News & Updates from Massage Vermont
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…
A Few Words About Words
Our work here at Massage Vermont is nervous-system soothing through touch and, more recently, evidence-based breathwork. It’s never been psychotherapy. But words are powerful. We’re…
On the Nose
Well, in the nose, as that’s where breathing will serve you best. Chris and I offer evidence-based breathwork and nervous-system soothing techniques. These will be…
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” And keep breathing.
It’s an especially rough period amid already turbulent times. Last night I posted to my friends on social media: Breathing. I’ll just keep breathing, slowly…
