For Valentine’s Day I got a MAT session from Chie. Today it was time to cash in on it. I went to Ebisu Synergy Center after gym today to have my first session.

MAT is an acronym for Muscle Activation Techniques and the theory is that you may have a lot of mechanical malfunctioning in your body over time. This may prevent your muscles from working fully in harmony (everything is connected) with each other and some may deactivate making the other muscles work harder. Which leads to imbalance, stiff muscles etc.

MAT is addressing this my pressure and using your muscles in different “exercises” depending on your problem. It sounds really interesting I think, and the first session was good.

Do you feel as after a massage session. No. But I felt lighter in the lower part of my legs than I have done in a while. I have another session on Thursday and I have got some homework to do. I get back to this subject later with a report on the progress 🙂

Another thing that I feel is interesting here is the relationship between MAT and Brainwave Entrainment (BWE). The Synergy Center has a holistic view on mechanical problems in your body that makes you not performing 100%, and it is not far fetched that part of not performing 100% is also your brain.

As an example from the session Kazu-sensei (my “trainer”) explained for me what muscles to use and how to visualize them in my mind in order to activate them correctly. Then he asked me to prevent him from moving my leg in a certain direction to check if the muscle had been activate. It was quite amazing to see the difference after just some pressure and some movement compared to when the session started.