Regarding Touch

05/11/2025

03/30/2025

03/29/2025

Please share your feedback after our sessions! I'm eager to understand what works and what doesn't for each of you. I've been working with a client who's had persistent symptoms, and while massage provided some relief, incorporating Eric Dalton's brain-based bodywork brought significant improvement 🤯.

03/25/2025

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03/19/2025

Skilled touch stimulates the brain’s somatosensory cortex, helping to create new neural pathways that override pain signals. This not only enhances body awareness but also promotes relaxation, allowing your body to let go of physical trauma more effectively.

Deep tissue work is essential for releasing tension and promoting recovery, but it shouldn’t cause pain. When deep work is painful, it can trigger muscle guarding, leading to more tension and hindering the healing process.

Our approach focuses on the powerful connection between the brain and body, fostering a neuromuscular response that breaks tbe pain cycle to enhance healing and recovery.💆‍♀️

12/29/2024

Effective 2/1/25, we will be implementing a price increase of 15% on our services. This change reflects our ongoing investment in advanced education and sustainable, handmade, unmatched products, ensuring we always bring you the best. It’s about building on our promise to deliver personal crafted expert services to elevate your experience, now and in the future.

We appreciate your understanding and continued support. Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us.

05/27/2024

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We are so thrilled and excited to have been nominated in ALL of the Health and Wellness and Lifestyle and Beauty sections of ZIP06's BEST ON THE SHORELINE!
Under Health and Wellness, our spa, COLLECTIVE ON MAIN has been nominated for BEST SPA! In the same category, I have been nominated for Best Massage Therapist, (Maureen Ward), and our amazing friend and colleague, Katie Peterson, has also been nominated. We also send congratulations to our friend Lauren Smith, who has been nominated in Clinton for the second time for Best Massage Therapist. She won 1st Place in 2022!

In the category of Lifestyle and Beauty, our business has been nominated for Best Massage on the shoreline! This includes me, Katie Peterson, and Jessica Pack! Such a dream team and we are so thrilled to be nominated under this category. Under Lifestyle and Beauty, my business partner, Mary, along with our amazing Katie Peterson, have been nominated for Best Brows, and for Best Facial, New Ritual Skincare (Mary's business) and Katie Peterson have both been nominated!

We are in our second year of business and couldn't be more proud. We have the most amazing group of therapists and healers in one place. We are so fortunate to also have Gerri Jardine at Bloom Yoga Therapy and Suzy Sholly from Bioenergetic Therapy in the house!!!

As a special favor, I would love you to consider voting for our favorite farmstand, Under the Great Outdoors category, for Best Farm Stand, our wonderful friends at Down the Lane Farm, Maureen and Greg Alfiero!
All you have to do in order to vote is put in an email address with your name and the ZIP Code that you are voting from. We would love your vote. We would love to sweep this category! We love what we do and we would love for you to come see us at Collective on Main. Voting goes until June 9 and starts today. You can vote every day! Thank you in advance for your business and for supporting us since we have been open in Centerbrook. We love what we do and we are so glad that it has been noticed!

05/16/2024

Why does this hurt???

Here you can see how the altered foot position in high heels creates postural compensations throughout the entire body. (Not pictured: there is also tendency of forward head syndrome) These postural compensations can develop into postural deviations that last well after removing the shoes, if you wear them habitually. When you’re out of alignment, aside from the obvious pain, discomfort and decreased range of motion, you are also at greater risk for injury.

There’s a lot that we can do in a massage session to help alleviate the pains of these kinds of imbalances. We can set the stage for, and help kickstart the restoration of proper balance. It’s always going to be up to each of us to take ownership of our own environment, and how we interact with it as well as read our own posture and movement, so we can restore it and stop adding to our own dysfunction.