Beth Austin PT

Santa Cruz, CA

Movement

and

Therapy 

 
 
 
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About My practice

The essence of healing work is a returning to wholeness, finding our place in the greater web of life, learning to rest in resource that allows our turning toward the roots of imbalance and allows our return to a natural state of ease and health.

Compassion, attention, experience, training and subtle perception are my tools - here to support you in whatever depth of healing you seek. 
My movement practice has developed through working with so many vibrant, active people who have injured themselves unnecessarily doing things they love. This work is about cultivating ease, learning to truly care for our bodies by inhabiting them skillfully- developing awareness at our center and building integrity from there. 

California Direct Access law allows everyone access to a physical therapist without a doctor’s prescription.

Working outside of the mainstream medical system allows true value, one on one collaboration, attention, accountability and autonomy in our work together. 

 

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About Beth 

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I have been deeply engaged in health and healing all of my life from taking care of farm animals as a kid to dancing and playing sports in school. My insatiable curiosity and interest in understanding how the body works and how to cultivate and restore health led me to become a physical therapist. In my late 20s, a life-changing case of malaria with a long convalescence (expedited by osteopathic work from my teachers) moved my work deeper into manual therapies like craniosacral and visceral work. From there my curiosity for the deeper patterns and roots of pain, injury and chronic illness has informed the continued development of my work. 

My Experience and Credentials

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.”
— Howard Zinn

 
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