A Touch of Jazz Massage Therapy

12/06/2024

Is this you? 🤔 Call me 🤙 Mobile appointments available!

11/03/2024

November deals 🤑 Mobile appts only! DM me to book

10/15/2024

Mobile Appointments available all week! 🤙

05/04/2024

😊

04/17/2024

Support Kingston now… before he becomes an NFL Great 😉 Be a part of the process and click the link below. Thanks y’all!

Please support Fort White Football 24 and help us reach our goal of $7500.

12/20/2022

Gator 🐊 on a levator scapulae 😂 Happy Holidays from A Touch of Jazz

07/04/2022

04/30/2022

Happy Saturday guys

03/18/2022

🔈 WHY ARE THE PSOAS MUSCLES CONSTANTLY CONTRACTED DURING PROLONGED PERIODS OF STRESS?

Whether you run, bike, dance, practice yoga, or just hang out on your couch, your psoas muscles are involved. That’s because your psoas muscles are the primary connectors between your torso and your legs. They affect your posture and help to stabilise your spine.

The psoas muscles are made of both slow and fast twitching muscles. Because they are major flexors, weak psoas muscles can cause many of the surrounding muscles to compensate and become overused. That is why a tight or overstretched psoas muscle could be the cause of many or your aches and pains, including low back and pelvic pain.

👩‍🔬 ANATOMY

Structurally, your psoas muscles are the deepest muscles in your core. They attach from your 12th thoracic vertebrae to your 5 lumbar vertebrae, through your pelvis and then finally attach to your femurs. In fact, they are the only muscles that connect your spine to your legs.

Your psoas muscles allow you to bend your hips and legs towards your chest, for example when you are going up stairs. They also help to move your leg forward when you walk or run.

Your psoas muscles are the muscles that flex your trunk forward when bend over to pick up something from the floor. They also stabilize your trunk and spine during movement and sitting.

👩‍🔬 THE PSOAS AND FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE

The psoas muscles support your internal organs and work like hydraulic pumps allowing blood and lymph to be pushed in and out of your cells.

Your psoas muscles are vital not only to your structural well-being, but also to your psychological well-being because of their connection to your breath.

Here’s why: there are two tendons for the diaphragm (called the crura) that extend down and connect to the spine alongside where the psoas muscles attach. One of the ligaments (the medial arcuate) wraps around the top of each psoas. Also, the diaphragm and the psoas muscles are connected through fascia that also connects the other hip muscles.

These connections between the psoas muscle and the diaphragm literally connect your ability to walk and breathe, and also how you respond to fear and excitement. That’s because, when you are startled or under stress, your psoas contracts.

In other words, your psoas has a direct influence on your fight or flight response!

During prolonged periods of stress, your psoas is constantly contracted. The same contraction occurs when you:

➡️ sit for long periods of time
➡️ engage in excessive running or walking
➡️ sleep in the fetal position
➡️ do a lot of sit-ups

💡 Here are some tips for getting your psoas back in balance:

✔️ Avoid sitting for extended periods
✔️ Add support to your car seat
✔️ Try Resistance Flexibility exercises
✔️ Get a professional massage
✔️ Release stress and past traumas
✔️ Stretch

💡 HOW TO STRETCH

Roller Psoas Stretch
Use a foam roller for this passive, relaxing stretch that lengthens your psoas, one of your deep hip flexors.

1. Place the roller perpendicular to your spine and lie with your sacrum (the back of your pelvis) — not your spine — on the roller.
2. Pull your left knee toward your chest, keeping your right heel on the ground. You should feel a stretch on the front of your right hip.
3. To increase the stretch, reach your right arm over your head and open your left knee slightly out to the left.
Hold for 30 seconds, then switch legs. Repeat as needed.

02/15/2022

Pull up 😉

05/08/2021

🔑 🔑 💆🏽‍♀️

12/10/2020

2021 🤔

08/02/2016

07/26/2016

Sending love from an FSM grad 7/2010

Dear Florida School of Massage staff, students, alum, and friends of Paul Davenport,

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share with you that the spirit of our beloved Paul will soon be taking leave of his body to continue his soul’s journey on the other side. In the pre dawn hours of Wednesday, July 20, Paul suffered a massive heart attack. His sweet angel, Josie, called 911 when she discovered him and tried to revive him but paramedics needed the technology on board to get his heart beating again. Paul never regained consciousness of his earthly body, but anyone who spent time by his bed in the ICU this weekend felt his amazing spirit in that room. It was palpable and a thing of profound beauty.

Friday MRI results revealed extensive brain damage. Paul had no chance of ever regaining consciousness as he had with his first heart attack. This morning medical processionals quietly turned off the machines that were keeping Paul’s beautiful spirit tied to his body. Please hold Paul’s family in your hearts today during his day of passing.

There will be a memorial service for Paul this coming Saturday, July 30 at 10:30 a.m. at the Florida School of Massage. We will celebrate this incredible man who, with his sweet angel, Josie, were such heartful caretakers of the Florida School of Massage these many years. Paul’s limitless kindness, compassion and deep, abiding love have nurtured and changed so many lives. Come help us honor his life and legacy during Saturday’s service.