Learn about the benefits of massage
Received this wonderful e-mail from one of my regular clients this morning: My dear one, I think your energy work and your massage and your caring heart did a lot for my knee yesterday. Woke up to a less painful knee, swelling way down, and more movement (…) Anyway you surely played a role in [...]
Pregnancy is a very special time for a woman’s body, and a specially catered massage can help you adapt with ease and comfort to the many changes your body is undergoing. Massage therapists who offer pregancy massage have received the proper training to ensure your experience is completely safe and wonderfully relaxing. The benefits of [...]
** GIFT CERTIFICATE SPECIAL ** Give the gift of health and well-being to your loved ones. Your friends and family will be elated when they open the little envelope…..a wonderful stocking stuffer! They will receive a fabulous massage experience and (something I love about this) they will get to recall the warmth and joy of [...]
Following the cranial-sacral therapy class I took this last winter, I have started offering sessions on a donations basis to some of my regular clients. While the effects of this work can be very subtle and hard to perceive, one of my clients recently experienced a remarkable shift after just one session. Cranial-sacral therapy is [...]
This recipe is from “Happy Belly Happy Soul” from Aparna Khanolkar You can buy the book at Lulu.com. She writes: ”Sweet foods invoke joy, and happiness in us”. 3 tablespoons ghee 1 teaspoon cinnamon 15 Medjool dates, pitted and chopped coarsely 1/2 cup raisins 1/4 cup coarsely chopped pistachios or cashews 1 teaspoon cardamon powder 1 [...]
In case you needed another good reason to get a massage! From the New York Times: Benefits of Massage Are More Than Skin Deep Researchers found that a single session of massage caused biological changes, like increases in oxytocin, a hormone associated with contentment.
I returned a couple of weeks ago and I am still taking in the richness of my travels in Bali. Teresa Taylor, from Paradise Found, a lovely little shop in downtown Santa Barbara, very eloquently describes in her newsletter what the month of September can be for all of us, and I certainly hope so [...]
Off on a nice little vacation! Returning July 19. You may now book your next appointment online, right here! If you would like to receive a massage during my absence, I highly recommend you contact Mary Elliot, at 805-450-9933 or Asia Warren, at 805-722-0777.
We have a new office-mate at the Gibian Wellness Center. Naomi Romulo is a recent graduate of a 4-year energy healing program. She will be presenting her work at the center on Saturday, August 14th, at 2pm. In her words: Life offers so many gifts that we do not seek out, are unable to receive, [...]
A new client recently asked me the difference between accupressure points and trigger points, and how that difference informed my perspective when I blended thai massage and barefoot deep tissue. Her question points to the fascinating interplay between the energetic and physical, and this is how I have come to understand it (this may evolve, [...]