Rebekah L. Montgomery - BS, LPTA, LMT, Registered Yoga Teacher
As an integrative practitioner, I hope to bring about healing through the demonstration of my skills and by facilitating the healing power within the client. This can only be masterfully accomplished by skilled therapy and by educating the client regarding the power one has over their own pain. My mission is to facilitate healing with hands-on therapies that provide pain relief and muscular changes, while helping educate necessary postural and lifestyle changes that may be interfering with the benefits of massage and personal training, allowing clients to embrace a pain free life. I hope to create an environment that is holistic in its nature, encompassing intelligence with compassion and warmth with practicality. I offer a tailored session that may include various types of bodywork and postural education that will enhance the bodywork. I also offer Corrective Postural Training and Yoga sessions by appointment. I specialize in Personal Training and Yoga that involves the core and stabilization exercises through utilization of our natural environment. No free weights or machines. I specialize in bringing about kinesthetic awareness through Yoga techniques, such as breath with movement and mindfulness. I believe in restoring primitive movements of development through biofeedback training in developmental positions and yoga positions, utilizing verbal and visual cuing as well as various massage modalities, which can be termed Somatic Integration in some schools of thought.
This type of work is specific for individuals who want to become physically stronger both in power, precision and endurance. My approach is a total body workout, through the integration of cognitive/mind and body approach. Isolated co-synergistic movements require attention; attention requires perseverance and discipline. These philosophies work well with martial artists, dancers, yogis, performers, athletes, corporate speakers, mothers, fathers, actors, musicians and anyone interested in evolving and learning more about themselves and embracing the empowerment that parallels this quest.
To summarize in one phrase; to encompass it all; I have defined what I do as Integrative Functional Massage™ . Integrative Functional Massage™ is the combination of Orthopedic Massage, Restorative/Corrective Postural Training, and Functional Yoga - Yes all in ONE session. We can break it down to just one of those disciplines but as an Integrative Practitioner, I encourage the Complete Package, for the Complete Experience! IFM is both a Mind-Body Movement Protocol as well as a belief system. It represents in philosophy, my belief in the power of the Integration of both paradigms of medicine: Holistic and Allopathic. I believe in seeing myself and all of my community as Whole Beings, not just an arm or leg, or an athlete or a client. I believe in the Real Power in achieving this Integration, this perspective which leads to a more Balanced Body and Mind. It is about the duality, the science and the art.
Integrative Functional Massage™ is Me. It is you. It is the way to reaching our true potentials in self and in our communities - locally and globally. It is the intention I set for myself daily. It is my wish for all of you to experience and live.
Integrative Functional Massage™ can be broken down extremely mechanistically and be utilized to assess gait, posture and movement as it relates to your Orthopedic, sports, or pain management goals. Do not let the gentle, calming description fool you! I am not a purely gentle being; I am also an assertive, skilled Educator that can turn your Body around! The difference between me and Strength & Conditioning or Performance Coaches is that I not only believe in the power of the Mind and the power of the Body, I respect them both and teach skills for connecting the Body to the Mind. This is the EDGE that separates the Silver medal from the GOLD medal. I do not work as a Strength & Conditioning Coach, but my skills can enhance your strength and your conditioning regimen if we work as a TEAM with any personal training or sports performance training you have already established. It is about balancing the equation: Think INTENSITY, DURATION, FREQUENCY. You match the Restorative Skills with the Bodybuilding, cardio, etc. for Optimal Performance and Longevity. This is what IFM and Rebekah have to offer you!
I am excited to be specializing in bringing about awareness of how IFM can help those with PTSD and performance anxieties through stress reduction and stress management. It is my belief that the interdisciplinary approach to treatment of PTSD utilizing EMDR and Integrative Functional Movement will help to facilitate Whole Being healing and reprocessing through a true mind-body connection. I would like to recommend the following three local EMDR providers who specialize in treating PTSD with the highly beneficial EMDR modality.
Practitioners in Baltimore, Maryland are:
Mary E. Tessman, MA, LCPC
Elizabeth Handy, MS, LCPC
Terry McGeehan, LCPC
NAMASTE
~Rebekah
This type of work is specific for individuals who want to become physically stronger both in power, precision and endurance. My approach is a total body workout, through the integration of cognitive/mind and body approach. Isolated co-synergistic movements require attention; attention requires perseverance and discipline. These philosophies work well with martial artists, dancers, yogis, performers, athletes, corporate speakers, mothers, fathers, actors, musicians and anyone interested in evolving and learning more about themselves and embracing the empowerment that parallels this quest.
To summarize in one phrase; to encompass it all; I have defined what I do as Integrative Functional Massage™ . Integrative Functional Massage™ is the combination of Orthopedic Massage, Restorative/Corrective Postural Training, and Functional Yoga - Yes all in ONE session. We can break it down to just one of those disciplines but as an Integrative Practitioner, I encourage the Complete Package, for the Complete Experience! IFM is both a Mind-Body Movement Protocol as well as a belief system. It represents in philosophy, my belief in the power of the Integration of both paradigms of medicine: Holistic and Allopathic. I believe in seeing myself and all of my community as Whole Beings, not just an arm or leg, or an athlete or a client. I believe in the Real Power in achieving this Integration, this perspective which leads to a more Balanced Body and Mind. It is about the duality, the science and the art.
Integrative Functional Massage™ is Me. It is you. It is the way to reaching our true potentials in self and in our communities - locally and globally. It is the intention I set for myself daily. It is my wish for all of you to experience and live.
Integrative Functional Massage™ can be broken down extremely mechanistically and be utilized to assess gait, posture and movement as it relates to your Orthopedic, sports, or pain management goals. Do not let the gentle, calming description fool you! I am not a purely gentle being; I am also an assertive, skilled Educator that can turn your Body around! The difference between me and Strength & Conditioning or Performance Coaches is that I not only believe in the power of the Mind and the power of the Body, I respect them both and teach skills for connecting the Body to the Mind. This is the EDGE that separates the Silver medal from the GOLD medal. I do not work as a Strength & Conditioning Coach, but my skills can enhance your strength and your conditioning regimen if we work as a TEAM with any personal training or sports performance training you have already established. It is about balancing the equation: Think INTENSITY, DURATION, FREQUENCY. You match the Restorative Skills with the Bodybuilding, cardio, etc. for Optimal Performance and Longevity. This is what IFM and Rebekah have to offer you!
I am excited to be specializing in bringing about awareness of how IFM can help those with PTSD and performance anxieties through stress reduction and stress management. It is my belief that the interdisciplinary approach to treatment of PTSD utilizing EMDR and Integrative Functional Movement will help to facilitate Whole Being healing and reprocessing through a true mind-body connection. I would like to recommend the following three local EMDR providers who specialize in treating PTSD with the highly beneficial EMDR modality.
Practitioners in Baltimore, Maryland are:
Mary E. Tessman, MA, LCPC
Elizabeth Handy, MS, LCPC
Terry McGeehan, LCPC
NAMASTE
~Rebekah