Shibui Gardens Spa & Wellness Center
Merges with the Marin Center for Somatic Education
"Serving the Community for Over 40 Years"
712 D Street, Suite L (upstairs)
This facility has an elevator and a parking lot
San Rafael, CA 94901
Call (415) 457-0283
(Please call back if you haven't heard from us within an hour - we may be in session)
We've been downsizing in recent years and made changes that mean that there are NO HOT TUBS or SAUNA available. We do have, however, a wide range of Advanced Modalities - listed on the 'Services' page. Athough these modalities are deeply relaxing and balancing, they are different than the traditional styles of massage we used to offer. I do have a referral for those who'd like Swedish or Deep Tissue if you'd like. She's in our old location on Lincoln. Give me a call and I'll pass on her information to you.
Featuring:
Manual Therapy (Orthopedic and Osteopathic Sessions)
Hanna Somatic Education / Feldenkrais Instruction
Manual Therapy (Orthopedic and Osteopathic Sessions)
Hanna Somatic Education / Feldenkrais Instruction
we have new hours:
(Semi-retired)
Mondays and Tuesdays pm by appointment only
We need 24-hours notice for cancellations
Please call back if you don't hear from us within an hour!
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PLEASE NOTE:
Shibui Gardens Wellness Center has become a sole proprietorship by the owner of Shibui and will become a private practice until full retirement In May 2024. It has merged with the Marin Center for Somatic Education which has been serving the public since 1992. All of the advanced modalities listed on this site are still available. What a joy is has been to be able to serve the community for all of these years in so many ways. Thank you!
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ABOUT COVID-19 AND THIS FACILITY
We ask that you have not traveled or been exposed to COVID in the last 7 days, or have tested negative for COVID, and have no symptoms. Masks are optional.
Mondays and Tuesdays pm by appointment only
We need 24-hours notice for cancellations
Please call back if you don't hear from us within an hour!
___________________________________________
PLEASE NOTE:
Shibui Gardens Wellness Center has become a sole proprietorship by the owner of Shibui and will become a private practice until full retirement In May 2024. It has merged with the Marin Center for Somatic Education which has been serving the public since 1992. All of the advanced modalities listed on this site are still available. What a joy is has been to be able to serve the community for all of these years in so many ways. Thank you!
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ABOUT COVID-19 AND THIS FACILITY
We ask that you have not traveled or been exposed to COVID in the last 7 days, or have tested negative for COVID, and have no symptoms. Masks are optional.
We wish you the very best that life can bring in optimum support of all your needs with ease. This year, part of the changes at the smaller, new facility, is that receptionists are not on site all day. Your therapist will greet you and take payment for your scheduled sessions instead of a receptionist. A credit card is required to hold any reservation unless you are a regular.
we've upgraded and streamlined what we offer
Rejuvenate with Professional Manual Medicine
We offer several styles of bodywork that can be combined or used individually, each tailored for your specific needs. We are highly trained and have decades of experience in their respective fields. We want to provide the best possible service for your overall health so we want to make sure you have a wealth of modalities to choose from to access the many layers and dimensions in your body that interact with one another. The sessions range from nurturing relaxation and stress reduction, to assessment and problem solving, injury, accident or surgery recovery, and preventive maintenance.
What is Manual Medicine?
Manual Medicine is an osteopathic approach that works directly on a particular structure to encourage it to reset itself, whether it be a joint, nerve, blood vessel, muscle, tendon, or ligament. The pressure is very light, about the weight of a coin, since that’s all that’s needed for the sense organs to respond. There is more precision in this method, as the information given by the practitioner is targeting a specific system in order to have an effect on a particular area, for example opening the pressure on a particular nerve or blood vessel to release a certain muscle group, or stimulating a particular tendon to release the compression on a specific joint.
What's the Marin Center for Somatic Education About?
It's based in an approach called NeuroSomatic Integration™.
What is the NeuroSomatic Approach Accomplishing for Your Body?
NSI is a specialty designed by the owner of Shibui after decades of study and practice, working with thousands of patients with countless types of injuries and issues. This method approaches your system from a variety of layers in order to reeducate, open, and release each layer. It incorporates the principles and techniques of osteopathy including very gentle touch that listens to your body’s internal rhythms and monitors fluid dynamics as in Cranial Sacral Therapy. It also releases compression within bone and joints, opens restrictions in soft tissue, addresses motility of the internal organs, enhances the potency in the vascular system, and helps to down-regulate sympathetic nervous system overdrive. Methods similar to positional release and muscle energy are employed to either passively or actively reset muscle imbalances, and more subtle techniques to ease stresses within brain nuclei are also employed where needed. When the ‘noise’ in the system is more pronounced, the pressure used is increased to insure that the system will be able to ‘hear’ and respond to the input that facilitates balance.
How Does it Accomplish These Things?
The techniques use the body’s own language and communication networks to teach it how to release contracted muscles or stiff achy joints and resume to relaxed openness. It communicates through the fluids, through the nervous system, through fascia/connective tissue, and through bones, trusting the mechanoreceptors to send the feedback to the brain, and waits to be sure the information was received before proceeding.
NSI acknowledges that the body needs certain things in order to make changes on several levels. It needs safety, comfort, gentleness, context, intention, quietude or the stillness of neutrality inside, and repetition for the learning process to become a long-term memory. Sometimes buried emotions buried in the body may surface to be released in the context of the initial trauma, surgery, accident, or life experience that have been somaticized and associated with the area of tension. The body and brain need to arise from a subconscious place to a conscious, aware one by way of the person inhabiting the body and brain, so that waking up ‘sleeping’ areas can shift to a conscious place and be on alert to exactly what changes need to be made.
The techniques use the body’s own language and communication networks to teach it how to release contracted muscles or stiff achy joints and resume to relaxed openness. It communicates through the fluids, through the nervous system, through fascia/connective tissue, and through bones, trusting the mechanoreceptors to send the feedback to the brain, and waits to be sure the information was received before proceeding.
NSI acknowledges that the body needs certain things in order to make changes on several levels. It needs safety, comfort, gentleness, context, intention, quietude or the stillness of neutrality inside, and repetition for the learning process to become a long-term memory. Sometimes buried emotions buried in the body may surface to be released in the context of the initial trauma, surgery, accident, or life experience that have been somaticized and associated with the area of tension. The body and brain need to arise from a subconscious place to a conscious, aware one by way of the person inhabiting the body and brain, so that waking up ‘sleeping’ areas can shift to a conscious place and be on alert to exactly what changes need to be made.
What Can it Help?
NSI is very helpful in staying well and moving freely in your body, potentially greatly enhancing performance that affords increased responsiveness and suppleness. It can spare elders the cumulative wear and tear that leads to painful arthritis, aches and pains, loss of balance and consequent falls. It’s useful for both chronic and acute conditions alike. In cases of structural damage or deformation as in herniated discs, torn ligaments, or adhesive capsulitis, range of motion returns more slowly, but pain still diminishes quickly. Some examples include:
muscle spasms repetitive strain fibromyalgia scoliosis sciatica headaches
arthritis symptoms joint stiffness frozen shoulder inflammation whiplash head injuries
As well as:
- post-operative adhesions
- computer syndrome
- stress-related tension
- reflexive imbalances from poor posture
- compensatory patterns from old injuries
- post-concussive syndrome
Ease Arthritis Symptoms
Most people have wear and tear arthritis after the age of 60, and earlier if you've enjoyed an athletic life, have had surgery, or wore pointed toe shoes. If you keep the joints mobilized, they won't generate that painful buildup that distorts and locks the joints. You can see that the actual bones in the hands and feet can dislocate and create irritation, inflammation, and swelling. It may not be too late to reverse some of the body's reactions to the malalignments. It can improve and feel more mobile again with less discomfort.
If you already have some stiff achy places, let us open them up and release the build-up of painful biochemistry, and if you're active and care about preventive maintenance, come in and have one of our therapists balance the muscles and connective tissue surrounding them, open and hydrate them and mobilize them for you. It'll help with any sport, dance, hiking, or even getting up and down from the floor or low chair more easily. Stiffness or restriction anywhere will lead to stiffness and restriction in other places, but luckily, there are simple remedies that we hope you'll take advantage of.
(Images courtesy of Drahreg01, CC BY-SA 3.0, J. Lengerke 21:37, 27 Mai 2009 (CEST) CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, and Hellerhoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
Most people have wear and tear arthritis after the age of 60, and earlier if you've enjoyed an athletic life, have had surgery, or wore pointed toe shoes. If you keep the joints mobilized, they won't generate that painful buildup that distorts and locks the joints. You can see that the actual bones in the hands and feet can dislocate and create irritation, inflammation, and swelling. It may not be too late to reverse some of the body's reactions to the malalignments. It can improve and feel more mobile again with less discomfort.
If you already have some stiff achy places, let us open them up and release the build-up of painful biochemistry, and if you're active and care about preventive maintenance, come in and have one of our therapists balance the muscles and connective tissue surrounding them, open and hydrate them and mobilize them for you. It'll help with any sport, dance, hiking, or even getting up and down from the floor or low chair more easily. Stiffness or restriction anywhere will lead to stiffness and restriction in other places, but luckily, there are simple remedies that we hope you'll take advantage of.
(Images courtesy of Drahreg01, CC BY-SA 3.0, J. Lengerke 21:37, 27 Mai 2009 (CEST) CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, and Hellerhoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
Concussions Can Heal if You Get Treatment
However, left untreated the symptoms can worsen over time and remain undiagnosed!
It's rare that anyone can make it from one end to the other of their lives without accidents or falls, and many of us have engaged or are still active in sports. The movie, "Concussion" has brought the attention to this area in a way that can help a lot of people. Be aware that it's not only in the NFL that serious brain changes can happen from repeated contact with the head.
When you're young, everything seems to heals so fast you don't notice residuals like headaches, neck stiffness, tinnitis, memory loss and cognitive issues, or dyslexia until later when you may not attribute the changes during middle age or older to those early injuries. It's easy to recognize a tear or a sprain, but not so easy to recognize effects of a head injury. There are many ways to treat the brain, so don't hesitate to get it checked!.
Young Athlete has the Brain of a 65 year-old
If someone you care about plays football - no matter what age - please consider reading this article and letting them know about the helpful potential of cranial sacral treatments, which have already shown beneficial results in the improvement of CTE and concussion symptoms. www.yahoo.com/sports/parents-tyler-hilinski-cte-committed-suicide-124846146.html
Brain Damage Found in College Football Students Who Didn't Have a Concussion
This study found that athletes who had several hits during a game had elevated levels of a certain protein call S100B which led to a leak in the blood brain barrier, activating an immune response. It also showed that the elevation levels were cumulative throughout the school year and could persist after the season ended, causing personality changes.
www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-damage-found-in-college-football-players-who-didnt-suffer-concussions-study-suggests/
However, left untreated the symptoms can worsen over time and remain undiagnosed!
It's rare that anyone can make it from one end to the other of their lives without accidents or falls, and many of us have engaged or are still active in sports. The movie, "Concussion" has brought the attention to this area in a way that can help a lot of people. Be aware that it's not only in the NFL that serious brain changes can happen from repeated contact with the head.
When you're young, everything seems to heals so fast you don't notice residuals like headaches, neck stiffness, tinnitis, memory loss and cognitive issues, or dyslexia until later when you may not attribute the changes during middle age or older to those early injuries. It's easy to recognize a tear or a sprain, but not so easy to recognize effects of a head injury. There are many ways to treat the brain, so don't hesitate to get it checked!.
Young Athlete has the Brain of a 65 year-old
If someone you care about plays football - no matter what age - please consider reading this article and letting them know about the helpful potential of cranial sacral treatments, which have already shown beneficial results in the improvement of CTE and concussion symptoms. www.yahoo.com/sports/parents-tyler-hilinski-cte-committed-suicide-124846146.html
Brain Damage Found in College Football Students Who Didn't Have a Concussion
This study found that athletes who had several hits during a game had elevated levels of a certain protein call S100B which led to a leak in the blood brain barrier, activating an immune response. It also showed that the elevation levels were cumulative throughout the school year and could persist after the season ended, causing personality changes.
www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-damage-found-in-college-football-players-who-didnt-suffer-concussions-study-suggests/
Choose from a wide range of services suited to your needs:
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Some of the benefits of NeuroSomatic Integration
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What's the difference between Massage and Manual medicine?
Massage is always therapeutic in the ways that it releases stress and tension, increases circulation with the flow of nutrients and in how it eases the mind and soothes the soul. Manual Medicine is more clinical/advanced and focuses in on specific areas of the system and how they interrelate to one another and contribute to solving and sourcing issues. Please check our "Styles of Bodywork" page for a more detailed description of each modality. Since the body is multidimensional, it responds on more levels if you address more of its dimensions..*
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Shibui Gardens Spa & Wellness Center
with the Marin Center for Somatic Education
712 D Street., Ste. L
San Rafael, CA 94901; (415) 457-0283
A 24-hour cancellation policy is required for all reservations. A credit card will be taken for appointments and no-shows or short notice cancellation will invoke a 50% charge on your card. You can also prepay or use another form of payment when you come if you like.