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Dr. Jonah, visit 1
Nov. 7th, 2014 10:06 amLast night was my appointment with Jonah Yakel, and I feel...positive about it. And him. He approaches healing from a different angle than other health practitioners I've seen, which is encouraging because new and different. Although other people (Dr. Khosh, Kiva my acupuncturist) treat holistically, they still tended to focus on symptoms. Dr. Jonah (which he prefers over Dr. Yakel for--to me--fairly obvious reasons), just straight up doesn't address the symptoms at all. He wants to know my symptoms and he wants me to be sure I recognize my symptoms, but only so we can track how they are affected by the treatment. Treatment consists of various supplements (for me, to lower my acidity level--surprise, surprise, I am highly acidic--among other things) and then a hands-on healing technique that he refers to as "Flow" which is basically light touch on certain areas of the head/neck/spine/hips. During the treatment, I felt a definite loosening in the tension of my neck, and my sacrum and feet started to get warm and tingly.
I also learned that my breathing is exceptionally shallow. He said that if he hadn't known I was alive and breathing on his table, he would have wondered about my actual living state. My breath is so shallow that, lying face down on the treatment table, my back rises hardly at all in the low thoracic region and is completely still everywhere else. This suggests a lack of adequate oxygen as well as a highly tense spine (despite my general spinal flexibility). It also might explain why my muscles get fatigued so easily and why I am easily out of breath even from minimal exertion.
There's a whole host of things we went over about gut health, the nervous system, hormones, cellular health and replacement, and getting the body to a place where it can heal itself. I like this approach. He's not addressing my wacky hormone levels or the autoimmune disease or the fatigue or anything except why my body is harming itself instead of healing itself.
Like I said, new and different. He's also surprisingly inexpensive. His sessions are a third to half of what I've been paying per session to see Dr. Khosh and (previously) Kiva. He keeps them low cost by having multiple people at a time for Flow sessions. Private consultations are, obviously, private, but during the Flow sessions he goes from table to table, treating people at the same time. Pretty brilliant, really. It spoke well to his popularity and effectiveness that there were four or five other people getting treated at the same time as me. They all seemed very pleased and confident to be his patients, too.
Here's hoping.
ETA: Holy wow. I just did a good shoulder/back stretch and for the first time in ages (months definitely, perhaps as long as a year) I was able to touch my elbows behind my back. It's not as easy as it used to be, but it happened. From just a few of his touches? AMAZING.
I also learned that my breathing is exceptionally shallow. He said that if he hadn't known I was alive and breathing on his table, he would have wondered about my actual living state. My breath is so shallow that, lying face down on the treatment table, my back rises hardly at all in the low thoracic region and is completely still everywhere else. This suggests a lack of adequate oxygen as well as a highly tense spine (despite my general spinal flexibility). It also might explain why my muscles get fatigued so easily and why I am easily out of breath even from minimal exertion.
There's a whole host of things we went over about gut health, the nervous system, hormones, cellular health and replacement, and getting the body to a place where it can heal itself. I like this approach. He's not addressing my wacky hormone levels or the autoimmune disease or the fatigue or anything except why my body is harming itself instead of healing itself.
Like I said, new and different. He's also surprisingly inexpensive. His sessions are a third to half of what I've been paying per session to see Dr. Khosh and (previously) Kiva. He keeps them low cost by having multiple people at a time for Flow sessions. Private consultations are, obviously, private, but during the Flow sessions he goes from table to table, treating people at the same time. Pretty brilliant, really. It spoke well to his popularity and effectiveness that there were four or five other people getting treated at the same time as me. They all seemed very pleased and confident to be his patients, too.
Here's hoping.
ETA: Holy wow. I just did a good shoulder/back stretch and for the first time in ages (months definitely, perhaps as long as a year) I was able to touch my elbows behind my back. It's not as easy as it used to be, but it happened. From just a few of his touches? AMAZING.