Archive for October, 2006
Choose Your Massage Flavor Before Setting Your Appointment
You’ve decided to make the appointment for your long overdue massage. Congratulations! Expect to feel much better once the kinks have been worked out and your mind has been soothed into relaxation–IF you have chosen the appropriate massage technique to partake in. Below is a menu of several common modalities to choose from. […]
Great Headache Cure
This is just a quick post to address a common ailment that I encounter at least once a week as a massage therapist. Below is a great treatment for headaches and migraines and could help reduce dependency of drugs and medications for this problem.
Often clients are suffering from vascular headaches where the blood pressure […]Does your body hate what you love?
An allergy is the body’s autoimmune reaction to a rejected substance. Many of us are, unfortunately, very familiar with allergies. The most common and noticeable type (especially in this region) is seasonal but of course the list of things that make you sneeze and make your eyes itch are seemingly endless. Many people […]
Do you know The Secret?
I’ve got to say that I was intrigued when I first heard to buzz about the movie The Secret. I had heard the title amongst the fans of What the Bleep Do We Know?, the docu-drama-animation film that became a word-of-mouth phenomenon. What the Bleep had the lofty goal of attempting to get the “conscious” […]
Deal with it…or else.
Stress. We all experience it, usually on a daily basis. But what is it exactly and what’s the best way to deal with it? Stress is basically the body’s response to potential threat or injury. On a physical level, when we’re stressed our muscles tense to prepare our bodies to react to the threat. We […]
Why a Massage Therapist is Different than an Masseuse…
When I first started massage therapy school, my Swedish instructor was among the many down the line who insisted on our use of the term massage therapist, instead of masseuse or masseur. She elaborated weekly on how massage therapist is a professional title that many in the industry had fought long and hard to […]
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