Who gives a squat?
"A Guru once told me the problem with the West is that we don't squat." In the West, we do sit; we sit a lot, probably too much. And our bodies suffer the consequences of all those hours with frozen hip flexors and inactive glutes and hamstrings with epidemics of...
Want a Healthy Heart? Get More Massage!
This month of love and red hearts makes us think about the importance of cultivating a healthy heart. When we think of improving heart health, we generally think about improving our diet or getting more aerobic exercise. But massage can be an important ally in...
Quick Tension Headache Fix
You know those moments; the boss drops a last-minute project off on your desk that needs to be done at the same time you’re supposed to be meeting with your rambunctious son’s school teacher to discuss his behavior problems, your in-laws are coming to stay for a week,...
Exhale and Ease Your Neck Pain
So many of us suffer with stiff, sore necks. While there are a number of skeletal, muscular and nervous system reasons for sore necks; lots of neck tension can be eased by simply deepening the breath! While the diaphragm is the chief muscle of respiration; the...
YES! Hurricane PTSD is real, massage can help…
Waiting and watching Hurricane Irma for almost two weeks as she devastated Caribbean Islands as well as Key West, and not knowing which course she would take only to then find out days before she is headed directly towards us was stressful in itself. We then had a...