Fletcher from the UK. I really enjoyed presenting my Best Idea of 30 Self -­‐Help tips to help celebrate the IASK 30th Anniversary, as I am so passionate about the 'spreading the word' of kinesiology, and I love working with groups of the general public, as well as students.

We were made very welcome by our host country, and I along with my husband Keith had a very enjoyable time at the conference dinner, with much singing and dancing.

The speakers gave us delegates more information to share and use, and I personally liked Maurizio Piva's presentation on the C-­‐section, as his teaching of the 'balance' fits into my practice.

Bergamo was beautiful...especially the Old City...The rain kept our umbrellas up and was constant at times, but the sun came out too...

My thanks to all the organizers...and I am looking forward to 2018 and seeing familiar faces again in the UK.

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Your Turn – IASK Conference 2017, Bergamo, Italy

Sylvia Marina: “Hosted by AKSI, the IASK conference presented a variety of speakers.

I attended to learn of new research, hear from experienced voices of kinesiology, re-­‐acquaint with professional colleagues, begin new friendships -­‐ I embraced all.

Thank you IASK, thank you ASKI and special thank-­‐YOU to Marco Rado who led the team of translators -­‐ you were all fantastic.”

Photo right: Alfred Schatz and Sylvia Marina – contributed by Sylvia Photo below: Charles Krebs, Marianne Henne, and Adam Lehman – contributed by Marianne Photo Below: Phillip Rafferty, Andrew Verity, Robert Frost, and Marco Rado – contributed by Phillip

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Ian Stubbings

Photo from IAK in Germany

It’s the little things.

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as yeasts, fungi and viruses

Ian Stubbings is the creator of Stress Indicator Point System (SIPS) form of Specialized Kinesiology. One of these courses is called SIPS Bio, dealing with strange biological phenomena in the body that could change the way you think about the basic building blocks of life.

The medical research at the moment has been particularly focused on the gut fungi or bacteria, and discovering all sorts of amazing things. But the microbiomes as a family are found on and in our skin, in our mouths and digestive system, but also our reproductive organs and other places in our body.

YouTube link to the complete interviewA: Most people think of Microbiomes as pertaining to intestinal flora; what led you to take this up-­‐close look at blood tissue?

I: Firstly, if we sort of look at the subject of microbiomes themselves, they are much more than just the gut flora. The microbiomes include bacteria in all parts of our body as well Specialized Kinesiology Magazine, www.gemskinesiology.com

I came to this subject of microbiomes because of a discussion I was having with my sister-­‐in-­‐law Margot, where she said ‘I just want you to look up this one word and see where it leads you,’ and the word was ‘somatid’.

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Tiny Worlds -­‐ Microbiomes And that caused me to discover the great work of a French gentleman Gaston Naessens and discover the amazing story of these tiny little crystalline things that he observed in our blood and described as dancing little particles. They were the size of a virus or even less; like nanocrystals that were dancing and darting around in our blood.

His story was quite fascinating. Unfortunately there’s not much literature around on this subject but I managed to find some interesting information. He was a biologist and engineer, born in 1924, and did his studies through the war period. Through a normal conventional microscope he gleaned some tiny particles that everybody else thought was waste matter. He thought maybe there was more to them than just waste, but he couldn’t see these particles properly to understand anything more about them. That led him to go to Germany and learn about optics and he built a fantastic microscope called a somatiscope; these days called a dark field microscope. With this he could observe these tiny particles at some 30,000X magnification with great clarity whilst the blood was still alive. To view blood under a normal microscope it needs to be stained which kills blood cells and anything in the fluid. His microscope was revolutionary in the ability to study living organisms clearly. He found that these particles are basically in all the fluids of our body; blood plasma, interstitial fluid, inside our cells; and he observed, when spending hours observing these through his microscope, that they changed form. And that was a great discovery! We are stuck with the dogma of monomorphism or the idea that things can’t change form, but he observed that these things changed form before his very eyes and they changed into particular stages of a life cycle. Once you get your mind into this subject it changes your view of the basis of life. And then you start wondering, well, where do they come from? What are they here for? And what are they doing?

Issue 04, Summer 2017 Gaston Naessens observed that these particles had three healthy stages where the crystal turned into a membraned spore, then double spores and so on, but after these three healthy stages, if the environment of our body and fluids changed for the worse, they (somatids) would change into forms that look like bacteria, then yeast, mold and fungi, actually completing the cycle by releasing more somatids into the body. This made me want to understand more about our gut bacteria. Once I realized we have bugs in our body, I thought: well let’s look at as many as we can find! Try to understand them, see if we can work with them and see if we can balance them.

A: Is there a symbiotic relationship then between somatids and our cells? How does that work?

Most people nowadays have an awareness of microbiomes. It has been discovered that the bacteria in our gut are absolutely essential for our lives. They are a part of the whole lifecycle. From a digestive point of view, they are needed for helping breakdown food stuffs; they release all sorts of digestive enzymes to breakdown the food products – if they weren’t there we wouldn’t be able to absorb the nutrients from these and we would be nutrient deficient.

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Tiny Worlds -­‐ Microbiomes Some of the bacteria produce protein factors that stimulate our immune system to produce regulatory T-­‐cells; stopping our immune system from becoming over or underactive. These signal to our immune system that it’s OK for these symbiotic bugs to exist in our intestines and help us with all these digestive processes. As a result, the microbiomes of our gut are responsible for something like 60% of the effectiveness of our immune system. Clearly they are vital to our life processes and therefore are clearly symbiotic. But what is symbiotic and beneficial at one stage can be inflammatory and pathogenic when it’s out of balance.

When we look at somatids, they also have a clearly symbiotic relationship with our body and our cells. The healthy 3 stages of their life cycle are absolutely essential for our life processes.

Issue 04, Summer 2017 For example, Naessens discovered that these tiny crystals that turn into spores release growth factors that are responsible for cell division.

Without cell-­‐division, there is no ‘us’. But when the environment becomes polluted and acidic and toxic, and oxidized, then clearly these somatids adapt and respond to their environment and change form into (what look like) bacteria, yeast spores and fungal forms. These are very pathogenic stages and are present relative to all degenerative diseases. Our goal is to try and remain in that balanced, symbiotic stage. It has been said we would not exist without the somatid. (continued) Below: stock photo of bacteria viewed under a microscope.

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Tiny Worlds -­‐ Microbiomes Anton Beauchamp was a gentleman long ago who was actually studying the process of fermentation and he discovered they (somatids) were actually little fermenters and they helped break things down. Because of this, they acted a bit like enzymes and he called them ‘microzymers’. He said they were the living agents of all organization and they were also the agents of disease and death, and ultimately, he said that these somatids are the basic unit of life. They exist, they reproduce, they have a lifecycle and they are present at the beginning of life and will break us down after we die. They are an absolute part of nature and they’re part of us.

A: So when they’re out of balance they start creating problems for the host (us), but it’s our being out of balance that’s creating that form, it’s a cycle.

I: Certainly. So what Andre Beauchamp found is that the somatids would change form to clean up the environment. So if we allow the fluids in our body, our internal ocean, to become more like a swamp, then we are responsible for providing an environment for these little organisms to change form to look to clean the swamp up. And this could be the whole body or only parts.

A: How could this understanding that blood is dynamic rather than sterile change medicine?

Issue 04, Summer 2017 I: One of the most profound things that hit me when I began to look into this is that a handful of scientists have been aware of these for over 150 years! Anton Beauchamp was really the first one through a brilliant series of experiments to deduce the different stages of these microzymers and that they did change form. And therefore the theory that was put forward by Louis Pasteur that once a cell is put forth in our body it will never change form – monomorphism – was clearly not correct.

And Gaston Naessens when he came along with his microscope, observed these stages and videoed these stages and others observed the same thing. Clearly the dogma and the paradigms that we have in medicine and biology are wrong.

Germ theory says that we ‘catch’ all out germs. We become infected by bacteria from outside. And I’m not saying that doesn’t happen. But what they totally missed is that we can generate our own forms of microbes within our body, and we do this more so than the ones we actually catch. It’s the ones that come out of our ‘swampy’ conditions that are totally responsible for our degenerative diseases. This defining moment in the course of medicine 150 years ago was missed because unfortunately medicine followed one man and his friends, and that was Louis Pasteur. He plagiarized Anton Beauchamp’s discoveries like crazy, but he never understood the meaning behind these discoveries. I’m sorry to offend anyone in science and medicine, but there is testament to this plagiarizing. (continued)

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Tiny Worlds -­‐ Microbiomes If Beauchamp was more outgoing and not so humble, perhaps we would have an entirely different system of health, where instead of looking for specific drugs to kill cancer or infection, we might be looking for medicines for the body to boost its’ immune system and do what it’s meant to do naturally, keeping the ocean of our body clean.

What Gaston Naessens and his wife realized is that these tiny particles are crystalline, so they react with energy. They can receive energy, they can have a piezo-­‐electric effect, like the crystal in your watch, they can vibrate, they can store energy and they can give off energy. This is electro-­‐magnetic energy. So to have an understanding of how these work, scientists need to have an understanding of physics / electrical engineering, and not be dedicated solely to biology. They are a particle of energy that changes form and becomes a membrane-­‐bound organism of biological matter.

But you don’t find many bio-­‐physicists in medicine! There needs to be another breakthrough or turn in research, bringing these together. We understand this better as kinesiologists because we work with these qualities of energy and know what impact it has on physical biological function. Hopefully researching microbiomes in the gut will get them thinking about the fact that we do have communication systems between what we may think of as foreign microbes and their own cells, but ultimately you have to look at the bacteria in our gut and wonder if it’s something that we formed ourselves as a part of nature. Until there are more people open enough to look at the existence of these things, then and only then would there be a little funding dedicated to the research of this. Because if there’s not funding then the research will be held back, which would be to the detriment of the human race.

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I: Microbiomes in the gut will actually act as antibiotics and will clean up the bad bacteria and they are 1-­‐200 times more powerful than any antibiotics we can actually take! Researching somatids totally reinforced the fundamentals about good living habits. Basically, good air, good food, good water, good exercise and not too much stress; these kinds of things. If we maintain these things and try to practice a healthy lifestyle, that will help the body not become to acid or too oxidized, toxic or polluted. Essentially it will help keep somatids in their symbiotic stages or cycles. I had to wonder if they are a true part of us or are they more like parasites? Because they are found everywhere in nature, in plants and in the soil; but it appears that when they are a part of us they become specific to us and Naessens even stated quite dramatically that he believed they are precursors to our DNA. In other words, they have some ability to have a regulatory role relative to our DNA and communicate with it in a particular manner. To decide or have an influence on which genes are active or inactive. Beauchamp said that we have families of them in our vascular systems or interstitial fluid, but he also believed that there are somidtids specific to our liver, kidneys, etc. that have their own specific frequency signature relative to these specialized parts of our body.

They do not only transduce and transmit energy, they must also transduce and transmit information. Where that comes from, don’t ask me! But it’s obvious this process happens and as precursors to DNA they must contain some organization for our body and its’ life cycle.

So if they are part of our body, can we communicate with them? Can we use a muscle test to get feedback and talk to them; to see how they’re doing or if they’re in balanced stages or pathogenic ones. And yes we can. And we can balance them and also, through feedback determine what factors are causing stress, creating acidity, etc. And if we can balance them and get the systems eliminating better and cleansing, then yes, we can have an influence on getting them back into the healthy state, just by

A: You’ve mentioned the ocean of the body becoming a swamp a few times; other than just general detoxifying, what can we do to balance this system so we can keep the ‘little bodies’ happy and healthy so they stay in the more beneficial forms?

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can encourage the person to acquire more healthy habits as part of self-­‐responsibility, that would be even more wonderful! Working in the whole-­‐body sense is always the most effective, helping the person boost their own immune system. Keeping the immune system in balance so it can do what it’s meant to do day in and day out. And that’s really the key or the secret to it.

Ultimately you have to look at the bacteria in our gut and wonder if it’s something that we formed ourselves as a part of nature.

A: If people wanted to do a little more research on this subject, (you mentioned there isn’t a lot of literature on Naessens or Beauchamp because a lot of it wasn’t published at the time), where should they look?

I: There’s a very good website called euroamericanhealth that covers this subject very well, put together by Dr. Dennis Myers, who has a hospital physician for 30 years and then become frustrated with the system and the results and began looking into these little crystals. The champion of this in America now is Dr. Robert Young (the Alkaline Guy). Another is called biomedx, which also give a lovely insight into this subject. And if you go to YouTube and look up pleomorphism or Gaston Naessens there are a few videos there. I would love people to get into this; it changes your whole view of biology!

Check out the interview on YouTube with all of Ian’s information on the interesting subject. www.sipskinesiology.com For information on SIPS classes, including SIPS Bio, which is the course that dives deeper into the subject Ian is speaking about here.

Photos: Left – Ian with Denise Cambiotti and Greg Webb, Right – a simple demo turns into a long conversation when Ian gets me on the table! Contributed by Sharon Cowan-­‐Lunn

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Simply Put

By Sylvia Marina The human microbiome is an ecosystem of trillions of microbes — some dangerous and some beneficial — living within the body.

For the most part, they quietly help us digest our food, absorb nutrients, and fight off dangerous pathogens.

There is sufficient evidence within Energy Psychology to show that chronic depression is an inflammatory disorder.

Our self worth thoughts and choices, contribute to the wellness of our gut.

“Good” bacteria in the gut helps digest food, releasing the energy and nutrients we need, and crowd out “bad” bacteria that can trigger disease.

When microbes, such as the bacterium C. Difficile are allowed to multiply they wreak havoc on the digestive system causing organ failure.

So how do you know if something is ‘not right’ in the gut? You can do a stool analysis to find out what’s living in your bowels; however, simply assessing your current health condition can often be more telling, and may be sufficient to give you the answers you are looking for.

• Cravings

In our ancestral, environment calorie-­‐dense foods high in sugar and/or fat were either non-­‐existent or rare. In the past 70 years sugar has flooded our pantry and influenced our past two to three generations of people. If your habit is to a diet high in refined sugars, inflammatory microrganisms have the opportunity to flourish in the gut. These gut bugs may then produce compounds that affect your brain in such a way that you crave more of the foods that these critters depend on for their survival and reproduction. Cravings for processed foods high in refined sugar and/or fat are a typical sign of gut imbalance!

Food Intolerance

Symptoms of food intolerance indicate a gut microbiome that is poorly matched with the diet they’re eating. If you don’t possess a microbiome that is adapted to break down the fermentable compounds you’re eating, it is difficult to experience optimum health.

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Sudden Urges

Burps, gas, halitosis, loose stools and constipation are just part of what’s associated with irritable bowel syndrome.

Emotions play a role n this behaviour

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However a proportion of clients with irritable bowel syndrome –IBS -­‐ have an abnormal gut micro biota that lacks biodiversity and resilience. A dysfunctional gut micro biota isn’t the only cause of IBS, but it’s definitely an important one.

• Depression

Emerging evidence shows that our microbiome may be the key to answering the question, where does the low-­‐grade inflammation that accompanies depression stem from? The bacteria in our gut also affect our brain function and mental health, and recent studies suggest that microbes may play a crucial role in inducing anxiety and depression.

In the coming decade we will see a whole range of new microbiome modulators and probiotics on the market that are specifically designed for the treatment of mental health disorders such as chronic depression, ADHD, and autism.

Lets move this skyrocketing human imbalance into extinction.

SIMPLY PUT.... seek help sooner rather than live with symptoms thinking they will ‘just go away’ and if an unresolved emotion or behaviour pattern is emotionally ‘eating away at you’, consider what else in your body may be out of balance.

May healthy microbes, love and passion thrive within you forever.

Our work connects you to your wisdom and aligns you with your purpose.

SYLVIA MARINA ND. www.sylviamarina.com

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Becoming Friends with Your Friendly Bacteria

By Elizabeth Hughes

You already know that the trillions of microorganisms living in your gut help your immune system and breakdown of food. In fact nearly all ailments are now being linked to this inner microbe system. More recently the focus of science has been how these organisms affect our mood; it is now understood that these clever little fellows are making neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, tryptophan and GABA, which help prevent symptoms of anxiety and depression.

There are countless studies which I won’t go into here – it is still early days and long-­‐term human studies are needed to see if the results will correlate to the observations in animal studies – but we are starting to realize that our gut bacteria play a huge role in our physical and mental health.

So if our gut bacteria can affect our emotions, could our emotions affect our gut bacteria?

In past times we lived in a symbiotic relationship with bacteria, when death and decay were accepted as a normal part of life. Modern medicine stepped in with good old ‘germ theory’, and people began to believe that doctors had the power to save them from death. By killing bacteria (or any foreign invader) we could stay healthier and live longer. Germ-­‐a-­‐phobia launched a billion dollar industry of bleaches, antibiotics and antibacterial hand washes.

Once we could purify, deodorize, sanitize and sterilize ourselves, we had somehow won the war against not only bacteria but death itself. On an emotional level are we scrubbing our guilt away, our humanness, our fear of death?

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As the large intestine is the biggest site of gut flora and this organ also vibrates at the same frequency as guilt and self worth, there is the energetic implication that feeling guilty, ashamed and powerless could imbalance the large intestine energy and affect the gut flora. And what if the guilt and the shame are being created from the belief that bacteria, death and decay are bad and that we are powerless in their inevitability? By shifting perspective to birth and death being a cycle of energy we can begin to embrace our humanness.

Another consideration is that hosting unfriendly bacteria may also indicate your emotional life is out of balance – you are being too good a host!

Are you doing too much for others, allowing them to live with you or working too closely with them?

Do you allow other people to make decisions for you? Do you find it hard to ask for help, believing you should be able to do it all yourself?

Have you created a healthy, happy team of people around you – an energetic support system, or are you surrounded by sick, toxic people?

So what are we going to do to become friends with our gut bacteria again?

Taking a holistic approach we need to be aware of diet, emotions, energy supports and lifestyle changes.

DIETARY CHANGES: Probiotic supplements help restore the natural bacteria in the body. Because there are so many strains of probiotics it is important to find the right combination. People claim they have tried probiotics and it made no difference, but maybe they have tried the wrong strain. Kinesiology can be used to muscle test for the right supplement at any given time.

Fermented foods can act as prebiotics to give good bacteria the ideal environment in which to thrive.

EMOTIONAL CHANGES: Flower essences and affirmations can be used to clear emotional blockages creating dysbiosis.

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English Bach Essence – Pine – for guilt and feeling unworthy.

Australian Bush Essence – Green essence – for emotional distress from intestinal and skin disorders; to harmonise the vibration of yeast, mould and bacteria to your own vibration.

Affirmations:

1. I invite only people I like into my sacred space 2. I am doing my best and it is good enough 3. I am safe and protected at all times.

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ENERGY CHANGES: Meridian Tracing: Tracing the Large Intestine meridian can send energy to this organ to promote healthy gut. This meridian flows from the first (index) finger up the back of the hand and the outside of the arm, across the shoulder and along the cheek to the side of the nose. Trace this meridian three times within a 2cm of the skin.

Chakra Balancing: The base chakra supports large intestine function and it can be helped by the frequency of the colour red. Simply wearing red or looking red objects around you can help. Also do something messy such as gardening or painting that lets your inner child play.

LIFESTYLE CHANGES:

Issue 04, Summer 2017 The hygiene hypothesis shows us that our sanitation processes and lack of exposure to microbes can account for the rise in allergies and inflammatory conditions (including obesity) now seen in modern day life. It is time to look to natural methods to heal our guts and Kinesiology offers some amazing tools to do this.

Elizabeth Hughes is the founder of Your Body Has The Answer Pty Ltd and was Head of Progressive Kinesiology in the United Kingdom. She holds a B.A. Honours degree in Psychology and Education, along with numerous qualifications including nutrition, kinesiology, reflexology and aromatic medicine. She is the author of three books, ‘Your Body Has The Answer’, ‘Your Child’s Body Has The Answer’, and ‘Functional Body Typing’.

As well as running a busy private health centre, she teaches the Nationally recognized Diploma of Kinesiology and Nutrition courses on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Keep pets, spending more time outdoors, avoid unnecessary antibiotics and antibacterial washes, avoid pesticides, kiss more, walk barefoot and even play a team sport –as these activities have been shown to help boost friendly bacteria levels.

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Muscle Tuning: How and Why

By Denise Cambiotti and Heather Phillips

Denise Cambiotti and Heather Phillips started a company called Muscle Tuners International Inc.(MTII) in April 2017 to train and license Muscle Tuners™. Their goal is to provide a system of muscle balancing including the use of new techniques that will be the “key ingredient for fitness and wellness Professionals to include in their programs”. The mission is to support Specialized Kinesiology (SK) Professionals, Fitness and Physical Therapy Professionals to be successful while helping their clients to reach their physical fitness and wellness goals. These Professionals will benefit from learning SK because it shortens the time it takes to get fit or recover from injury.

People want to recover from injury before their insurance money runs out and get back to work to earn a living. They want to regain their freedom of movement and return to a more active lifestyle.

Muscle Tuners International Inc. is honoured that Alexis Costello, the Founder the Specialized Kinesiology Magazine has asked about the new company and its Muscle Tuners™ Foundation Program.

Denise and Heather were asked: Why did you put it together?

Make Marketing Easier.

It is common knowledge that many professionals in the world of Specialized Kinesiology (SK) have trouble marketing themselves. How would you like to announce yourself as a Muscle Tuner™? Would that help you explain what you do easily and attract more clients? What if you could describe what you do and who you are without the words “specialized kinesiology” or without making potential clients look like a deer caught in the headlights? You are not alone and we want to change that. When we introduce ourselves, people are saying: “I have muscles that could use a tune-­‐up! When can I see you?” (continued)

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Teach Fitness and Physical Therapy Professionals a format that is different from their existing health and wellness protocols.

Touch for Health is a wonderful system and teaches us about the meridians, muscles, neuro-­‐ lymphatics, neuro-­‐vascular holding points, and much more. We give and receive an energy balance and we notice changes in the body with a subjective 0-­‐10 start and end analysis. In other SK systems such as G.E.M.S. (Goal Element Mode Stack) we let the body tell us where the stressors are and then do one or two clearing techniques to unblock all the stressors at once making it more efficient. Muscle Tuner™ Programs focus on muscles to ensure they are all in balance. This means they are neither under or over-­‐energized; or in a state of fight-­‐flight-­‐freeze. Recent information indicates that when a muscle or person is in a state of fight, flight or freeze the body-­‐brain communication gets disrupted. We call these “muscle stress states” and it is important to establish whether a muscle is in one of these stress states. The muscle that is not working could be in pain or create pain in another part of the body because of an over-­‐compensation. Muscle stress states are not addressed in Touch for Health. Muscle Tuners™ have the skills to identify these states and put muscles back into balance quickly.

Issue 04, Summer 2017 Teach skills to Muscle Tuners™ to help their clients reach fitness faster.

Once a muscle is balanced it will be “switched-­‐on” and will perform better. The order and manner in which we balance the muscles and remove stress states is important and allows Muscle Tuners™ to be more effective and efficient. It does not have to be difficult to achieve better physical fitness and wellness. When muscles are switched on physical fitness & wellness gets easy!

Create a successful business model that supports both the company and a network of financially successful Muscle Tuners™.

Muscle Tuners International Inc. is a corporation in its infancy and we are delighted to have trademarked the term “Muscle Tuners™”. Since Muscle Tuner™ is a trade mark, we are granting Licenses to use it for a nominal fee. Our mission is to create a new career category by training, maintaining and Licensing Muscle Tuners™. They will deliver empowering SK tools that provide a positive experience for their clients and themselves. Licensed Muscle Tuners™ will have the skills to achieve noticeable results in a single session. Being part of the Muscle Tuners™ network will allow you to have access to business support, branded marketing materials and kinesiology tools to call yourself a Licensed Muscle Tuner™.

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Issue 04, Summer 2017 This will enhance learning because the theory, techniques and previews of the process will be heard and seen first. When students come to the in-­‐person training they will learn the art and science of doing a muscle test and practise all 52 of them in a supervised environment with a competent Instructor. The Muscle Tuners™ Foundations Program takes the best of Touch for Health basics and marries it with new branding and new techniques to make it more relevant for the younger generation.

We want Muscle Tuners™ to be proficient and competent in the Muscle Tuners™ Foundation Program protocol and taking the in-­‐person training along with the on-­‐line program is crucial for beginners.

Help Licensed Muscle Tuners™ become financially stable with the profound work of helping others.

We intend to focus our marketing efforts on the fitness industry. When all the muscles are balanced we immediately send the athlete to perform their chosen activity. We send the runner to the track, and the skater to the rink. We send the fitness enthusiast for a walk, a run or to the gym for a workout. In addition, it is Heather’s experience that people need an incentive to continue participating in an active and healthy lifestyle. Muscle Tuner™ clients will be motivated because they will be seeing and experiencing results faster than before.

When people get results they usually come back for more and refer their friends.

Create a community of like-­‐minded people who use muscle tuning to improve quality of life, health and wellbeing.

Muscle Tuners International Inc. is committed to spreading the word about muscle testing and muscle tuning™ and making them household words. Our website will have educational material for the public which will support the business of our Muscle Tuners™. The plan is for the public will be able to find a Licensed Muscle Tuner™ through the MTII website. It will allow them to create a picture profile with contact information so they can be found easily.

In conclusion Denise and Heather have the capacity and experience to build a company that creates programs and a network of Muscle Tuners™ who promote the message that balancing muscles helps to improve physical fitness and wellbeing.

Get Specialized Kinesiology concepts into the hands of the next generation The next generation is upon us and it is time to pass along a SK system that they can learn easily and relate to. The Muscle Tuners™ Foundation Program has blended online components before in-­‐ person workshops.

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Muscle Tuners™ help empower people to tune-­‐ up their muscles to create a strong body-­‐brain connection. Why not extend and expand the Muscle Tuner™ brand to places where people go to get fit, to perform and to get better faster from an injury. A lot of people relate to their physical bodies first. We will teach them about the importance of connecting their bodies and brains before physical activity to improve performance with full movement while improving recovery time from activity and reducing injury.

Denise Cambiotti President of MTII Licensed Muscle Tuner™ denise@muscletuners.fit 1-­‐604-­‐936-­‐5463 (Pacific Coast Time) Heather Phillips, HBPE Vice President of MTII Licensed Muscle Tuner™ heather@MuscleTuners.fit

Muscle Tuners™ Foundation program was designed to ensure that the new career path for Licensed Muscle Tuners™ will include the expansion and knowledge of muscle testing easily and effortlessly. It was created to capture the attention of fitness trainers, coaches and athletes and to enable them to access the power of SK. We invite our Touch for Health colleagues to join us by taking a Bridge Course that will integrate the information you learned in Touch for Health level 1-­‐4 with the new skills needed to become a Licensed Muscle Tuner™. We want every-­‐body to experience a Muscle Tune-­‐up to: Be Strong. Be Confident.

Be Tuned.

1-­‐519-­‐577-­‐9209 (Eastern Time)

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Candida Albicans – A Myth?

By Andrew Verity

In my 40+ years’ experience in Kinesiology and Alternative Health arenas, I have seen many fads come and go. One of these has been the Candida scourge. During my training as a naturopath I decided to do my thesis on Hypoglycemia (another causal fad for all symptoms) but found as with Candidiasis (inflammation from excessive candida) that the causes are much deeper than the symptoms they create.

Why would we bother treating a symptom when the real causes are much deeper and often not related to what we “think” they should be? If we fall into the old argument that the elimination of a symptom is proof of a successful treatment we are kidding ourselves and doing our clients a disservice.

If candida was such a terrible monster, why is it found in the gut of every person on the planet?

Why is it there? And what goes wrong for it to be blamed for everything short of the national debt?

Because it is an easy target and because changing candida related habits changes symptoms, we assume it must be candida that is the cause.

As a result an over emphasis has arisen about the significance of Candida as a causative problem for so many issues. I have a short list here of symptoms supposedly attributed to Candida as the cause?

I looked further into other ‘fads’ and found relationships between all of them and candida. So either candida was a massive cause of so many disturbances that it was the meaning of everything wrong in life, or it was purely an incidental effect from other influences, which turned out to be the case.

Thick white/yellow fur in the middle of the tongue which looks worse in the mornings; Constipation/diarrhoea; Flatulence or burping; Anal itching (this could also be parasite or worm infestation); Bloating after eating; Mucus in stools; Thrush which flares up after intercourse; Athlete’s foot &/or tinea of the groin; Burning and redness of the eyelids; Muscle pains and soreness especially in the hamstrings, low back and neck; joint pains; Postnasal drip A need to frequently urinate often with a burning sensation;

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In studying the Hypoglycaemia phenomena, I came across its relationship to sugar abuse and investigated it to a lesser extent at that time. I did notice common mistakes people were making in assessing these conditions and especially how they related to each other.

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Fluid retention (if a number of other symptoms are also present); Sensitivity to chemicals (perfumes & cosmetics), food, smoke fumes, and suffering from many allergies; Being told by your doctor, “Its all in your head”; Constant bouts of fatigue, drowsiness, mood swings, anger, irritability, defensiveness; Frequent headaches and migraines; Brain fog, poor concentration, poor memory, frustration; A craving for sweet things or simple carbohydrate foods & constantly feeling hungry; A dry blotchy red face.

Inflammation of the nail cuticles Haemorrhoids, heartburn, bad breath, sinus problems with a loss of smell and taste, weight loss or gain without changing diet, lack of coordination, suicidal thoughts, depression, PMS, loss of sexual desire, impotence, endometriosis, menstrual irregularities, prostatitis and pain above the area of the appendix (ileocecal valve is open).

The only real candida issues here are the thrush.

This is where the fungus/yeast is growing on membranes that it does not belong in really. All the other symptoms can be attributed to other causes.

So what to do about finding the right cause? Many Kinesiologists and Alternative treatments are treating the symptoms and not the underlying causes.

Issue 04, Summer 2017 good bacteria when we eat or drink something that would kill them off.

Unfortunately in our modern (lack of) wisdom we over prescribe antibiotics that kill off the bacteria anyway. Two things happen as a consequence to this treatment. Firstly the dividing bacteria will die off, good and bad, but not the non-­‐dividing bacteria. So we are left with less bacteria and the bad bacteria will learn to adapt to the antibiotics faster than the remaining good bacteria.

Theoretically the good bacteria are in their natural environment and therefore should not need ‘protecting’ against antibiotics.

The bad bacteria learn how to adapt to the antibiotics and hide under the biofilm made from the candida yeast but learn how to create its own biofilm using the example of the candida.

Now we have two forms or sources of biofilm that are thicker and more resistant to breaking down.

This gives a perfect home for the bad bacteria to grow under the cover of the biofilm. They still produce chemicals to tell the yeast to make more biofilm. The yeast thinks there is a higher demand and to be able to meet that demand it multiplies itself to unusual amounts.

So what was originally a normal, although short term, protective mechanism became a problematic device in the biology of the gut resulting in higher toxicity.

Photo: yeast as seen in our friend, bread.

Why candida gets to wear a lot of this is for the following reasons.Some things to note about candida is its function in the gut and what happens when things go wrong.

Understanding Candida Firstly it has a protective function in the gut. All the bacteria in the gut is supposed to be good bacteria. So the candida wants to protect them and does this by creating a biofilm that covers the

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The candida then is found to be at increased levels than normal. Which in itself is not a problem but the yeast has a die off time where it decomposes into primarily acetaldehyde and formaldehyde.

Two chemicals normally found in lesser amounts and are dealt with easily in the body chemistry.

Now with greater amounts being released there is a destabilizing of the chemistry of the gut even further than before and chemical events taking place around the body that are not normal and damaging to normal function.

Secondly the relationship of the good bacteria to the candida is one of symbiosis. They help and regulate each other under normal circumstances.

What are those normal circumstances?

The good bacteria and the candida are in a proper balance with each other, which creates equilibrium within the microbiome.

There are no xenotoxins being put into the gut to disturb the equilibrium.

There are no deliberate attempts to kill off bacteria with antibiotics etc.

Foods taken into the digestion are all supportive of strengthening natural flora.

There are no other chemicals interfering with the function of the gut.

Other related conditions: A period of unrelenting stress (work/family/location) Pregnancy (possibly because copper accumulation increases during pregnancy) Immune deficiencies Diabetes, hyperglycemia, adrenal exhaustion Living in a humid climate coupled with one or more of the other factors Poor digestion and diet deficiencies High copper tissue levels Yes there are a lot to think about but this is still at symptomatic stages.

Issue 04, Summer 2017 Let’s think about what the candida has to do to go into making the biofilm. It has to be monitoring the bacteria balance in the gut and how all the bacteria areas relate to each other. So actually it’s a relationship monitor.

And it’s no different at the macroscopic range either. This gives us a clue as to why Candida is associated with so many other imbalances. It’s a relationship monitor.

Gut Environment The reason now the candida has an overactive mood is because of the environment it lives in.

The structure of the gut is controlled by two main factors,

1. The total combination of the Bacteria and other micro-­‐organisms and 2. The neurological network that controls the guts function and relationships to other organs.

The bacteria that inhabits the gut is over 1014 different strains. Their influence ranges from biochemical to genetic recoding. The amount of genetic information held within the gut is hundreds of times our own genetic library.

In a perfect world the mixture of bacteria, candida and other microbes would be in absolute equilibrium. There would be plenty of proper nutrients and even the occasional herb or two to promote the natural fermentation processes. We would not need to supplement with probiotics because we would have all the bacteria we need.

But it’s not a perfect world.

We have then a backup plan to help regulate the function of the gut based on the neurology of the gut. There are three main types of neurology that are used to create the gut environment.

1. The Central Nervous System 2. The Enteric (Mesenteric) Nervous System 3. The Autonomic Nervous System The interaction of their function and the genetic

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influence we exert on them create inherited weaknesses that make literal pockets in the gut.

These pockets become a cesspool of toxins and biological wastes that continually poison the gut.

Killing off good bacteria and disrupting the candida’s natural protective ability.

In our later years we have created bacteria, which learns how to adapt to the constant use of antibiotics and become resistant to their action.

This addition along with the plethora of chemicals we put into our foods has made a highly toxic and poisonous micro-­‐environments called dysbiosis.

Issue 04, Summer 2017 The only time candida is a causative factor here is because of its overgrowth I trying to overcome too many conflicting influences in the gut. I hope this has helped to put Candida into a better light for your understanding that it in itself is almost never a cause but rather a compensation or over attempt to balance other imbalances.

Here is a Quote from the article referring to the now somewhat more accepted stand regarding the human microbiome:

The physical positions of these symbiotic pockets are the causal centres of physiological symptoms and dysfunction within our body. A range of selectively weaker or stronger genetically created areas that are the basis of all underlying disease patterns.

“The emerging links between our gut microbiome

These are deeper causes than the candida’s attempts to balance relationships in the gut bacteria.

disorders, but also their treatment.

With Kinesiology based techniques we can challenge the gut bacteria, the dysbiosis, toxicity and the neurological weaknesses in the environment of the gut directly.

element within the brain-­‐gut axis.

The key to being able to balance Candida or the gut bacteria or other parasitic infestations is to be able to challenge these things in the right way to bring them past the compensation levels of adaption.

microbiota axis.…..

The simultaneous use of Homeopathic or Enoptic forms of gut bacteria, dysbiosis, candida, acetaldehyde or formaldehyde with neurological balancing techniques are the best and most constant forms of organizing the gut functions.

Secondary or related influences like genetic anomalies, effects of vaccinations and other toxicities, underlying disease patterns and constitutional weaknesses will need to be challenged for their relationship to candida or any other issues being balanced.

and the central nervous system (CNS) are regarded as a paradigm shift in neuroscience with possible implications for not only understanding the pathophysiology of stress-­‐related psychiatric Thus the gut microbiome and its influence on host barrier and other internal function is a critical The gut microbiota can modulate brain development, function and behaviour by immune, endocrine and neural pathways of the brain-­‐gut-­‐ Deficits in intestinal permeability may underpin the chronic low-­‐grade inflammation observed in disorders such as depression and the gut microbiome plays a critical role in regulating intestinal permeability. In this review we will discuss the possible role played by the gut microbiota in maintaining intestinal barrier function and the CNS consequences when it becomes disrupted. We will draw on both clinical and preclinical evidence to support this concept as well as the key features of the gut microbiota which are necessary for normal intestinal barrier function.”

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REVIEW ARTICLE DIRECT LINK Front. Cell. Neurosci., 14 October 2015 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2015.00392 Citation: Kelly JR, Kennedy PJ, Cryan JF, Dinan TG, Clarke G and Hyland NP (2015) Breaking down the barriers: the gut microbiome, intestinal permeability and stress-­‐related psychiatric disorders. Front. Cell. Neurosci. 9:392. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00392

Published: 14 October 2015.

Copyright © 2015 Kelly, Kennedy, Cryan, Dinan, Clarke and Hyland. This is an open-­‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

For a full version of the Protocol, it can be found in the IASK Conference manual Italy 2017.

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Marketing Maven:

Touch For Health nd 42 Conference in Kansas City!

With Amy Hannu, By Alexis Costello

Photo credit: www.visitKC.com

I wouldn’t normally agree to share a room for a conference with someone I had never met, but my plans had changed last minute and my friends were willing to vouch for her. When she met me at the airport, I knew I had made the right choice.

When she offered me trail mix with chocolate, I knew we would be friends.

Amy Hannu is the current President of the Touch For Health Kinesiology Association in the USA. With the 42nd annual TFHKA conference coming up quickly, (that’s 42 consecutive conferences, which is impressive!) we had a quick chat online about some of the reasons why this is an event you would want to be a part of.

Most of this centered around the line-­‐up of presenters and the pre and post conference workshops that have been scheduled. “The line up of presenters this year… we say this every year, that this is a conference you don’t want to miss!”

Amy laughs. “But it truly is one of those conferences. There is something for everyone, and that really excites me because I remember being that Level One Touch For Health student, hearing about the conference, but not quite understanding what all these people were going to be talking about. Whereas this year, we have something for the level one student and for someone who has been doing this for 20 years or more!” (continued)

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The complete schedule along with bios for presenters and a brief description of each class is available on the website: www.touchforhealth.us

One of the ways the conference committee has marketed this event is through weekly emails to members over the past couple months, each one highlighting a different presenter and workshop.

Even though I knew I was going to attend, it was nice to see reminders of who would be speaking and to get excited for their talks and the chance to see them each again. Personally, I am looking forward to an opportunity to take a workshop with Wayne Topping pre-­‐conference and the only thing keeping me from attending Anne Jensen’s class post conference is the fact that I’ll be teaching at the same time!

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Click here to view the entire interview (less than 20 minutes) on YouTube!

If you have never had a chance to attend a Touch for Health conference before, it is an experience worth having. You will get hugged. A lot. You will get balanced. You will learn interesting new ideas for moving our field ever further ahead and making your sessions more effective, and be reminded of fundamental easy fixes that you may have forgotten about. One of my favourite things about a conference however is actually similar to the reason why I decided to begin publishing this magazine; sometimes it’s nice to talk to people who just get it. Because, let’s face it, what we do is pretty weird. It’s just my inner kinesiogeek talking, but I really love seeing a group of people muscle testing the buffet at breakfast.

I know it is very last-­‐minute, but there is still the opportunity to show up, even if it’s only for one day or for one of the workshops. If you can’t join us in Kansas City this year, there will be recordings available through the TFHKA office afterwards.

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Muscle Profile:

Levator Scapula

By Robert Frost As its Latin name states, the Levator Scapula muscle elevates the scapula. It originates on the transverse processes of the first four cervical vertebrae. Levator Scapula inserts into the vertebral border -­‐ the top inner edge of the scapula.

The action of Levator Scapula is to raise the inner edge of the scapula. This rotates the scapula causing the outer border (where the shoulder joint attaches) to descend. If Levator Scapula doesn’t do its job, the acromion raises, pinching the Supraspinatus tendon. When Levator Scapula works together with the Upper Trapezius, the scapula is pulled in toward the spine and elevated.

Levator Scapula is closely related in location and function with the Rhomboids. Like the Rhomboids, Levator Scapula attaches to the inner edge of the scapula and pulls it inwards toward the vertebrae and elevates it. The difference is that whereas the Rhomboids attach to the thoracic vertebrae, Levator Scapula ascends and attaches to the upper four cervical vertebrae.

When palpating the activity of Levator Scapula, observe that the inner edge of the scapula rises. If the outer edge rises during the test, Levator Scapula is testing weak. In this case, the action is being accomplished by the upper Trapezius. For this reason, it is necessary to observe the motion of the scapula during the test.

Levator Scapula is associated with the Lung meridian and the parathyroid glands. Thus it is an ideal indicator muscle for testing the function of the parathyroid glands.

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Levator Scapula is associated with the Lung meridian and the parathyroid glands. Thus it is an ideal indicator muscle for testing the function of the parathyroid glands.

Reflex points for Levator Scapula The anterior neurolymphatic points for Levator Scapula are in the first rib intercostal space near the sternum. The posterior neurolymphatic points are in the belly of the Teres minor muscle where it attaches to the middle outer edge of the shoulder blade. The neurovascular point for Levator Scapula is the bregma -­‐ the anterior fontanel -­‐ the soft spot on a baby’s skull.

Testing Levator Scapula

Levator Scapula can be tested sitting or standing.

Sitting is preferable for better stabilization. The elbow is fully flexed. The spine is also fully flexed by having the subject lean as far to the side as possible, reaching with the elbow down towards the pelvis. This leaning position puts the Rhomboids at a disadvantage, making it easier to isolate the action of Levator Scapula. Next, the subject tightens Levator Scapula, lifting and scapula and pulling it in towards the spine.

Issue 04, Summer 2017 The examiner stabilizes the shoulder to prevent the subject from tilting laterally during the test.

The examiner grasps the medial side of the elbow and pulls the elbow away from the side (abduction). The examiner carefully observes the scapula before and during the test. When Levator Scapula tests weak, the scapula’s lateral edge rises due to the action of the upper Trapezius muscle.

When Levator Scapula is imbalanced (tests weak), there are often problems with the cervical vertebrae. There will be reduced rotation of the head on the side opposite the Levator Scapula weakness. When the head rotates more to one side, suspect Levator Scapula involvement. To correct this situation, first strengthen Levator Scapula on the weak-­‐testing side. This alone will often return full rotation to the head. If not, evaluate the other side for muscle stretch response and perform any needed corrections (fascial release or chill and stretch). This will correct the shortened and tight side of Levator Scapula and free the rotation of the neck. If there are still remaining problems, Goodheart recommends a chiropractic adjustment which he calls a general “cervical break” with the adjusting hand placed upon the side opposite the Levator Scapula weakness.

Learn more about Robert’s research and work with gemstones by visiting his website: http://learnappliedkinesiology.com/

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The World Changing Experience of Kombucha

by Raina Lutz, RHN

There is a growing food movement. Have you noticed the food shelves changing? The inclusion of “local” and “organic” food or “raw” on labels, an entire section dedicated to yogurt.

Not so many decades ago these foods were nearly impossible to find, let alone heavily promoted. And “Kombucha?” Isn’t that the weird mushroom thing Aunt Agnes (with her tiny John Lennon sunglasses) was brewing in her basement and drinking in 1971?

We are engrossed in the oldest form of flattery: imitation.

We're wearing tie-­‐dye and hemp fabrics, going plant-­‐based, studying alternative health and zen, brewing weird things in our kitchen, putting on essential oils, voicing our opinions by voting with our fork. As more foodies become open and aware of our power within our choices, collective consciousness opens and stretches like a dawn awakening on a Sunday morning.

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As we grow together in this current time and space on earth, we are busier and with the turn around during the industrial farming, we became enthralled with more, bigger and faster foods like processed foods (their convenience forcing us to turn a blind eye to traditional foods like vegetables, fruits and whole grains.) Simple, real foods are a hassle, expensive, and too time consuming. But that’s changing.

Kombucha is a gateway drug into the world of holistic nutrition.

Back to Nature: In the 1960's technology was king, and some people really rejected that idea. We are still working on going back to nature. We are still working to get back there.

healing for our guts, more so than it were from a factory a thousand miles away.

We have to “go backwards” to go forwards, go back to basics. By realizing that our bodies need the time, energy and depth put into food that our ancestors devoted, we recognize a gap that needs to be filled, that our current system and conveniences aren’t providing the necessary health that should go hand-­‐in-­‐hand with food.

As for growing, sprouting, brewing, cooking our own food? It’s a lost art. We are a generation of information-­‐gatherers, no longer are we hunter-­‐ gatherers. When we purchase small-­‐scale local fermented foods or begin brewing our own, we are joining a tribe along with our ancestors before us who grew and created that same real food for their families. We join a tribe of other like-­‐minded folks around us that also care on that level. That connection binds us and strengthens our ideals.

We are moving to that higher ground together. In the process we are turning back to loving our environment and the earth that provides for us.

When we pay more attention to it, it takes care of us too, through the healthy food we receive from it.

When we eat raw fermented foods from our locale, we take in more of the yeasts and other microbes from our own environment into our body – as local honey can be healing for our allergies to local pollens, so can local fermented foods be

Having fermented or sprouted foods in your kitchen is art. It’s a statement and an expression.

An expression of the desire to birth something different into the world, and bringing change if only just to our own table.

Think Globally, Act Locally: As we learn about the health connection between our gut bacteria and our wellness, we want to start introducing more different healthy strains of bacteria into our bodies. They improve the functioning of our overloaded systems, so that we can break food down better and receive more nutrition from the food we are eating.

We don’t need to spend big dough on fancy equipment or study it for years: we simply need to pick up a book, find a culture and find others locally who can encourage us to start our living kitchen project. It all starts with us.

Kombucha: Kombucha is a gateway drug into the world of holistic nutrition. With its tart and sweet tasting balance, its delicate natural carbonation it offers us a whole new experience when it comes to a drink. It offers these digestive-­‐health focused benefits that change our perspective on what fermented foods can feel like. They can be as easy or as all-­‐consuming as we want. We can find them locally or we can create them in our kitchen and begin our mad scientist exploration!

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Probiotics are all the rage, but it can be more fun than just popping a pill. Search out local fermented foods, read books on gut health and start making more food from scratch. (If you are experiencing digestive issues and dietary changes are needed or not yet working, there may be a deeper issue at play, work with a local Holistic Nutritionist in your area.)

Basics. The generic advice is simple: Pay more attention to the health and function of your gut. The specifics can get hazy since gut research is still new and much is unknown. Chances are high that eating a diet rich in as many unprocessed plants and (grass fed) animals as possible would be appreciated by your gut lining and the bacteria there, a whole foods diet is the best insurance.

Remember, it’s not all about science. "There’s something very special about shredding cabbage like great great grandmothers in the early 1900’s, or fermenting foods in our own kitchens and letting nature do the work. It’s slightly magical."

We are still learning about the microbiome and the research is opening whole new doors in what we thought we knew about health and overall wellness. As we get in touch with this wonderful side of nutrition, we learn there is another side to the science of fermented-­‐

Photo credit: livesimply.me

Food crafting: connecting with our farmers and creating these foods is a fun and amazing way to connect to our environment, food and community. The more connected we are, the more relaxed we are and the better we digest.

We may feel like we have a thousand million questions -­‐ but if we keep knocking on the door, I truly believe we will find the answers. It’s all happening!

Raina Lutz, consultant/Registered Holistic Nutritionist and creator of Experience Kombucha (the Okanagan’s original local commercial kombucha) www.LutzNutrition.ca raina@LutzNutrition.ca

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Classifieds: Class listings online for each National Association, Conferences, Products and More

Class listings for individual countries Australia: http://www.kinesiology.org.au/page-­‐ 1712619 Canada: http://canask.org/class-­‐listings-­‐2/

SIPS Levels 1 & 2 in Virgina Take your kinesiology training to the next level with Instructor Alexis Costello.

Charlottesville: July 19-­‐24 happy@alexiscostello.com for details

Denmark: http://kinesiologiuddannelse.dk/kursuskalender/ Guatemala:http://formacionholistica.com/kinesiologia Ireland: http:// http://www.kai.ie/kinesiology-­‐training-­‐ in-­‐ireland UK: http://www.kinesiologyfederation.co.uk/training/cour se-­‐diary-­‐search.php USA: http://touchforhealth.us/classes/classes-­‐by-­‐ state/

Upcoming SIPS classes There are classes coming up in Canada, the US and Europe – visit the website to find courses near you. www.sipskinesiology.com

This section is a work in progress!

If you are a kinesiology association and would like to have your events (conferences, demo days, etc) mentioned, please email us. There are far too many classes internationally for us to list them all, but please send a link to the page on your website that shows upcoming classes and we will add it here.

If you would like to advertise your conference, presentation or post-­‐conference workshop, please contact us for details.

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Because health should be fun!

Tiny Worlds -­‐ Microbiomes

Issue 04, Summer 2017

Support bacteria: It’s the only culture some people have.

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Tiny Worlds -­‐ Microbiomes

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