An In-Depth, Leading Edge Approach to Clinical/Medical
Massage Therapy, Structural Bodywork and Yoga Therapy

Clinical/Medical Massage Therapy,
Structural Bodywork and Yoga Therapy

ARE YOU READY ...?
To BE A Highly Valued & Trusted Resource?
As a Soft Tissue, Health Care Practitioner specializing in Medical Massage Therapy & Myo-Structural Bodywork, with Postural Yoga Therapy? All based on a strong, Scientific Foundation of Whole Health Principles, Practices & Physiology and Mindfulness?

Mastering the Physical & Mental Aspects of Neuro-Musculo-Fascial-Skeletal Health & Therapy.

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— HOW Would It FEEL ... ? —

To Be FREE of Tension & Stress, Aches & Pains?

To Have Your Joints DE-Compressed & Fully Mobil?

To Have Your Nerves & Blood Vessels Flowing Freely?

To Have All Your Muscles RELAXED, Lengthened & Balanced?

To Have Effortless Great Posture & Energetic,
Full Range of Motion?

All Of That is Available to YOU with . . .

DSL Edgework

As a Private, 1-on-1 Client ...

OR, If You're a Massage Therapist / Bodyworker,
Yoga Teacher / Yoga Therapist, Fitness Coach,
Physical or Occupational Therapist,
or a Physician . . .

Regardless of Your Current System of Therapy,
Insights & Skills from DSL Edgework
help You provide the above Benefits for
Your Clients, Students or Patients,
and Yourself, too.

A Comprehensive Knowledge of Clinical/Medical Massage Therapy, Structural Bodywork and Yoga Therapy and their related Physical & Medical Sciences add dramatically to your skills as a therapeutic massage, bodywork or fitness professional. Physicians and therapists in the medical field can effectively utilize DSL Edgework, as well.

With 40 years in development, insights and skills you learn in these in-depth trainings help you Become a Most Valuable & Trusted Resource and Practitioner for your Clients' and Students' therapeutic and maintenance needs.

Having had experience with many different bodyworkers, David's technique is certainly unique. There are levels of healing he achieves I've never seen before. This is clearly a result of a vast knowledge of anatomy and physiology combined with decades of hands-on experience.

Dr. John Bordiuk, Nutritional MD

Director of Inner Balance Med, Wellesley, MA

I have worked with many soft tissue therapists over the years. David Scott Lynn is the only one educated and skilled enough to do what I want with full confidence the job will be done. My patients definitely feel the difference.

Dr. Gary Fujinami, DC

Doctor of Chiropractic / Martial Artist

David's seminar was a great functional anatomy review for me. It has given me new insights into my patents' chronic postures and how to help them better. It's a great adjunct to chiropractic and bodywork.

Dr. Helen Heyden

Doctor of Chiropractic, Solvang, CA

C.E.M.&.N.T. or Chronic, Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension & Stress is THE Primary Focus of DSL Edgework. It might sound too simple, yet it's amazing how many problems of your body might be caused by "tight muscles." Click On The Button To The Right ==>> and we'll take you directly to the pages explaining what C.E.M.&.N.T. is, the problems it causes, and what you can do about it. Including how a DSL trained therapist assists You in accelerating your pace of Relaxing, Lengthening, Balancing & Coordinating your neuromuscular / myofascial system.

Please scroll down and look through the various options in the BRIEF descriptions below on this page, and see which applies most to YOU. Then CLICK on the Read More Here button near each entry, taking you to the most relevant and important information for your needs and wants.

Because much of DSL Edgework is about working with C.E.M.&.N.T. (Chronic, Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension & Stress), you might find it helpful to start with the section just below (highlighted in red) on the topic of C.E.M.&.N.T.

Clinical Massage = Compared to Spa, Relaxation or Mood Massage, clinical massage has an overtly corrective or healing aspect. While more common forms of relaxation massage can be very good, even excellent, for general health, reduction of stress levels, and so on, clinical massage addresses more urgent and often debilitating issues such as pain, dysfunction and poor posture.

Medical Massage Therapy Definition = There are many approaches to medical massage available. Yet as the name implies, our focus of medical massage is to address a wide range of more debilitating issues one would more commonly go to a medical doctor for. Yet in many cases, you might be surprised to find that with quite a few of the symptoms and conditions usually dealt with by doctors or physical therapists, properly applied manual pressure with the hands can achieve the goals and needs of the Client.

Structural Bodywork = is a system using the postural (or structural) imbalances of the body to develop a strategy as to where and in what sequence to work. A postural evaluation tells us which muscle(s) is/are the "primary contractors" that are over-shortened, giving access to their respective nerves. It is, under most circumstances, the nerves turning muscle on or off, and to what degree, or what pattern of operation The most over-shortened muscles are usually the Primary Causes of postural distortions or imbalances, and tend to be where excess nerve input is most likely expressing itself. Working with these over-shortened muscles communicates neurologically with the parts of the central nervous system and brain most probably working overtime, creating various tensions, stresses, habit patterns, and pathologies of the body & mind.

Unlike other "structural" approaches, we do not assess that moving, pushing or forcing the body back into "proper alignment" is the main objective. Rather, we use the posture as a guideline to tell us which neuromuscular & myofascial elements are most critical to treat first, and most likely to reduce both specific and general tension & stress — and therefore pathologies — in the body & mind.

Neuromuscular & Myofascial Sciences
Principles of INTEGRAL BodyMind Therapy
Mindful Client & Therapist Communication
Clinical / Medical Massage Principles
Myo-Structural, Hands-On Bodywork
Postural Yoga Therapy / Injury Prevention
Structural Analysis & Postural Balancing
Tai Chi / Chi Kung Movement Therapy
Whole Health Principles & Practices
In-Depth Physical & Medical Sciences
Advanced Body Mechanics & Self Care
A Philosophy, Psychology & Science of Being Human

• I'm a Health Care Professional (other than a bodyworker massage / or yoga teacher / yoga therapist) interested in deeper understandings of, and/or How To integrate Mindful, Soft Tissue Therapy into my therapeutic Perspectives & Practices. ...

Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses ...
and other disciplines benefit greatly from a deeper, more global understanding of how the Human Bodymind & Musculoskeletal Systems work in health and healing. ... We are especially focused on the mental and neurological controls holding C.E.M.&.N.T. (chronic hypertonicity of nerves & muscles) in place, and how to reduce or eliminate such tensions.

Why DSL Edgework Is A Leading EDGE System of Therapy . . .
A SUPERIOR UNDERSTANDING & Philosophy of:

"Knowing How It Works Tells You How To Work It!"

After recently attending a 700 hour massage therapy curriculum, I realized there was almost NO explanation of exactly HOW basic medical & physical sciences apply to evaluation, strategy & treatment of the human body. Although it's true of most medical disciplines, it's especially true with soft tissue therapies. I also noticed there was NO providing of an underlying philosophy of how everything — the sciences, the evaluation process, the strategy formation, the treatment techniques, and your attitudes & perspectives as a therapist — worked together.

Yet it was a particular philosophical basis underpinning my own yoga & bodywork teachings as far back as the mid-1980s that my students (most of them already practicing therapists) thought was critical to their understanding & practice of soft tissue therapy. It is the underlying philosophy allowing you, among other things, to work with more complicated cases not fitting neatly into the routines or protocols some schools and trainers do provide.

I Promise You'll Gain Superior Insights, Knowledge & Understandings of how the human body functions in health and in breakdown, and how much of soft tissue therapy actually works.

You too can become an EXPERT in neuromuscular & myofascial physiology, discovering how to effectively Analyze Structure & Posture for more more precise treatment strategies. Such knowledge & insight — and underlying philosophy — is Essential to discovering the best ways to develop your SKILLS in reducing or resolving a Client's C.E.M.&.N.T. — or Chronic, Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension & Stress — with Hands-on, Soft Tissue Release Techniques and/or Postural Yoga Therapy (Mindful or Conscious Stretching).

C.E.M.&.N.T. is a Primary Source of many problems of the human musculoskeletal, neuromuscular & myofascial systems and is a primary focus of the DSL Method of Therapy, in both the hands-on work or postural yoga. Learning the DSL Method, and incorporating the sciences, principles & philosophy into your current practices, help develop YOU into a Superior Therapist.

And yes, you can maintain what you already do. Because it is principle based, The DSL Method can only add to what you already know and do.

YES, I'm an already practicing Massage / Bodywork Therapist. I'm looking to Take My Practice to a Much Higher Level and become a Highly Trusted & Valued Resource for my Clients & Community.

I'm very interested in integrating the Innovative & Effective Therapeutic Principles of DSL Edgework into my practice. And do so on a Foundation of Mindfulness and Integral BodyMind Philosophy and Solid Medical & Physical Sciences.

I also want to ensure I use my own body mechanics most effectively, and that m OWN body does not "break down" in the process. How will DSL Edgework provide all this for me?

I'm a Massage School Student, or Recent Graduate (within 2 to 3 years). I've got a good start, but I think I can benefit from DSL's 40+ years of Innovative & Effective Practice & Teaching Experience, taking my work to the Next Level in a shorter period of time.

I'm especially interested in learning to apply medical sciences to my Clients' Tissue Issues, and understanding how therapy works, based on those sciences. Learning Advanced Body Mechanics & Self Care Techniques is very important to me.

Please Tell Me More about how DSL Edgework can Expand & Deepen My Insights, Knowledge & Skills, Helping Me Become a Superior Soft Tissue Therapist?

In the field of Soft Tissue Therapy, many, if not all, of the relevant sciences & principles of effective, mindful bodywork apply DIRECTLY to teaching yoga or providing yoga therapy.

Especially knowing how the nervous system connects everything together, and realizing yoga postures, like hands-on therapy, are primarily means by which to "talk to the Client's (or Student's) central nervous system & brain," can produce profound results for the Client and Therapist, the Student and Teacher.

And of course, much of what makes Yoga "Yoga" is the integration of meditation & mindfulness into the physical practices. It's also known as "conscious (or mindful) stretching." Discovering how to address mental & emotional processes of Students and Clients — and our own — is an important element of effective bodywork, yoga and yoga therapy.

DSL Promises you'll have a Superior Knowledge, Deeper Insights, more Effective Skills, after learning even the basics of DSL Edgework.

YES, I'm an already practicing Yoga Teacher and/or Yoga Therapist. I'm looking to Take My Practice to a Much Higher Level and become a Highly Trusted & Valued Resource for my Clients & Community.

I'm very interested in integrating the Innovative & Effective Therapeutic Principles of DSL Edgework into my practice. And do so on a Foundation of Mindfulness and Integral BodyMind Philosophy and Solid Medical & Physical Sciences.

I also want to ensure I use my students and my own body mechanics most effectively, and that my own body does not "break down" in the process.

Please Tell Me How DSL Edgework can Enhance My Abilities to Provide a Superior Learning Experience for My Students and Clients, especially Keeping them (and Myself) SAFE yet Effective & Efficient in Yoga Postures with Superior Soft Tissue Therapeutic Knowledge & Skills?

I'm a Yoga School Student, or Recent Graduate (within 2 to 3 years). I've got a good start, but I think I can benefit from DSL's 40+ years of Innovative & Effective Practice & Teaching Experience, taking my work to the Next Level in a shorter period of time.

I'm especially interested in learning to apply medical sciences to my Clients' issues, and understanding how yoga therapy works, based on those sciences. Learning Advanced Body Mechanics & Self Care Techniques is very important to me, both for my Clients & Students and my OWN Self Care.

Please Tell Me More about how DSL Edgework can Expand & Deepen My Insights, Knowledge & Skills, Helping Me Become a Superior Soft Tissue Therapist?

If You are a Private Client, or Considering Becoming One, of DSL Edgework: You're very interested in the many positive benefits of reducing Chronic, Excess, Muscle & Nerve Tension & Stress (C.E.M.&N.T.) that's been accumulating in your body for years or decades.

You also realize DSL Edgework is a more comprehensive, educational process beyond the usual massage therapy techniques, and requires more direct, engaged, mindful participation & interaction from You, the Client ... IF You want Maximum Results.

IN GENERAL, You're looking for information on Effective Bodywork Therapy for your personal Health Care Needs & Life Objectives. And want to learn how to reduce or eliminate C.E.M.&.N.T.!

We'll Tell You More about C.E.M.&.N.T. and DSL's Private Therapy Sessions: HOW They Work, WHY They Work, and How They'll Benefit You ...

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Beginning at 13 years of age, DSL's been involved with alternative philosophies & practices most of his life. Becoming a yoga teacher in 1976, then a hands-on bodyworker in 1981, he developed a unique & highly effective form of Yoga / Bodywork / Whole Health Fitness & Therapeutics. … David wrote the chapters on a wholistic philosophy & physiology of bodywork & stretching for the textbook Structural Balancing, published by McGraw-Hill, Inc. in 2010. … He is the author of Simple Steps to Let-Go Yoga, available at: www.letgoyoga.com/simple-steps/ … Several other e-books and e-courses are soon forthcoming at www.letgoyoga.com/dsl-publications/ … David consults with Kyle C. Wright on massage school development at the Schools of Advanced Bodywork at http://kylecwright.com/structural-balancing-a-clinical-approach/co-author-dsl/

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Clinical – Medical Massage Therapy - March 14, 2017