Scars Are Messengers ~ Do You Know What They're Saying?

The body remembers what the mind has moved past. STREAM Practitioners work with embodied memories and scars at physical, emotional, and existential levels. Through witnessing, the body can finally let go of what it's been holding alone and return to balance. This work is for people seeking personal autonomy, relief from pain, and health you can feel in your body. 

 STREAM practitioners meet you where you are-- they tune in to your story and your state, holding space to discover, assess, and connect the dots within four domains of health: Biochemical, Biomechanical, Emotional, Scar Tissue. Through meaningful education, facilitated self-discovery and mapping processes, STREAM works to resolve pain and blockage from scars–both physical and unseen.
Scars limit the expression of human potential in physical and emotional ways. Scars cause pain by compressing your nerves, slowing circulation and preventing lymph drainage.

Emotional scars diminish you too. They impose restrictions on your development while they deny you access to the life you dream of.

​Everyone with a body has a scar of one kind or another, but conventional medicine knows little and does less when it comes to scars and their treatment. (Even surgeons may not know/share this knowlege!)
Scars are hidden maps. Scars are sacred. Scars are stories etched across the landscape of your body, frozen in time.
Scars are held, witnessed and touched with reverence, care and curiosity. What wisdom lies buried here?
​Scar tissue work is the art of unwinding these stories.
​It is an invitation to meet the places within us that have hardened - not to erase them, but to soften, listen and reintegrate.
Scars do not only exist at the site of a wound. Scars are living, breathing physical, emotional, energetic and existential entities.
Through hands-on care, movement, breath, and presence, scar tissue work helps to:
  • Restore sensation and blood flow to areas that feel numb or disconnected
  • Release adhesions and restrictions that create tension or discomfort
  • Unravel old emotional imprints stored in the tissue
  • Reclaim pleasure, ease, and mobility in the body

When we tend to our scars with reverence, we aren't just healing the tissue - we are reclaiming our right to feel fully alive in our bodies. This is why scar tissue work is an integral part of EMBODY PLEASURE. Because we cannot talk about pleasure without talking about the places that have been wounded...soma AND psyche. The seen AND the unseen.
It was in 2013 when I began my private apprenticeship with Jaiya (world-renowned author, Somatic Sexologist and creator of The Erotic Blueprints™)…and that was also the same year that I took my first anatomy class with Ellen Heed. In 2016 I received my certification as a Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker. In 2018 I was certified as a STREAM Practitioner, which included a 10-day intensive hands-on training with both Kimberly Ann Johnson and Ellen Heed. I have since continued my ongoing training and mentorship with Ellen. And for the last couple of years, I have also had the great honor and pleasure of assisting Ellen at each of her four yearly in-person trainings in Ashland, OR. (Two of the yearly in-person trainings are for hands-on and hands-in bodywork.) I am a Pelvic Care Specialist, serving all genders.

I’m telling you…this work is profound. Under the right conditions, scars WILL heal! I've witnessed it many times!
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A general outline of our focus and study:
  1. The Four Domains of Health: Biochemical, Biomechanical, Emotional/Existential, Scar Tissue
  2. Bodies, Bones & Trauma: Healing the "Seen and Unseen" aspects of scar tissue, psyche and soma.
  3. "Where Muscle Meets Bone" (Working with Emotions, The Existential and Scar Tissue)
  4. Pelvic Scars, Injuries and Surgeries
Ellen Heed is a pioneer and expert in therapeutic scar tissue remediation and integrative health, and has helped thousands of women heal from pain and discomfort caused by pelvic floor trauma and injury.

With over 20 years spent teaching anatomy and physiology, doing hands-on and hands-in bodywork, and training others to use her multidisciplinary approach, Ellen is now bringing STREAM's leading-edge philosophy and methodologies to students across the globe.

​Ellen holds a Ph.D. in somatic psychology, her dissertation a groundbreaking work on the nature of whole-body health and pelvic floor scar remediation.

www.ScarTissueRemediation.com  |  ​www.instagram.com/ellenheed/
  • STREAM certified practitioners meet you where you are--they tune in to your story and your state, holding space to discover, assess, and connect the dots in professional relationship. Through meaningful education, facilitated self-discovery and mapping processes, STREAM works to resolve pain and blockage from scars–both physical and unseen.
  • Through meaningful education, facilitated self-discovery, mapping strategies, and remediation work, STREAM Certified Practitioners resolve pain and blockage from scars – both physical and emotional.

Remediating Scars and Pain Related to:

  • birth, abdominal, pelvic and reproductive surgeries
  • bio-mechanical, postural, and physical imbalances
  • bio-chemical imbalances including bladder, gut and reproductive issues
  • gender reassignment surgeries, breast and genital surgeries
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These include, but are not limited to bladder, cervical, uterine and rectal prolapses; cesarean scars, interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, vaginismus, episiotomies, birth tears, prolapse repairs, genital affirmation, and plastic surgery.
87% of women who have children end up with scar-related problems, which include incontinence, prolapse, and painful sex. Scar tissue remediation is at the cutting edge of the new skills needed in order to work effectively and holistically with birth injuries, obstetric, and gynecologic surgeries. These include colposcopies and hysterectomies, endometriosis, gender reassignment surgeries, intersex interventions and non-specific pelvic pain.
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Working with those who have experienced:​
  • Hysterectomy
  • C-section
  • Mastectomy
  • Episiotomy
  • Hernia Repair
  • Uterine or Rectal Prolapse
  • Tearing During Childbirth
  • Gender Affirming Surgeries

​Scars from abdominal surgery can create imbalances in the pelvis and spine. They can lead to numbness, lack of feeling, or pain at the scar or surrounding areas. Childbirth can occasionally cause scars in the pelvic floor, which can lead to pain during menstruation or sexual intercourse.

Scar tissue can be formed through infection, injury, illness, inflammation, chronic poor posture, endometriosis, radiation therapy, tearing during childbirth and surgeries (such as C-sections, episiotomies, appendectomies, ectopic pregnancy removal, abortion, cervical tears and biopsies, hysterectomy, ovarian cyst removal, gall bladder removal, etc).
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We will listen to and hear the whole story that your body has to tell.
​Together, the story is heard at multiple levels:

  • Verbal/Cognitive Level: the story of what happened and the impact it has had on one's psyche at both conscious and unconscious levels
  • Fascial Level: how it manifests as tension patterns that affect posture
  • Boney Level: how the free movement of the bones is affected
  • Bio-chemical Level: how hormonal and dietary imbalances create both emotional and physical tension and pain
  • Somatic/Emotional Level: how what happened is stored in the tissue as emotional tension, creating postural distortion