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Contrast Baths
I learned this ‘trick’ way back during massage school, in Hydrotherapy class. It has stood the test of time in effectiveness to remain one of my top favorite self care, at-home treatments! Contrast Baths! It works like this… Fill one kitchen sink with Ice Water, the other with comfortably Hot Water. Dunk your hands/forearms/elbows into the Ice Water as deeply as you can for as long as you can, up to 2 Minutes (this one’s intense, remember to breathe!). Then, switch to the Hot Water, dunking hands/forearms/elbows as deeply as you can and enjoy for at least 1 Minute, but no longer than 2 Minutes (even though it’s tempting sometimes).…
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Rice Experiment Week 5 & Vicarious Stress
Vicarious De-Stressing
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Rice Experiment Week 3
Indifference is showing the first visible signs of the experiment.
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Rice Experiment Week 2 (Why Cooked Rice?)
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Maple Syrup flavored Christmas Spirit
I was blessed this holiday season to witness pure Christmas Spirit flowing from a client’s heart space during their massage session. 💗This client and their spouse had recently purchased and gifted items of a list of basic needs to a local family in dire need. The joy and love that this act stirred within my client was palpable. As this beautiful client told me their story and shined with the kind of joy that only comes from a truly altruistic act of kindness, I felt my own heart resonate and swell with vicarious joy! Wow, that’s powerful! After they told their story, we began their massage. Right away, I was…
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Massage and Art
I love doing massage! I’ve always felt that massage helps me tap into an artistic side of myself, creating something beautiful (the experience), bringing joy and better health into the life of another, right along with their hopes, intentions and collaborations. Reading people’s bodies, seeing their structural patterns, feeling their energetic flow, also where they are not energetically flowing; feeling their hesitation/discomfort/anticipation give way to being in the moment and in the flow of the unwinding of their tissues; knowing that there’s an internal process of the relaxing of their nervous system and the increase of their dopamine response unfolding under my hands, ushering them into a state of deep…
