slow. down.

 

Our modern world is driven by a simple yet dangerous model, do more and do it faster. But how long can you do this? How many more tasks can you fit in your day? How much more productive can you be? Are you doing the best and the most for yourself? For your family? This is the trap that we all fall into living in LA. Comparing yourself to the person you think you should be. 

 

I experienced this first hand in my field of physical therapy. I spent years in a busy clinic seeing on average 20 people in an 8 hour! I would have 2-3 people show up at a time all needing specific and personal care. I was running from person to person trying to give them the attention they needed to improve, trying to do my job, trying to help people understand and improve how they lived in their physical bodies. But the speed at which I was asked to do this was detrimental to both myself and my clients. How could I actually provide the care people needed while running around the clinic, spending maybe 10 minutes with each person?

 

One day the impossible happened, and my schedule had only 1 person for the hour. I could dedicate the entire time to that one person, identifying what they needed, listening to their experience, and actually help them. The results spoke for themselves. In that 1 hour of treatment the patient saw drastic improvement. I felt better about the treatment, they felt better about the treatment and everyone was happy. Except for the clinic who saw that hour as a loss because the production was low.

 

However, after that experience I saw the light. Slowing down was the key. Not focusing on how much to cram in a day, an hour, a minute. Slowing down and treating the person in front me. Providing a time for the client to slow down and focus on themselves. By setting this specific time aside something magical happened, actual healing.

 

I wanted to recreate that everyday, every client. I fell in love with the idea that slowing down and spending the time with each person was the way forward. Counter to “the grind” of modern working culture, I wanted to create a space that would be human focused, not production focused. 

 

That’s the story of Waystone Wellness. I see each person for an hour. The whole hour. Each session is dedicated to exactly what the client needs. This specific and slow work produces results that last. That means each session with us is worth multiple sessions of an overworked and understaffed clinic.

 

Another key difference at Waystone is our implementation of the “dental model” to bodywork. We recommend check ups every so often to keep your body moving and functioning at its best, rather than waiting for something to go wrong and trying to play catch up to symptoms.

 

So slow down with us. Let yourself be treated as a human not a number. Your body with thank you.

 

Nate

Founder of Waystone Wellness