Body Realignment

Testimonials

 

Eight years ago I had a healthy, fit pregnancy, however, 4 weeks before the birth of my daughter my right side was very painful and this culminated in me walking tippy toe on my right foot, thus walking lopsided.  My doctor suspected a ruptured placenta and I was sent to hospital.  At the hospital, a nurse checked my baby and as she was fine I was sent home.  I, however, was not checked and at the time I was so relieved that my child was safe that I did not question this.  The last two weeks of pregnancy involved the most excruciating back and right side pain I ever felt in my life (I had never experienced any kind of ill health or back problems prior to this).  I was informed by my doctor that the pain was normal. 

5 April 2001 was both the most amazing and also the most devastating day of my life.  18.5 hours of excruciating labour followed which involved two epidurals that did not work.  The anaesthetist who submitted the epidurals was foul tempered and was crashing around the labour ward complaining that he had to leave a dinner party because of me.  He openly admitted to me that he put the first epidural in the wrong place.  Thankfully, my daughter was born healthy, despite coming out blue, with the cord being wrapped around her neck and stomach.   Immediately after the birth, it felt as if my right hip had come away from my hip socket.  The pain I also felt all over my body was excruciating.  I wobbled to the shower, finding it extremely difficult to walk.  I did not complain about the extreme pain I was in as it was my first experience of childbirth and I did not have any to compare it with.  I am a strong person by nature with a “get on with it” attitude and this was to be my worst enemy.

At home, the pain was so intense that I was unable to keep food down for very long and I lost a lot of weight.  3 weeks after giving birth, I explained to my midwife how I felt and she referred me for physiotherapy.  My husband took as much time off work as he could to help me recover, however, we realised this was not to happen and he eventually had to return.  I had to manage as best I could.  My whole life had changed as I used to be extremely fit – aerobics and swimming were a regular part of my weekly routine.  I found it very difficult to accept that even a short walk was filled with extreme agony.  A small walk around the block would feel like I was walking on broken glass and result in me being covered in perspiration.  My demanding job as a Project Manager on a successful newspaper was no longer an option as I was unable to walk to the train station, let alone concentrate on anything with such a level of pain.

One year later the physiotherapist explained that there was nothing further they could do for me as my condition had not improved.  I then spent the next year searching for a cure - osteopathy, chiropractics, massage, homeopathy, acupuncture and in the end faith healers.  I eventually settled on an osteopath who “cracked” me once a week to start with, then twice a week and eventually once a month.  My husband and I spent over £2,500 on various treatments in one year alone, however, nothing worked.  I stayed with this osteopath until one day when I was in the hairdressers reading the Psychologies magazine, the article about Jan Trewartha jumped out at me.  I immediately wrote her number down and kept it in my purse for weeks.  Occasionally, I would take the number out with the intention of phoning, however, with my unsuccessful track record of failed treatments I was reluctant to do so.  At last, the pain was so intense that I rang and booked in.

When I entered Jan’s practice, I felt it was like walking into a huge hug.  Jan immediately puts you at your ease and her positive demeanour would give even the most desperate of souls hope.  She did what no other consultant did and that was to really listen and then talk to me.  In my first treatment, it felt as if Jan made a map of my broken body.  I was struggling to hold down my much needed part-time job at the time which involved sitting for 5.5 hours each day.  Jan instinctively knew where I felt the most pain and she gently unravelled the knots in my entire body.  She explained that after this initial treatment I might have vivid dreams and feel ill the next day and that is exactly what happened.  As the week went on I started to feel lighter in myself emotionally.

In my second treatment Jan took me back to my birthing experience and explained that she was putting my body in the position where it was originally traumatised because that is how it releases the trauma.  She then asked me to imagine being back in the labour ward.  The images were very vivid and to my surprise I cried like a baby.  The sense of release I experienced afterwards was liberating.  Where before I was unable to watch a labour scene on the television without curling up and crying, I could now bring myself to look at it in a detached manner whereby I no longer “relived” the experience.  Each time I went to Jan’s practice I would leave feeling healed and cleansed.

Jan did explain to me on my very first treatment that she did not know if I could be cured, however, she felt I could certainly be helped.  It has now been an amazing 8 treatments since I saw Jan first and I have come on in leaps and bounds.  Although not fully cured, I do feel more capable and am learning to manage my pain.  Jan is also teaching me some life skills such as how to relax even when my body feels like a coiled up spring.  It is early days yet and I am looking forward to my next  treatments. 
Carmel Lynch (Oct 2009)

I first began having massage with Jan many years ago and was lucky to be a regular client as she transformed her work into the Body Realignment work that she does today. I have never experienced such profound clearing on the physical body before. The small gentle movements seem to unlock deep old unconscious holdings and with her great skill and care I was able to release some tight holding patterns and injuries that I had assumed would be with me for life. My body is free and relaxed and I am back to the loose body I had as a practicing dancer. I highly recommend either Jan’s treatments or training with her to be a therapist or preferably both!
Sarah Cox (2008)

I was diagnosed with bone cancer in my left femur in late 2005 when I was 49. I was admitted to hospital very soon afterwards to be operated on to remove the tumour, which in effect meant removing my thighbone and replacing it with metal, screws & medical cement. I had well over 30 staples in the incision, which stretches from my knee to my upper thigh.

My recovery period was long, three months before I could walk unaided and almost nine months with a noticeable limp. The limp just would not go away, despite physiotherapy I was unable to walk at any speed and I was feeling depressed about how long this horrendous experience was lasting and the effect it was having on my life. I was still holding my body away from the cancerous leg and it was having a knock-on effect on my back, hips and shoulders. Emotionally I felt I had been butchered, I had felt no pain from the tumour prior to the operation and had come away from hospital with a horrible scar. I had been having very regular massage to aid healing and although this was therapeutic to a point nothing seemed to change. I contacted Jan, I had visited her before when I had horrendous back pain.

She took a full medical history from me and I explained how I was feeling both physically and emotionally. Jan spent almost two hours working on my body; it was no surprise to her that what happened to was so deep rooted throughout my being. During our first session I felt very relaxed, there was no pain and Jan worked with a light touch, manipulating my body. There were moments of doubt, how could something so comfortable help me? The proof was when I got off the bench and walked back to my car. It may sound strange but I was walking completely differently, it felt odd, but good. I was able to pick up my leg and bend it normally; it didn’t feel as heavy as before. I remember saying to a friend that I felt I was trotting down the road like a horse, it felt so fast!

During our following sessions, my physical state improved noticeably each time. Emotionally it was a real roller coaster. As Jan released my body I relived every aspect of what had happened to me. From sitting in the surgeon’s room being told I had cancer to being wheeled down to theatre and recovering in the hospital, the food, the people I’d met. The fear, the anger and the joy of still being alive. The experience really cleared everything I’d been holding on to that was causing me pain. It was lovely to feel safe enough to do that with someone so professional and caring, she seemed to understand and was able to go through this with me, was never judgmental and always positive and encouraging. The other strange thing was that I had recently started the menopause and was having terrible times with flushes and night sweats, unable to sleep; these have all disappeared too!

After I had seen Jan I felt well enough to book a long holiday to celebrate my new found health and set off round Asia. I walked a lot on my adventure and the pain and discomfort did not return, I actually was able to run a little as well, something I thought I would never do again.
Alex Lamb (2008)

Body Realignment Therapy is the best thing I have ever done for myself!

Having suffered an injury at work as Cabin Crew, then later a whiplash injury in a car accident, I had become so immobile, and in such pain that I could no longer do my job. In an effort to remedy the situation I pursued many routes, from needles to painkillers, stretching to strapping, yanking to cranking.

After five years and approximately £5,000 spent on treatment, I had reached a plateau. Each therapy had only given me short-term relief and I was coming round to the idea that this would be my lot, and I would just have to learn to live with the back pain as best I could.

Then last year I met Jan Trewartha, Energy Healer and Body Realignment Therapist, and I embarked upon a series of treatments. I sit here now, writing this, unaware of back pain, and feeling lighter in my body and in my heart.

The treatment itself is gentle, relaxing and enjoyable. After each treatment I have a sense of something having shifted just a little further. I feel like a puppet that is in the process of getting some new strings. There is no quick fix here, just a steady return to mobility and to physical freedom.

Thank you Jan for the work that you do, and for your kindness, love and dedication.
Ms H. (2008)

On my first visit to Jan, I was hunched up in pain. I had been involved in four road traffic accidents, all of which had given me painful whiplash injuries. I found walking, bending down and lifting things really hard as my shoulders and neck were permanently in spasm.

When she treated me, I noticed that Jan treated my whole body, starting with my feet and working upwards through every muscle of my body. It was like unravelling a tangled ball of string. Little by little, all the muscles were unravelled and redirected along their proper path. Jan could read me like a book, revealing several other earlier incidents that I had forgotten but my body had not. Layer by layer they were dealt with and shed, leaving me lighter in spirit and my body working properly for the first time in decades.

I feel I received a totally holistic treatment through this kind of therapy. What was fascinating was that emotions and memories came up and sometimes reappeared in flashbacks and dreams. As quickly as they surfaced, they were dealt with and disappeared. Everything in mind, body and spirit became realigned. My life is now back to normal for the first time in years and I cannot thank Jan enough.
A.R.

I came to Jan Trewartha in December 2000 feeling very out of sorts and down. I was in the middle of a very confusing and fearful time in my life and had heard of the Energy Clinic from a friend who suggested it may help ground me and do me some good.

After the first session I slept like a baby and felt amazing the next day. However, during the second session Jan asked me if I had ever had a problem with my neck and right shoulder. I told her of a whiplash injury I had sustained when I was eight. It had caused me so many problems and I was still suffering sometimes from pain and tension in that area. Jan used some hands-on and used all her other wonderful healing powers and I left feeling ok.

On the way home, a journey of 40 minutes, I cried without stopping. It came from deep within and as I was driving home, I had to pull into a lay-by as the memories returned. I saw the accident in slow motion and my mother coming towards me looking petrified (she had three small children in the minibus which crashed). I also saw all the blood and the look on everyone's faces and all the injuries around me and for the first time I felt the accident and all that went with it. It was the most powerful image I have ever had of a memory and, since that time and after the other two sessions had finished, I have never had any pain in that area again.

I felt a huge release and I know that I have been healed of a very traumatic experience which must have been shaping my life in a lot of ways. Every time I overtook a car I always had the thought that I would die one day in a head on collision. I never think that at all now and know that is not how I will go. Wow! I think I could have done with more work as I know the healing works in layers and I know I still have lots of layers to unfold and heal. However, there is a part of me which feels healed and I am very grateful to Jan and her work.
Miss C.U.

Following a brain hemorrhage, I found the Energy Field Therapy and continued regular Body Realignment work to be a very beneficial therapy to help clarity of thought and important, necessary relaxation. I find the combination of both to be extremely helpful and always feel very refreshed after a treatment session. I would certainly recommend it to friends and family, and cannot speak highly enough of Jan Trewartha.
Mr J.P.

I know that I would be crippled without Jan using Body Realignment to straighten my body. Am so thankful that she was there. My big toe being accidentally smashed, I adjusted my walk without realising to avoid pain and was walking on the right side of my foot. I couldn't understand why my clothes seemed to be twisting to the right. This was at the time I left England for four years and was under pressure. Coming home, by this time much heavier, no energy, very low, I went to Jan. She was horrified that my whole body was out of alignment. The channels to my liver and spleen being blocked. The good news is that my body's straight, the weight came off, and my energy came back.
Mrs G.R.