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ABOUT ME

                                                              Certified Yamuna Body Rolling Instructor

                                                                   Licensed Cranio Sacral Practitioner

                                                      Trained in the Liebscher & Bracht® pain therapy method

                                                                        Pilates Instructor - Reformer 1  

                                                                           Choreographer & Dancer

I am Clarice Martins, originally from São Paulo, and I have been living in Vienna since 2007.

I am married and have two children, born in 2012 and 2014.

My passion lies in dance, which I extensively studied in São Paulo, encompassing both classical and modern styles.

I have worked on various projects involving contemporary dance, improvisation, and musicals.

Currently, I work with a method for self-care called Yamuna Body Rolling and also with Cranio Sacral.

My work focuses on improving posture and body alignment to promote awareness, flexibility, health, well-being, and injury prevention.

WHAT IS YAMUNA BODY ROLLING

Yamuna Body Rolling (YBR) is a self care method technique, which combines health, well-being and injury prevention.
We work with the natural logic and order of the body.

Basic Principles of Yamuna Body Rolling:
The goal of YBR is to create space by restoring length to the involved muscles. Creating optimum space throughout the body restores full range of motion in all joints.

Stimulation of bone
Bone stimulation is another unique component of this work. We always begin by stimulating bone, and then roll out into tendon and finally muscle.
Through bone stimulation, YBR can help treat osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and other bone problems.
We use the balls to trace our muscles from origin to insertion point.

Traction creates space
Exerting traction on a muscle tells the muscle what direction to release toward. In YBR, the weight of the body pressing down into the ball applies traction at the muscle’s origin, awakening its memory of its proper function and triggering it to release in its natural direction from origin to insertion. In this way, the muscle elongates through its entire length, creating space.

Benefits of Yamuna® Body Rolling:
• Tones and elongates muscles
• Improves alignment
• Increases circulation
• Develops and maintains core strength
• Stimulates nerve roots
• Stimulates organs
• Increases metabolism
• Relaxes the nervous system
• Expands the lungs and deepens breathing
• Increases body awareness 


YAMUNA FOOT FITNESS 

YFF and Exercise
Everyone needs foot fitness. But for athletes in particular—especially dancers, cyclists,
runners and triathletes—it’s particularly important to add foot fitness to their
exercise routines, because otherwise they will certainly injure some part of the body
above their feet, as well as fail to maximize their potential.

When your feet are not properly aligned and don’t function fully, your legs, hips, and
back won’t work properly either, and you’ll sabotage your workout. Repetitively
working muscles that are connected with the feet without working the feet themselves
will eventually cause these muscles to break down.

This is why anyone with a fitness or exercise practice really needs to make YFF a part
of it. Taking the time to work your feet properly will enhance any workout. You can
do it before or after each workout, or just a few times a week. YFF will protect your
feet and prevent injuries. And once you get your feet strong, flexible, and aligned,
you’ll see how your performance improves!

Why YFF is Unique
What makes YFF unique is that it teaches people a mindful approach to working their feet. YFF educates them to understand why they have a foot problem and what their feet need to be healthy, then shows them how to fix their own feet.
YFF provides a clear, step-by-step self-assessment exercise, then offers simple exercises people can use to fix the problems they’ve identified.
What YFF does is implant this education in people’s brains so they acquire a new consciousness of their feet.
Until now, there has been no simple and effective way to exercise the feet. 

Benefits of YFF
YFF offers a range of benefits for the entire body as well as the feet.
• Working the feet stimulates, tones, and elongates all the muscles, tendons,
and ligaments of the legs.
• YFF enables people to develop more range of motion and movement, not only
in the feet themselves but up through the pelvis and torso, including the spine.
• YFF creates greater tone and a real relaxation of the tension that builds up
due to the feet being constricted in shoes over many years. When the feet relax,
the structures above them also relax and begin to work properly.
• YFF releases impact from the feet, creating greater ease of movement in the
joints above.
* YFF increases circulation throughout the body.
* YFF stimulates bones, improving bone quality.
* YFF stimulates organs, improving organ function.
* YFF improves alignment throughout the body.
* YFF increases metabolism.
* YFF relaxes the nervous system.
* YFF increases body awareness.

The Wakers
In this first phase of YFF, we use props called Wakers: hollow half-spheres covered
with nubbles. You can push into the Wakers and wrap your feet around them in a way
that’s not possible if you just press into the floor.

Since most people’s feet are inflexible, their first need is to develop some flexibility
and movement. The Wakers do this by unwinding the contractions in the feet and
showing people that the foot consists of different parts that can all move separately:
toes, ball of the foot, and heel.

The Wakers also offer an easy way for people with supersensitive feet or foot problems
such as neuropathy to begin developing foot fitness. The nubbles stimulate the
feet, improving superficial circulation, so they’re great for anyone with circulatory
problems in the feet, such as diabetics.

                               
SAVE YOUR HANDS

Developing a daily practice of stretching the hands and fingers will preserve a healthy full hand function and the relationship between the hands and the muscle chain of the entire arm. 

Benefits of a fully functional hand:
• Increases bone quality
• Boosts metabolism
• Relaxes the nervous system
• Stimulates organs
• Avoids overuse problems
• Prevents stiffness & calcification
• Prevents inflammation & pain
• Avoids hand restrictions

PREGNANCY

The entire Yamuna Body Rolling work can assist you.
Yamuna Body Rolling during pregnancy is a boon for all expectant mothers who wish to keep their bodies in shape during this phase. By combining breathing techniques and YBR, the workout becomes relaxing while simultaneously toning and aligning the body. The focus is on the body's side positioning, the back, and the legs, without affecting the growing belly, thereby creating more space for the baby.


BODYROLLING TABLE TREATMENT

People get off the table and know they have had a session. The legs feel free, the hips are super
loose, and the torso and head are floating upward!

Traction is the heart of Yamuna Table Treatment. It’s what makes this modality unique.
In Yamuna Table Treatment we work outward, tractioning each body part away from the
center of the body. There’s no downward pressure. We always traction outward and then apply
pressure.

The sequence of the session follows the natural order of the body. The work starts with direct bone
stimulation, and then moves out from where the tendon attaches to the bone and then down into
the body of the muscle towards its insertion.

The constant goal of the Practitioner is to correct alignment of bones and muscles throughout the body,
to achieve greater length, tone and effortlessly increase the client’s freedom of movement.

This passive training is performed the client dressed on a massage table, using the ball in one side of
the body while the practitioner works in the other side, molding it and spreading it around the ball. In
this way you work both sides of the body simultaneously.

The ball gives the client feedback that enables her to feel what’s happening in her body.
Yamuna Table Treatment wakes up the client’s neuromuscular system. As you correct
alignment and redirect muscle function, the body processes the changes that are
occurring. The client is involved in this process. He is not asleep but in fact is
mentally alert and feeling the body correcting itself.

Yamuna Table Treatment / Bodyrolling is particularly useful for:
∙ mobilizing and decompressing joints;
∙ elongating muscles;
∙ improving alignment;
∙ deeply releasing fascia;
∙ stimulating bone;
∙ increasing the client’s body awareness.                                                                     


CRANIO SACRAL

Description
In a Cranio Sacral session, the subject is considered in its entirety to understand the story behind the issue. Stressful situations, intense emotions, and physical symptoms are not treated therapeutically but seen as indicators of impending developmental processes.
During the session, a space of silence is created where change, further development, and self-healing can occur. This process is supported using kinesiological muscle testing, approximately 250 symbols, and gentle, non-manipulative touches over the entire (clothed) body.

Target Audience
All individuals seeking support with their own burdensome issues.
Babies, children up to about 8 years old, individuals with limitations, and pets can be supported with the help of a companion.

Benefits
Through a Cranio Sacral session, I assist people and animals of all ages in perceiving the body's signals and giving them space, meaning, and expression. When the message behind the symptoms is understood, painful tensions, medically unexplainable discomfort, pent-up emotions, old behavioral patterns, and limiting beliefs can dissolve.
The newfound physical, mental, and emotional flexibility leads to a noticeable increase in well-being, the return of life energy, and new possibilities for development becoming visible.

Notes
A session does not constitute treatment, therapy, or medical healing in the traditional sense, nor does it replace them. It is an energetic method that acts as supportive on physical, psychological, and mental levels.



PILATES REFORMER

The UniversalReformer is the heart of equipment based Pilates and a wonderful tool for creating a fit and functional body.

PILATES PRINCIPLES:
Breathing
Concentration
Control
Centering
Precision
Relaxation
Mobility 
Restoration
Body Strength 
Balance

Maintaining body balance and
strength is essential for
preventing body pain
and for creating efficient and
graceful movement patterns.
Movement plays a critical role in recovery from many
kinds of injury and the Pilates teacher can be a critical
member of the team for creating and enhancing health.

EXERCISING DURING PREGNANCY
can be beneficial to both the mother and the baby

Benefits of Exercise during Pregnancy

*Reduce lower back pain
*Eases constipation
*May decrease risk of gestational diabetes, preeclampsia and
 cesarean delivery
*Promotes healthy weight gain
*Improves overall fitness and strengthens cardiovascular system
*Helps with weight loss after delivery
*Helps prepare the body for labor, delivery and taking care of the baby. 

"If your spine is
inflexibly stiff at 30, you
are old. If it is
completely flexible at
60, you are young."
                          Joseph Pilates

"Through the Pilates
Method of Body
Conditioning this unique
trinity of a balanced
body, mind and spirit
can ever be attained.
Self-confidence follows."
                        Joseph Pilates

"The acquirement and
enjoyment of physical
well-being, mental calm
and spiritual peace are
priceless to their
possessors"
                        Joseph Pilates