Stresses you long ago forgot on the conscious level are still sending out signals, like buried microchips, making you anxious, tense, fatigued, apprehensive, resentful…these reactions cross the mind-body barrier to become part of you.

                                                                                           Deepak Chopra

 

Our Philosophy

Is based on the assumption that the human body is a walking history of a person’s life, containing “recordings” of events which are experienced pre-birth and onward. These recordings include memories of trauma, resulting from either physical, emotional, or psychological insult or injury. Sources of these stressors include: genetic predispositions; acute macro-trauma or chronic micro-trauma; accumulation of negative thoughts; and the physical effects of aging.

 

As we experience insults and injuries, we begin to store and stack emotional and physical traumas.

Unfortunately, the trauma of insults and injuries whether physical, mental, or emotional if left alone create a continuing loop of dysfunction. These trauma patterns, when left untreated, can show up as adverse health manifestations that can be as mild as a pinched nerve, sore neck, trick knee, anxiousness and nervousness or as extreme as a major illness and until these patterns are released they can continue to dominate and rule our lives.  

We are not our traumas yet most people live their entire lives through insult and injury – through the filter of emotional and physical traumas.

 

Holistic Bio-Integration resolves these external and internal challenges and facilitates the integration of the mind, body, and emotions ― reuniting us with our birthright of spirituality, dignity and grace ― providing the opportunity to enjoy a pain free whole body expression of wellness and well being!

 

What is Holistic Bio-Integration?

As the name implies, Holistic means the acknowledgement that the human experiences is comprised of Spiritual, Emotional, Intellectual, Social and Physical properties which then need to be properly Integrated to express and manifest the birthright of Life to the highest and fullest capacity.  Leonardo Chiriboga has collected and organized information learned from exceptional healers, spiritual disciplines and the ever revealing wisdom of our Creator.

 

HBI is a synergy of extraordinary resources and life experiences which when properly applied by an experienced practitioner can: 

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1)Discover and release the origin of pain, physical/emotional dysfunction and limitation…

     Connective tissue – soft tissue – also known as fascia – is the most abundant and unexplored tissue in the body. It is made up largely of collagen and it is like a three-dimensional net running throughout your body from head to toe, creating a latticework giving your body its shape and form. It runs throughout your muscles and tendons, ligaments, fat, and vital organs. It holds their shape and keeps them in relationship to each other. Without fascia, nothing in your body would have shape or form or be able to function. The nerve receptors in the body are almost totally encapsulated in the fascia, your connective tissue.

      When we are infants our connective tissue is soft and pliable, almost jelly-like in its consistency. Integrity of form, conferring both strength and tone, comes about through the production of specialized enzymes as well as though the biochemical process called “collagen cross-linking.” This cross-linking occurs when two strands of collagen bind together. As children, our bodies normally create, largely through this process of cross-linking, a harmonious balance between the tightening and softening of tissues, thus keeping the body firm yet elastic.

     Throughout our lives we are continuously exposed to the cumulative effects of physical and emotional traumas. These come in the form of stresses and injuries, as well as external toxins, such as preservatives and pollutants.  Reactions to painful physical and emotional events are held not only in the mind, but in the body, as well.

     When an injury or insult takes place, whether it may be from the stresses of modern everyday life or a more traumatic injury, the body instinctively holds and tightens as a defensive maneuver to protect itself from greater damage while it is healing. A very important survival mechanism occurs in this process. As the memory and pain of the event lock into the body, that creates a link between the source of injury and the brain. This establishes a reflex action. The importance of this is that the next time a similar situation occurs, you have a pre-programmed reflex action that is instilled in you to cope or in the extreme, save your life. That way the next time something stimulates you in a similar way; a sound, a smell, a sight, a sensation, you don’t have to think – “now where did I experience that before?” – instead, you have an automatic reaction; the fight or flight reaction.

     As damage occurs, and as the body/mind constellation responds, a secondary but far more powerful process begins. The pain of injurious events actually locks into the body/mind memory. When we understand the function of the brain, we see that this cementing of memory is not surprising. As we’ve said, the number one function of the brain is survival in the moment. This survival mechanism insures that the brain holds onto the evidence of injury; it maintains at least a footprint of the original injury. This process of brain locking, a natural event, serves a function; counterbalancing in a very valuable way the dysfunction of the injury. As this connection occurs, actual hard wiring within the brain is created between the circumstances of an injury and the memory-activation of it. Smells, sights, touch and sound — all the senses can become involved; and because there may be a similar sight, smell, or sound, it can trigger the survival mechanism and the flight or flight response.
     And what of heredity?  If trauma memory is indeed locked into the very DNA, who is to say that we do not inherit this dysfunction and subsequently, albeit unconsciously, act out our reactions to these memories?  
     Trauma, then, occurs as a result of experiential, nutritional, environmental or genetic causes.  The body does not differentiate where or how trauma is initiated.  Trauma is trauma.  The response by the fascia is the same.

     While the injury itself aids in survival, the number one directive, it can also have a deleterious effect on the quality of life you lead. Commonly, at the site of the injury, tissues become constricted and excessive adhesions and toxicity are created. It takes almost no time for further cross linking to take place when tissues are immobilized and the whole area becomes involved. Over time, the tissues become trapped and stuck to each other in an ever expanding network emanating from the site of the injury. We don’t need this area of tightened, hardened, dysfunctional tissue.  In fact it is the very definition of aging.  Stiffness, tightness, pain and dysfunction are the synonyms for dying while suppleness, flexibility, growth, and vitality equal life. 

     Over time, these once pliable soft tissues continue to tighten. Without therapeutic intervention, and even though the injury itself may have long ago healed, these tissues, all too often, continue to tighten, and thicken, in a cycle of worsening dysfunction, thus impeding circulation, impinging on nerves, and causing pain. Flexibility, posture, and mobility are often effected. These same conditions can be brought about by prolonged static postures like desk jobs, driving or studying as well as the cumulative effects of stress, gravity and toxins from food and the environment. These limitations negatively impact a person on all levels: physical, emotional and psychological.

     Yet, while memory-locking within the brain was originally useful, it most often outlives its survival function. Sometimes the command center for these “re-plays” originates deep within the brain – a part of the brain that is not accessible to everyday awareness — the unconscious. The unconscious can trick us; memories of the old injuries that no longer have relevance can become activated. We can think of them as “psychic scars” that also reside within the musculature, nervous and other systems of the body – serving the same original function of bodily scars – a healing to prevent further damage.

     These psychic scars however have another profound and quite insidious result.  Our very personality becomes susceptible to change.  Negative change.  When the energetic or more clearly, the emotional pathways are disturbed or blocked, expression of the self is impaired.  According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the meridians of the body system flow energy.  This electromagnetic force energizes the organs and various systems within the body.  Organs influence emotions, emotions influence behavior.  For thousands of years and in countless studies, the correlation between proper body function and personality has been recorded, observed and successfully treated with disciplines such as Herbal remedies and acupuncture.  Holistic Bio-Integration supports and enhances the free flow of energy along the body meridians and throughout the entire symphony of organs and systems which comprise the human structure. 

Whether the memory lock is accessible to conscious awareness, or within the recesses of the unconscious, the original useful function, indeed, has now become a dysfunction. The once pliable soft tissues continue to entangle, tighten, compress and thicken, thus impeding circulation, impinging on nerves, and causing chronic pain and continued dysfunction. All that’s needed is the footprint of the injury to maintain a healthy reflex action, and not large areas of dysfunction within the body and psyche where flexibility, posture, and mobility are often affected. Indeed, many injuries that took place in the past are no longer relevant, and with a little help, can be erased.

     Holistic Bio-Integration helps people to release the psycho-physiological effects – both brain and muscle memories — of events that no longer serve them but instead have become a hindrance to well being and full functioning.

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2)Maintain and enhance performance…

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     Physical performance is dependent upon the ability of the body to respond fluidly and appropriately to the challenges presented.  When fascia becomes excessively contracted, messages between the brain and the body’s moving parts slow down, can be misdirected or even fail to reach their destination.  Clarity of mind also depends upon the free flow of communication between the external world and the internal decision making processes.  Energy, oxygen, blood flow as well as electrical impulses throughout the myriad of bodily systems can become impaired thus rendering the human computer inefficient and expose the person to diminished performance and injury.  By receiving regular HBI therapy, an athlete can maintain performance at the highest level.  Indeed, everyday stress either from life experiences or sports workouts continue to contract the body.  We all can testify of how easily we can get out of shape simply by ceasing routine exercise.  Newtons law, “a body at rest tends to remain at rest…” certainly applies to those of us who stop engaging in physical exercise.  Likewise, with athletes that continually push their limits, HBI ensures that those limits do not return to previous levels but rather become the new normal.  
     HBI helps increase stamina, extend workout duration, allows engagement of ALL relevant muscle groups, maintain appropriate blood and oxygenation, etc.
     Through its unique ability for the practitioner to become an extension of the client, HBI allows for discovery of areas within the body that may be beginning to tighten or otherwise be heading for limitation.  These changes, as is the modus operandi of stress, are often imperceptible to the average person.  Regular HBI sessions keep the effects of daily stress, gravity and physical exercise at bay and indeed act as a natural counterbalance to these stressors.

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3)Facilitate spiritual unfoldment…

          When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
                                                      ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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     Imagine a human being as being a vessel in which is housed a flame, a light which is placed there by the creator.  Each being is then entrusted as the keeper of that flame and  given the personal responsibility and gift, of feeding that flame.  The flame or light is enhanced with noble thoughts, selfless action and loving service.  This is the ultimate expression of humanity.  As individuals, we can discover with ever increasing clarity, how that expression can be personally manifested through the results gained from Holistic Bio-Integration.  HBI’s unique method of addressing the abdominal area in particular often clears the physical and emotional debris that obfuscate the glow of our internal flame.       Our experience has been that the older, more intense trauma memories tend to find their resting place in the internal organs.  Unresolved issues await liberation here.  Therefore, to fully experience the effectiveness of HBI, the practitioner strives to unleash the limitless potential and transforming ability we each possess as the physical body is able to fully integrate this potential with the energetic self.
     To brighten and radiate our inner light is one of the greatest benefits and purposes of Holistic Bio-Integration.

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