Welcome to Nate's AMMA Therapy® Practice!

Greetings and Hallucinations,

Every client’s path is distinct, meaningful, and worthy of care. I welcome all who seek support, and my role as a healer is to meet each client with presence, respect, and an understanding of their individual needs. 

My journey in life has been filled with many different experiences that have led me to where I am.  As a child I wanted to be a doctor and when I realized that passing out at the sight of blood is not beneficial to that vocation, I knew I needed to study something different. This change led me to self-studying physics, yet I never lost my fascination with the body. 

I earned an AA in electronics and became an engineer, furthering my understanding of energy and how it flows through systems and how to troubleshoot issues that arise. 

It seems like it has been no time at all, though it was back in 2008 when I started my journey in the energetic healing arts. I earned my certification in AMMA Therapy®  in 2010.  To enhance my own understanding of how the body and energy moves and works, I also studied martial arts, earning my black belt in Shaolin, and I learned to belly dance.  

This, and so much more, is what I bring to the treatment room. 

As I approach the half century mark of life, I have learned much about what being healthy means. A key component of integrated health is that we all need connection. Through energetic bodywork, I help my clients reconnect with themselves and understand what health means to them. Utilizing all of my life experience and understandings, I teach my clients how to integrate their foundations and harmonize with the seemingly random disharmonies in their systems. By connecting for clients what they are experiencing, they learn how to navigate through their own energetic patterns and understand how those patterns reflect in their mind, body, and spirit, and how to make changes that fit them.

With warm regards

 Asian Bodywork Therapy (ABT) is the treatment of the human body/mind/spirit, including the electromagnetic or energetic field which surrounds, infuses and brings that body to life, by using pressure and/or manipulation. Asian Bodywork is based upon Chinese Medical principles for assessing and evaluating the body's energetic system. 

It uses traditional Asian techniques and treatment strategies which focus on balancing and influencing the energetic system. The purpose is to support the body, emotions, mind, energy field, and spirit to promote, maintain, and restore health. 

  AMMA Therapy® is a highly refined and complex system of bodywork therapy utilizing techniques and treatment strategies combining the use of Chinese Medicine principles for assessing and evaluating general imbalances in the energetic system and a Western approach to organ dysfunctions. AMMA Therapy® restores, promotes, and maintains optimum health through the treatment of the physical body, the bio-energy, and the emotions, which reflect and are bound into the neuromuscular system. AMMA Therapy® has proven to be an effective healing modality used to treat a wide range of medical conditions. The treatment includes the use of dietary therapy, herbs, nutritional supplements, and the external application of herbal preparations. This method was created by Tina Sohn.   

Amma is derived from "Anma" in China. Classic Korean Asian bodywork is called Amma. The name “Am-ma” literally translates to “push-pull.” Amma is a specialized form of skilled (somatic) touch therapy that combines deep tissue bodywork with the application of pressure, friction, and touch to specific acupoints, superficial primary and tendino-muscle energy channels, muscles, ligaments, and joints. It is rooted in the fundamental principles of Chinese Medicine, focusing on the balance and movement of Qi (energy) within the body. The techniques of Amma aim to remove blockages and free the flow of Qi in the body — restoring, promoting, and maintaining optimum health. Amma practitioners are also trained in the principles of wholistic nutrition and Eastern dietary principles.  

Cupping, sometimes called Fire Cupping, is the application of suction to the body to remove deeply stuck,  stagnate, or otherwise pathogenic energies like heat, cold, wind, etc. Passing fire in and out of the glass cup pulls air out of the cup so that when it is applied to the body it sucks onto the skin, the cups themselves are not hot.  Depending on what the cups are removing, it is not uncommon for the cups to leave red to deep purple marks on the body that fade over several days.

Gua sha (gwah shah) is a very old technique for helping the body release stuck energy and pathogens. Gua sha translates approximately to "scraping the sharks skin" and involves using the edge of a Gua sha tool, a Chinese soup spoon, or even large coins to abrade the skin. The technique is especially beneficial for helping clear out the early stages of a cold, releasing stuck muscles near the surface, and alleviating fascial adhesions. 

You may have heard of this technique from a chiropractor as the Graston Technique, or from a physical therapist as a-stim, but Gua sha predates those terms.