Transform Your Life with Spinal Flow Sussex
How does it work?
The technique focuses on identifying and clearing stress blockages stored in the spine, which can result from:
- Emotional stress like unprocessed emotions, trauma, and mental overwhelm
- Physical tension like injuries, accidents, trips, falls, poor posture, or repetitive strain
- Chemical stress like toxins, medications, and environmental pollutants
These stressors create blockages in the spine that disrupt the flow of energy and communication between the brain and body. Spinal Flow gently releases these blockages, allowing the nervous system to reset and return to a state of ease, flow, rest and digest.
Spinal Flow is grounded in the science of the nervous system. It works by addressing the three main layers of stress stored in the body and stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for rest, repair, and healing. By activating the body’s natural healing mechanisms, Spinal Flow helps you move out of sympathetic nervous state fight and flight survival mode and back into a parasympathetic state of rest, digest, balance and harmony.
Benefits
Structured system: Based on identifying and clearing "spinal blockages" through 33 access points along the spine, it offers a standardised protocol for healing.
Root-cause focus: Aims to identify the underlying causes of physical, chemical, and emotional stress, and clear these systematically.
Neurological focus: Strongly tied to the nervous system, it encourages optimal communication between the brain and body, promoting natural healing and improved overall health.
Suitable for all ages: Its gentle, safe techniques make it accessible to children, the elderly, and people with chronic conditions.
This is a whole body approach healing therapy and is a series of treatment sessions allowing your body to release in stages and feels safe to do so.
Spinal Flow Technique KEY components
Pathway to wellness
As Spinal Flow practitioners we are focused on the long term improvement of your structure and function rather than a quick fix band-aid approach. We do this by encouraging your body to get to the origin of your blockages and symptoms in a way that is gentle and not overwhelming to your system enabling it to create a new path of vitality, health through the nervous system .
The Spinal Flow Technique involves several key components:
Identifying Blockages: Practitioners learn to interpret bodily signals that manifest as pain or discomfort. These signals often indicate where stress is stored within the spine.
Releasing Stress: Through specific techniques, practitioners work to release these spinal blockages. This process encourages the body to restore its natural flow of Life Force Energy.
Restoring Energy Flow: Once blockages are released, energy can flow freely through every vertebrae in the spine and reach every cell in the body, promoting healing and balance.
Awakening Innate Intelligence: The technique emphasizes tapping into the body’s innate intelligence—the natural ability of our bodies to grow, repair, and heal themselves without external intervention.
Spinal Flow Technique components & 7 GATEWAYS of the spine
Transform Your Life with Spinal Flow Sussex
What is a spinal blockage? How can it affect other parts of the body?
A spinal blockage occurs when the body is unable to effectively process stress—whether it's chemical, physical, or emotional. According to Dr. Carli Axford, "A spinal blockage happens when our bodies can’t properly process or deal with stress. When overwhelmed, the body essentially says, ‘I don’t know what to do with this,’ and stores it in the spine—what many call ‘the back of our mind.’”
Over time, stress accumulates in the body, especially emotional stress, and tends to be stored along the spine. Our bodies absorb and hold onto all kinds of experiences, and when the brain finds it too difficult to process certain stressors, it sets them aside—often into the spine.
The relationship between our spine, nervous system, and emotions is complex. The body, with its incredible intelligence, often sends messages through symptoms—like digestive issues, pain, or other forms of discomfort—indicating that stress has been stored in the spine as a blockage.
If the body's stress response (such as fight-or-flight) is activated, it can cause the vertebrae to become rigid or inflexible as a protective measure. This immobility can also lead to inflammation around the affected area.
“Our bodies have an innate intelligence,” says Dr. Axford. “When stress can’t be processed in the moment, the body stores it safely—often in the spine—until we’re ready to deal with it.”
Our body instinctively knows exactly how to bring back ease and flow just like it did when you were a child with cuts and bruises that always healed with just a little bit of attention.
Spinal Flow® gives our nervous system this attention, switching it back into the Parasympathetic state where bodily functions such as digestion, respiration and conception are regulated and healing can happen, releasing the stuckness from our life’s experiences .
The goal of Spinal Flow is to expand the Spinal Wave and release spinal blockages with every contact – the body will determine which order that happens.
The Spinal Flow “Wave”
Many of the initial changes that occur with Spinal Flow are so slight that you may not notice them unless you pay very close attention or have exceptionally high awareness of your own internal physiology.
- A slowing or deepening of your breathing rate
- A sense of relaxation or ease in your body
- A feeling of calmness or clarity in your mind
As your system becomes more adept at producing change, many people (but not all) actually feel the craniosacral rhythm kick into high gear as it produces a wave-like movement that courses the entire length of your spine. Some people may occasionally twitch rather than wave as they release the blockages through the spine.
Does “the wave” happen for everyone?
No. Many people process releasing their emotions & traumas internally, which is completely okay too.
Every person, every session may be different. Everyone processes differently as the energy travels through the spine and nervous system.