09/22/2025
Confession: I thought a lot of the bodywork modalities I studied were going to be "The One." A final solution to my purpose, a way to help/save humanity and all of it's problems, etc.
I've spent tons of hours (and money) traveling around the country to learn skills that would ease the inconvenience of being in a body. I've taken advanced trainings in feet, the abdomen, pelvis (internal and external), reproductive organs, neck, fascia, cranium and spine, the pregnant body, the postpartum body, infants...all expecting to arrive at my final destination of, "no more searching, this is THE thing."
Now I know that all of those are tools that I can interchange on the same person throughout a session for the agreed upon intention/outcome.
I don't really follow any protocols for a specific modality. I have a general order of operations I start with to get your body to relax and loosen up so it will let me in and I can get more done. Sessions go best when I get my thinking brain out of the way and use my hands for deep listening.
Why do I call it "Holistic Bodywork" instead of massage? Cause it might not be your classic therapeutic massage on your jaw and neck. Or it might be- but it'd be a bummer if you assumed only one thing, and what your body received was something totally different.
One thing I do know - all of my bodywork sessions are relaxing. Most people get to go to that cool place where they know they're not sleeping, but feel their body twitch and jerk. At the very least, you should know that I have this strong stance: You can't heal if someone is causing you pain. That's just forcing your body to submit and putting you in a freeze state, lol.
There is definitely an easier way.
