The Body Remembers: Honoring the Old Ways of Healing
Hands That Remember: Ancestral Rhythms in Chiropractic Care
In many ancestral traditions, the body wasn’t just a biological machine. It was sacred. It held memory, energy, lineage. Healing wasn’t about fixing just a part, but ultimately about restoring balance to the whole.
Across cultures, healing involved connection:
Touch and movement guided by intuition and spirit.
Plants and food as medicine.
Breath and song to release pain.
Prayer, ritual, and ceremony to align body and soul.
Ancestral Healing
In the Philippines, hilots intuitively assessed imbalance through the body’s texture and heat. In China, traditional medicine practitioners felt the pulse to read the state of internal organs. In Indigenous American practices, healing came through sweat lodges, storytelling, and ceremonial plant use.
These approaches weren’t siloed, they were integrated. Healing was relationship. With land, ancestors, community and one's own spirit.
Chiropractic as a Continuation, Not a Break
At Kaname Chiropractic, we believe healing today still holds those same values.
Although we use modern tools—chiropractic tables, nervous system scans, rehabilitation protocols—the spirit behind the work is ancient:
Listening deeply to what your body is saying, even when you can’t put it into words.
Using touch to restore balance and flow.
Creating ritual through consistency, breath, and presence.
Trusting the body’s innate intelligence to heal when given space.
When Dr. Cassie adjusts your spine, or Dr. Jos scans your nervous system, they’re not just applying technique. They’re practicing reverent, embodied listening carrying on the spirit of those who came before.
We don’t “correct” your body—we support its remembering.
We don’t just aim to “fix pain”—we honor what pain might be asking of you.
We believe healing isn’t imposed—it’s uncovered.
From Roots to Rhythm: Kaname’s Healing Approach
The word Kaname (要) means "the pivot" or “keystone”—the point around which everything turns. In your body, it’s your spine. In your life, it may be a moment of awakening. For us, it is the understanding that healing is not linear. It is cyclical, seasonal, and deeply personal.
Many of our patients—especially immigrants, queer and trans folks, people of color—carry both visible and invisible burdens. Some of this pain is ancestral. Some of it is inherited through systems of oppression and survival.
Our goal at Kaname is to create a space where all of that is welcome:
Where you’re not asked to “hold it all together,” but invited to release.
Where your grandmother’s healing soup and your nervous system scan both matter.
Where a spinal adjustment is also a form of prayer.
This is why we talk about interdependence. This is why we bring in the language of ancestors, rituals, and remembering. Because your healing is part of something much bigger.
(Your body already knows the way. We’re just here to help you return to it.)