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Breathe Easy and Often
If you had access to a free, never-ending resource that would calm your body and mind and improve your overall health, wouldn’t you use it? Especially now? Breathing is that resource. It’s easily discounted: “If I weren’t breathing, I wouldn’t…
Keep readingWe’re Closed until Further Notice
Dear Clients, Colleagues, and Neighbors, For everyone’s protection, we are closing our doors until further notice. COVID-19 carriers may be asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Whether someone feels ill and where they may have traveled are not useful considerations. Emerging data points…
Keep readingWe’re Taking Precautions so You Can Relax
We’re taking precautionary measures amid the spread of the coronavirus. Please cancel or reschedule your appointments here if you have any sign of illness symptoms (including non-coronavirus symptoms) and/or if you have traveled out of the area within the last…
Keep readingIf you feel something, say something.
Dear Clients, We care about you and dedicate our sixty years of combined professional bodywork experience to your well-being. We care about ourselves, too, and will offer you only what works for us along with what serves your best interests….
Keep readingMassage and bodywork in Vermont need your help.
Did you know that some authorities in Vermont are trying to restrict massage and touch therapies here? If this concerns you, as it does us, please contact me and I’ll let you know how to object. I can share with…
Keep readingChoose Bodywork because It Feels Good
When you call us for a treatment, you want to know how we can help meet your needs. Stress reduction, pain quieting, and increased relaxation are the most common requests. Sometimes, someone requests a particular modality. A bodywork modality is…
Keep readingI read this and yelled, “Yippee!”
This, this, this! We don’t often recommend articles in our profession’s literature to clients. Instead, we apply what we learn to your treatments so you can relax and enjoy the benefits. However, this article is as much a gift to…
Keep readingWe are present to your pain, but we don’t take it on
A client mentioned that it must be exhausting to do massage all day and take on other people’s bad vibes, toxins, and (insert whatever word best describes suffering for you). I agree: that would be exhausting. I told her that…
Keep readingAnxiety and Our Choices
I can’t control when anxiety floats into me and takes hold. Can you? What I can do is choose how I use my time and energy, and even my thoughts. Instead of futilely resisting anxiety or feeding its demands, I…
Keep readingDoing More, Blogging Less
We’re still here! We’re treating clients, tending our very senior cats, and enjoying late winter in Vermont, with more sunlight every day. Why am I blogging less? It’s because I’ve added copyediting to my professional offerings. I’m excited about this…
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