𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐘

01/07/2026

Only 13 appointments left in March 😳🙏🤍

🏃‍♀️ Book yours ASAP:
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01/05/2026

February is booked 🙏✨️

Please be sure to add yourself to the cancellation list, and snag a March appointment before they’re gone!

www.nicolewilemassagetherapy.com

01/02/2026

✨️ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐔𝐒: 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐨 ✨️

Winter is a time for slowing down and reflecting honestly. It's a time for receiving support and creating change that feels sustainable

In this quieter season, my February schedule is now open for online booking, and as a little bonus, March is open too!

If you were hoping for a January appointment, the waitlist is available in the Noterro app and I’ll be in touch when a spot opens

Book online www.nicolewilemassagetherapy.com

I'd love to hold space for you 🤲

01/02/2026

Lately I’ve been quieter here
Not absent, just wintering

Honouring the slower rhythm that this season asks of me
The early nights. The soft mornings
The way my life holds both motherhood and business in the same breath

Gratitude, for me, isn’t something I save for January 1st
It’s woven into ordinary days..
into school drop-offs and client sessions,
into building a business that bends around family instead of away from it

I don’t need a “fresh start” when I’m already living inside something I once dreamed of
Intentions are practiced daily
Gratitude is ongoing
And rest is part of the work

If you’re feeling less called to rush into the new year, you’re not behind
You’re allowed to move at the pace of the season ❄️

01/02/2026

👀 February's schedule will be opening TODAY

Stay tuned!

12/29/2025

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Lately, the word somatic seems to be everywhere. It’s being used in captions, course titles, and conversations so often that it can feel like just another passing trend in the wellness world. But somatic work is not new, and it is certainly not a buzzword. For me, it is a remembering. Long before it had a name, the body already knew how to communicate through sensation, rhythm, and response. Somatic work brings us back to that language, inviting us to listen beneath the noise and honor the intelligence that has always lived within the body itself.

So, if you will indulge me with a few moments of your precious time, I would love to share the meaning behind this word.

Somatic work is the art of listening with the hands. It is an invitation for the body to speak in its own language, one that lives beneath words and stories. Rather than asking the body to perform or correct itself, somatic work creates a space where sensation becomes the guide and awareness becomes the medicine. We slow down enough to feel the subtle tides beneath the skin, the places where the body learned to brace, adapt, or go quiet in order to survive.

In this work, nothing is forced. The nervous system is met with patience, curiosity, and respect. As safety is reintroduced, tissues soften, breath deepens, and the body begins to remember its own rhythm. Movement returns not because it was demanded, but because it was invited.

Somatic work honors the body as an intelligent, living landscape. Every sensation is information. Every pause is meaningful. Healing unfolds not by fixing what is broken, but by restoring relationships, helping the body feel seen, heard, and safe enough to release what it has been holding.

Somatic awareness is what transforms technique into art. When we weave somatic principles into bodywork, our hands stop leading and begin listening. Each stroke, hold, and pause becomes a conversation with the nervous system, guided by breath, sensation, and subtle shifts rather than force or expectation. It is where skill meets presence, where science meets intuition, and where the body is given the space it needs to reorganize, release, and remember its own capacity for healing.

12/21/2025

Long before modern calendars, the Winter Solstice was a sacred marker of time. Ancient civilizations, from the Celts to the Norse to Indigenous cultures, recognized this day as the turning of the wheel, when the sun stands still before slowly returning

It was a time for fire, storytelling, community, and rest. A collective exhale

In many ways, it mirrors what our nervous systems crave this time of year: safety, warmth, and permission to slow

If you’re feeling called inward, tired, or tender, nothing is wrong
You’re moving in rhythm with the season

This is a season of listening, softening, and tending to what wants to be carried forward

May this be a gentle permission slip to slow, soften, and trust the unseen

Happy solstice ✨️

12/19/2025

Closing the year feeling deeply thankful... for the hands held, the nervous systems softened, the quiet moments shared ✨️

🙏Thank you for another beautiful year

Rest well. See you in 2026!

(January is full; February bookings will open after the holidays)

12/18/2025

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12/09/2025

There are a few January appointments still up for grabs!

💆‍♀️ www.nicolewilemassagetherapy.com to book online
📍 41 Forrester .wellnessstudio

11/26/2025

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Looking to add your voice to the call for GST/HST to be removed from massage therapy treatments? There is currently an online petition, sponsored by MP Brad Vis from BC, that is accepting signatures from across the country until December 25!

"We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to add Registered Massage Therapy to the GST /HST exemption..."

To read more, click the link below (and add your signature if you agree!)

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6753

11/22/2025

The Fascia Speaks

As bodyworkers, we touch a system far more intelligent and responsive than most people realize. It is a living memory field, a sensory fabric that holds the echoes of every emotional contraction, every bracing pattern, and every unspoken moment the nervous system didn’t know how to resolve.

We explore these imprints every day. We feel the places where the tissue thickened in response to a moment of fear, the areas where breath stopped during heartbreak, or the subtle density of someone carrying a responsibility too heavy for their age. These are not just restrictions. They are records.

Science is beginning to describe what practitioners have long sensed with their hands. Fascia is densely woven with interoceptors, proprioceptors, mechanoreceptors, and nociceptors, creating one of the most information-rich sensory networks in the body. These receptors do not just relay physical sensations; they respond to emotional states, autonomic shifts, and subtle changes in internal chemistry. When someone is afraid, lonely, overworked, grieving, or carrying unresolved tension, fascia receives that information before the conscious mind can interpret it.

Over time, these repeated emotional signals alter the collagen matrix itself. The ground substance thickens. Elasticity decreases. Glide diminishes. The tissue becomes a physical representation of an emotional history. What began as a moment of bracing becomes a pattern. Eventually, the pattern becomes posture, and posture becomes identity. This is how fascia stores emotional imprints that influence how a person walks, rests, reacts, and protects themselves. What clients feel as stiffness is often the residue of old vigilance. What they call tightness is often the body’s attempt to hold a story that never had a chance to be expressed.

When we work with fascia, we are not simply lengthening tissue or improving mobility. We are entering the emotional architecture of a person’s life. Gentle compression rehydrates the ground substance and makes the dense places permeable again. Slow stretching reorganizes collagen fibers that have been shaped by years of guarding. Pacinian and Ruffini receptors detect the warmth of our touch and signal safety along the vagus nerve. Interoceptors begin to update the brain’s perception of the body, allowing long-muted emotional signals to come into conscious awareness. As the layers soften, the nervous system begins to trust, and trust is the first doorway to release.

This is why clients often experience tears, trembling, laughter, heat, or a sudden memory during a session. The fascia is not only releasing; it is reorganizing the information it once held tightly. Electrical coherence returns. Circulation improves. Sensory accuracy sharpens. The body stops running old protective commands and starts rewriting its operating system. What once felt like a lifelong pattern begins to dissolve in the warmth of contact and presence.

Fascia is a sensory intelligence that interprets experience. The mind does not lead this process. It follows it. The mind interprets what the fascia feels and explains it long after the body has already changed. When we help clients reconnect to their fascial landscape, we are guiding them back to the body’s original language, the language beneath thought, beneath story, beneath habit—the language of emotional truth.

We, the ones who listen in silence, can hear what the fascia has carried through lineage, memory, and time.