I feel to share my experience with tenderness and practising the modality of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy as presented by Universal Medicine.
It is such a beautiful and fine method of healing.
This particular esoteric modality has supported me to drop deeper into my body and into stillness, and to really begin to connect to my tenderness.
Part of the training for Connective Tissue Therapy involves practice sessions. In the beginning I did not enjoy giving sessions… I tried to do the technique how I have learned it, however time didn‘t seem to pass in a session. I was often not trusting myself and thinking I had to do the technique a certain way with a certain speed or pressure.
During my practice hours, I swapped with another esoteric student who I trust very much and feel safe with. I felt safe to treat her in a way which honoured the very tender, fine and still way that I am, and which she is.
I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.
To connect to my tenderness and truly drop into a deep stillness, connecting to the person and allowing myself to be as tender as I am, is beautiful. And to trust, and listen to what I feel is needed is supporting and expansive for both of us.
Through the many presentations of Universal Medicine and the esoteric modality Connective Tissue Therapy, I am learning to allow myself to be all the tenderness and love that I am; and learning to connect to the depth of tenderness and love that we all are.
Deeply inspired by the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine
By Janina Koch, Cologne, Germany (EASL)
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
The beauty of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is that there is nothing imposing in any way. Physical application has only very small movements, which just support the body to surrender deeply. I always feel taller, straighter and more fluid in movement after receiving a session.
In society we have the false perception of what power is, all of which involves a lot of doing and achieving whilst overriding our innate qualities and our connection to our body. Yet it is though our connection to our body that we can, if we surrender to it, feel the incredible graceful power of our delicateness and tenderness, of who we are in essence. When we live with this connection we cannot but live with the power of love, that which reflects to all of the innate power that is naturally there for us all to live and share together, as is our natural way of being.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is such a gentle modality, but it has incredible power in my experience. I often feel completely reconfigured – for the better – after a session.
This time round I am enjoying my practice hours for Connective Tissue. It is about getting myself out of the way and allowing the flow from God via the connection to myself to do whatever is needed. There is no expectation or end result in place as the session is an unfolding from the beginning to the end.
Delicate tenderness I have too realized is very natural to our body for both men and women. We are really very precious and delicate and we want to express this way.
It’s interesting how far away from the truth we have walked when in general, a bodywork treatment is expected to be firm – the harder the better for many, and yet our body responds to, can let go and heal with barely any movement whatsoever if the quality of that movement is aligned to the quality we all are in our essence – Love.
Thank you Janina, it can be a surprise to realise that just being who we truly are is the biggest healing for others to receive, instead of trying to get things “right” when we are doing something.
“Connective Tissue Therapy – Connecting to my Tenderness” – connecting to oneself in true harmlessness… I can’t help but imagine the quality effect on the world if everyone had the joy in receiving Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy.
After having experienced many Connective Tissue Therapy sessions and having done some of the exercises every day for several years now I am still blown away with the tenderness and the delicateness of each gentle movement. No matter how I am feeling the movements bring me quickly back to my body and allow me to connect to the stillness that I natural hold within. I love and appreciate having Connective Tissue Therapy exercises as part of my tool box for life and it always will be, so amazing are the results in my body.
I also find that when I give an Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy healing to someone, that I can feel the healing response coming back to me as well… as I feel the person’s lymphatic pulse and flow in their body, I can also feel my own pulse, finding that by the end of the session the space is so delicate, rhythmic and still.
It is incredible and profound what can be felt in my body and the body on the table when I’m offering a Connective Tissue therapy treatment. It can be like walking through muddy water to start with then opening up to a a clear flowing stream that you feel every movement is in complete harmony within and with all around you.
“Connective Tissue Therapy – Connecting to my Tenderness” – so very true Janina, after a session my body feels amazing, gentle, delicate, lightness and in rhythmic order.. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is my all-time favourite healing modality and ultimate rejuvenation.
What I love about all the Universal Medicine modalities is no matter what we are sharing the benefit is to both client and practitioner so no burnout for the practitioner!
“This particular esoteric modality has supported me to drop deeper into my body and into stillness, and to really begin to connect to my tenderness” – absolutely me too Janina, Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is so beautifully, truly tenderising.. and who doesn’t enjoy consuming in full gusto that which is tenderised?!
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy allows us to re-connect to a true movement within our bodies, that we can come back to make it our natural way of being.
I am currently on a combined Esoteric Yoga and Bodywork program which incorporates Connective Tissue movements and the subtlety of these movements is amazing for my body. Connective Tissue of parts of my body I hadn’t realised about, the misconception I had that it was only in certain parts of my body, my joint areas when it is everywhere.
I fell in love with connective tissue when I first began to receive it from an esoteric practitioner. My body just loved it and responded to the lovely movements. Its as if the therapy un-do movements that no longer supports my body.
With Connective Tissue Therapy I feel a warm tender flow of divine love connecting every part of my body, in a most powerful and subtle way.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy offers the opportunity to surrender and feel every fibre in your body as the flow of energy is felt through a connection to your inner being.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has been one of the most life-changing modalities that I have ever experienced. Having sessions with a practitioner and doing the exercises that I was given, at least once and sometimes twice a day, has been without any doubt whatsoever instrumental in the healing of my very long-term sciatica condition. This was a condition that many had tried to ‘fix’ over a period of 40 years but with no long-term success so I had resigned myself to the fact that I would have it for the rest of my life…but no, it is finally healed and this amazing modality is now an integral part of my life, and always will be.
This is what it is about, allowing ourselves to be all that we are already. So often life catches us trying to be something or trying or driving to be more etc etc and yet not only on our very door step but waiting asleep inside of us is everything we have seen life needs to be and all we need do is surrender to it and allow it out. Call it love, divine connection, God, ancient wisdom, we only need to stop and release ourselves to being everything we feel. It’s not that you don’t move but more our movement is inspired from this connection and from here life truly takes a different turn.
Having previously been a remedial masseur and kinesiology therapist for many years I never stop being amazed by Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy in that it is so gentle and appears to do so little yet it is so profound.
‘I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.’ So gorgeous to feel and read such truth.
I have found Connective Tissue Therapy to be of great benefit to my body as it brings the stillness of life to me and supports me releasing the imposition of the world.
Beautifully expressed John, and is my experience too.
There is nothing more delicious and loving that I have connected to and experienced – is to allow myself to be tender as it is possible with myself and love me just for that!
I’ve been loving and appreciating the tenderness and delicateness of me when there is no mask and no hiding. It’s not only heart-meltingly beautiful but powerful too.
When I first had a connective tissue session I wondered what on Earth was happening as the session was so subtle, but the feeling in my body was not. My body went through massive changes and to me it was something magical.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a beautifully gentle therapy that can produce very powerful results. It can be surprising to feel how something so gentle and slight in movements has such a profound effect for the body.
Beautiful janina – a truth that knows no boundaries, that is in depth with the All, and no individualism whatshowever.
I love how having a session of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy reflects and confirms the tender and delicate vehicles we express from and subtly of the movements made. It is magic.
I too love the Esoteric Connective Therapy, during a session one time I felt my hips very subtly adjust, it was an amazing feeling as it released any tension I had in this area.
I agree the Connective Tissue modality by Universal Medicine is absolutely profound. With the slightest of movements and the ability to let go and surrender is incredible. Each time I have this I feel deeply supported and feel my body and the vibration that I am emanating is super tangible.
Janina today reading your blog this line stood out for me “I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.” I can really relate because it can feel challenging at times to show the depths of our true selves but when we do it is a gift for ourselves and others (even if they react to it).
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy for me feels like it helps reestablish a flow in my body and then leaves me to expand the flow and walk with it – so it is not a quick short term fix but rather an instilling of a quality. It helps me surrender more to the love that I am and let go of tension and hardness which I have been carrying.
It is quite sad that as a society we have come to the point where we question our tender way of being and even consider that it is ‘too much’, or a quality that is undesirable. Yet it is our natural way of being, and when we allow ourselves to embrace our tenderness within we are basically being ourselves and expressing who we are. It is beautiful to feel that there are modalities of healing such Connective Tissue Therapy that are supporting us to return to feeling the power of our connection to an inner-most tender quality, a quality what truly defines who we all innately are.
I love Connective Tissue Therapy, it is so very tender and gentle, so subtle, yet so powerful in bringing me into stillness in my body feeling all the parts connecting in the warmth of whole bodyness.
Our bodies are made of so much connective tissue, that the level of tenderness and stillness that is naturally within our body just in the connective tissue should be felt as a normal part of our Livingness by everyone. Thank you for sharing Janina, if we were to all live with a focus on what our bodies are moving like, and the effect that we are having on our connective tissue would we treat our bodies the way we do? Being tender with our bodies should be our normal way of living.
It is a great modality, I liken it to being back in the womb, I just fall into a sought of sleep that is not really sleep but very restful healing place each time.
So true we often think we have to do something to offer support to another. How amazing to know that being ourselves deeply is the most precious thing we can offer to another.
Gorgeously said. When I am met by others who hold a deep connection to who they are I feel at ease to be myself and an openness to express freely what I feel.
Coming back from the hardness and the roughness can take time, but would be so much more difficult to do without the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy – this I have found has been a huge support over the years.
It takes some commitment and dedication to get back to the tenderness we were born with. This has been a work in progress for me, as I break down the false idea of tenderness meaning meek and mild. There is so much strength in simply knowing who we are, and the more we practice accepting that, the clearer it becomes that we have spent so much time trying to be someone we’re not.
How could we ever doubt that tenderness could be too much, and yet we do, and how many of us have accepted a life without or very little tenderness. What we learn from the world that we have to be rough and tough to get through life is not true and it is up to us to claim back the tenderness that we all deserve all the time.
There’s a famous ‘Star Wars’ line from the character Yoda – along the lines of “No try, just do.”
It is no small thing to actually get ourselves completely out of the way, of the magic that’s possible when we allow the natural flow of energy available to us 24/7, to express through our own bodies…
A great sharing Janina, and one I can well relate to. Working with the Esoteric Modalities as taught by Universal Medicine has also played a hugely significant role for myself in letting go the striving and ‘trying’, and embracing a natural flow from my own body, in response to the call from another’s, that is simply already there.
I love this modality and how much it can support you and allow your body to surrender- there is nothing like it. It is a true blessing to receive and to give.
Connective tissue therapy is a heavenly modality that is as divine to receive as it is to give.
This is beautiful Janina. We are often so scared to be tender. We spend our lives building protection and hardness that we can forget that there is another way to be with each other.
A very beautiful way to learn that we can live in that way all the time and that it is very natural for us to do so.
In amongst all the horror and realities of this world we often feel small, want to hide and protect ourselves from it. Being open, tender and delicate can feel rather vulnerable in such a world but it is by far the strongest way to be as it can make so many melt and open up their hearts too.
When a practitioner connects to their tenderness it is very supportive to feel, and the body automatically drops to a much deeper state of being.
I had the most awesome Connective Tissue session with Universal Medicine practitioner just the other week. I have had many sessions before with this modality, and whilst I’ve enjoyed the stillness of lying on a massage table and not having anything expected of me, this time was different. I really allowed my body to surrender and whilst I can’t describe exactly what it was I was feeling, it was almost as if I could feel the connective tissue in my hips and joints with each gentle movement. The movements are ever so small, but at the same time very profound.
When I did Level 1 Esoteric Connective Tissue I did not enjoy giving the sessions although I enjoyed receiving them, and I felt the course wasn’t for me as a practitioner. Level 1 Esoteric Connective Tissue is going to be presented in the UK in November and I feel that I need to discern as to whether the course is for me and that there are issues within me to heal. Thank you Janina for sharing.
I am beginning to learn for myself just how powerful tenderness and delicateness is. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy gives us a beautiful felt experience of these qualities, which we can then embody and live – and reflect to others. It’s great you no longer hold back Janina!
I have had the same experience of dropping deeply into my tenderness, love and stillness when receiving or practicing a Universal Medicine Healing modality. It’s an amazing feeling, it’s like a surrender to all that I truly am and feels delicious for the body to experience. We often think of health as pertaining to physical things alone like exercise and diet, yet when I surrender to my love, stillness and tenderness and this energy floods my body, it has a very powerful and positive effect on my health.
This is one of the many things I love about Universal Medicine – “I am learning to allow myself to be all the tenderness and love that I am; and learning to connect to the depth of tenderness and love that we all are.”
That is is supporting people to return to live the tender, amazing beings we truly are.
I am learning to be more tender with me and that I can be this in the world, actually that I can dare be this in the world and that in fact the world needs more of our tenderness. So great to read this today, reminding me once again to be tender, and take it with me everywhere.
Awesome blog for me to read at the moment as I am learning to build and deepen my tenderness in everything I do. What I am realising is that I get thrown off from staying connected to myself when I am not moving and expressing from this tenderness that is naturally in me. My communication and the way I express to others is very much affected by how I choose to be with myself first. Amazing to be more aware of this.
The Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy modality is exquisitely tender, so simple and revealing. I cannot hide how I have been living that is not honouring of my body’s natural rhythms, and cannot hide from the beautiful tenderness I naturally am. The contrast may be a huge pause for reflection but I am never not inspired to honour my innate tenderness in my everyday life despite all the roughness I see around me that I interpret as being told it’s not acceptable to live tenderly. Not reflecting the tenderness I feel inside to the world confirms to others that it’s not safe to feel so lovely.
I love how Connective Tissue Therapy helps reminds me and my body of how exquisitely tender I am and how the more I surrender inwardly the more I feel a sense of flow in my body as opposed to the tension and anxiousness I usually live with.
I have found tenderness to be one of the antidotes to hardness. And this comes from someone who has lived with hardness all of her life, and is now learning to re-connect to my tenderness. It is a much more gorgeous place to come from. And I agree that Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a true support to keep re-connecting to the tenderness.
The Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a powerful modality that supports the body to truly surrender and to feel the exquisite stillness we all have within.
My body has changed so much from all the connective tissue sessions I have had and has released layers of hardness and protection. Thus my body says a big yes to receiving connective tissue as it knows how deeply supportive it is in returning to health and vitality.
A lovely sharing Janina thank you, I really love Connective Tissue Therapy, it is a very powerful modality that allows the tenderness within the stillness to be truly felt and experienced.
When we move and live from our stillness of love within, tenderness is our natural way. This is what the world needs so much more of today. It is a quality that we can never have too much of as being all that we naturally are is what brings lightness and the wisdom of our love to all that we do.
I really enjoyed the strong sense of surrender in this blog, just allowing yourself to be all that you are. I find that with all the Universal Medicine therapies, including Connective Tissue Therapy, that they support me to return to who I truly am, and let go of the constructed version of myself.
I find Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy helps re-establish a flow of love and tenderness in my body – it is like it sends waves up and down the body allowing it to be more open and spacious rather than keeping it tight as we are generally so used to doing. It is definitely highly recommended and the effects from such ‘minor’ movements are truly profound.
Tenderness is the stand-out quality of connective tissue therapy – I’m with you Janine – I absolutely love it.
It’s amazing that within our bodies there is a river flowing of pure harmony, there and ready to be connected to and have as a flow if we are willing to. Funny isn’t it that the harmony is there as a potential but quite often we go about life in a manner that keeps this river from being connected to. The Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is helping us out with connecting us back to that and gives us a safe space to explore us embracing this harmony once again. And it feels tremendous in the body!
The power of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is in is super simple. It is so deeply resting, rejuvenating and healing that it often surprises me how something so simple can be so powerful.
I can totally relate to the pressure of doing something the ‘right way’, and losing complete sight of the purpose. It’s so easy to fall into that trap of mistrusting ourselves. How awesome to have someone in your life, a point of reflection to remind you that you already know it all and there’s no such thing as getting it wrong when you’re connected.
What a wonderful line Elodie…”there’s no such thing as getting it wrong when you’re connected”, now that would make a great fridge magnet! Beautiful, simple words to live by.
I too found this Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy really supportive in connecting to my stillness and tenderness, it is an amazing therapy that really supports you to go deeper in ones connection. It is through these sessions that I really began to understand the truth of what tenderness was.
I find that Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is as beautiful to give as it is to receive. This modality is like no other. Loved your blog Janina , all we have to do as a practitioner is connect to our innate stillness and surrender.
This is such a beautiful example of how often we are governed by what we think we should be doing, trying to do something rather than trusting what we innately know is true and allowing it to unfold organically. I also love how by allowing this divine modality to support you that you were able to connect with yourself at a much deeper level; a reconnection to the tenderness you naturally are.
It’s a great example of letting go of solely focusing on what we do, and making it about who we are and the quality of energy we are in – that is when the magic happens!
With Connective Tissue Therapy I really have learnt that less is more in respect of how the body changes. How subtle movements of the tissue affect deeper change than would be possible with a stronger pressure. I love this modality and the effect that lengthening the tissue in this way has on my overall state of being, my sense of ease within myself.
‘This particular esoteric modality has supported me to drop deeper into my body and into stillness, and to really begin to connect to my tenderness’ This is so supportive in communicating. I have found that when I can stay with this, I seem to be heard in a way that is not possible when trying to get one’s point across or even just being firm about one’s position. Connecting to my tenderness is connecting to a truth in me that is felt.
Thank you Janina for a beautiful sharing, I just love having Connective Tissue Therapy it is so tender and delicate that I get to feel this throughout my body, a beautiful sharing for both.
A beautiful quality of the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is the deepening of connecting with, and expressing, tenderness on the part of both the client and practitioner – so delicious to experience.
Beautiful to re-read your post Janina. “I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.” We can never be too tender with ourselves – or with others. I find Esoteric Yoga also supports me with this connection.
What more can a body want than to be held in tenderness and love. We have been searching for this for such a long time and so it feels amazing and normal and extraordinary!
I agree Janina, the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is so deceptively simple and its effects are so very deep.
To be held in tenderness by another is very beautiful as it is to hold ourselves in this way too.
Tenderness is also an immense support for ourselves. I know how vitalised I feel when I am tender with myself and others. It’s very healing for our own body to express our natural, innate quality of tenderness.
Dear Janina, I love how you shared the wanting to do the technique right was not the way to be with Connective Tissue Therapy. That in itself is a revelation, as many modalities depend upon the precision and correctness of their application. But never before Universal Medicine Therapies have I heard it be said that to apply the technique, with tenderness, is the key to the power of the modalities. There is something to consider very deeply here, as shouldn’t deep care and tenderness lie at the heart of any healing modality? Yet in our world today we have countless modalities of healing that are based on knowledge and fixing, which doesn’t ask us to connect with our tenderness and to work from it, first and foremost.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has become an integral part of my life so much so that I constantly do my Esoteric Connective Tissue Exercises first thing in the morning and last thing at night as well as at regular intervals during the day!
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions offer an opportunity for both the client and the practitioner to connect to a deep sense of stillness within and be aware of the flow of energy within the body.
Learning to surrender brings a greater awareness and with that can be felt the protective hardness that we hold in our bodies constantly.. If we walk around in this protection, our bodies can lock into ill-movements that serve to entrench deeper ill in the body, that will ultimately manifest in physical dysfunction or disability – Learning to feel and to let go, discard those layers of protection the body is once more free to move in its natural flow and we can regain our natural lightness of being that we may not have even realised we had lost and living a diminished version of true ourselves..
the deep delicateness and sensitivity of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy brings a magical expansion in my body and it comes alive and spacious in a way that is difficult to describe, but profound in its power.
Well said Janina, there is such a power and strength in surrendering. I used to think it was all about how much I could gain but the more I surrender to the love that i am the more I see that nothing outside in the world is greater than the love I am from and am. And the beauty is this depth of love is equally inside every single one of us we just have to choose to let go of the many layers we have erroneously covered it with.
Recognising the power of connecting to and expressing the stillness and tenderness within, is a beautiful lesson to learn and embrace, and a divine part of any healing treatment.
I struggled for some time to accept that I was capable of being “tender and delicate” with myself, in fact these beautiful qualities felt impossible to connect to. But with my introduction to Connective Tissue Therapy I began to feel that it was actually possible, and little by little my body began to respond and to change in many subtle ways which was such a joy to feel. Like you I have come to know that to treat myself with tenderness and to acknowledge that I am delicate, “is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.”
“This particular esoteric modality has supported me to drop deeper into my body and into stillness, and to really begin to connect to my tenderness.” Yes Janina I too feel the beauty of deep surrender to our innate tenderness in Connective Tissue sessions and how from very simple and gentle movements the body simply melts into such beautiful stillness effortlessly. Absolutely gorgeous.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a modality that totally supports the body to drop and surrender…. it is one of the most truly exquisitely holding and honouring treatments I’ve ever had. For me, it always reveals how I have been holding myself, whether stressed and overwhelmed or open and letting others in, you get to feel it all and at the same time lovingly supported to let go and allow the natural rhythm and flow of the body once again.
Very true, tenderness is an amazing gift for ourself and others. It is the innate quality we have, a quality of stillness being still in every moment. Giving us the possibility to be our all in every moment, creating space for ourself and others in the way we move.
“I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others” This Janina is such a life changing revelation; I know because it has changed my life in many amazing ways and Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has been one of the main players in this change. I love the deep connection experiencing this modality has brought me and the healing that has resulted from this has been nothing short of miraculous.
I can absolutely relate to ‘I tried to do the technique how I have learned it, however time didn‘t seem to pass in a session…’ I have experienced the same thing Janina. When I ‘try’ so hard to do things ‘right’, my body is under so much pressure that it goes into a kind of stiffness which is naturally uncomfortable and as a result the time does not seem to pass, because I’m so focused on the opposite of what is needed at the time. Choosing someone to practice with that you feel safe with is a great way to help shake out the ‘trying’, and just gently trust that you know what to do.
I love the link you make here between true healing and surrender. This understanding is gold I reckon because surrendering to our stillness is actually one of the key element to truly healing the energetic roots of our problems
Janina being tender, precious and still with ourselves and others is a therapy in itself.
Thank Janina, beautiful to read I could feel the tenderness of your sharing, I love receiving Connective Tissue sessions and the deep feeling of tenderness and stillness that pervades my being. I am looking forward to practising this very gentle modality sometime soon. ”I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.”
Janina, this is wonderful to feel…”To connect to my tenderness and truly drop into a deep stillness, connecting to the person and allowing myself to be as tender as I am, is beautiful. And to trust, and listen to what I feel is needed is supporting and expansive for both of us.” This is true for all the Universal Medicine modalities. I have found the level of integrity held by the practitioners to be awe inspiring. I am studying Chakra Puncture and to do my best to apply myself in the same way makes for an incredibly beautiful session every time.
What a wonderful discovery for all of humanity ..”I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.”
People I treat with Connective Tissue Therapy are often surprised how little input I actually give and how powerful the effect is on the body. And it is opposite to have the idea that we have to put a lot of force on the body to heal tension or other symptoms or that if you have a really big and strong men that you cannot give such a tender treatment?
‘To connect to my tenderness and truly drop into a deep stillness, connecting to the person and allowing myself to be as tender as I am, is beautiful.’ I agree it is very beautiful to feel my own tenderness, and particularly the tenderness of another too.
So beautiful to feel you being allowing of your tenderness.
I could feel your stillness and tenderness as I was reading Janina and it feels beautiful to receive. It just goes to show that sessions between practitioners and clients are so much more about connection than about technique. Thank you.
Today i gave a connective tissue session to a friend it was beautifully to experience once i surrender to the flow and than there is no me doing it but being moved by the rhythm of the body. Actually it is getting me out of the to offer the rhythm which is needed.
I too have found this gentle Connective Tissue modality super powerful when it comes to unlocking the long held patterns of behaviour I have in my body that don’t support me to feel vital and joyful. I never cease to be in awe of the difference using such a gentle touch makes to how my body feels afterwards.
Absolutely Judith, it is amazing to be part of an Esoteric Connective Tissue session and feel the true power of such a tender touch and the results that transpire.
What is important to differentiate is that a tender and loving touch is not automatically sexual. Even some people might have experienced such a touch only when it comes to sexuality and they can than misinterpreted it. But the intention and integrity is crucial here.
My experience is that many clients when i give massage they hold on but once i start with Connective Tissue Therapy they willingly surrender and let go, very deep and beautiful to experience.
I too am “Deeply inspired by the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine…” for introducing the Connective Tissue modality has delivered the wonderment of feeling the deepest stillness within my body, and from this, I know, and am confirmed that there is far more to life… the ordinary is actually extraordinary… All this from the modalities of Universal Medicine…
I feel like we can hold back because we think that being so tender will be weird or too much but it is beautiful to allow this natural way, our natural way, to be. How very honouring it is to allow this to come through you and how very honouring it is for your client.
I love your honesty Janina – opening yourself to this modality and all that it brings has taken you to a deeper level of experiencing who you truly are and the tenderness possible. Your comment – ‘And to trust, and listen to what I feel is needed is supporting and expansive for both of us’, exposes the life we have been living in the world and the old belief that to be busy, doing and achieving is what life is about. Connective tissue is exactly what it says ‘connecting’, a beautiful and allowing technique requiring absolute trust and deeply tender connection. Thank you Janina for sharing.
Janina, sometimes I find it very hard to allow myself to connect to my tenderness-sometimes I avoid going there. When I do it feels so nourishing and divine- its like coming home.
Janina it’s beautiful to hear tenderness be spoken of in this way “I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.”
Re reading your blog and the following comments I am reminded of how amazingly powerful and healing the Connective Tissue Therapy is for the body. I am feeling very inspired to receive some treatments as this Esoteric Modality offers the body a beautiful opportunity to connect deeply with our stillness and preciousness.
Connective Tissue Therapy is a very tender and gentle but incredibly powerful modality to both give and receive. I’ve had similar experiences to yours Janina when initially starting to practice the modality but what helped me was to understand that the client is responsible for their own healing and this took the pressure off me to “perform”. Yes, I have to ensure I’m deeply connected with myself and that is my responsibility and I find if I do this and drop into that place of stillness I’m then open to feeling what the client needs in that session because I’ve got myself out of the way.
Yes getting myself out of the way allows for what is there to express.
Janina it’s so lovely to read and feel your deep appreciation of your tenderness. It is indeed a wonderful gift for us all. And it allows us to see that being gorgeously tender is very possible in a world that often presents the opposite of tenderness: a harsh reality that people subscribe to. But I have never seen how being hard and tough has ever helped anyone. I’ve only seen it invite greater adversity and less humility.
You’re absolutely right Karin. We think by hardening we are protecting, but we’re doing the exact opposite. This is a golden nugget that took me some time to accept.
I share your experience Janina. The quality and trust that is required to give Connective Tissue sessions require a little time to get used to. However the modality speaks for itself once fully appreciated and understood.
Just when we look at each other without doing or saying anything do i allow that other people really see me in the depth of tenderness that i am? Time to drop our guards and mask and to let others see and feel the beauty that we are.
Janina I see you do this in bucketfuls and it is gorgeous to behold.
Hopefully we allow the latter 😛
Recently I was at an event where we practised to choose a quality before we go into movement. Doing the gentle breath mediation and feeling the tender fingertips. What it is now about, is to deepen the quality and get to know it on a physical level. To deepen my tenderness and to let it expand in my whole body. To hold it in whatever i do.
Connective Tissue is such a powerful modality. It often exposes the control I exert on my body and life that is born of protection and miss-trust. But through checking in with myself and feeling the beautiful quality of the practitioner I trust myself to let go and surrender to my natural flow; a flow that’s in tune with the universe. This I can take with me because it is me. I return to it if I choose the old habit of bracing myself from the world.
Very cool Karin.
This blog is a timely read for me today Janina. I sometimes don’t appreciate just how powerful our tenderness is. On my morning swim I was in the change room and a lady asked if I could zip up her dress and so I did. I pulled the zip up with such tenderness and care. I then placed my hand gently on the top of her shoulder and said there you go. Her shoulders dropped in that instance and so did my body, it was a beautiful example of how tenderness holds us all in deep loving connections. Thank you.
Such a simple thing to do Kelly but how powerful in that it allowed you both to surrender in that moment.
I love Connective Tissue sessions and the depth that is revealed when we allow. So beautiful that you were able to drop to a deeper level of trust in yourself and all that you have to offer. Thank you for sharing Janina.
Janina, this is a lovely step you have made in your connection with yourself. One of the things that stood out to me was the way that your experiences changed and deepened once you felt that you could trust yourself and know that you were enough just as you were. Nothing new was required; just you being you. This is just a gift to yourself and others and I feel inspired by it. Thank you.
Well said Helen and it is amazing when we can find a way to trust ourselves and allow the magic and miracles to flow through us.
It is amazing how tender and subtle the movement of connective tissue is, and how much of a healing effect it has on our body, the results can be astounding.
Yesterday I gave a Connective Tissue treatment to my female friend I shared about in the blog. First I had to stop myself to bring myself in the position where I offer a quality of presence which allows and offers but has not investment of an certain outcome. Then I offered little movements and could feel I flow of tenderness which came throughout my body and through my hands that were doing the movements. I never have felt this so clear before and it felt exquisite. My friend shared that she felt that there was a lot of tension in her ankles and they became very soft.
Just like you Janina I love love love Connective Tissue Therapy and wholeheartedly agree that through both giving and receiving this divine modality I too am learning that my tenderness and delicateness is in fact a strength and not something to hide, distrust or think is a weakness.
..my tenderness and delicateness is in fact a strength and not something to hide, distrust or think is a weakness.“ beautiful reminder Suse to starting deeply to honor the delicate and tender women that we are and not to diminish our level of tenderness for any reason in the world.
Trust develops the relationship we have with ourselves by honouring what we feel. I love how this is confirmed in how my body feels.
It is an awesome modality with a deep connection to the body that feels amazingly lovely. It took me a while to feel this. In some of the early sessions I had of Connective Tissue Therapy, I didn’t feel like this, but eventually I let myself trust that I am enough and the deep connection that this allowed was beautiful.
I agree Marion and much needed in our world where we push ourselves and our bodies to the extreme and become very hard. Connective Tissue therapy offers a depth of surrendering and melting into ourselves, into the tender and preciousness we truly are.
Such a beautiful description of what CTT offers ‘a depth of surrendering and melting into ourselves, into the tender and preciousness we truly are.’ Such a gift to share that with another.
Yes absolutely Janina, Connective Tissue Therapy is “such a beautiful and fine method of healing” once experienced never forgotten.
Having received many Connective Tissue Healings I can vouch for the effectiveness of this Technique, and how beautiful one feels during and after a treatment Janina.
Lovely Janina. You express beautifully how Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy enables both the practitioner and the client to connect with, and develop tenderness. From a point of tenderness one is able to be aware of so much more.
Beautifully said Jonathan” From a point of tenderness one is able to be aware of so much more.”
Today I met some friends and I had the impulse to tenderly stroke one of my friends hair and she said she loves to be touched by me because I am so tender. How great when we don’t hold back doing something like this when we feel to.
Yes Melissa, very well said, we all deserve to be our tender and loving selves again, just like when we were are small child.
Exactly Janina, as we are natural very expressingfull beings, so the quality is key. If we use believes and ideals to move forward we actually limit ourselves extremely, and than there is no power or love. Therefore the quality of expression is key, and must be always from our origin, which is, ofcourse, love. As why would that be the one thing we are all so much looking for?!
Sharing this healing modality is a true gift. That deep inner stillness is profound – to feel our own tenderness and inner stillness is so beautiful, to then feel this in another is amazing.
Janina a simple profound article, Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is amazing to receive, it gave me a realisation of how hard we are on a daily basis with our body, and how truly tender and delicate our body actually is.
Absolutely Janina, when we drop into our tenderness we feel how we receive just as much giving the session, as receiving it.
It seems once we trust and give ourselves permission to be tender and delicate with ourselves, it gives others permission to do so as well. Connective Tissue Therapy reminds us of this long forgotten fact and it is so delicious to connect and feel this loving and very playful way to be in our bodies. As I always remember Kate Greenway saying, “the body loves sliding and gliding”. When I feel this in my movements I feel connected to joy absolute glory.
Being at our most tender and delicate with people can never be ‘too much’, because the more we are our most authentic, the more that allows others to drop their walls of protection and to feel safe to experience their own tenderness and delicateness. In so doing, they get to feel and appreciate that it’s not some sort of state of flakiness and weakness, but in fact a deep inner foundational strength.
A beautiful sharing Janina on the power of the Connective Tissue Therapy, I love how this modality invites us to connect more deeply to our tenderness. Your blog is a great reminder that this quality can be with me at all times if I chose to deepen my stillness and allow my tenderness to be with me throughout my day.
Very beautiful Janina. It is so true what you say about our tenderness – ‘it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.’ I am learning more and more how trusting my connection to my tenderness within allows me to be open to share this quality with others. And when I do allow myself to share All of me in this way with others, it does feel very beautiful, expansive and truly honoring.
Yes I loved that too Joseph ‘fine’ and your expansion into china with that, it’s a fantastic way to describe it, because fine bone china is a precious thing and needs to be handled with delicacy and care both in how it’s used and how it’s kept. And that’s a brilliant analogy for how we can treat our own bodies with real tenderness and care and yet in that there is a great depth and strength when we allow it just as Janina has. It’s one of my favourite modalities, so simple and yet super powerful.
I agree Amanda this is so crucial that we are equally tender to ourselves and to all others.
It is amazing how when we trust ourselves, our connection to our tenderness, our love, our truth, that there is a natural flow with what is needed, in all that we do, that is timeless and a joy to be with and share.
I am amazed of the power and effect of Connective Tissue Therapy. When I give a session my body is responding so strongly and letting go and surrendering. When I have parts of my body in tension like my shoulders, they start dropping during the treatment. The depth of surrendering to your own body is something worth experiencing and deeply healing.
Yes Roberta, it is a blessing when we allow ourselves to feel how tender we all innately are and to express it in everything we do.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy sessions offer a stillness and tenderness to both the practitioner and client as the flow of energy through the body can be felt. When I was doing practice hours as part of the training I understood the meaning of ‘less is more’ as the most subtle and tender movements are felt.
“To connect to my tenderness and truly drop into a deep stillness, connecting to the person and allowing myself to be as tender as I am, is beautiful. And to trust, and listen to what I feel is needed is supporting and expansive for both of us.” I love what you say here Janine, Connective Tissue is absolutely divine modality, when we feel the tenderness and gentleness of who we are life flows and in that tenderness we offer another true reflection.
Yes Joseph, the power of tenderness is much more healing for our body than to give body treatments which puts a lot of pressure and effort on the body and doesn’t really support.
I am in the process of having a program of Connective Tissue Therapy sessions and find them immensely beneficial to my physical body and to my being. I am rendered still and free from the confines and restrictions that we place on the body in a bid to get through life. The modality shows me that tenderness and connection is the baseline from which to live thus supporting my body to be in life, not do life.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is so gentle, so tender, so quiet in its approach yet, the body hears and responds profoundly, lovingly opening to its true flow and rhythm, deepening connection and stillness. This is a great example of how to approach our daily lives……so gentle, so tender profound in its deep connection.
Beautifully expressed Barbara Ross, thank you.
I agree, Janina: esoteric connective tissue therapy is my absolute favourite modality and does indeed allow one to drop so deeply into Stillness it is divine. After this occurs, one cannot but live and express more tenderness for themselves and for others as one has experienced the truth of who one innately is.
A very real and true gift to all is Connective Tissue Therapy. In each session I have been given the opportunity to surrender in full to my own loveliness and sometimes exhaustion. My body is quick to go there, it loves the depth it can go to release what it must. I love the feeling of openness and surrender with these sessions.
Esoteric ConnectiveTissue therapy is truly amazing, so profound in its tenderness.
Connective Tissue Sessions have really changed my life – I used to live with severe lower back pain, and since receiving sessions from Kate Greenaway, this pain is now managed to the point where I no longer need a back operation. Understanding how important healthy connective tissues are to the well being of our bodies has been a revelation and life changing. The simple and gentle excercises that Kate encourages us to do at home between sessions are what my body needs to keep its connective tissue working at an optimum level. I love going to my Connective Tissue sessions – it is a joy to feel the deep tenderness and harmony that my body reflects back to me after each session.
That’s so cool Ruth, how amazing for you to receive and be open to the importance of Connective Tissue. I feel the same as you’ve expressed ‘… it is a joy to feel the deep tenderness and harmony that my body reflects back to me after each session.’
Yes, the exercises are so lovely to execute and seem to draw a natural inspiration from within the body itself as to how it wants to move and stretch, I have found, Ruth. It is a very different way to exercise.
This is amazing what you share here ruthanderssen007 the effect Connective Tissue Therapy had for you and how it supported with your back pain and not needing an operation. A Miracle!
As I read your amazing blog Janina I could feel how beautiful it must be to get a session form you. It is a gift to be treated with so much tenderness and respect. What a difference it can be in the body to be touched in such a way.
Yes esteraltmiks it is a profound experience and for many very healing and to be treated with tenderness and respect.
Connective Tissue Therapy is a truly beautiful Modality. I have had many treatments from Kate Greenaway in recent times and I can really feel the difference in my body, and am still learning to hold that energy of tenderness in my body, and when I do it feels so lovely. Thank you for sharing Janina.
Yes Roslyn Mahony, Connective Tissue Therapy has a deep effect on the body and supported me to surrender more easy and in full into my body even. Even when i don’t receive a session and just to choose to mediate and be still.
I love receiving Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy – the exquisite tenderness of a practitioner and the deep stillness I connect within as a receiver. I have wanted to learn to practice this beautiful modality, and your sharing has really inspired me to do so. Thank you, Janina.
Janina I too have experienced the expansiveness and tenderness from these treatments. I also find that if I lose this feeling then I know that I’m disconnecting from body, and am reminded to re-connect again.
There is nothing more gorgeous than a person honouring and expressing their tenderness.
To feel someone who is choosing this, you can be left in no doubt that this is our natural way.
“I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others”
Precious indeed Janina
Your beautiful expression has inspired me to feel more my tenderness and delicateness and to express that to others.
I have found in the ‘Connective Tissue Sessions’ I have with a Universal Medicine practitioner, that I am able to let go and open up to a depth of surrender that I have never experienced in life. The healing that occurs is absolutely amazing, I have a deep gratitude for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for this powerful healing modality.
I agree Rebecca, it is in Connective Tissue Therapy sessions that I have been able to truly surrender to myself too. It is such a delicate and precious modality in and of itself. A real and true gift to humanity.
I love connective tissue – it is such a simple technique, but the affect is so profound. A connective tissue session is one of the only times I really feel myself where I am able to let go and surrender to myself.
I agree Rebecca. I have started practising very gently connective tissue exercises in the morning and they support me very much to connect to my body. Very little movement but profound effect. Amazing.
Awesome Janina – sometimes more is less.
For me also Janina to experience Connective Tissue Therapy is so, so gentle and with this gentleness comes a trust to allow yourself to really feel in depth the energetic vibration within the body which tells its own story back. An amazing healing technique.
Something I needed to read right now as a reminder X
It is so true Janina that ‘To connect to my tenderness and truly drop into a deep stillness, connecting to the person and allowing myself to be as tender as I am, is beautiful’. And to be with someone in this way offers the beautiful reflection that they too are of this delicate and tender essence. That through you being this way, connected to your stillness and to what is needed, allows another the opportunity to feel and connect to this stillness within, for themselves through the powerful modality of Connective Tissue. A very beautiful sharing – thank you.
Thank you Janina. It is impossible to do this treatment without feeling all of that isn’t it? It stands out like a sore thumb! We simply are delicate, tender and still! I never knew what stillness felt like, I always associated with a physical movement or lack therof. But Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy supported me to feel stillness and then stillness in motion. Wow that is inside us!!!!
I agree Janina Esoteric Connective Tissue is a gentle but very powerful modality that is truly divine to both give and receive.
I love what you have shared here Janina. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has been such a wonderful support for me to surrender to that tender, fragile part of myself. I found this was not just in the receiving of a session but in giving one too. There is a moment when the body just surrenders and lets go like a big sigh. It is exquisite to feel in another and to experience yourself.
Thank you Janina and Penny, I absolutely agree, the divine power of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy has also inspired me.
Your level of honesty touches me deeply, dear Janina. It shows your trust and with it comes the learning and healing, very beautiful.
Beautiful Janina, this blog allowed me to see the preciousness we each hold within when we let go of all the pretenses we can hold onto and choose to be the tenderness we truly are. I felt myself drop back into me reading your words as I let go of trying, accepting the stillness I hold within and it was as if my body just sighed a great big sigh of relief. Thank you!
Yes, Jade we can get caught in doing and trying and really miss out then; miss out on the beauty and tenderness we and others are.
Connective Tissue Therapy is such a amazing way to remind ourselves again to surrender deep within the body and to simply feel.
Janina, it is as you describe such a process of feeling and reconnecting to the deep stillness and tenderness in yourself and the client, the two-way process as Jonathan has called it. To surrender and truly feel who we are is deeply healing and amazing to experience.
A beautiful description, Janina, of the quality of the modality. It is this quality of tenderness that makes it so effective rather than being skilled with the technique, and it is such two-way process of deepening.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is divine and so supportive. It helps me too to connect with my sensitivity and tenderness, and more than that, to feel the strength in honouring those qualities.
We miss our tenderness so much, it is such a precious gift, as you say, to have a modality that supports this re-connection.
True, this is a gift and a way to connect to something that is deeply missed.
After each session of Connective Tissue Therapy I feel more able to maintain the tenderness and delicateness and deep stillness that I feel during the session, and my nervous system is so appreciative.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a gift from heaven, the stillness and tenderness that it nurtures and supports is out of this world, second to none.
Janina I also questioned if I was doing the connective tissue technique correctly. Like you trusting what I felt and letting go has supported me to feel the incredible surrender in my body that connective tissue therapy offers.
I can really feel from this blog the importance of trusting ourselves and I agree Connective Tissue Therapy is remarkable.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a remarkable and very powerful modality. Looking from the outside it seems as if nothing is happening but the response from the body can be quite spectacularly healing and exquisite.
This is the most amazing bodywork healing modality to both give and receive for all the different reasons given in these comments that convey its flavour and profoundness.
I have found the Connective Tissue modality truly healing for the reasons you describe Janina, enabling me to feel the tenderness, delicateness and deep stillness in my body. I love giving and receiving this practice.
The body has a constant calling for Love, and as we veer away from it whenever and however that occurs it does not stop calling for that which it comes from. Reconnecting to that Love is dependent on our permission and also the amazing support from modalities such as Connective Tissue Therapy. The way back to Love is through the body and what a magical door this modality represents.
I had some pain in my body and a nervous energy. Reading this blog and the comments has helped me to drop deeper into my body and feel the stillness that is there, and I am feeling more calm and less pain. Thank you for sharing Janina.
So true Janina, the connective tissue modality is one of my favorites. It shows me the level of silkiness the body has and is just waiting to be released into.
That is a beautiful word to describe the natural quality of our body: silkiness. I love it, thank you Joel.
Great to read your experience Janina and your honesty with it.
Thank you for sharing Janina. The practice hours for me really help feel a natural way to use this technique. I find it amazing and it humbles me to feel that when I connect and trust, the client’s body always lets me now what is needed.
Janina I agree and also absolutely love esoteric connective tissue too for its fineness and delicateness of a modality that restores the whole body back to its rhythmic naturalness, it is so beautiful to feel one’s silence of stillness. You’re right, there can never ever be too much of this, for this tenderness is the true power and a strength to embody.
“I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.” – this is a great way to describe the Connective Tissue modality. In every session I have had it’s like a chance to feel the power of a silence and stillness that is within us. When everything is energy, feeling the steadiness that that inner-most core of us holds is incredible, even if at times it may only be perceived as a whisper in the back of our mind. When listened to, that so-assumed whisper has more love and wisdom and common sense than the overbearing chatter the mind can run with at times.
This modality never ceases to amaze me in how supportive it has been in connecting me with my body again and the awareness that it brings and how super supportive it is for others when giving the practice sessions, as I have also done the training.
I was raised in the attitude that to be tender and gentle was actually a flaw and that toughness was what was needed to cope and get on with life. It has been quite a turning point in my life to attend Universal Medicine presentations and experience Esoteric Healing modalities and to realise just how far off the mark that earlier thinking was. I am discovering more and more how being tender and gentle is a most glorious gift to myself and others. Thanks Janina for sharing your experiences.
I have had Connective Tissue sessions with Kate Greenway for quite some years now, and it has been an amazing modality that has taught me to re-connect to my body in a way that I never used to. As a former athlete, I always felt that I was connected to my body. And yes, I felt my body, but I did not respect or show it any form of love. Instead I saw it as a machine. The Connective Tissue session I had with Kate Greenway started when I came to see her for chronic heal spurs. But whilst they definitely assisted in my recovery from this ailment, their true worth was the fact that they gave me a true sense of how really delicate and precious the human body is.
“their true worth was the fact that they gave me a true sense of how really delicate and precious the human body is.” – This is lovely Adam, that you got to feel how delicate and precious our bodies are.
I used to judge people who appeared to be delicate and tender and feel frustrated at their fragility and what I perceived as weakness but the more I have worked with the Esoteric healing modalities the more I have discovered how incredibly gentle and tender we all are, it is just whether or not we want to connect to it. I have also felt the power and authority that comes with the attention and care to detail that brings a focus and understanding to any experience or interaction.
” it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others”…indeed it is. And the gift that keeps on giving as well 🙂
Amazing to feel the power of something so simple. It truly is all about honouring our sensitivity and tenderness – which is why Connective Tissue Therapy is so powerful.
As a man I have resisted allowing my body to be tender, concerned as always that it would somehow make me weak. But as I have allowed my body to become more tender in expression, I have found the opposite, for in doing so I have rediscovered a world of energy I was previously unable to feel, due to the way in which I held my body. It is actually very true that as human beings we are very capable of feeling so much, being it projection of someone’s anger from afar, or equally the love that is actually within and all around us. But first we must be prepared to open ourselves up to feeling the world in all its glory and ugliness – equally so – and to do that we must honour the body in the delicateness that we new it to be from birth. For in truth the body is a conduit for feeling energy, and like water, the more supple and tender it is, the more sensitive it is to sensing the world of energy that is actually all around us. If we saw tenderness in this way, especially as men, then we would understand that to be tender is actually a way of being that allows us to be free, expansive, and aware in a way that we can never be whilst we keep our bodies hard and protective.
Beautiful thank you for sharing Adam. It is such a blessing for the world if men start to embrace and live their natural tender essence.
Connective Tissue Therapy is such a gentle beautiful nurturing healing modality. As long as I stay truly connected with myself and feel what is needed for the person on the table, or when I am receiving a CTT allow myself to surrender and to let go. Either way, it’s amazing to feel the beautiful flow that the body responds to.
Thank you for writing about your experience with Connective Tissue Therapy Janina. I love this modality, it’s delicate nature and the stillness I feel as my body surrenders. It always feels so deeply nurturing and healing, whether giving or receiving.
Connective tissue is a great way to surrender to our bodies, and feel how sensitive and precious they are. Since having Connective Tissue therapy I have become a lot more allowing with my body and holding it with a lot less protection. This has helped me to let others see how precious I am, and also to help me see that to “keep people out” I have to harden my body. Over all, I walk around a lot more relaxed and feeling open in my body again.
Your blog is very touching, Janina. Living the tenderness I am sometimes feels to me like I have to protect it. I harden up and in the end I do not enjoy the time then; not with me nor with others. The connective tissue treatment is to me a lovely reconnecting tool when I had hardened up again. But I feel inspired to let more of my tenderness come trough not needing a session to help me on track but letting my tenderness be from deep within.
Thank you, the quality of the technique is what makes it. Not the technique it self.
We need to understand how deeply healing the power of tenderness is and and how effective. As there is still a strong belief that a body treatment needs to dig deep to have an effect and to get rid of symptoms.
I find that when I work with my connective tissue, the minute I try or overextend myself, the connective tissue hardens, even if its ever so slightly. This is such a perfect feedback system from my body. It either feels deliciously open, flowing and expansive or it feels tight and hard. It is difficult for many of us to allow ourselves to be tender, even when we know and trust that this is our true self. How wonderful we have modalities like Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy to support us to feel all of our tenderness.
Beautiful Janina. I can feel your the depth of your tenderness and stillness through your words, and this allows me to stop and also feel the same within me. Thank you for sharing.
I have had Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy many times and I have been amazed at how relaxed and deep I can go with such delicate and tender movements in my body. The tenderness I feel in the sessions allows me connect to my tenderness and go deeper into stillness.
After I have given a Connective Tissue Therapy session I often feel deeply surrendered and relaxed, this is amazing!
What you speak of here Janina is great to hear. The trying and not trusting has been a technique I have adopted in the past and this has prevented me from being all that I am and exploring even more deeply what is available. Tenderness is easy to say yet takes loving dedication and commitment to feel and live as you have shown.
Yes, Lee we all have to learn that tenderness is such a beautiful quality, that men and women are equally tender and that we are all long for being treated with respect and tenderness.
I have also found Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy a lovely support to help me get back in touch with my body and the messages it is sending me. I am not a practitioner of this modality but I was struck by your words ‘And to trust, and listen to what I feel is needed is supporting and expansive for both of us.’ as they are a great reflection for any communication I have with others. Thanks, Janina.
Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is not a technique where the practitioner can go into doing a lot as it is really about being and connecting deeply with oneself and the client as the movements are very small and subtle. So as in all esoteric modalities the focus is not on achieving a result, which can be challenging as we like to identify ourselves by the outcome.
However, as Janina and others in their comments are sharing, it connects me deeply with my tenderness and allows the body to have more space and to let go very deeply. Through that it reduces pain and tension quite significantly and also relieves nervous tension, anxiety and all sorts of other stress symptoms.
Thank you Janina. I can feel the magic of this modality from your words. So precious.
Connective Tissue is a magical technique from Heaven!
Janina I can feel the tenderness you speak of in your words, thank you.
Thank you Janina for sharing your experience of esoteric connective tissue therapy. I find this a deeply connecting and healing modality that supports my physical body.
I totally agree with you, Janina. Connective Tissue Therapy is a deeply healing and absolutely Divine modality. The level of stillness and tenderness it supports the body to go to is truly magical. I deeply love the powerful healing opportunity that this modality offers every time I receive it or give it. Truly amazing.
Hi Janina – I too love the esoteric connective tissue therapy. To me it’s allowing the true essence of who I truly am into my physical body. The modality in itself is a miracle and should be investigated further by mainstream medicine. It is an awesome compliment.
Connective Tissue Therapy is like no other body work in the way is asks, and supports you, to surrender to your own natural rhythm. I love the way you describe both giving and receiving as a time to connect and develop your tenderness and I see now that this is a connection between practitioner and client that is most intimate and tender in itself.
I have found the Esoteric Connective Tissue modality to be truly supportive in reconnecting to my body and feel more fully who I am at my essence.
I too feel this tenderness while giving a treatment. It becomes a marker for me when I step back into to the flow of life. That marker reminds me that I am that tenderness and that I can bring this tenderness into all I do.
I also love this modality and how immediately my body gets into that letting go, that exquisite feeling of the most tender energy passing through me, both when I give and when I receive. I feel it is a great way to connect to who we are.
Thank you Janina. Your description of Connective Tissue Therapy is so true – it is Divine, and ever so tender and delicate. I have not had a single Connective Tissue Session in which I have been able to stay awake! (and I’ve had a lot of sessions – because I love it so much). I always drop into a deep, and very healing sleep as the practitioner delicately works on me… I wake feeling very held, tender, surrendered and renewed.
Connective Tissue Therapy is such a deeply stilling modality to experience, it feels like one is being finely tuned from heaven.
Thankyou for your beautiful sharing, tenderness is our sensitivity to feel our divinity and to reconnect to all we are. Thank God , Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for Connective Tissue Therapy.
So beautiful said Paul: “tenderness is our sensitivity to feel our divinity and to reconnect to all we are”. Imagine a world were we would not hold back expressing how tender we all are! Definitely a world I want to live in!
Thanks Janina for sharing your experience on Connective Tissue Therapy. I too through this modality have experienced myself in a deep tenderness and expansiveness that I haven’t experienced before. Often that expansion feels like what I imagine it was like being a baby in the womb. This expansive feeling that I experience in sessions has provided me with a marker to feel the possibility of living this more in my daily life.
Very true Donna, Connective Tissue Therapy offers a total different way to reconnect with the body and to surrender deeply within. And as you described it offers another way to live in our daily life.
Thank you for sharing Janina, Connective Tissue Therapy has also allowed me to connect and honour the stillness within me and in that to feel the divine essence that we all are.
Hi Janina, I too love, with a depth of feeling I can hardly express, connective tissue therapy. Of all the esoteric modalities, this is the one with which I had an instant connection. I have been doing practice hours and, observing the effects on others, as well as what I have experienced myself, just blows me away completely: my clients become so deeply still and connected with this modality: as they remove themselves from the massage table, they are so open and and in total wonder. It is a constant inspiration both to offer this modality and to enjoy it as a client. I am in awe of how finely, finely delicate we all truly are.
Thank you Janina – this blog is so beautiful. I experienced a Connective Tissue Therapy session this morning and it truly is all you say. It is incredible that such fine and delicate movements can have such a huge impact on the body. Your blog really allows me to feel how the amazing benefits of this modality are tied to the quality the practitioner brings to each session. No two sessions or practitioners are the same and it shows how important it is to express in a way that is true to us as we all have a unique quality to bring. So lovely.
I agree Leone. One of the qualities that I bring is tenderness and I have started to appreciate myself deeply for this beautiful quality and in that I support myself to go deeper and express more. Letting go of the believe that it is too much for this world to be so tender. People will decide for themselves how much they let in. How awesome if everybody would start expressing their own unique qualities, that would be a blessing for the world and what is really needed.
Thank you Janina for the revelation of the power when one redevelops their tenderness.
Thank you Janina for this inspiring blog. I am really looking forward to feel deeper into connective tissue therapy.
Janina, I also experience esoteric connective tissue therapy with such tenderness. Although it seems like a subtle technique, the energy I feel in my body when I give a session or receive one, is quite profound.
For many years I had suffered neck pain and through regular connective tissue sessions and applying the teachings imparted by Universal Medicine, my neck is mostly pain free.
Thank you Ulrike for sharing your experience with receiving Connective Tissue Therapie Session which has helped you to heal your neck pain – awesome to hear that.
You are so right, Connective Tissue Therapy is a fine healing modality. It is amazing how quickly we are shown how the Universal Medicine Modalities go way beyond the actual techniques and offer us the opportunity to go deeper and connect – firstly with ourselves and then with our clients. Immense healing can then occur.
Thank you Janina, when I first had an Esoteric Connective Tissue session I thought the practitioner had gone to sleep as there was hardly any movement. The funny thing was though, in the subtle movements of the therapy, I found it to be the most relaxing session I have had and I was able to drop very deep into my body.
That is so funny Tim that you thought the practitioner had gone to sleep. I know exactly what you mean. It is true the movements in the therapy are so subtle and yet the stillness, the letting go and the opening up in my body as a result, I feel is immense.
Beautiful story of your way with Esoteric Connective Tissue Janina. I agree the sessions allow a deepening and are deeply nurturing to both give and receive, it indeed drops the body into its preciousness that can be felt by another.
Thank you Janina for sharing your experience of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy. I have found it to be a deeply tender and supportive therapy. When I get off the table after a session I feel like I am walking in a new body.
Connective tissue therapy is indeed a miracle treatment. I have always loved physical treatments like massage when you can see or deeply feel something being worked on. And if a modality was introduced as purely energetic I could kind of accept that. Then the connective tissue therapy arrived that is neither and looked like nothing much was being done. Yet slowly I started to appreciate how without any manipulation or anything being done to me, I am being ever so delicately supported to deeply let go and allow the true flow within. And the result is so subtle and yet so profound all in one go. I am at awe every time I receive a session or provide one for another.
That is really beautiful. Whilst reading this, I dropped into my tenderness a little more.
Connective Tissue Therapy Like many of the Universal Medicine modalities needs only the lightest and gentlest of touch and yet it offers such a profound healing. I love what you say here Janina “I thought that to be so very tender and delicate was too much, but I was wrong: it is the most precious gift I can give to myself and to others.”
At first I did not like this connective tissue therapy, because I did not like the fact that I could hardly feel any movement from the practitioner.
However, that soon changed as I got to experience how profound this treatment actually was. In fact I would say it is so deep, profound and powerful that there are no words to describe the feeling during and after the session.
Days later I can feel subtle small shifts inside my body taking place and this is how I know that Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy works and the results are progressive and lasting. I doubt I would have ever known what true Tenderness felt like had it not been for this modality from Universal Medicine. Thank You.