Healing Massage and Emotional Release
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 | Health, Massage, Seattle | 1 Comment
A good, deep tissue massage isn’t just about healing the body, it’s also about releasing deeply stored emotions.
Intense emotions can be held deep inside our muscle tissue the same way they are stored in the brain, just waiting for a familiar scent or a stranger’s face to release them.
Receiving a therapeutic massage may dislodge some emotional layers you haven’t dealt with in a while and you might come away from a massage feeling either light as a summer’s breeze, or as heavy as a boulder, all depending upon which emotions were tapped into.
These emotional releases are connected with good, deep bodywork, and as a massage practitioner I’ve witnessed many emotionally-charged sessions when working with clients. Make no mistake, massage therapy can be intense.
We all carry around pockets of memories within our bodies and dislodging them, shifting them around, and making them a part of your day isn’t always easy. But, stirring things up can be a great thing! Getting these intense feelings outside oneself and into the light can be a fantastic improvement to one’s day.
So, consider turning a bright blue sky Northwest day into a day where you’ll receive important bodywork. If you’re in Seattle, browsing the web, and thinking of getting a deep tissue massage, also think about the healing benefits of therapeutic massage and bodywork. Maybe even the benefits you don’t usually consider. Like getting in touch with deeply held emotions and opening up more.
Turn your day into a healing day and your body and your emotions will thank you for it.
Listening to Your Body: Don’t Wait until It’s Too Late
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 | Health, Massage, Seattle, exercise, health tips, nutrition, stretching | 1 Comment
Make smart choices when it comes to listening to your body and its pain signals.
Maybe it’s not deep pain just yet, maybe it is a recurring stiffness in one knee joint or a dull ache that you feel like you can ignore in your lower back.
If it doesn’t get some bodywork and professional attention, it could turn into a bigger problem down the road.
You receive and feel these messages, because yes, your body sends signals and messages to your brain. Sometimes these messages come through louder or softer, but the messages are coming through.
It’s you who needs to pay attention.
By ignoring these messages, you do your body and health a huge disservice—you put off a healing massage treatment for one more day.
Attend to your body, get back on the path to proper care, and a healthy body awareness.
Make an appointment and visit a massage practitioner before more damage is done.
Don’t store up your pain and put off receiving a massage. Especially right now, here in the middle of traditional summertime in Seattle, when people are more physically active, and the thought of a day hike seems like a great idea, until your aching muscles the next day let you know you’ve neglected proper stretching and forgot about a stiff area full of lower back pain.
We live in a fantastic city. Seattle is amazing in the summer, and it wants us to open up and explore what it has to offer. To open your eyes to nature and urban exploring, you also need to move past the blind spots in your life.
See how even small steps made toward more healthy physical choices can have a large impact. When you think about it, caring for ourselves physically appears to be a blindside in our whole culture, if the obesity epidemic tells us anything.
I want you to pay attention and get involved in healthy movement and massage treatment before it is too late.
Begin by stretching, walking a short distance, try a beginner yoga class, and come to see someone like me—a healing massage practitioner who can do some deep work on chronic muscle and joint pain and free up areas that may have been locked up for months or years.
Listen to your body and begin taking care of it today.
Why Clients Are Requesting More Groin Work
Thursday, August 5th, 2010 | Featured, Groin Injury, Health, Massage, Seattle | No Comments
There are a great many reasons why new clients come to me to have pelvic and
groin massage therapy done.
But the two main reasons are to gain greater freedom of movement and to live healthier longer.
Wow. Good stuff. Right?
Think about those two health benefits and consider the less healthy options—an early hip
replacement, chronic lower back pain, and stress that can eventually lead to things like
prostrate cancer and incontinence issues.
Not so good.
Maybe you have a groin or pelvic injury, or a constant tightness in your pelvic region,
and you keep putting off having professional massage work done.
Often the clients who find me through referral or word of mouth are ready for the type
of healing pelvic and groin work I do, and are eager to feel a significant improvement
in their bodies. They may have hit a wall in treatment with other therapists and know
something was missing, and are ready to try again.
A big part of feeling better is getting massage therapy for the problem areas you know
about, and having bodywork done so you’ll prevent future problems.
Groin and pelvic massage helps to open up and create space in hip joints, and relieve the stress that’s been building up.
In Seattle and our surrounding communities, people have the same stresses and problems that everyone else does in other parts of our country.
We just happen to live in a city surrounded by nature and are constantly reminded that we’re a part of nature.
I believe it’s in our nature to be smart creatures that solve problems.
Now is the best time to discover how much better your body will feel when you’re good to it and get the massage therapy you need.
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 | Business, Seattle, networking | No Comments
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Partner with Your Massage Therapist, Don’t Use Them!
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 | Featured, Massage, Seattle | No Comments
When I hear someone say they use a massage therapist, I cringe.
Ours is the healing profession that you join with, partner with, and come out more whole with because of this unique partnership. We don’t have a massage practice so we can be used by clients.
We’re in it so we can help, heal, and take care of people’s bodies in way they never could do for themselves.
My clients come to me and they receive bodywork from a skilled massage practitioner, and in my case, they receive bodywork and massage care from someone who specializes in helping people with pelvic and groin pain, lower back pain, muscle strain, and injury massage treatment.
There’s already enough using and being used going on in our world. Don’t add to it.
Create a new thought process, and create a healthier mindset toward your body and health.
You might use a toothbrush or a vacuum cleaner, but you open up and receive a massage from the best massage therapist you can find and work on your deep physical places and processes.
Massage practitioners are partners in care, and they become partners in healing.
While it may seem to some like I’m splitting hairs by focusing on this word “use” I’m not.
Ideas matter in our world, words matter, and who you have perform your bodywork matters a great deal.
Every one of you reading this in Seattle and around Puget Sound can decide today to begin working toward a healthier body, making better choices in healthy movement, and schedule a massage treatment. The rest is up to you.
Take care of your body and treat it well. It’s going to have to last a lifetime.
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
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Springtime in Seattle: Connecting Massage to Daily Life and Healthy Movement
Saturday, April 24th, 2010 | Business, Groin Injury, Health, Massage, Seattle, health tips, stretching | No Comments
What do so many of my friends and massage clients in Seattle have in common?
What one activity do they spend so many hours doing during the course of a day?
Sitting in the same position, and most likely in an uncomfortable office chair. Not just one day a week or sometimes, but day after day. And to be blunt, that shit accumulates in the mid-section of the body, as well as other areas such as shoulders, hands, upper arms.
You can feel it without even thinking about it all that much. Can’t you?
Over time, the body just holds onto this stress and strain, and one day an area in your back or hip gets pushed too far.
You go from uncomfortable to truly hurting, and you wonder how it happened.
Even if you just get up and do a few easy simple stretches, you can feel a difference in your energy level.
But having some deep tissue massage work done is more likely what is needed, especially when you’ve been ignoring those neck pains, shoulder twinges, and chronic lower back pain that just doesn’t seem to go away.
Daily tension gets ignored, and pushed down and held in places like the butt and pelvis area.
And since this is such a core area that affects your whole body’s movement, sooner or later, muscle and joint tension builds up and creates problems.
Sometimes when people say things like “That really gives me a pain in the ass.” they are being more literal than they think.
Please pay attention to your body throughout the day.
Listen to what it’s telling you.
Maybe it wants to stretch, and if you take five minutes to unplug from the wired world we live in and listen to the inner world of your own body’s rhythms, you’ll get rewarded with a deeper connection to your own life energy.
And won’t that feel great?
Its easy to be busy. ‘Busy’ ne…
Friday, April 16th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Its easy to be busy. ‘Busy’ needs no maintenance. Calm, peace, relax: these things need to be maintained and added.
Finding (And Healing) the Deep Center of Gravity (Part 2.)
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 | Groin Injury, Health, Massage, Seattle | No Comments
Healing massage is about many things, but there’s a basic truth: good massage requires forming a partnership. This means creating a safe space to do the deep healing massage work that you need and I can provide.
When you locate the specific areas you store your pain, you can begin healing them.
One place we store deep stress is in the pelvic region. People can gain greater movement in this amazingly important part of the body. Deep tissue massage therapy can bring some major release in the pelvis and groin area.
Take a deep breath,
and feel where it is, you store the stress and tension in your body.
If your pain is stored in the center of your body, you probably have pelvic issues that could use some work.
Working with many types of bodies and personality types at my office on Capitol Hill in Seattle 
, I understand how pain can block a person’s focus and prevent the free flow of energy that we want to always have moving through us at optimum levels.
We’ve all experienced our selves flowing and feeling so in synch with the world, just feeling great.
So we want to get to a place of feeling connected with this great sense of movement we carry within us.
I want to bring clients to that place within, and help them to be creators of their own healing. Sounds good? Right?
Anyplace a massage therapist works on, that holds deep trauma and stored pain can uncomfortable at first.
And since the tightness in an area of the body is so near the genitals, working near it can bring up all sorts of emotional and physical issues.
As I said in the first part of this article, this is a highly charged area for many reasons.
Our culture simply doesn’t support or even talk very much about the idea of healing and release work done in this area.
I want to see our blocks around this body area change, and I’m doing something about transforming this outdated mindset.
A good massage treatment for yourself is just as much a willingness to become involved in your own healing as it is a way to let go and feel healing touch that will stay with you. I partner with and join into the healing massage treatments with my clients.
We take a journey together, and the trip is about restoring energy and health to the places you’ve been storing all the lifelong pain, pressure, and problems.
Bodies are often smarter than we are. They want to be healed.
Finding the Deep Center of Gravity (Part 1.)
Saturday, April 10th, 2010 | Groin Injury, Massage, networking | No Comments
Let’s face it, we all want to feel better. As a massage practitioner I know this fact in a deep way. Clients come to me with a long list of stresses, strains, pains, aches, and just plain old built up body tension.
No only do I understand this, but the bodyworkers I often network with know this as well. People want to feel better, in every part of their body. Even in certain areas it might be difficult for them to talk about. Pain that comes up when they stretch or move a certain way that shouldn’t be so painful.
One thing that I’ve been discussing with my fellow healing profession workers is my shift in focus to groin and pelvic injury treatment.
Since this is a delicate subject, even talking about it with other massage practitioners can be like opening a can of worms that either calls for a lengthy discussion or becomes a conversation stopper.
You never know.
In our society, the genital region is taboo and working around this highly charged area is something most massage practitioners and bodyworkers just do not do. And I get it. I completely understand why groin and pelvic work isn’t all that popular with my fellow massage practitioners.
Let me put this out there: People truly need this type of elemental and integrative body work. So much of our culture’s stresses and long-term pains are held onto in the pelvic region.
Who knows if it began with the repressed way we’ve held things inside for generations, and it may date back to the whole formation of this great big crazy body of a country (the body inside our own minds, the body politic, the bodies of all these humans around us we come into contact with), but healing and release needs to happen more often.
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