Come in, or stop by for your pre-ordered holiday gifts. These are gifts to win you a whole lot of praise and kisses! Salt Scrubs: Hand crafted salt scrubs to ease out of your late fall/early winterie day, and into bliss. In small batches, I hand craft Ayurvedic inspired blends of high quality essential oils [...]
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Spring Cleanse! 2011
Sluggish the winter? Spring into spring with a unique 14day cleanse integrating bodywork & nutrition!
Why Somatics?
Somatics is the integration of the body, mind and spirit. The field of somatics has established two major avenues to accomplish the integration work of body, mind and spirit. One method addresses body re-patterning. From a basic physical level, a practitioner and client might address how the client holds her/himself, posture, alignment, disconnection and those [...]
aching heads – migraines, tensions headaches…
How ever you describe your aches in your head, I have dealt with them, and you’re not alone! And over the past several months, there has been an increase in clients coming in who have been dealing with tension headaches, mixed headaches, and (dum dum dummmmmm) migraines. What pain and agony! And sometimes, what irritation [...]
Opossum Massage
Were I an opossum masseur, I believe that I’d study with her – she’s pinned down all of the fine points of woo-woo techniques and how to teach them in a massage course, while making a video -a true exposé on some of the ridiculousness that you may, or may not have missed out on [...]
Summer weather’s effect on bay area bodies
Here are some tips from local & renowned health care professionals, encouraging health this summer season.
The Journey – a poem by Mary Oliver
The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had [...]
“Your head must bow to your heart”
Tonight, the inspiration to blog comes from a client with whom I have been working. This client is head strong, so, in fact, head strong that with an idea, or several, at the forefront of the brain, the head literally drives the movement, the pelvis compensates crunching just above the hip flexors, and extending the [...]
Skyward Spring Equinox inspirations…
Invest * Participate *and learn some new applications of spring cleaning and orienting to your own sense of ‘home’!
Spring Cleaning: Cleansing the body
Seasonally appropriate – spring cleansing!
