News & Updates from Massage Vermont
The Mind Follows the Breath
How you breathe affects every aspect of your mind and body. From thousands-of-years-old yogic teachings to today’s clinical knowledge of respiratory physiology and the nervous…
How to Change from the Inside Out
When you’re upset and someone tells you “Calm down!” what happens? What’s your reaction, faster than the speed of thought? Do you feel calmer? You…
Choosing the Road Most Taken
If you’re reading this, you might be here to alleviate a sense of unease, to feel better in your body and mind. You might very…
Shut Your Mouth.
Mouth breathing is a new phenomenon for human beings. Nearly all animals breathe nasally except when in distress or ill. It’s no different for us….
Listen Up: How to Manage Anxiety
Don’t miss a lively, funny, relatable conversation with Ezra Klein and psychiatrist and author Judson Brewer about something a lot of us feel now more…
Maybe This Fall
Widespread increase of people being vaccinated is showing promise in reducing the number and severity of COVID-19 cases. The world is starting to open up….
Two Winning Moves For You
The person in this beautiful image wins the moment by doing a rep. You will too—over and over. If you’re old enough to read this,…
Words to Take Comfort By
This ongoing activation of nervous system defenses is exhausting. Even if we’re doing less, we have greater metabolic need, including for oxygen. We get through…
Breathe Now for This Moment and Beyond
Your work with us resonates across time and space. In the Moment When we’re in session together, you experience immediate effects of the breathwork practices….
Relax Now for Ease Later
You don’t lift weights to get better at lifting weights. At least, I don’t. I exercise to be stronger and move better throughout my life….
Four Steps to Better Breathing and Health
Each of us has a vast, unchangeable past. Things we cannot change include our genetic, experiential, generational and cultural histories. We are the sum of…
Did you remember to breathe?
Imagine having to remind yourself to breathe. No worries. Breathing continues, moment after moment, year after year, throughout the lifetime. Thank goodness! Breathing enough to…
