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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.

Tags: groin massage, injury treatment, low back pain, pelvic massage, self-care, stress

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.

Tags: Massage, pelvic massage, self-care

Women clients who want /need a massage practitioner that will:

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 | Featured, Groin Injury, Health, Massage, Seattle | No Comments

Help You to Reconnect With Your Sensuality

If you are a mature women, you’ve already gone through many life changes and challenges. And there are times when you may wonder where your body’s resiliency and your energy went. As an expert massage practitioner based in Seattle, I can help you to discover what you’re missing—by taking you emotionally and physically where others won’t go. After finding out which areas you’d like to improve on, we’ll move ahead and address long-buried issues and traumas.

Sexuality, body/mind connection, center of gravity, flowing sensuality.

With ongoing massage treatments you can add more flow and grounding in your pelvic area. In our massage session we’ll work to bring back core strength, to expand your ability to be stronger and more flexible. Our goal will be to free up the areas to help you to feel younger and more rejuvenated.

Areas than can be focused on include:

· Relieving pain

· Helping with overall movement

· Improving productivity

· Focusing scattered energy

· Healing old trauma

· Helping to feel more vibrant

· Freeing up movement for a more active lifestyle

You don’t have to live with lower back and hip pain. Vitality and focus can be increased. It is possible to bring back more creativity and passion to your life. When your body begins to feel more flexible, you can better express yourself in daily life, in relationships, and in all areas of your life.

Tags: deep tissue, injury treatment, low back pain, Massage, myofascial release, pelvic massage, self-care, sexual trauma, trauma

Motivation to Stay Healthy and Active

Friday, February 12th, 2010 | Featured, Health, health tips, nutrition | 3 Comments

My longest-term goal is This:

I will be able to

walk

Wipe my own butt

And feed myself

Until the day I die.

Now there are plenty of other good goals to have for one’s entire life but these ones are the ones that motivate me most to continue caring for my health.   I find that I consider deeply the long-term effects of things like eating candy or drinking alcohol.

I want to feel good now AND 50 years from now.

There have been many times over the years I would try to tell my friends to drink more water.   They would say to me “I don’t feel sick! I don’t want to drink water. I feel fine and I’ve been drinking diet Coke for the last 4 years, (9 years, 19 years) That doesn’t apply to me” or something along those lines.

It’s one of those things that people do to destroy themselves, I think. (I have compassion for that.  I destroy myself as well in the ways of eating, drinking or lifestyle.  I have said in other posts that I recognize this.)

If one is told that something is bad for them – and they do not want to consider the advice – I believe this is a way to stay oblivious to one’s health.  It’s a form of self-delusion.  A way to stay fixed into immediate gratification by not considering long-term effects.

Scares the shit out of me to think of the health problems one would face after consuming so much processed food over a long period of time.

I can imagine our nurses, surgery experts and nursing-home employees could speak much on the subject of diseases caused by poor maintenance of the body.

It’s not like I want to have a body that’s pristine and unused in my old-age.

I just want to be able to

Walk

Wipe my own butt

and feed myself

Till the day I die.

This is my solid motivation to stay active and healthy everyday

Don’t Wait till it Hurts

Monday, December 21st, 2009 | Featured, Health, Massage | 6 Comments

I know better than most people how easy it is to put off receiving bodywork until my body hurts so bad I can’t move.

There’s a resistance most of us have in this society against taking care of ourselves.

We feel that we can solve our problems with our logic and intellect.  Staying stuck in modes where thought is master and all our actions are based on what our minds want.

When in these “mind-modes” our body’s needs tend to be forgotten or at least
“tuned-out” in order to meet the needs of our minds.

Is there something wrong with this?

No and yes.

Your life is yours to live as you choose.  My message is:  usually when people start actually taking care of their body’s needs – they are dealing with damage that’s already been done, and pain becomes their motivation to heal.

There’s nothing “wrong” with this – unless you have a desire to live a better and more comfortable life.

Having a body that is pain-free only comes when you maintain your health in a way that addresses body tightness and structural misalignment before they turn into pain, injury or more debilitating maladies like fusions of joints or bone spurs.

 Say you have a tight back.  It feels tight and uncomfortable, but you keep working anyway.  The tightness turns into pain once in a while.  Then it gets more frequent.  You keep working because you can “live with the pain” while working.  You’ll find you can still work even though you’re in pain; it becomes habit. You keep working and pushing your pain aside, and think maybe you should get a massage but instead you think the money it takes to go to a good massage therapist isn’t worth it because you can still live and work relatively well through your daily pain.  Years go by, and you’re doing little to nothing for your tight back and the pain that you have just gets a little worse everyday.

Then something happens.

You lift a heavy box and turn around to set it down and feel something “go out” in your back, or you slip and fall out of your chair while reaching for something at work.  “All of a sudden” you have so much pain in your shoulder or low back that you can’t sit for more than 3 minutes without having distracting pain.

You finally decide to see someone about the pain because it’s so bad it’s got to be something serious.  You get an x-ray that shows you have a slipped disk or fusion in your neck vertebrae.

Those types of serious spinal injuries happen due to “little accidents” or “slip-and-falls” (*note – this does not include injury from serious fall, crashes and extreme emergency life threatening situations) because your soft tissue was so tight.  Your muscle tightness made your structure unstable.  When an unstable, weak, misaligned and imbalanced body gets tipped, jostled or pushed into even a “small” accident – the likelihood of injury and chronic pain issues become huge.

Choosing to “live with” and ignore your pain will make it easier for you to get hurt in more painful and lasting ways.

As a health care practitioner, I meet many people who “live with their pain.”  They argue for their ability to ignore their pain, saying things like “I don’t hurt that bad”  “It’s just a little tight, I can still get by just fine”  “I don’t have the time or money”  “Massage is too expensive… and by the way you charge more than other massage practitioners so I can just go to Massage Envy and Pay forty bucks to get a massage, if I really needed it”

Not to bash my fellow heart-giving colleagues but employers like Massage Envy don’t pay their employee therapists nearly enough to care about your pain and injuries and be motivated to apply the effort and diligence it takes to truly address and correct their clients’ injuries and pain.

You can PREVENT injury with regular cheap massage.

But once you’re “feeling it” it’s too late.  The damage has already been done.

For those pain and tightness patterns to be truly addressed – you need a therapist who has put their focus into really dedicating themselves to YOUR healing process.

Doing injury treatment work isn’t easy to give or receive and it’s not the kind of massage where the massage practitioner can just blissfully rub you and make you feel all warm and fuzzy the entire time.

Injury Treatment takes focus, study, practice and a shit-load of compassion to do it with skill or effectiveness.

You know why?  Because people destroy themselves everyday.  They hurt themselves.  They do not see how they created their pain and injuries with their own choices and neglect.

A healer could really stand in judgment for the tragic results that neglect produces in their client’s bodies.

That’s one of the top reasons why the average career span for an LMP is about 2 years.  (A few other top reasons: low cash-flow and injury while working.)

Most of the retired LMP’s I have met told me they couldn’t stand to see people destroy themselves anymore.  They got to know what peoples’ lack of care for themselves looks, feels, smells and sounds like on an intimate level.

That’s pretty heavy shit, man!

Seriously.  The ways people hurt really tugs at any healer’s heart.  But even if someone is a so-called “accident prone person” we healers can clearly see what, in our clients, draws their injury.

I think a great healer recognizes the duality of all people wanting to both destroy and heal themselves and just loves people anyway.  Let me say that again: we continue to love our clients anyway.

We see the organic naturalness of this consistent opposing dynamic between healing and destroying because all humans seem to have it in one form or another.

We can have compassion for our client’s situations without judgment.  We can gently show them how to understand the ways they are hurting themselves, and kindly (sometimes sternly) how to reduce the “destroy-self” compulsions and increase the “heal-self” habits and motivations.

Really good healing work is often not particularly fun.

It makes sense why someone would avoid getting healing work because, on some level, they know it’s going to make them face their choices, selves and destructive habits and why they are in the place of being in pain.

Not to mention – purely on the mechanical level – injury treatment massage can hurt.  Knots and tightness tend to hurt when they are massaged and released.

Seasoned receivers of massage will talk about “good-pain” that comes when tight muscles or “knots” get massaged into less painful or tense states.

So it’s your choice to live your life as you desire.  I honor all paths whether they lead you to my door or not.

I trust that you know what’s best for you to have a life that fulfills you.  And I’ll support your healing in whatever way I am allowed.

I am allowed to voice my opinions and give advice based on the interests of healing my clients and operating my business:

Please don’t wait.

Please get bodywork soon and choose to heal before it hurts and especially before the pain you have right now turns into something worse that may never heal to ideal standards again.

Do yourself a favor: Don’t ignore your body.

Spend the time, money, effort and attention it takes to live a better and more comfortable life.  Think about doing it soon.

Your body is your vehicle.

Maintain your healthy body – and you’ll be able to live longer with less pain and more vibrancy and freedom.

Niche Marketting – A Healer’s Best Friend and Greatest Challenge.

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | Business, Featured, Massage, Seattle | 2 Comments

With a title like that I should write volumes.

Most healers and body-workers I have met through the years have hearts so big and generous – they want to give their healing skills to everyone.

They know they can benefit anyone they touch.

But what is best for my client? What does any perspective client REALLY need?

Some times it is clear: they want to heal their low back pain, for example.

Sometimes is is very unclear what needs to be healed. I find that most people, however – when they seek healing – will be often naturally guided to find the healing modality and practitioner(s) that will be of the HIGHEST GAIN to their healing paths.

Another way of saying this is: when you find the correct practitioner and modality FOR YOU – you will leap and bound into greater expressions of good health in a relatively short period of time with regular treatments or even just one treatment.

Good and lasting healing is often something of an investment in time and money.

Sometimes something like chronic low back pain takes a year or two of consistent injury treatment sessions to completely heal the pain so that it hardly comes back. (I ask you this: how long did it take for the pain to get there?… a lifetime, perhaps?)

The point of that ramble is: because clients often have specific needs – it would only make sense that practitioners of healing arts SPECIALIZE in one or two things – aka- they create a niche for themselves so that those searching clients find exactly what they are looking for in a healer.

I found out, years ago, that my passion for massage was invigorated by the assessing and treating of pain and injury in the groin and pelvic regions.

My motivation for improving my skills in treating the hip and groin made me feel “in” the “student mind.” Like being in massage school, I was so excited and fascinated to learn and practice bodywork.

Because of my personal interest in this aspect of massage, I have become adept at treating trauma, pain and injury in the groin, pelvis, low back and hips.

I helped heal physical trauma in the pelvic region, as well as the psychological, mental, and emotional trauma that is so often associated with the pelvic region.

To wrap this all up – it seems wise to choose your practitioner with care.

If you know what you need – find and go to a specialist.

If you know you want to improve the quality of your life and you know you need healing but you don’t know where to look: try energy healers, talking therapies, movement therapies, mystical therapies or things you would not have tried otherwise as well as socially accepted modalities.

Sometimes finding your perfect healing match is part of your healing path. Sometimes finding a practitioner who can help deeply heal you is like stepping out of your box and out of your comfort zone.

I would say too, that a healing practitioner – finding their niche can be a part of their healing path as well.

For my fellow practitioners: get specific, if you aren’t already.

We are not in competition. We are working together to save and improve the lives of the people on this planet.

Niche yourself!

Injury Treatment Massage for Groin, Pelvis, Low Back and Hip Pain

Friday, November 13th, 2009 | Business, Featured, Groin Injury, Massage, Seattle | No Comments

In a city like Seattle, where the clinics and spas are packed with talented professional massage therapists, how do you choose your massage practitioner?

What do you need? A spa setting? A clinic? Hot stones or perhaps energy work?

Your needs are specific. What I provide is specific as well.

I specialize in treating injuries in the groin, pelvis, low back and hips. I have been focusing on this work since 2002 while also treating all the other types of injuries as well.

I had recognized at that time that I was afraid to touch people?s inner thighs during massage.

My work ethics, my pride, my professional standards and my ego were not very happy with this.

So I went to work getting more comfortable with doing massage in the groin and pelvic areas.

I started practicing on closer friends, trades colleagues and long-term clients of that time. At first, I asked lots of ?are you ok with this? questions.

Over time, I have been able to treat pelvic and groin injuries with not only confident specificity but with care, safety and compassion as well!

It?s very exciting to say all this considering, on the business end of my massage practice, I have been contemplating a niche.

Choosing a niche is like jumping off a cliff and I have niche-ed before and it did not go as well as I had planned.

And considering that niche ? this particular niche ? is like jumping off an even taller cliff.

Be-gad.

But the truth is, there?s a need out there for massage Practitioners that are adept in groin massage, and pelvic massage!

People get injured there! It needs to be treated. I do it well and, dare I say it, it?s one of my great passions to treat the pelvic and groin structures in my bodywork practice.

People that have received my work often comment on how the pain truly decreased in their low backs in a significant and lasting way.

I am adept at core-muscular treatment over-all but the pelvis, hips and thighs are where my skills and talents as a treatment specialist really shine.

Air-conditioned massage in Seattle

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | Featured, Massage, Seattle | No Comments

I bow down to the SEO gods and post this to my Fellow Seattleites:

If you are in pain and needing some good deep tissue massage… I have AC in my massage office.

Massage is like zen warrior voodoo prayer in the heat.

All I can concentrate on is

the tissue in my hands,

the body that is on my table

and the safekeeping of my client’s emotional and mental states.

Beautiful massage.  I give beautiful massage in this weather.

The cranio-sacral massage in the heat is momentous. The Myo-fascial fibers especially, are affected. The  holding and tension patterns that create the alignment in a given body relaxes with greater ease in the heat.

This is significant because in Seattle it is often cold and wet.  The body’s tissues get smaller and denser when the outside temp is cold.  The dampness of our weather also makes me think of the wet/cold “cutting to the bone”  a sensation I am grateful not to have right now.  These cold-induced sensations cause the body to tense up.

Warm weather heats up our deep tissues.   This heat is GREAT for bodywork.  I’m getting some really great results with some clients today who have especially tight and knotted shoulders.

I concentrated mostly on her right shoulder.  I was able to gently and yet quite deeply reduce the density and irregularity of the adhesion in her shoulder by pressing my fingertips, from two different angles, into the space between her ribs and her right shoulder blade.

I usually cannot reach into her sub-scapular area with such ease.  It was rather fulfilling, I must say.

Yay, heat.

I’m still glad I have AC.

Massage can empower you and change your life

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | Featured, Massage | No Comments

Everyone has ongoing body stress/pain problems from living in the modern world—too much screen time in front of computers, lack of exercise (or bodily stress from too much exercise), and injuries sustained from accidents. When you receive a professional massage treatment, your body responds immediately, and with therapeutic massage—in the days and weeks afterwards, your body responds with its natural healing abilities.

Massage therapy is personal, intense, and intimate. You open yourself to a professional massage practitioner, and when the fit is right, you develop on of the most important things in life—a healing relationship.

Every person’s body and life story is unique, and you deserve a massage experience, not just a massage.

I take the time to understand what pains and stresses your body has, and I’ll respond
to your specific needs. I don’t give cookie cutter massages.

My goal with each client is to not only give you what you ask for, but to deliver an even better treatment than you were expecting—based on my experience, talent, and skills.

Are you ready for what you need?