Sanctuary Massage and Sauna

10/16/2025

10/16/2025

Just walking past the club house and I look up…☠️☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀🦴🦴🦴

10/12/2025

Fun day with my lovely friend Ellen as we visited the Butterfly Pavilion.

🍁 ☀️

10/11/2025

What’s your story?
Our body keeps a memory of trauma within the soft tissues. Research shows that through MyoFascial release and the connection between our fascial network and nervous system we affect not only physical changes but emotional output.



https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8688142/

10/11/2025

Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.
Mary Oliver

10/11/2025

Results:

“Results showed that MDD ( major depressive disorder ) patients displayed heightened stiffness and reduced elasticity of the myofascial tissue and that patients in the SMRI group showed a reduced negative memory bias and more positive affect compared to patients in the placebo condition.

Conclusions:
“The preliminary results of our studies indicate that the myofascial tissue might be part of a dysfunctional body-mind dynamic that maintains MDD.”

This was a very interesting and an easy read.
In my humble practice, clients with chronic slumped postures versus those actively working to open up their facial tissue into extension have expressed not only less physical pain, but a greater feeling of hope.

Personally speaking, it may take time to correct the physical facial memory from past trauma stored in fascia . But cognitively there is openness and strength.
Movement is life AND it’s a sensory journey!

On vacation, Gretchen pointed out that I was walking side to side not forward. Just having her notice old muscle pattern I was able to mindfully change my gait.

Since returning home, it’s only been a few days but just that mindfulness on moving forward versus side to side has been a game changer yet again.

The mind-body connection is truly marvelous in our healing process.

I don’t want to ‘live’ in the negative space from a past moment which caused the pain.
Instead, simultaneously train the brain and the, which based on studies like this one, our body does keep score. However, these tissues rewards us when we actively address old myo-facial pain. 

The myofascial system plays a fundamental role in the mechanics of the body, in body tension regulation and the etiology of pathological states like chronic pain. Moreover, it contains contractile elements and preliminary evidence suggests that its ...

10/06/2025

I’ve only just returned from a long week resting, walking trails dripping with rain soaked greenery, belly laughing with my little sister and consuming outdoor market berries, smoked fish and fresh baked goodies. The last few days we found ourselves luxuriating at the Overleaf Lodge and Spa here in Yachats. The view was breathtaking and the sauna and soaking tubs necessary after a week playing in the woods.
If you follow my Instagram there are a few videos of our adventuring.
If you ever find yourself visiting the ‘Gem of the Sea,’ Yachats offers great hiking, fishing, beach combing, and food catered towards varying dietary needs.

I’ll post those places below.
✨I’m happy to be home.✨

‘Fountaining’
Rosemary Wahtola Trommer

Inside us, life
like water leaps up
from the source
to discover itself
in relationship
with light and
air, glittering
as it catches
the sun, changing
its shape in the wind,
returning to source
as one water,
leaping up again.

🐋Overleaf Lodge and Spa
🌲Sea-Nik Vacation Rentals
🍂Driftwood Inn Hotel and Restaurant ( Food choice)
🍲Ona ( Fine Dining )
🥐Bread & Roses Bakery

10/06/2025

I’ve only just returned from a long week resting, walking trails dripping with rain soaked greenery, belly laughing with my little sister and consuming outdoor market berries, smoked fish and fresh baked goodies. The last few days we found ourselves luxuriating at the Overleaf Lodge and Spa here in Yachats. The view was breathtaking and the sauna and soaking tubs necessary after a week playing in the woods.
If you follow my Instagram there are a few videos of our adventuring.
If you ever find yourself visiting the ‘Gem of the Sea,’ Yachats offers great hiking, fishing, beach combing, and food catered towards varying dietary needs.

I’ll post below those places along with a Instagram link.
✨I’m happy to be home.✨

Fountaining
Rosemary Wahtola Trommer

Inside us, life
like water leaps up
from the source
to discover itself
in relationship
with light and
air, glittering
as it catches
the sun, changing
its shape in the wind,
returning to source
as one water,
leaping up again.

🐳Overleaf Lodge and Spa
🍃Sea-Nik Vacation Rentals
🍂Driftwood Inn Hotel and Restaurant ( Food choice)
🐟 Ona ( Fine Dining
🥐Bread & Roses Bakery

www.instagram.com/SanctuaryMassageandSauna

10/06/2025

A few little gifts that found at Mercantile in Yachats, Oregon.

www.Belvedere.at
www.fridolin.deGermany

(Gustav Klimt / Free as the Wind: Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen)
(Vincent Van Gogh / Almond Blossom: La vie en rose.)

10/05/2025

More exceptional moments of laughter, deep conversations and truly enjoying the company of my sister

10/04/2025

Most of our videos are of ‘Low Tide’ and sneaker waves. We finally get to witness ‘High Tide.’

10/04/2025

Our first sighting of a sea creature! We think it was a harbor seal, but we are unclear.