Hartmann Judith Praxis für Frauen-Naturheilkunde

The most beautiful gift I can receive is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch.

(Virginia Satir)

The costs are largely covered by many health insurance companies with additional coverage for complementary medicine.

About me

After many years as a certified nurse and vocational trainer in the field of conventional medicine, I felt the need to approach health from the perspective of alternative medicine.

Given the complexity of alternative medicine, I decided to study naturopathy and completed a 4-year training course, which revolutionized my understanding of health and illness and gave my personal life greater depth and integrity.

Integrated into my understanding of naturopathy, I apply various manual-energetic massage practices. "Healing is allowed to be!"

For me, the focus of manual energy work is presence, "the space" in touch.

Work orientation

In my alternative medical work, I focus my attention on the healing process in the sense of salutogenesis ("salus" Latin: health and "genesis" Greek: origin).
As you have probably already noticed, health is not static, but in constant, dynamic change.
In his theory, which was based on stress research, sociologist Aaron Antonovsky (developer of the concept of salutogenesis) focuses not on the elimination of illness, but on the development/promotion/integration of health.
This approach is fully in line with my understanding of work.

For me, every person is a unity of body, soul, and spirit.
I work holistically. In our essence, our personality, and our organ system, we are unique and perceive things subjectively and individually.
This unity of the individual human being results in constant interactions with the social and ecological environment in which we live.
I could also say that our lives take place in a field of tension between shaping and adapting to life.
Is it possible to feel "meaningfulness," "joy," "wholeness," and "connectedness" more consistently? How do you support your self-healing powers? How do you live with self-determination and self-responsibility?

I take a careful, individual medical history, drawing on the alternative medical system of traditional European naturopathy (TEN) in a resource-oriented manner.
I am also supported by the systemic approach of nonviolent communication (NVC).
In my work, in addition to the scientific approach, which is important to me, I am guided by my intuition and the all-encompassing, light-filled healing energy. I have placed my trust in this healing quality for many years.

Based on the client's needs and medical history, we formulate and define a current goal and treatment plan.
If necessary, I work together with conventional medicine.

Education

• Swiss certified naturopath TEN.
• Certified Shiatsu therapist with industry certification.
• Until 2018, part-time position at Inselspital Bern as a certified nurse HF and vocational trainer. Many years of experience as a certified nurse in emergency and intensive care medicine.
• Completed Qigong training at the Medical Society for Qigong.
• Advanced course in nonviolent communication (NVC) at "the coaching company" (TCCO) in Küsnacht.
• Shibashi – Qigong course with Antoinette Brem and Barbara Lehner, Lucerne.
• Three-year acupuncture course with diploma from the Academy of Chinese Healing Arts in Winterthur.
• Further training in nature education. Nine years as co-leader of the Dusse-Verusse forest playgroup in Könizbergwald.
• Shiatsu qualification at the Tao Chi Training and Education Center in Zurich.
• Completed 4-year training as a certified naturopath at the NHK – Institute for Integrative Naturopathy in Zurich.
• Member of the NVS (Swiss Association of Naturopaths) and EMR (Experience Medicine Register).
• Regular professional development.

My treatments

Traditional European Naturopathy (TEN)

TEN is a natural, historically developed, updated healing system that has been around for over 2500 years. A well-known part of its significance has its roots in ancient Greece: the system of the four elements (earth, fire, water, air) is explained in TEN as a dynamic, process-oriented whole (holon) that encompasses humans and the environment. The four elements give rise to humoral pathology, the theory of the four humors.

A second branch of traditional European naturopathy originates from folk medicine (Paracelsus, Sebastian Kneipp, Hildegard von Bingen, Wilhelm Schüssler, among others). The knowledge of the ancient European alchemists was revised, sorted, analyzed, updated, and structured. The methods are continuously aligned and further developed.
Diagnostics consists of:
– Anamnesis
– Pulse diagnosis
– Tongue diagnosis
– Iris diagnosis

Gynecology

• Living cyclically as a young woman, as a mature woman, as a wise woman. Often not so easy in everyday life. I am happy to accompany you on this journey.
• Being in balance, finding equilibrium, being in tune with your hormonal rhythm, getting to know and experience the different phases of your cycle as a woman.
• Living as a woman in self-care and self-determination. What specific options do I have in everyday life?
• Women in transition: experiencing change (formerly known as "menopause"), adjusting physically, emotionally, and mentally to a new, mature phase of life.
• Living/loving your own female body powerfully, sensually, rhythmically, and cyclically. I support you in this!
• Pain during menstruation, excessive menstruation, no menstruation. It is worth addressing this issue because it will improve your life.
• Natural contraception needs to be learned. Feeling comfortable in your own body without hormonal contraception. I am happy to accompany you in an advisory capacity.
• When women cannot sleep.
• When a woman suffers from pain. Physical and/or emotional.
• When women seek physical, emotional, and mental balance during conventional cancer therapy, I will accompany you.
• When women suffer from bladder irritation or inflammation.
• To strengthen the immune system and respiratory organs.

Nutritional advice and intestinal health

I incorporate nutrition tailored to individual needs into the naturopathic counseling concept. It is not only what we eat that is important, but also when and how we eat.
Paying attention to eating habits often proves to be insightful.
For my part, I explain and supplement connections in relation to your current state of health, constitution, humoral mixture, and anatomy/physiology.
If it makes sense, we will work together to find alternative habits and ways to implement them in your everyday life in a concrete and manageable way.
Adjusting your diet takes time; it is a phase of change that challenges us as a whole. However, there are no limits to your creativity!
We often only discover our wealth of ideas and resources regarding food and drink and their preparation when we decide to make a change. Let yourself be surprised!

Nutrition and digestion form a unit. Intestinal health plays a crucial role in our energy balance. The gut microbiome consists of billions of microorganisms that influence our digestion, our immune system, our entire internal environment, and vitamin and hormone production. There is an interaction between the gut microbiome, the "enteric" gut nervous system, the vagus nerve, and our brain—our mood.

Shiatsu

Shiatsu understands the human being as a whole, including the mental/spiritual aspects, and as part of nature. Shiatsu is rooted in Far Eastern philosophy and health teachings. Shiatsu is also increasingly influenced by modern, holistic Western insights.

Shiatsu is practiced in light, comfortable clothing on a futon on the floor or on a massage table. It is a body-centered, energetic massage that incorporates meridians and acupressure points as well as breathing.

Through a combination of gentle and slightly stronger touch in the form of sinking/balancing pressure and stretching, Shiatsu releases superficial and deep tension. It supports energy flow and oxygen exchange and refines body awareness. This can lead to a feeling of centeredness. In its holistic approach, Shiatsu promotes physical, mental, and spiritual balance. It supports the current life process.

Shiatsu promotes joie de vivre, "being at one with oneself," and general vitality.

• Supports sleep
• Influences the stimulation of the vagus nerve and thus the vegetative balance of finding peace and relaxation.
• Regulating, around menopause.
• Harmonizes as a complementary therapy for nervousness, stress, exhaustion, and hypersensitivity.
• Promotes resilience, regeneration, and self-regulation.
• Supports energy flow around the female cycle.
• In general, Shiatsu has a soothing effect on acute and chronic pain in the skeletal and muscle/fascia area and has a relaxing effect.
• Strengthens the immune system in cases of chronic colds and repeated flu.
• As a complementary therapy, it has a balancing effect on organ complaints, here are some examples: reflux, asthma, allergic rhinitis, ulcerative colitis.
• Complementary component for harmonious gastrointestinal balance.
• Shiatsu can be balancing, soothing, and space-creating for pregnant women . Therefore, you are warmly invited.
• After childbirth, Shiatsu gently and energetically accompanies women in their recovery.
• For children in particular, Shiatsu is a treasure trove of relaxation and body awareness. Many children are especially fond of Shiatsu.
• For adolescents, it promotes energy balance, body awareness, self-awareness, and concentration through relaxation. Together with integrative conversation, Shiatsu encourages the courage to be true to oneself.
• An accompanying building block for harmonious gastrointestinal balance.
• Headaches

Holistic, energetic work, massage practices

I work with various massage techniques: classic massage, energetic massage, Esalen massage, lymphatic drainage, intuitive massage, gentle fascia relaxation. This also includes laying on of hands and perception of the body tissue rhythm. The various techniques often flow into one another. After analyzing the symptoms and depending on the type of connective tissue and mental state, the client and I decide on the massage method or methods to be used in consultation.

Massage stimulates blood circulation and has a harmonizing effect on the body, soul, and spirit. Massage has an integrating and balancing effect on the current life process.

With a massage, you give yourself the opportunity to refine your body awareness. Massage invites you to feel at home in your own body.

The quality of touch is transmitted sensorily via the afferent nerve pathways to the brain, where perception takes place. This perception has a regulating, relaxing, or invigorating effect on the autonomic nervous system and thus on overall muscle tension.

In our performance-oriented society, muscle tone is often tense.

Emotional upheavals also affect muscle tone.

During body-centered work, emotional wounds, unpleasant life circumstances, or physical pain may occasionally come to consciousness or be felt more strongly through touch. Here, it is important to me to work in a verbal-physical-integrative way, leaving room for this.

I recommend massage:

• To promote self-regulation and self-awareness
• To support women's cyclical life
• For harmonization in cases of nervousness, stress, and exhaustion
• To help relieve pain in the skeletal muscles
• For emotional pain
• For headaches
• Supports relaxation and sleep
• For painful, blocking scars
• Improves energy flow Around the female cycle
• Supports resilience, regeneration, and self-regulation.
• Promotes stimulation of the vagus nerve
• Accompanying method for mental, spiritual, and physical "balance" during conventional carcinoma therapy
• Promotes tissue balance and metabolite removal after chemotherapy or radiation

Depending on the symptoms, or upon request, I use aroma massage. I also integrate wraps if indicated – after consultation.

Perhaps you would like to pass on massage within the family to your children or your partner? The best way to do this is to experience massage yourself and feel how different touches feel. Of course, I am also happy to provide instructions on how to do this.

I am happy to answer any questions you may have.

Foot reflexology

Foot reflexology massage is based on the idea that the foot is in constant interaction with the whole body. Foot reflexology massage is a targeted massage that uses both gentle energy and slightly stronger pressure on specific areas of the feet. Depending on where the foot is massaged with special techniques, this has an effect on different areas and organ systems in the body.

Foot reflexology activates self-healing powers and strengthens the immune system.

It has a balancing effect on the autonomic nervous system, relaxes or activates a specific area of the body or an organ.

It has a relaxing/soothing effect on back pain.

In cases of degenerative joint changes, it can bring about pain relief by relaxing and activating the excretory organs.

I also recommend foot reflexology for headaches and for finding inner peace.

Through relaxation, foot reflexology is suitable for strengthening intuition and creativity, as well as an alternative to full-body massage or shiatsu and their effects.

Shiatsu for children

To calm down every evening. Supports relaxation and falling asleep.

Would you like to help your child relax before falling asleep?

I would like to introduce you, dear parents, to the quality of touch of shiatsu on your child's body (in the trainer). Together with your child, we playfully explore the body – stretches and twists that promote calmness.

We practice in my practice, on a soft mat on the floor.

You will learn simple, individual Shiatsu techniques for your child in a natural, playful setting.

 

Qigong/Shibashi – "Open your heart to yourself, give yourself space, and breathe deeply"

For me, the dimensions of Qigong/Shibashi are a great everyday gift!

Qigong serves as a valuable personal source of energy for me.

Qigong consists of energy-building, slow-flowing, stretching body movements that are described in the form of images from nature.

For me, Qigong is meditation in motion. Allowing myself to be touched by the movement.

Through mindful, gentle movement sequences, a balance is achieved between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. This creates a state of relaxed alertness. In this calmness, space becomes perceptible, energy circulates freely and can multiply.

Qigong has a harmonizing effect on the body, soul, and spirit and promotes self-awareness.

• Supports self-regulation and general vitality
• Strengthens the immune system by supporting self-healing powers.
• Promotes nighttime regeneration, energy balance, and sleep.
• Trains body awareness, mobility, and presence
• Has a harmonizing and restorative effect on the flexibility of bones, joints, tendons, and muscles
• Energy balancing for the back and head, promotes natural energy flow
• Strengthens all organ systems, promotes cell respiration and blood circulation
• Balancing effect on the hormone and nervous systems
• Promotes physical balance by establishing a healthy groundedness as well as a welcome lightness
• Balances and builds up the biofield and torus field

Qigong is suitable for people of all ages.

I would be happy to advise you personally and answer your questions by phone or email.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) according to Marshall Rosenberg

Language – for me, speaking is a way of "showing myself" and "listening." It is a way of connecting with myself and my counterpart. When people meet physically, verbal contact is accompanied by "nonverbal" communication, body language.

Live the dance of communication! State facts. Express feelings and articulate needs.

I find it liberating to repeatedly dare to engage in conversations.

• Do you long to be genuine in your communication with your counterpart instead of "just being nice"?
• Do you wonder how you can stay true to yourself in conflict situations and maintain honest communication with your conversation partner?
• Would you like to express your needs freely but can't find the courage or the "right tone" to do so?
• Do you know moments when you lose yourself in self-doubt and belittle yourself internally? In such moments, do you wish for nothing more than to regain your self-confidence?

When we speak, we send an audible message to our recipient or receive a message ourselves that we hear and absorb.

Our greatest needs are to be heard, seen (attention), and touched (understood).

Belonging, acceptance, and dignity are among our basic human needs. It is therefore understandable that we do everything we can to fulfill these needs.

What we sometimes perceive less clearly in everyday life is the way in which we "demand" the satisfaction of these needs.

Counseling

It is important to me to listen carefully to the concerns you bring to me. That is why I often work in an organizing counseling role in which you actively participate, because it is about you.

We are a personal species and need individual, creative approaches to health promotion. To this end, I conduct research together with you. This can also take the form of practical exercises or perceptions.

Here is a theoretical example:

Skeletal muscle tension, sleep disorders, mood swings, stress, or digestive problems can be related to an imbalance in the autonomic nervous system with its sympathetic and parasympathetic components.

Trauma can also strongly influence and restrict the balance and regulation of the autonomic nervous system.

The involuntary vagus nerve, for example, extends from the brain through the larynx to the stomach and intestines. Because this nerve is, simply put, responsible for relaxation and socialization, its activity has a comprehensive impact on our vitality and thus also on our health.

It is important to me to take this connection into account when appropriate and, if necessary, to work with specialists or refer patients to them.

Meditation

For more than 15 years, I have practiced contemplation and ZEN and assisted in meditation retreats. Then it became important for me to freely shape my meditation practice. The space of silence is always included in this. Meditation helps me to feel connection within myself, self-love, calmness, clarity, strength, and self-determination again and again.

In addition, meditation promotes self-responsibility and presence for oneself and others. Being naturally integrated into the "big picture—universal light" is more clearly perceptible.

Perceiving from the heart opens me up and gives me the courage to live from the heart.

Meditation accompanies me through the ups and downs of my life/everyday life and has a nourishing, rhythmic, and deeply trusting effect.

Of course, meditation is a spiritual practice. The spiritual practice applied always takes place in lived life, in everyday life. We are spiritual beings from the beginning. Here in this body, on this planet Earth, we are having a human experience.

I look forward to seeing you!