Mind & Body Oasis Dawn Ermert , LMT

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Mind & Body Oasis - Dawn Ermert, LMT, Somatic Practitioner, Reiki Master, Spiritual Life Coach

08/28/2025

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08/26/2025

🐾 Happy National Dog Day! 🐾

Today we celebrate our loyal companions—the ones who bring us unconditional love, comfort, and endless joy. Dogs remind us daily to stay present, play often, and rest when we need it most.

Let’s fill this space with wagging tails and happy faces—drop a photo of your pup in the comments! Because let’s be honest… the world can always use more dog photos. 😉

08/22/2025

*Healing the Way Our Ancestors Did*

Long before the word trauma existed, the world’s oldest cultures understood the invisible wounds carried home after hardship, violence, or loss.

In parts of Africa, a returning warrior would spend three lunar cycles under the care of a healer before rejoining daily life. It wasn’t exile—it was restoration. Rituals like cupping with animal horns drew out stagnant blood, grief, and the heavy energy of battle, making space for balance to return.

Here in North America, many Native nations carried the same wisdom. Warriors didn’t simply walk back into camp—they entered purification lodges, prayed, fasted, or went alone into the wilderness on vision quests. They shared their stories in council, where elders held space for their truth. And when the body was weary, healers used what they had always known: the medicine of touch.

Hot stones, warmed by fire, were placed along tense muscles or wrapped in hides to melt stiffness and pain. Hands pressed, kneaded, and smoothed over knots, sometimes with herbal salves or oils, to draw out both physical tension and the lingering echoes of battle. These acts were more than physical therapy—they were sacred rites, restoring not just strength, but spirit.

These traditions understood that pain doesn’t just live in the body—it unsettles the soul. And healing is not only the easing of symptoms—it’s the returning to wholeness.

When you come to my table, you are stepping into that lineage of care. Your session is more than massage—it’s a modern-day healing ritual, blending ancient wisdom with present-day skill, so your body can release, your mind can rest, and your spirit can remember its balance.

Because sometimes the most powerful medicine is not new—it’s ancient, and it’s waiting for you.

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08/21/2025

Ever Wonder Why You Fidget?

Tapping your foot… bouncing your leg… rubbing your hands together…

These little movements aren’t bad habits. They’re actually your body’s way of helping you regulate.

When stress builds up, or when your nervous system feels overstimulated (or even under-stimulated), your body looks for small ways to release that energy. Fidgeting helps you ground, soothe, and balance yourself ..without you even thinking about it.

08/18/2025

*Deep Tissue Isn’t Always the Best for Pain*

When your body is already hurting, your nervous system is on high alert — like an alarm that won’t stop ringing. Adding deep, intense pressure in that state can sometimes aggravate the area instead of helping it.

It’s not that deep tissue is bad — it can be amazing in the right situation — but when you’re in extended or chronic pain, gentler work is often more beneficial. Techniques like Swedish massage or hot stone therapy help calm the nervous system, melt tension, and create the safety your body needs to truly relax and heal.

Once your body feels safe and out of “fight or flight,” then deeper work can be more effective.
Healing isn’t about how hard we push — it’s about how well we listen to what your body needs.
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08/15/2025

Emotions aren’t just fleeting moments that disappear after they’re felt. They have substance. Unprocessed emotions, especially the painful ones—like fear, anger, sadness, and grief—don’t simply vanish. They get stored in our bodies.

You may have heard of the saying, 'The body keeps the score.' And it’s true. Every tension, every ache, every feeling of heaviness or tightness can tell a story of emotions we haven’t fully processed.

Think about stress. When we experience stress over time, it often manifests physically—tight shoulders, clenched jaw, maybe even chronic headaches. But it goes deeper than that. Emotional trauma, even from childhood, can get lodged in the body’s tissues. Let’s consider where emotions tend to 'hide':

>Anger and frustration often show up in the neck, shoulders, and upper back. These are the areas that tense up when we feel the weight of the world.

>Sadness and grief tend to be stored in the chest and lungs, contributing to a feeling of tightness or heaviness in the heart center.

>Fear and anxiety lodge themselves in the gut, leading to digestive issues or a sense of being 'knotted up inside.'

>Shame and guilt can manifest in the pelvic region, causing discomfort or even chronic pain.

So, what can we do about it? How do we release these emotions that get trapped in our tissues, our muscles, our fascia? This is where somatic work and massage therapy come into play.

Somatic therapy is about reconnecting with your body, becoming aware of where tension, pain, or discomfort reside, and allowing those sensations to guide you toward healing. As a somatic practitioner, I help people explore what their bodies are holding onto and why. By working with the body’s natural intelligence, we can release emotions in a gentle, safe way.

Massage therapy is another powerful tool for emotional release. Through touch, we can coax the body into relaxing, which in turn allows the emotions that have been stored to rise to the surface. When you receive a massage, you’re not just relaxing your muscles; you’re giving your body permission to let go of the emotional burdens it’s been carrying.

In my practice, I often combine somatic work with trauma-informed massage therapy. Trauma leaves an imprint on the body, but it can also be released. By working with the body’s tissues and bringing awareness to where emotional pain is stored, we can create space for healing. We can shift from living in a state of tension and survival to a state of ease and well-being.

This work is about so much more than physical relaxation. It’s about emotional liberation. 💚

08/12/2025

Our bodies are always speaking to us.

The thing is… they don’t speak English. They don’t use words, and they certainly don’t send texts or phone calls. Instead, they communicate in a language that is far more primal, more honest, and often impossible to ignore.
They speak in sensations.
In the ache in your shoulders after a stressful week.
In the tightness in your chest when you walk into a room that doesn’t feel safe.
In the fatigue that no amount of coffee can fix.
In the tension in your jaw when you’ve been holding back words you need to say.

Our bodies are messengers. And like any good messenger, they will keep knocking on the door until we open it.

When something is out of balance — mentally, emotionally, spiritually — the body tries to get our attention. At first, it may whisper: a flutter in the stomach, a headache that comes and goes. But if we keep ignoring the whispers, they turn into shouts. Chronic pain. Panic attacks. Illness.

This is not the body betraying you.
This is the body protecting you.
This is your body saying: Something needs to change.
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Address

235 South 3rd Street
Batesville, AR
72501

Telephone

+18703074970

Website

https://oasisofthemindbody.com/

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