11/20/2025
Session highlight: It is said that energy never lies. When my client arrived he did try to be his usual self and even tried to immediately go into usual pleasantries and chatter, but I felt his spirit immediately as he walked in, it said he needed rest, peace and safety…, that his current emotional load was getting heavy to carry. I clocked it, set my intentions and began to work 🙌🏽
At the end of his session he said that he felt like crying during his massage and he felt he had gotten such an emotional release .
For decades, bodyworkers have observed that emotions often surface during hands-on sessions.
Clients cry without knowing why, shake or tremble, feel heat rising through their chest, or encounter spontaneous memories that seem to emerge from nowhere. These reactions aren’t random, they’re the body’s way of releasing patterns of tension, stress, and unprocessed experience that have been stored, sometimes for years.
Touch has a way of bypassing the analytical mind. When muscles soften and the nervous system shifts toward safety, deeper layers of held emotion can rise to the surface, asking to be acknowledged. What might appear as a simple physical release is often intertwined with old stories, protective habits, and moments the body never had the chance to fully process.
Practitioners see these responses not as problems to fix, but as signs of healing unfolding. In a supportive environment, emotional release becomes a natural expression of the body reorganizing itself, letting go, recalibrating, and reclaiming a sense of ease and wholeness.
