Cheyanne LMT

09/04/2025

08/17/2025

The “ber-months” are almost here!
Where has the time gone?
Before you know it, the children will be back in school, the sun will take a rest behind the clouds and the cool air will start creeping in. With all of these playing a role, the cold season will start. I am here to remind you to remember to drink your water, wash your hands, and be healthy.
Working at Steamboat Health and Wellness is my only job, and I strive to protect myself for my clients. I hate rescheduling or canceling my day because I do not feel good, but I will in order to recover quickly and get back to helping you. So I am here asking, please, if you feel that you are getting a cold or a fever, please reschedule so that I don’t get sick and continue helping my clients recover from their sore/achy/painful muscles.
With much love,
Cheyanne

08/16/2025

As I tell all my clients when I’m explaining about arnica, it is something I have grown up with. I knew as a young child how arnica would help my sore muscles and or bruises.
And since I have grown up with this wonderful oil, I wanted to bring part of my childhood into the massage room.

08/15/2025

Remember when you were young and you would pretend to play dead, someone would lift your arm and you would let it come crashing down beside you with no reflexes in existence? That’s where true relaxation is and what should be brought to the massage room. I’m not about to let your arm drop to see if you’re dead of course. With true relaxation comes trust, trusting us to hold the weight that you hold. When you are truly relaxed it can actually be easier for us massage therapists to feel through the: sore, tired, aching muscles. We tend to guard ourself from others with touch and unintentionally close off muscles which can make it harder to talk to the muscles that we are trying to help. It is common and understandable for us to guard ourselves from others we don’t know, true relaxation takes time. One of the reasons I start my massage sessions face up is to help you relax more, you can watch where I am going and you can feel more in control. There are many reasons why I start face up, but this is one of my main reasons why. If you haven’t tried it with your Massage therapist, ask them and see how it works for you!

08/14/2025

Let’s talk about stretching for a second. If you are one of my clients, you problem expect me to ask the dreaded question “have you been stretching?”I myself am pretty bad at stretching, unless I’m at the gym. Why is that? Why do we only think of stretching when we do yoga or are at the gym? Stretching is an amazing way to stay flexible yes, but it has many other contributing factors, such as helping reduce risk or injury, helps range of motion after an injury, helps relieve pain, helps posture. When I ask my clients if we are stretching, am I asking my clients to stretch how I am in the video? No. Am I asking my clients to start picking up yoga? No.Simple stretching can help ease the pain that we worked on within the massage room. A great example I give my clients is the doorway stretch (picture provided, thanks to google). Due to our every life style of being relaxed, texting, sitting at a computer, and driving. Our major pec muscle is now being affected. We are not flexing this muscle during the activity I stated, so why do these muscles get so tight? Our pec major attaches itself onto our humerus, and our pec minor attaches itself to our scapula, so when our arms are in-front of our body, we are unintentionally closing our pecs and as they stay in that position they start to get tight. Then in turn we start getting upper back pain. as my clients have heard before I call it the rubber band effect. Stretching (at the picture shows) helps relieve that upper back pain, as well as getting massages! Now, can stretching be bad for you? Yes.When starting to stretch, just like going into the gym to work out, if you are not accustomed to it, taking small steps is key. Don’t go in for the deep stretch or hold it for a long time, this can cause strain to the muscles or tendon. So as I tell my client, listen to your body. If you feel the stretch hurts a little bit, ease up till you feel just a nice stretch. When holding the stretch allow your body to tell you when to end it. Over time you will feel like you can hold the stretch longer and go deeper into the stretch. So breathe relax, and of course if you have questions, ask your massage therapist!

08/02/2025

One of the reasons I love massage so much, is that I have personally experienced the benefits it gives me. Truthfully, before even going to massage school, I had only had three professional massages in my life, once I was in school is where I started noticing more of the benefits from massage.
You may ask yourself why didn’t I notice these benefits before; well, the biggest difference was how often I was getting massaged in school! In school, in the beginning we were focusing on a nice Swedish massage before going into treatment massage, and many times we were doing hands on learning twice a week! Imagine getting massaged twice a week!
Now what do you think benefited from a Swedish massage twice a week, the body or the mind? If you think both you would be correct!
The mind controls everything about the body, including our sympathetic AND nervous system, and to sometimes get the sympathetic nervous system to relax, it can take some time! One of the many reasons why I start my clients face up!

08/01/2025

And just like that my August AND September are completely booked!! My next availability is not until October 2ed, but don’t fret, life happens and some people have to reschedule, so if you wish to be on a waiting list, we have one at Steamboat Health and Wellness. But be sure to book your appointment in October now, so you are guaranteed to have a spot, October is already filling up!

08/01/2025

Headaches are not something to mess around with. We try drinking water, taking ibuprofen, and so much more, but sometimes a massage can be a simple fix. ADLs or stress put strain on our muscles, as we all know, but sometimes these muscles within our shoulders and neck end up giving us more pain then we expected and we end up with a headache that sometimes won’t go away.
By talking with your massage therapist about your ADL or explaining the stress you are under and letting them know you have a headache when you come in, we can customize the massage to help relieve some of that pain.

07/31/2025

Being a massage therapist is more than someone who works the muscles to help relax one’s body. Being a massage therapist means, we need to create a safe place for our clients.
In my massage rooms I strive to create a safe/judgement free zone, as I work with all body types, and with these beautiful bodies comes baggage. Baggage that the mind carries. When someone is so relaxed, the mind is relaxed and the things we worry about stop clinging to our mind and roll off our tongue. This is my I create a safe place within my room.
So come in and relax!

07/28/2025

I personally like to give my clients the option if they would prefer a bolster under their knees when laying on their back, and or under their ankles when laying on their stomach. The reason for bolsters is to help reduce pressure on your lower back.
If you are already dealing with lower back pain, this is something I highly suggest to my clients, and it’s something you can do at home as well when going to bed!
I give people the option though, as many people opt out, myself included, some days it’s nice, some days I love laying completely flat, and some days even at home I’ll wedge a pillow under my knees to help reduce my own pressure in my back.
Try it at home, or try it on the massage table!
My next opening is September 14th for returning clients or new clients! So don’t waste time, call to get onto my schedule!