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“Muscles are people too!”
--Levator Scapula
This website serves two groups of people:
a) therapists who want to learn the Melting Muscles technique and
b) people who would like to receive sessions from Patrick Moore.
a) For therapists,
I have just renewed as an NCBTMB education provider with 42 courses available in Tucson and around the US, which are listed above on the “attend” pages. I teach several classes per month.
The book, Melting Muscles, which I hope to have printed in July 2010. Part of the introduction and a two-page excerpt is available from the “Book” button above.
The first DVD home study completed a pilot with six students and will be ready for the public later in 2010. The first, called Actions of the Obliquus Capitis Inferior, uses a skeleton with strings that shorten three key muscles when pulled. You can now visualize very clearly the normal rotation of the head and abnormal motion, when the “axis is out.”
In 2011 I plan to make many of my classes into DVD home studies.
I am writing a book for Natural Healers that I hope to have finished in 2011. The working title is, Better For Having Happened. Below is an excerpt from the introduction…
b) For recipients,
I provide Melting Muscles, other forms of natural therapy and compassionate healing from my home office in NW Tucson.
House calls available in Tucson, Oro Valley, and Marana.
I provide coaching and distance healing by phone and IM.
a+b) For both therapists and recipients,
click on melting the rotator cuff. My first youtube video shows melting the subscapularis and infraspinatus in their shortened positions and unwinding.
Natural Healing in its Utmost Simplicity
“I have muscle tension,” he says on the phone.
“I can fix that,” she replies, “come on in.”
“Great,” he says. He wants nothing more than to lie face down and have someone change his problem for him while he slumbers in cozy comfort and pleasure. In short, he will not be participating in the work, he’s paying her to do that.
My question is, does fixing his muscle tension without his participation really serve him, long term?
Once that question is asked, the questions multiply:
Was he capable of relaxing his own muscles?
Would it require force, or unnatural interventions, for her to change him without his participation?
How long will his changes last, if he did not participate?
If he can pay her to change him without his participation,
what happens to his incentive to change himself? and
will he become dependent upon her?
Massage is simply one example of potentially natural healing, but as you see, massage can be less or more natural depending on how the practitioner is being. I propose that natural healing involves equal participation from the giver and the recipient.
In the healing professions, the word, “natural” has come to imply that acupuncture is more natural than surgery, that talk therapy is more natural than prozac, and that herbs are more natural that pharmeceuticals. However, the perspective of “natural” that I want to discuss is not what the healer is doing, but what she is being. I claim that a surgeon who is being vulnerable with the person inspires more natural healing than a massage therapist who is being controlling.
Muscle tension is not really in his muscle; it is in his brain. Only his brain has the capabilty of reducing and resolving his muscle tension. Only his natural essence may embrace his ailment to make it better for having happened. Anything done to him without the participation of brain or his essence will be incomplete at best.
It is natural for a healer to inspire and assist him to change his own brain and use his inner resources. Her part is very simple. Extremely simple. So simple she may laugh out loud when she realizes it.
Any moment she feels his muscles melting in her hands, this is his brain letting go of the tension. While the muscle is melting, he is traveling the path of resolving or tranforming his issue. Each second of melting is a step toward the finish line. Even if he receives only one session, his burden is lighter.
What is melted is gone.
This simple idea has transformed my whole practice, and those of a handful of massage therapists who have taken my Melting Muscles classes. What you have already read is enough; if you understand it, and you have already experienced muscles melting in your hands (or the equivalent in your field), you don’t need to read the rest of the book.
The remainder of the book is simply the how—how can a healer create those moments when a person is most likely to melt into being natural?
To sum up, a haiku:
the unspeakable
simplicity of muscles
melting in your hand
Feel free to email me with questions though the “contact” link above.
Warmly,
Patrick
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"As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
-Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (1875-1965)
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