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What happens when trauma stored in the body collides with the body’s need for touch? I try to find a comfortable meeting place for these two in every massage session by relying on my nearly 2 decades of experience in sexual health and pleasure&consent focused education. While this is the foundation of the trauma informed…
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Guidelines for myself and my bodywork practice as someone who is chronically ill and has a network of disabled, chronically ill, and immunocompromised folks around me. I’m sharing them here to let you know what I mean when I identify my business as “COVID conscious”. 🌿 Putting my harm reduction routine to words takes practice🌿…
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With the abundance of modalities available, each bodyworker is gonna have a different flavor of bodywork. Here are some ways I would describe the array of modalities that I offer: Deep Tissue: Each muscle group has a range of motion that they’re responsible for. When muscles are tight or tense, it limits that range of…
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The massage studio is in my home. I’ll greet you at the front door and welcome you into my space. Once settled in the warmly lit studio we start our intake. I hold this initial conversation as sacred – a kind of platica (in curanderismo is a healing heart-to-heart talk) that sets the tone of…
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I would often stop myself from booking a massage for fear that I would be too fat for the massage therapist to work with before becoming a massage therapist myself. I’d had experiences where a massage therapist would be rougher with my body thinking I couldn’t feel the deeper, pointed pressure or tight grasps through…
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