Movement Therapy
About the practice
What if you could feel like you’re relaxing while also moving and strengthening your body?
Now you can!
Body Rhythms Wellness teaches a whole body movement system GST Body created by Anna Rahe. She has simplified body care into life changing, body transforming practices to condition, release and heal your body at the fascial level to help you live a more vital and vibrant life.
This extraordinary movement experience is truly like no other. A meditation in motion, a rehab for your soul, as you move your body from the inside out.
Become your own body care practitioner through intentional, rhythmical, fluid and whole body integrative movements that draw from Pilates, yoga, dance and barre along with breathwork and self massage.
Understand what it truly means to create generate your own life force energy through motion.
Explore, experience and embody movement based on how we are designed to move.
These sessions give you the tools and techniques to unwind, release chronically tight or injured tissues open your whole body and get you into flow, to then strengthen, tone and define your muscles vs breaking down and wearing out. Creating mobility for stability + stability for mobility while you hydrate, heal & restore your body.
Adaptable to all fitness levels, it is challenging yet also very calming, and extremely cathartic for your mind, body and soul. A meaningful and purposeful way to move and connect with YOU from head to toe.
Each session is an alchemic experience that will leave you feeling balanced, grounded, present, more embodied, integrated and rejuvenated.
Practiced daily, you’ll notice shifts in your strength and muscle tone, as it will transform the way you think and feel about the human body, yourself and life.
3 ways to experience this incredible movement therapy practice:
Movement Medicine
(slow flow)
great for pain, injuries, limitations, or just want to move at a more gradual pace.
we dive deep into body mechanics to learn how to move in more supported and healthier way.
Fountain of Youth
(medium flow)
great to help you keep your body in balance and slow the effects of aging.
sessions are a hybrid of movement and relaxation to keep you feeling active and vital for life.
Conscious Conditioning
(uptempo flow)
this is GST’s answer to fitness that draws from pilates, yoga and barre.
curated sets of dynamic exercises to condition + strengthen every system of your entire body.
“The power of motion, the wisdom of gravity & true love is our core essence. who we’ve been, who we are, who we’ll always be.”
Sherri Axe Zilic
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THE ROOT OF PAIN, DEGENERATION + MANY HEALTH CONDITIONS: poor movement patterns and lack of movement
How we we move determines the quality of our lives. You can’t live fully when your suffering due to pain and injury caused by restricted habitual movements. Most in the modern world are living an extremely sedentary and immobile lifestyle – too much time spent hunched over screens, devices, in cars, and desks. Even if you are extremely active or a professional athlete, your body can still be vulnerable to developing poor movement patterns.
Anywhere in your body where there’s restriction and compensation happening- there’s dependence, stagnation and blockages.
These can affect every system and structure in your body, as well as your mental, emotional and spiritual states opf being. – No articulation, stuckness and pain, limits your freedom to move.
A collapsed body cannot work against gravity accurately. As these deep postural muscles try to adapt, they degrade and weaken, and the inability to resist and push back against gravity can lead to chronic compression of the spine and throughout your body. This causes joint degeneration, muscle inefficiency, reduced oxygen and blood flow. This can make us vulnerable to pain, illness, fatigue, and overwhelm.
THIS AFFECTS THE WHOLE BODY AND HAPPENS TO ALL OF US.
Our body is always asking for freedom: breath stretching spreading movement, tissue hydration tissue release, muscles nerves, etc to feel fully alive.
A healthy body utilizes large muscles, aligned joints, and healthy breathing patterns to maintain a sense of strength and structural integrity as it moves through a lifetime.
Movement therapy is based on the understanding that the majority of symptoms are manifestations of positional tensions and pain over time.
Sticky tissue that has adhesions block fluid, nutrient, and waste product flows, resulting in discomfort and pain, and are directly as well as metaphorically related to being stuck in life.
Our body knows when whether we are trying to help it or hurt it. It is asking for freedom through breath, stretching spreading movement, tissue hydration to feel fully alive.
True empowerment is learning and understanding how your body works, how to relieve pain and prevent it as much as possible.
Understanding HOW to move is the solution. It is a journey of both physical discovery and deepened self-awareness that enables your body’s natural ability to be expanded, open and strong. It gives you the power to reclaim control over your body and be the best version of you.
Rediscovering our physical fluidity and mobility truly changes us, how we move from the inside out, and our perception of ourselves.
YOUR BODY LOVES TONE STRENGTH SPACE through motion – specifically through expansion and suspension of your body.
Space makes you feel alive and vital – which is who you are at your core essence.
When you have the wow sensation where things release and you are aware and supported by your own bodyweight, it is extremely relieving and euphoric. Body patterns that previously drained you now give you so much life force energy and strength.
Reacquaint yourself with your body, experience the deep and widening feeling of creating space for yourself and become more embodied. Let movement and breath become a meditation in motion and your medicine.
Awakening body’s miraculous intelligence and listening to what it has to say. Using our life force properly to be the best most vital and authentic version of ourselves. It is a journey of both physical discovery and deepened self-awareness that enables your body’s natural ability to be expanded, open and strong. It gives you the power to reclaim control over your body and be the best version of you.
It’s an incredible journey coming home to you.
Anna Rahe is a brilliant powerhouse that has created the unthinkable with her body care system GST body.
GST body has been referred to by Anna as a “skin to soul experience”
a potent combination of all body practices both active and passive, including:
- chiropractic
- acupuncture
- acupuncture
- chi gung
- chi gung
- pilates
- dance
- body weight
all body structures, organs and systems that support them:
- bones skeletal system
- muscles tendons ligaments muscular system
- nerves nervous system
- glands and hormones endocrine system
- respiratory
- cardiovascular
- fascia
all rolled into one system where you can become your own body care practitioner.
Experience endless possibilities of movement breathing and release your body’s compressed stuck place that are creating pain and stress and get them working together to create powerful, efficient movement throughout your entire body.
Integrate vs Isolate Easier not harder on the body- everything working in sync
Expansion, suspension spreading out vs contraction and loading in,
What distinguish differentiate GST from all other methods:
After 20 years of clinical study and research, GST Body was created as a comprehensive whole body movement system to focus exclusively on fascia as the singular answer to all things body – aesthetics, athletics, rehabilitation and aging. Key to keeping tissue balanced and healthy.
What is fascia and Why does it matter?
Body is a magnetic matrix holding us together so we can move through life in this fluid way and respond uniquely with present in every moment vs, being stuck.
Within our fascia (the web of tissue that all of our organs, bones tissues live in) is the hidden whole body delivery system for hydration – it is our true hydrating channel, bringing hydration to every single part of us. It’s our intelligent sensing system passing and receiving information. Everything we are as intelligent beings has to do with this data transfer through the fascial system.
In other words, fascia is our hydration system, information system and energy fuel system.
Movement from deep within your tissues (fascia) hydrates your entire body.
Fascia is a not an energy, an actual living matrix that wraps around our entire body – like a full body wetsuit, a sweater in everything our eyeballs, etc.
Fascial matrix considered our most holistic system, considered a sensory organ in medicine as well. Our life force chi, nerves is also in our fascia.
Through sensitive fiber optic communication, fascia masters every process in us from detoxification to healing, hydration to metabolism.
Fascia is essential. Must deliberately condition it, or any attempt to be your whole self is missing the most significant component.
Fascia organ of body consciousness like brain is organ of mind consciousness.
Fascia is literal scientific spreading and opening consciousness not metaphorical
“Breathing & Moving give us our life force energy, our essence, ALIVENESS. -Sherri Zilic“
A deeper understanding of the breath
What many don’t realize is how stuck and tight they are, and they can’t breathe. We are breathing 20,000 times per day. Every breath impacts how our body functions and how we feel. A small, subtle adjustment made thousands of times over creates significant change.
Decompression Breathing expands, uplifts, lengthens, strengthens, supports
When you learn to breathe in this way -with intention and more efficiently- there are numerous benefits, such as:
creates space in the abdomen for organ functions (metabolism, digestion, excretion, reproduction, and hormone synthesis)
massages your organs Has an energizing hythm, calms the NS, stimulates the peristalsis, wavelike-squeezing motion of the intestines promotes digestion and elimination. May help heartburn, gas, indigestion, chronic constipation, and liver problems, etc.
expanded ribcage = expanded lung volume increased vitality
Expansive breathing gives you expansion, awareness, power and vitality (chi as it ins known in Chinese Medicine) combined with fluidity, grace and freedom in your entire being- your body, your mind and your emotions.
inhale more oxygen and exhale waste and toxins; releasing stagnation nourish cleanse lymph + whole beidy cells and tissues
establishes your core stability, alignment and your primary movement patterns
activate circulation returns blood to the heart, pumped to lungs
stimulates and energizes the nerves (meridians in TCM)
The deeper you journey into this process, the deeper you’re able to sustain a high volume of respiration, blood oxygenation, mental emotional, physical awareness through more efficient breathing.
Breathing techniques are blended and incorporated with movement and focus on three different practices:
-decompression breathing for correcting structural change
-embodied breathing during movement and flow
-meditative breathing that follows the AC/DC life force energy flow lines (chi) in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Connect to the soul, Go deep. Enlivening our selves from the inside. Discern when to dive in & when to ease up. Expanding, releasing restrictions, re-educate the brain-muscle-emotion connection, uniting body, mind and spirit- our consciousness changes, tells the subconscious you have space. Give yourself space every day- open the body, deepen conn to breath most direct way to reduce stress build up, deterioration and create health.
Ground & center, open & expand – calming your whole being. You have peace, clarity, more energy, invigorated improved posture and flexibility, better breathing & a deepened sense of who you are.
A deep UNDERSTANDING how our bodies work fundamental level which influences us to move with intention and presence and sets the stage for our vitality. And practicing that over and over and over. Training yourself in this way, you become a master In your own body and of this knowledge and what you can do in your own capacity.
- What you will learn to become aware of and understand:
- your body as a web of interrelated parts that are in relationship with each other,
- how this web begins to break down and tighten, and how it compensates to create imbalances.
- habitual patterns of posture, breath and movement that cause stress, strain and imbalance and
- how these patterns become symptoms due to weakened joints, muscles, and restrict organ function, spinal compression, musculoskeletal and nerve pain, inflammation, and a panicked physical and emotional states.)
- somatosensation: the ability to feel and sense what is happening in your body and accurately create meaning and bring yourself back to natural movements
- how to retrain movement patterns to steadily build expansion, length, balance and strength in your body
- how to build large, integrated movement patterns that protect the spine, all your other joints, nerve pathways, lymphatic systems, healthy tissue around the brain stem, cervical vertebra, cranial nerves, and vagus nerve.
- how cultivate these fundamental movement patterns and postures throughout your everyday life.
Your whole body becomes integrated and moves efficiently
be present, calmer deal with stress more efficiently
be more efficient have more energy, sleep deeper, better digestion.
change tissue patterns
release pain restrictions
injury recovery prevention
lymph flowing
stronger heart and lungs
If you are:
- Experiencing injuries, pain and limited range of motion : plantar fasciitis, sacroiliac joint pain, back pain, bulging or herniated discs, spinal injury, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, scoliosis, knee pain, hip pain, nerve pain, sciatica, frozen shoulder, shoulder injury & limitations, carpal tunnel, neck pain
- A therapist who works with somatic experiencing
- A chiropractor, physical therapist, occupational therapist, doctor, or bodyworker who needs tools to share with clients so they can take a more active role in their own healing
- A woman who wishes strengthen and re-center her body before during or after pregnancy
- Yoga, Movement, Dance, Athletes wanting to improve performance or hyper-mobile and needs to create strength and containment within their range of motion
- Anyone doing physical labor who needs to re-train their movement patterns.
- Someone who wants to increase their breath capacity
- Anyone and everyone with a body
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Words of Thanks
This isn’t just a massage—it’s a holistic healing experience. Sherri’s techniques targeted and dissolved not only physical discomfort but layers of tension throughout my body. I left feeling lighter, freer, and more energized. Her skill and intuition are unparalleled, and I genuinely believe her work has medicinal benefits.
Josh T.Her touch is both gentle and powerful, as if she’s working in harmony with your energy to restore balance and alleviate tension. What sets her apart is her deep understanding of the body’s natural flow. She released pathways in my body’s I didn’t even know were blocked, leaving me with an incredible sense of relief and rejuvenation.
Javi M.Sherri = fabulous massage therapist, knowledgeable, skillful, the best of the best! After my first massage, I scheduled regular sessions with her. She goes above and beyond, and I felt the effect of her work many days after the massage. Thank you!
Olivia S.