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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.

Tags: groin massage, injury treatment, Massage, pelvic massage, self-care, stress, stretching, structural alignment

Recent Article more of a summa…

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 | Business | No Comments

Recent Article more of a summary than a personal note from sierra. This gets the bare-bones message on the site

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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

I think it’s very interesting …

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I think it’s very interesting that I got a cold the day after I sent my “cold” article to my editor. I beat it in 1.5 days. w00t!

A Real Cure for the Common Cold

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | Health, health tips, nutrition, Seattle | No Comments

My grandmother once said to me “Sierra, when I get a cold I do nothing for it, and it lasts about a week. When I get a cold I do what everyone else does. I drink hot tea, get lots of rest, have chicken soup for every meal, and my cold will last about 5-to-7 days.”

I think that was her way of submitting to the “fact” that everybody will get a cold and there’s just not much we can do about it.

Thanks Grandma.

But I’m of a different opinion. More on target…I’m of a different experience. And so is my mother.

My mother is one of these gals that grows an herb garden and makes so many tinctures and teas with dried plants that it drives my father bonkers. “We’ve got dried leaves coming out of our ears!” he says.

My mother won’t lie down and simply accept that a cold should last for about a week. She battles colds tooth and nail with home-gown herbs and a few (what I like to call) “god-send” products such as GSE (aka: grapefruit seed extract) and oil of oregano, just to name a few healing gifts from nature.

I’ve taken Mom’s advice when dealing with a cold, and drink constant cups of white sage tea with GSE, Emergen-C (with GSE), good old chicken soup and lots of warm blankets, and do so little physical activity that I need to fight my ego’s urge to get up and do SOMETHING. Using this method, I’ve made a cold disappear in three days.

I hate getting colds.

I REALLY HATE getting colds. I think it has something to do with the discomfort of not being able to breathe through my nose. And of course, being a massage therapist, if I don’t work I don’t have an income…so I REALLY hate getting sick AT ALL.

It’s one thing to eat right and stay healthy. It’s another to have symptoms of an oncoming disaster (such as a cold that will put you out of commission for a week) and another to have a way to stop it dead in its tracks.

I use something that I consider better than the miraculous cures mentioned above.

It’s called WELLNESS FORMULA, and it is made by a company called Source Naturals. It does contain soy, unfortunately, but the effects of the Wellness Formula pills are worth the trouble of ingesting the controversial and wholly useless ingredient called “soy.”

One bottle of 90 big fat pills costs me $25 at Pike Place Market’s Tenzing Momo. (An herbal healing store inside the market. If you’ve never been there, go check it out.)

During the last six months, here in Seattle, I’ve heard of a new “bad virus” going around about every two weeks. It seems like someone is always getting sick from it.

As a massage therapist, I touch people all the time, all over their bodies. If they are sick, there’s a good chance my immune system is going to have some work to do.

Since I’ve been diligently taking Wellness Formula anytime I get an itchy ear, a sniffle, or a scratchy feeling around my eyes. After I take it the symptoms clear up within a few hours.

I haven’t gotten sick for over half a year and I’m going to keep my healthy streak going.

I also hate feeling run down. To counteract this feeling, I sleep longer, drink lots of water, say no thank you to the social pulls and invitations of the evening. And the next day, I’ll wake up feeling right as rain and undisturbed by the slightest remaining symptom.

I’m sure Tenzing Momo would love it if you stopped by and bought the Wellness Formula from them, but I’m sure its also available at one of our other awesome local establishments such as Rainbow Remedies up on 15^th on Capitol Hill, or if you have no other local herb and wellness shop to support go to Super Supplements, and I’m sure they’ll have it.

Don’t roll over for the cold and flu bugs going around. I urge you to spend money on this, even if your budget is extremely tight. There’s not much worse than getting sick while you’re broke.

Take care of yourself! Have your favorite products on hand so you’re ready to face all those viruses and bacteria at the first sign of a scratchy throat or the sniffles.

Stay healthy! Good luck!

Hot applications are best for …

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Hot applications are best for chronic injuries, which are usually characterised as being an area that is constantly in pain or tight

Icing your injury or area of p…

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Icing your injury or area of pain is my recomendation for hydro therapy – hot applications often make injuries worse

No one can depress you. No one…

Friday, March 5th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. Not one can make you anything other than what you al …

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

Care for your health when you …

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Care for your health when you feel WELL. Don’t wait till you are already hurt, diseased and broken