Where is the best place to get a massage? There is certainly a time and place for a specific kind of environment/experience. Thinking about what suits you best and what elements you need to towards your goals will help you make a more informed choice. Below is a list of settings in which you will most likely receive massage. There are more than what I listed, but I picked the Top 5 places where [...]
People schedule themselves for bodywork because they want to improve the way they feel in their body. They (me included) want to feel better. We want to be less tense, restricted and uncomfortable in our own skin. We want to be able to move about more easily. More times than not, people put themselves in therapy because they had a recent misadventure. A trauma of some sort or something super stressful. Surgery even. Oftentimes, they [...]
You have the best chances at nipping illness in the bud if you start taking medicine right at the onset of symptoms. You can help prevent getting sick by boosting up your immune system before or at the time of exposure. At the latest, you want to start attacking it the second your head starts feeling funny, your throat gets scratchy, or you become lethargic and achy. It's not very wise to wait until after you [...]
In an ideal world, we would all carry knowledge about how to care for our bodies. Healthfulness would be emphasized more comprehensively during our formative years. We would learn human physiology (how the body functions) and nutrition to the same degree we do math and reading. This knowledge would be passed along to us from our tribe - our parents, grandparents, siblings, relatives, and caretakers. It would be a cultural thing. We would be brought up knowing [...]
There is no single ONE thing, no magic bullet approach, that will deliver you to everlasting pristine health. Maintaining good health and healing requires an integrative holistic approach AND it takes a team of allies to support us on our journey. Building a holistic health team is the greatest way to ensure graceful aging because no one escapes injury, time, wear-n-tear, disease, or pain. We are all exposed to and harbor viruses. We all encounter trauma. [...]
There is no denying that we are bombarded with a plenitude of poor influences on our health every single day. Go to any gas station, corner store, movie theater, or entertainment establishment and you are left with hardly any choice but to offend your body. It benefits us to counterbalance the impact the toxins we are exposed every day has on us. Especially if you are someone who doesn’t want to take their health for granted. Then finding [...]
There is certainly a time and place for consuming pain-relieving drugs to alleviate headaches quickly and easily. And then there are times when the pains calls for a wiser more involved choice. When the pain is demanding you look deeper than the loudest symptoms and when more support is needed. Not just band-aid fixes or chemical blocks to mask pain. The more chronic tension and stress have been in our body, the more outside intervention we [...]
