For therapists, they highlight the power of these techniques.
You want this knowledge and these skills.
For those in pain, these can inspire and inform you that effective alternative therapies exist and offer hope for relief.
You want your therapist to know this.
This process has served my clients and my work very successfully.
My work initially focuses on rebalancing the body's Muscular Core, using the body's natural responses as a guide forward.
This process helps release deep-seated 'historical' tensions—patterns of adaptation and compensation stored in the tissue over time.
As pain decreases and movement becomes more fluid and unrestricted, I continue refining the rebalancing process—often revisiting it in each session to support lasting improvements.
Oftentimes, it appears there are multiple layers, which can require several sessions to correct.
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"I often recommend my clients see Taum for two key reasons: to address their specific physical concerns and to help their body return to a state of musculoskeletal balance, which promotes overall ease and well-being...and makes my work more effective:-).
For example, Taum worked with Norma for three consecutive days, each lasting approximately 40 minutes. When I saw her for an acupuncture session on the fourth day, the distortion in her lower back—often labeled scoliosis—had noticeably straightened and balanced out. The results were remarkable."
Taum often jokes that 'Miracles' are an extra dollar... and this qualifies. I've treated this patient for 20 years, nothing touched that curve, or the considerable side hump beside her spine….until 3 back to back sessions.
Unbelievable! Taum's work is unparalleled.
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"Thirty years after a serious auto accident, I was still carrying and suffering from the effects of that trauma. Working with Taum, I experienced a profound transformation. In just one week of sessions every day of his core balancing therapeutic sessions, the hump that had formed on the back of my neck—something I had lived with for decades—completely disappeared. My husband noticed it immediately, and I was amazed by the visible change and the newfound freedom in my movement. I no longer have that 'dowagers hump,' and I feel better than I have in years!"
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For some reason, my feet started killing me after COVID. I mean, I had paralyzing pain when I got up in the morning. I tried changing my shoes, then my orthotics, and went to massage and reflexology. My profession is standing, and I was getting really worried about my future and my ability to stand and walk.
I saw Taum for a week.
I no longer have any foot pain at all.
He is amazing.
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Taum's work is flat-out incredible. I had a frozen shoulder with agonizing, electric pain for six months. I went to acupuncture, Rolfing, chiropractic, you name it. They wanted to do surgery. I had seen every practitioner of every sort in my town. I traveled to see Taum. Four treatments later, I no longer had a frozen shoulder. Talk about a miracle.
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The Visceral and Lymphatic work.
AKA: The Visceral Core.
Asthma.
"Our son struggled with asthma for most of his young life. In just one session, Taum performed a chest drain that released a significant amount of thick, mucoid-like fluid. The result? His asthmatic symptoms disappeared. It's incredible to think that so much congestion had been trapped inside him.
We're beyond grateful—thank you, Taum!"
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Lisa had previously attended my lymphatic class in Twin Falls and later reached out to share an exciting story. She returned for the next lymphatic class and shared her experience using Taum's Lymphatic tools on a client, Joanne, whose abdominal area initially felt like a rigid bag of sand.
While using the abdominal (visceral) massage techniques she had learned in class, Lisa noticed that Joanne’s abdomen gradually softened.
At the same time, Joanne’s Parkinson’s-like tremors began to subside.
Joanne and her husband have continued with monthly massages, and her tremors have remained calm.
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For therapists, they highlight the power of these techniques.
You want this knowledge and these skills.
For those in pain, these can inspire and inform you that effective alternative therapies exist and offer hope for relief.
You want your therapist to know this.
This process has served my clients and my work very successfully.
My work initially focuses on rebalancing the body's Muscular Core, using the body's natural responses as a guide forward.
This process helps release deep-seated 'historical' tensions—patterns of adaptation and compensation stored in the tissue over time.
As pain decreases and movement becomes more fluid and unrestricted, I continue refining the rebalancing process—often revisiting it in each session to support lasting improvements.
Oftentimes, it appears there are multiple layers, which can require several sessions to correct.
♦------------------------------------------------------------♦
"I often recommend my clients see Taum for two key reasons: to address their specific physical concerns and to help their body return to a state of musculoskeletal balance, which promotes overall ease and well-being...and makes my work more effective:-).
For example, Taum worked with Norma for three consecutive days, each lasting approximately 40 minutes. When I saw her for an acupuncture session on the fourth day, the distortion in her lower back—often labeled scoliosis—had noticeably straightened and balanced out. The results were remarkable."
Taum often jokes that 'Miracles' are an extra dollar... and this qualifies. I've treated this patient for 20 years, nothing touched that curve, or the considerable side hump beside her spine….until 3 back to back sessions.
Unbelievable! Taum's work is unparalleled.
♦------------------------------------------------------------♦
"Thirty years after a serious auto accident, I was still carrying and suffering from the effects of that trauma. Working with Taum, I experienced a profound transformation. In just one week of sessions every day of his core balancing therapeutic sessions, the hump that had formed on the back of my neck—something I had lived with for decades—completely disappeared. My husband noticed it immediately, and I was amazed by the visible change and the newfound freedom in my movement. I no longer have that 'dowagers hump,' and I feel better than I have in years!"
♦------------------------------------------------------------♦
For some reason, my feet started killing me after COVID. I mean, I had paralyzing pain when I got up in the morning. I tried changing my shoes, then my orthotics, and went to massage and reflexology. My profession is standing, and I was getting really worried about my future and my ability to stand and walk.
I saw Taum for a week.
I no longer have any foot pain at all.
He is amazing.
♦-----------------------------------------------------♦
Taum's work is flat-out incredible. I had a frozen shoulder with agonizing, electric pain for six months. I went to acupuncture, Rolfing, chiropractic, you name it. They wanted to do surgery. I had seen every practitioner of every sort in my town. I traveled to see Taum. Four treatments later, I no longer had a frozen shoulder. Talk about a miracle.
♦------------------------------------------------------------♦
The Visceral and Lymphatic work.
AKA: The Visceral Core.
Asthma.
"Our son struggled with asthma for most of his young life. In just one session, Taum performed a chest drain that released a significant amount of thick, mucoid-like fluid. The result? His asthmatic symptoms disappeared. It's incredible to think that so much congestion had been trapped inside him.
We're beyond grateful—thank you, Taum!"
♦----------------------------♦
♦----------------------------♦
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Lisa had previously attended my lymphatic class in Twin Falls and later reached out to share an exciting story. She returned for the next lymphatic class and shared her experience using Taum's Lymphatic tools on a client, Joanne, whose abdominal area initially felt like a rigid bag of sand.
While using the abdominal (visceral) massage techniques she had learned in class, Lisa noticed that Joanne’s abdomen gradually softened.
At the same time, Joanne’s Parkinson’s-like tremors began to subside.
Joanne and her husband have continued with monthly massages, and her tremors have remained calm.
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A Holistic approach.
It serves to remember that we, as therapists, do not heal anything. We simply recognize, respect, and support the body's 'built-in' healing ability.
Corrective Massage recognizes the importance of balanced relationships, movements, and interactions throughout the body's soft tissues*. These relationships include natural anatomical positions and functionally balanced movement unimpeded by soft tissue tension.
Functional balance implies that our soft tissues are working harmoniously to support pain-free, healthy movement and function.
In Taum's world of Corrective Massage, considering all bodily movement as an orchestration of soft tissue relationships is a fundamental principle and starting point.
These foundational principles include familiarity with Equilibrium and Homeostasis. AKA Balance.
For example: Walking initially appears to be a simple activity. It actually involves a complex orchestration of numerous soft tissues.
A symphony of movement:
Our body requires over 200 of our 600 muscles to take one step. Of those 200, many serve as compensating adapters working in the background to keep us upright as we walk. While all our weight is on the right foot, those background muscles are adapting and counterbalancing so we do not fall over.
Each and every soft tissue plays a vital role in the body's ability to move and adapt to unbalanced tensions.
Our bodies can adapt to those tensions.
But only so far...
Limping is an example of crossing the adaptation line.
Pain serves as an alert that unbalanced tension has exceeded the body's ability to adapt, and corrective therapy is required.
The foundational focus of this unique therapy is to interpret the alert and then identify and correct the soft tissue tensions and imbalances that have created those alerts.
Corrective massage has repeatedly proven to be an efficient and effective method to reduce and relieve pain.
I hope this information serves you and those you serve.
*Muscles, tendons, ligaments, membranes, and viscera.
July 2018
Hi everyone my name is Shelly Beale. I'm a licensed massage therapist in Idaho... I have known Taum for about 7 years, and I've been to several of his classes. The lymphatic drainage class is one of my favorites. I have taken this class twice and use the information a lot.
About four years ago I was taking a class with Taum... I don't remember which one but I had gone into class and was upset. My teacher Sue and Taum had noticed how upset I was.. they both asked me what was wrong I explained I had a mammogram earlier that day I had to go back and have another one...two in one day..... The doctor decided I needed a biopsy the following Monday on a lump they had found. Taum did the lymphatic work on my stomach and arms, and proceeded to show me how to do the breast drain on myself, which I have shown several women. I love it!!!! I believe it helped me.. from Friday evening when he showed me the breast drain I did it on myself on Saturday and Sunday I did it again on Monday morning before we went to talk to the doctor, we decided not to do the biopsy but to do surgery and take the whole entire lump out... they did another mammogram and found that it had gotten smaller from Friday's mammogram. 5 days later we did the surgery and in that 5 days time it had gone down more than what the first mammogram showed.
So in my own experience, I truly believe in the lymphatic drainage. Like I said it's one I truly use a lot and believe it has helped me... and I've seen it work on others. Taum and his work are amazing. ❤
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November 8, 2007
This year, in your concern that another gifted woman had perished from breast cancer, you explained a technique that you called a "breast drain" that any woman could do to encourage drainage and removal of toxins from the breast tissue and glands. For several decades in the offices of several personal physicians (I have moved several times), I had heard expressions of concern during manual breast exams because of suspicious lumpiness within the tissue of my breasts. I would be repeatedly called back after a mammogram to have additional testing done.
A biopsy was never required but there was always the nagging sense that something needed to be carefully watched. There was also always a painfulness that I accepted as "normal". The doctors determined that I had a cystic condition in both breasts. During my most recent exam, however, after only a few months of applying the technique you explained, my doctor seemed quite pleasantly surprised that the tissue seemed much smoother. In fact, she did not mention a cystic content and even declared that the tissue condition was like that of a much younger woman. Now that is something that every older woman appreciates hearing! Best of all, the painfulness I had tried to ignore for so many years has virtually disappeared. I have passed your information along to both my daughters. So, you see, your good influence continues beyond the immediate sphere in which you do your therapeutic work.
Carol Ann