Artemisia Massage and Healing Arts

10/29/2025

‘Be/Stay curious!’ — A phrase we often hear or use in to energy healing classes or education… Turns out curiosity/awe/wonder is good for you/us! Soooo… stay curious!

From reduced inflammation to pain relief to increased levels of dopamine, there are tangible benefits behind emotions like curiosity and amusement.

10/26/2025

I have personally experienced - and observed - that shifting the energetic patterning of emotion, mind, and body when a client is ready to and sets the intention to shift - can exponentially shift shame, fear, pain, and other patterns that may be epigenetically woven into someone’s matrix… Experiencing and practicing (doing) Awakening Healing Axis’ techniques has been key and foundational for me in this — it breaks new ground in energy theory and practice…. and... there will be a workshop for practitioners and clients alike to learn and gain tools for personal practice in just a couple of weeks in Minneapolis…. Continuing education credit for nurses is available…. Registration closes Nov. 3… check it out!

Join us November 8th and 9th, 2025, for Reconnect to Your Intuition, Create Healthy Boundaries, and Nurture Yourself as You Explore Your Soul’s Path! and Th ...

10/26/2025

hmmmmm….

Shame can intensify chronic pain and hinder healing, and massage therapists can help by using empathy, mindfulness, and open communication to separate shame from pain.

09/19/2025

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/health/article/how-news-affects-your-brain-and-body?rid=F4FB469CEAB3808554F32BC791790C10&cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Daily_NL_Friday_TopStories_20250919

After a week or so break from Facebook, I returned last evening to an inundation of fears and anxieties, as well as news stories folks felt were important.… Which - they are! However, this NatGeo research, which I’m sure other mainstream sources are also reporting, is quite important also… Great and simple suggestion for how to educate Self while remaining less hooked into trauma at the end…. After living in conflict zones for a few years in my 20s, I would follow them even when I wasn’t able to make an effective response (in my world)… which kept me in a state of anxiety and stress…. which affected my capacity and ability to deal with the daily living in present, real time at home and work. I was starting to realize what doomscrolling - as it meant for me - was doing, and so after, for example, 9-11, I intentionally did not watch repeated footage… not because I didn’t care, but because I wanted to keep my systems open and flowing so that I could respond more thoughtfully and effectively…. Now I continue that practice, so that the years of healing work can reap benefits through selective and thoughtful ingestion of information so that I can detach from the spin and monitor and deescalate internal reactions…. and respond thoughtfully in the best way that I am able to! Always a work in process!

Experts say graphic images, nonstop outrage, and the 24/7 negative news cycle don’t just upset us—they alter our stress response and harm mental health.

09/18/2025

It was such a delight to reconnect to Denver AHA/HTP practitioners at AHA’s ‘energy basics’ workshop on Saturday… “ Reconnect to Your Intuition, Create Healthy Boundaries, and Nurture Yourself as You Explore Your Soul’s Path!” SO fun to review the material to teach, re-member the key importance of boundaries and practice healthier energetic ways of interacting… and enjoy the company and joy of folks experiencing this work for the first time! This workshop dials back the PhD level energy work AHA first introduced for practitioners to a simplified one-day format…. AHA co-founders Franny and Perry Harcey are scheduled in Minneapolis this fall yet, and the material is different enough that gathering a group of humans to enjoy and experience this new paradigm in human ‘being’ and self care would be useful and supportive for folks any-where! — look at the description, feel if it resonates — and schedule a workshop in your region! I‘m also - wearing my energy healing practitioner hat - qualified to teach aspects of this workshop for a half day if that resonates…! Have a fabulous day —and keep being curious!

Join us November 8th and 9th, 2025, for Reconnect to Your Intuition, Create Healthy Boundaries, and Nurture Yourself as You Explore Your Soul’s Path! and Th ...

09/18/2025

some of the fascia expert practitioners and research! I glean tidbits, learn and integrate from just hearing the recap of such events!

🎙New Episode!

Ep 153: Conversations from the Fascial Research Congress (with Robert Schleip, Gil Hedley, & more)

The Thinking Practitioner Podcast (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

🎙In this special episode recorded live at the 7th International Fascial Research Congress in New Orleans, Til Luchau gathers conversations with leading researchers, educators, and practitioners from around the world. From collagen synthesis breakthroughs to fascia typologies, scar tissue management, mental imagery, and integrative perspectives on touch and movement, this episode captures the excitement and connections at the forefront of fascia research.
Watch the video here!
https://a-t.tv/thinking-practitioner-podcast-ep-153-conversations-from-the-7th-fascial-research-congress/

Thanks to our sponsors! Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP), Books of Discovery, Advanced-Trainings.com, Academy of Clinical Massage

08/22/2025

https://www.awakeninghealingaxis.com/workshops/

One of AHA’s founders will be conducting these workshops that provide *anyone* with tools. - practices - that can help to enhance energetic awareness of our own energy anatomy and systems - internally and externally… recognizing and setting energetic boundaries, support energetic self regulation, provide insight into soul’s purpose and hone in on where we are drawn - and know when we are out of balance and where to begin shifting - emotionally, mentally, physically, or spiritually - or in any of the other many dimensions in which we function…. See if one is in your area — it’s a great time in the cosmos to build one’s self awareness… (And again, anyone’s because we all have access to these tools!)

About our Workshops Our Retreat/Workshops are a unique and magical opportunity to take care of yourself while you explore your energetic makeup. Participant ...

08/16/2025

Redwoods - such a powerful place to meditate, ‘be’, listen…

08/11/2025

The photo above my page here is from the West Coast - our little family of four took a gorgeous road trip along the coast and to the redwoods to see new territory and reconnect with old friends…. As we parents are older, some friends we hadn’t seen for 25 or so years… I was struck by how lovely it was to reconnect at another level of maturity, to see how we have fulfilled or shifted some of our young adult dreams or practices….

As I listened to my old friend speak about bringing folks together from our common past community, I was struck by how healing and how important doing this is at this time in the world particularly.

Do we need to revisit or re-member to bring in those who we may have left behind or left out — respecting boundaries but with the intent to heal and learn what we might have not seen or noticed at the time… Do we need to see that but let it be what it is until such time as others reach out to invite our support? In any case - reconnecting with compassion and respect for what others have been through (and appropriate boundaries!) might just shift the frequency or level that we all function at for the better….

07/31/2025

We strengthen and empower what we give our attention to…. What do I choose today to give my attention to? Am I clearing pathways to more easily listen for and hear Spirit’s invitation - and taking or Be-ing the small steps that are my part in the great work of building and creating, integration and healing?

07/30/2025

If…. you are interested in enhancing your energetic self care - either as a healing arts practitioner or as a lay person, consider this workshop that has distilled some of AHA’s core skills for personal practice… “Reconnect to Your Intuition, Create Healthy Boundaries, and Nurture Yourself as You Explore Your Soul’s Path!”. Yes - this promises a lot - and yes! - AHA delivers so much for navigating these wild times personally as well as professionally! As well as this workshop scheduled n Pennsylvania for Aug 23, there will be another on August 16, in Norwalk, CT, and another in Littleton, CO, on September 13…

Join us August 23, 2025, for Reconnect to Your Intuition, Create Healthy Boundaries, and Nurture Yourself as You Explore Your Soul’s Path!

06/12/2025

So timely…
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18VFM1mVfp/

🎙New Episode!

The Thinking Practitioner Podcast (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

Ep 146: Inflammation, Touch, & the Grieving Body (with Mary-Frances O'Connor)

🎙 Grief is not just an emotion—it’s a full-body experience. In this episode, Til Luchau talks with neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, author of The Grieving Body, about how grief changes the brain, affects inflammation, and alters our physiology. They explore how attachment loss rewires the brain, how inflammatory responses shape behavior and mood, and how the body experiences grief via physical sensations.
They also discuss the role of touch, bodywork, and therapeutic presence in supporting people through grief, and together they reflect on the profound connections between grief, the body, and the healing power of human connection.

Watch the video here!
https://bit.ly/TTPEp146

Thanks to our sponsors! Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP), Books of Discovery, Advanced-Trainings.com, Academy of Clinical Massage, and with in-kind support from the Fascia Research Society