Mindstates
Atlas Profilax
by Sydney L. Murray
Recently I had the opportunity to meet Jeffrey St. Onge, who has brought the Atlas Profilax to San Diego. Atlas Profilax is a revolutionary modality from Switzerland that corrects the first cervical vertebra known as the Atlas. What’s remarkable about this treatment is that in most cases, you need only one session and one follow-up because the correction is not an adjustment, but a powerful relocation that immediately activates a self-healing and harmonizing process within the individual. It is holistic, promoting wellness and rejuvenation on all levels: mind, body and spirit.
After my unique treatment that puts the top vertebra of the spine back into place, I noticed that I needed less sleep and I remembered more dreams each night. I woke up feeling refreshed with no grogginess.
“Fabulous! I can’t say enough about it,” Virginia Meyn exclaimed. Meyn is one of the many pleased clients to receive this healing modality, and there are many more like her.
St. Onge, who is based in San Diego, worked with Meyn and is one of only two Atlas practitioners in the United States.
Atlas Profilax was designed to be a primary treatment, curative as well as preventative, in order to enhance and support all other therapies. The treatment inspires regeneration, not only structurally but also spiritually, assisting each client to become free from pain and discomfort and moving toward self-empowerment. This was the originator, René-Claudius Schümperli’s dream and life’s work.
St. Onge explains, “The treatment addresses tension that is being placed on the atlas, which is the top vertebra of the spine. This is the area of the body that supports one’s balance and keeps our heads on straight. If the muscles and other tissues surrounding the atlas are stressed, it can cause the atlas to twist and/or tilt, putting stress and pressure on the spinal cord, which can then cause symptoms virtually anywhere in the body, including the digestive system, organs and eyes—the list is long. For example, it can cause tension locally causing neck stress and pain, finally working its way up to a disabling headache. Or it can cause the body to compensate by tilting the pelvis in an attempt to twist the spine and realign itself to the tilted atlas; this can cause tension along the spine and lower back resulting in back and knee pain, sciatica (or both) or tingling in the hands and arms.
“The procedure consists of a 30 minute office visit where you will be examined by the Atlas professional. Your range of motion will be checked as well as your leg length and so on. No x-rays are needed as we are treating the muscles and tissues rather than forcing an adjustment. The Atlas professional will then use a hand- held oscillating device, the Wellness-Vib, to release the sub-occipital muscles at the base of the neck along with the other tissues that are tilting the atlas, allowing it to settle and lock back into its proper angle, permanently. A follow-up visit is then scheduled to make sure that the treatment was successful,” said St. Onge.
Atlas Profilax was discovered by Schümperli of Switzerland who was searching for relief from a severely stressed atlas, aggravated by an injury. Unable to find lasting relief, he studied many different therapies and finally, while doing cadaver research, he discovered that every one of them had a twisted, torqued and displaced atlas.
St. Onge says the treatment works because it addresses the cause of the problem rather than just treating the symptoms. For example, one of the most common symptoms of a stressed atlas is a tilting of the pelvis, which causes a leg to be short in comparison to the other leg—usually the left. This causes an imbalance which stresses the legs and the entire body. Conventional treatments will simply treat the torqued pelvis by stretch, exercise and massage or by simply forcing the pelvis straight by twisting and jamming the bones straight (by cracking the back). All of these do not address the cause (the stressed atlas) and they provide only temporary relief at best.
Atlas Profilax, on the other hand, releases the pressure on the spinal cord which is, to reiterate, the actual cause. The pelvis can then immediately relax into its normal position and the leg length is permanently corrected, again in only one treatment. When the stress is released, the back pain, sciatica and other symptoms simply fade away.
Meyn emphasizes these results, saying, “It was interesting because the atlas sort of slipped into its place and I felt an opening up. The real benefits were afterwards and over the following days when I realized the difference in how I felt.” Since Meyn’s treatment over two months ago, the results are still working:
“I almost cried; I just could not have believed that this could work so well and it continues.”
St. Onge has experienced his own amazing results from the treatment. “I suffered from chronic neck and back pain at a level far above mere discomfort—at times it could be almost disabling.
“Immediately after the treatment my pain was gone! I couldn’t believe it. Weeks later it started to return, only to then completely disappear, permanently. My head was no longer tilted on my shoulders, my sense of smell and taste became keener and my eye sight improved. I felt balanced. I have seen this happen over and over in those whom I have treated with Atlas Profilax.”
This treatment has had a positive impact on the lives of its users. St. Onge attests to this, saying, “It has certainly had an influence on my life. I have more energy and I require less sleep. I’m more comfortable in my body and confident in my life and in my work. It’s easer to make decisions now. I can see more clearly the road ahead and I have a more positive outlook for the future.”
Atlas Profilax is not a cure-all but it is a very big piece of the puzzle, that when in place, can guide us to the next step.
Jeffrey St. Onge can be reached at 619.701.5105, pnj123@att.net or on his website at www.amazingatlas.com.