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Aloha my name is Marguerite Pennington.

I started doing body work and massage at the age of 15 and have not looked back since. I have practiced now for over 35 years and have studied many forms of massage over the years. I have been training therapists for 10 years certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, offering continuing education, and have my own massage collage.

I have had some wonderful training over the years, and I have learned and practiced many forms of massage. My main focus being Traditional Hawaiian Lomi Lomi that I have been practicing since I was 21. I was taught by my mentor Auntie Margaret Machado of the Big Island, the forerunner of the Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Massage movement worldwide. She is considered a living treasure by those of us who live in Hawaii. The most important thing she taught me was that "this is a praying work". It was this aspect that I called upon when I faced both my own pain issues and those of my boyfriend after my accident 7 years ago. I have never seen a back before this time that was more distorted and a person in more daily pain up till that point. I was doing the best I knew how using in my opinion, the highest form of bodywork known at this time, Structural Integration Therapy invented by Ida Rolf PHD. But it turned out to be the guidance of Auntie Margret that helped to turn the tide for my friend and for me as well opening up a whole new world of understanding and practice for me.

One day, as I looked on a spine that had 4 lateral vertebra in the thoracic region one inch out from the normal spinal placement, and a severe scoliosis that I cried out for help when the best the world could offer him in the field was not only not working but making his back curve more the wrong direction. So I stopped and prayed, and what I heard to do was frightening to me. But as I submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit I began to see a miracle take place under my hands. In the years that fallowed step by step I was led into a new form of body work I call Body Balancing for Scoliosis Therapy. As I grew in this new art I was amazed at the transformation taking place under my hands.

I was able to move the lateral vertebra back into the proper alignment and to unwind the scoliosis pattern in this man. I found that many people were suffering from the same sort of problem with no real help for solving the root issue they had. The only thing that was offered them was relief of the symptoms caused by the nervous system dysfunction I was recognizing that was caused by the spinal curve.

As the words of the Holy Spirit rang in my ears from the first day I recognized this each time I saw a spine in a rotation pattern. "What needs to happen for the nervous system to correctly function?" The Spirit asked me that first day. The answer being that the spine must not hinder the flow to the nerves and this was the root of so many people's pain and health issues I saw.

Since the nerves are acting as the messengers telling the muscles to tighten when they are being hindered by the spinal twists, and scoliosis curves, they must be freed up and unhindered to stop sending theses messages. Hence we get to the root problem and correct it with health being the result.

The nervous system is the electrical system of the body, the power is not feeding the areas that the spine is in a rotation pattern, the result is function loss of the muscles and the organs. It seems so simple now but as I realized the power of the body work I was learning from God a strong call came to my being to take this to the world and share the results with many more people.

I submitted my course in 2007 to the NCBTMB and was approved to teach it for continuing education and began to see many more people getting excited about the results of overall well being resulting. I have watched all kinds of medically diagnosed clients have no pain and proper organ function return with this therapy.

I had found the root cause and it was making an incredible difference for many but not as many as it should. In 2008 I received a letter from the NCBTMB asking me to consider a position as Director on their Board. I was totally flattered because I consider this one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on any massage therapist. This being the organization that selects those they consider eligible to give credit for their courses in the USA. The NCBTMB Board of Directors are the top therapists and educators in this field.

I declined the appeal though as I was in the middle of writing a book on the work I do and expanding the Body Balancing class that I had already been approved for. I felt compelled as I had a client who was literally cut apart and put back together to save her life as she would have died of heart failure due to advanced scoliosis. She was saved from death by a surgeon's knife but will live in excruciating pain the rest of her life, and I knew I had to get the word out that there was help for these souls and I had the answer.

In October of 2008 I was invited to a reception hosted by the NCBTMB and attended the event hoping to share my discovery with these amazing leaders in my field. I brought several sets of before and after pictures of my clients. I was blessed to show them to two of the members of the Board who were both very excited to see the results I was getting and separately thanked me for actually "DOING THE WORK." I was very much encouraged to get this out globally and to continue in my work so many more could benefit from it. They also being the ones who look at all the offerings of those who seek their approval had never seen anything like this before.

The big question was why are you not already world famous. Well I replied I live on a little island in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

I am working under a Dr on my island who noticed a change in the shape of his patient and lack of need to fill his pain med prescription who had scoliosis. He wanted to know how that could have happened. The patient told the Doctor it was my work that did it and he wanted to meet me. I went in on one of this patient's visits and showed him my before and after pictures. Expecting to have to explain the importance of freeing the nervous system by straightening the spine I began to explain this to the doctor and was cut off by him mid sentence. To my surprise, the Doctor said you do not have to convince me of anything and spent the next hour trying to convince me of the importance of my discovery, and that this therapy needed to be studied with clinical studies to validate its worth so it could be made into an insurance covered modality. He also explained that I needed the recognition of my superiors at The NCBTMB and that it was difficult not being famous to get my book published.

I had already encountered this. So here I am reaching out to my fellow therapists for help to pass this work on to the public and to make a name for the work in the world so it can be beneficial to many more than my hands alone can touch. I am setting up a research group to do just as the doctor instructed documenting the results as they work. Here is a list of some of the things I have seen take place in this work.

Scoliosis reversed, depression stopped by the cerebral spinal fluid finally making it up into the brain to supply the chemicals needed for naturally occurring happy thoughts.

Erectile dysfunction completely overcome with heightened orgasms . Hip replacements supposedly needed having no need to be done due to straitening of the posture and permanently stopping pain and deterioration from occurring. Headaches gone, Heart conditions improved, Acid reflucse disease stopped, immune dysfunction improved, and not to mention a host of pains all over the body stopped at the root. Knee problems, hip and shoulder pain sand sciatica stopped.

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