Artemisia Massage and Healing Arts

01/04/2026

Warmest and best of New Year’s to all in these complicated times! Today’s cover photo is from a few days‘ ago hike, nearby… On our hikes, we nearly always find remnants of people who have lived here from 100 years and going way back… the things they have discarded, the remains of their work and ways of supporting themselves…. I am curious sometimes, wondering what their ‘normal’ looked like and curious how they navigated massive changes, as we are doing…. As I read, see, hear, and sense into the world around us these days, this new year indeed feels different… the framework or matrix that we are all connected through is shifting dramatically….

I am finding that when I take the time to ‘do/be’ the Awakening Healing Axis practices and protocols, I am supported and flow with - and heal! — the changes in my own life more easily, and can offer that to clients through appointments and classes…. AHA! work clears space for more effective flow through one’s Body and Being (that being health on all levels/dimensions), and helps renew or clarify an anchor to Spirit and Self — it provides more effective grounding to who and how I am in the world…

AHA’s practices — which anyone can do if integrated into one’s life — help me to return to connection to the Divine and and highest Self and be nourished and ‘reset’ when - as we all do! - things get knocked off-center or off-balance. Learning how to manage one’s energetic Self at all levels is a key to flowing with and healing patterns in personal, community, and global relationships — and that ripples out into the world from each pattern that we change individually. It takes time - -but there is no time like the present, eh! :-).

I am always, and would be honored and delighted to participate in that pattern ‘reset’ as you and as we are all adapting to and healing in a changing world. The physical massage work and the energy pattern shift work together and that takes time and consistency to change those patterns, as fascia research shows… I’ve noticed with clients that doing an ‘only’ AHA energy healing appointment shifts the patterns more deeply — and thus the whole shifts at a different level…. In some ways, as I’ve done AHA’s complex workshops over the last seven-eight years, it seems like AHA is a modality and set of practices that is perfectly timed for supporting us through these times!

So — warmly to each One… And may Divine grace and healing flow through your lives and support you/us, your/our communities, — indeed through your/our world as a whole.

11/27/2025

The Rio (Upper Rio Grande River) was showing off on its way through town again, earlier this week. I feel profoundly privileged and grateful to live where I do, have the brilliant, kind, and powerful children we have, have a loving and fun partnership, and — last but by no means least - to have a way of making a living which brings service to others in ways large and small…. Thank you to those who have been on my table once or dozens of times — you make my work and life so fulfilling! My life (our lives!) are so profoundly rich — not in $$ unless I compare it to many people around the globe — but in the ways that matter…. I wish to you and all of us in finding the joy of ‘mattering’ — being with others, in the small beauties of the world in our immediate space, sharing our gifts and the beauties with others — and in savoring the richness available in each moment. Blessings, all, this US Thanksgiving Day! See less

11/12/2025

A deep bow of respect and appreciation to Veterans for hard work, sacrifice and ongoing showing up…. The timing of my holiday rate reduction did begin with Veteran’s Day…. I see folks are checking! :-). Sooooo… Yes! I am indeed running a stress relief holidays rate reduction to $50 an hour for the holiday season for apptmts and gift certificates… I sent out emails to those who I have emails ‘for’ and posted a couple of flyers locally, but I should probably confirm here on the social media for those who might be wondering! It felt important, especially this year, to make massage therapy and energy healing work a little easier for those who appreciate and would like to gift that way of caring for Self and others… A token of gratitude and ‘extra’ care in these stress-full times, until Dec. 28! Call or text, or email, please, as social media is not where I schedule…. And - I have more generally updated my https://joannekaufman.amtamembers.com website. Though I am not advertising this special there, it is in effect if you contact me there as well! Holding space of deep gratitude and compassion - seeing all the pictures of northern lights from around the country was heart warming tonight!

Joanne Kaufman provides world-class massage therapy in Del Norte CO. Call and start improving your health today: (719) 580-6158

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/

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