Align, awaken and embody your optimal health and well-being. This is what Dr. Keneen McNiven, D.C. is all about.
McNiven is a gentle and holistic chiropractor, and has been practicing over 30 years. She started in Boulder, Colorado and now practices in both Durango and Mancos. She currently makes her home in Mancos.
Two things that make McNivens work unique are her holistic approach and her intent to teach and empower clients to learn to help themselves. She addresses all of a person the spine, the muscles and also the unique postural reactions and shapes that impact their spine and their health as well. The shapes are the result of previous unresolved and undigested stresses, that are part of the spinal misalignments and part of the pain and energy loss, but unfortunately often missed by other professionals.
While utilizing traditional Chiropractic techniques, muscle-testing and gentle stress relieving hands-on work, along with breath work, she also uniquely addresses the reactive postural shape of a person. McNiven states that when she addresses not only the spine, but also the bodys postural reactions that impact the spine, people heal faster, regain their energy and experience an expanded awareness of how to help themselves heal as well.
In addition, when healthy, alignment-based yoga and/or therapeutic exercises are added to the picture, McNiven said, clients respond faster and become more involved and empowered in their own healing process. When this happens people heal faster, feel inspired and save money as well.
This gives McNiven great joy to share because she has personally experienced the profound benefits of this approach. After the sudden loss of her husband 6 years ago she became ill and exhausted and was told she needed hip surgery after a car accident. Unwilling to accept this, she set about healing her own grief holistically, and through yoga and began to heal her body, her hip and her health from the inside out. Her energy, optimism and health returned and she has remained surgery free.
McNiven will offer free yoga workshops during the balloon festival on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28 and 29 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Kaleidoscope. All levels are welcome, she said. I really look forward to connecting more deeply with the local community and this is a wonderful way to do so.
She will also teach on-going yoga on Wednesday mornings starting Oct. 3. at Kaleidescope Wellness. Beginners gentle yoga basics will be at 9 a.m. and intermediate yoga will be from 10:30 to noon. Classes in Durango are also available and on her web-site. Classes are life-affirming, heart-oriented and alignment based so people just leave feeling good all-over.
She offers free initial consultations and practices both at 164 Frontage Road in Mancos with two other well respected local chiropractors, Lucinda Glass and Travis White, and also at the Smiley Building in Durango.
McNiven can be reached at 303-513-8055 and her website is www.YogiKeneenDC.com.