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The BodyAlive! Center is an educational, hands-on health resource on the Olympic Penesula, and in the Northern "Third Coat" of Michigan.

Serving

Port Townsend, Washington

&

Benzie, Leelanau, & Grand Traverse counties of Michigan

(360) 385-5822

Results You'll Use Every Minute, Every Day for the Rest of Your Life.

Amazing sleep, inspired dreaming ... It's the season to dream on to new possibilities.

Structural Integration techniques have positive and immediate effects on poor nighttime breathing that interrupts our health. BodyAlive! Center can help nighttime breathing issues, insomnia, and the root causes of sleep apnea symptoms. Dreams and big, huge, deep sleep are powerful healers and inspire the BodyAlive!

Interrupted sleep's core issues are rooted in breathing and posture. You are invited to learn how specific structural bodywork restores your sleep.
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Deconstructing Obstructive Sleep Apnea

What about
Belly Breathing?

Surprisingly, not all breathing is good breathing that supports mental and physical health. Learn more about proper DAYTIME and NIGHTTIME breathing in the articles section.

What about

Recipes For You?

BodyAlive! offers a few recipes....

Green Dream: an Alkalizing Morning Drink
Chocolate Almond Brownies!

... and much, much more!

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Learn to Live With It
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Reflections on the body and our human experience. By Karen Bolesky, president of the Soma Institute for Neuromuscular Integration
Living on the Peninsula Article by Aric
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This article titled, "If mental floss prevents truth decay then what will cleaning between your muscles prevent?" was published in the summer of 2007. It describes structural integration, SOMA Neuromuscular Integration®, and why we get "knots" in our muscles.
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SOMA and ADHD
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Sleep Apnea Article by Aric
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"What about BREATHING and BETTER SLEEP can change the World?" describes how breathing works in a general, but creative way, and explains HOW the ENTIRE human structure is a "device" for breathing--not just the muscles of the chest, ribs, and spine. Structurally integrating the body with gravity creates optimal breathing capacity or "Breath-ability."
Soma Series Compared to Ida Rolf's Recipe
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The Indigo Children Article
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What about feet can change the world? by Aric
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Reinventing comfort and stability; a new gait can easily enliven the entire human structure and help put the struggles of poor balance and pain to rest.