The Body Therapy Center and School of Massage

01/25/2026

Tendon Vs Ligament ✅

🦴 TENDON

→ Connects muscle to bone
→ Made of dense, parallel collagen fibers (very strong, low elasticity)
→ Transfers force generated by muscle contraction to bone
→ Enables movement at joints
→ Poor blood supply → heals slowly when injured
→ Examples: Achilles tendon, biceps tendon

🦴 LIGAMENT

→ Connects bone to bone
→ Made of collagen fibers with slight elasticity
→ Provides joint stability and alignment
→ Prevents excessive or abnormal joint movement
→ More elastic than tendons, but still strong
→ Examples: ACL, PCL, medial collateral ligament

⭐ KEY DIFFERENCE TO REMEMBER

→ Tendon = Movement (muscle pulls bone)
→ Ligament = Stability (bone holds bone)

01/21/2026

Affirmation of the week🌺

“In the mind of experts there is very little to learn, but in the beginners mind there is endless possibilities.”
-Suzuki

When we believe we already know, learning narrows. When we arrive as beginners, even familiar material can teach us something new.

This week, see if you can soften certainty just enough to notice what surprises you—about the bodywork, your anatomy and physiology, about your classmates, and about yourself. Growth often starts right there.🌺

01/09/2026

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A new peer reviewed study from the Global Consciousness Project 2.0 finds that during 15 large Coherence Healing meditations (1,000–2,200 people), onsite random number generators on stage became significantly correlated with a global network of hundreds of RNGs spread around the world.

Why this is exciting?
• These devices are engineered to be purely random, yet during healing sessions their behavior lined up in a way highly unlikely by chance (mean correlation 0.27, p < 0.01), and only during the healings, not during other workshop activities.
• When all healings were combined, the local network showed an “evoked response”-like pattern, suggesting that a small, coherently focused group may generate a detectable signal in the global consciousness field.

If you’re curious whether collective heart focused intention can measurably influence physical systems and a planetary field , this paper offers fresh, data driven evidence and a new framework for exploring global coherence.

Please see the first comment for the link to the journal research paper.

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01/09/2026

Happy Birthday, Van!!!! Thank you for being part of the BTCSM team! We appreciate all you do for us!!! Have the best day and do something that makes you happy!! We love you! 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎂🎂🎂🎈🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎂🎂🎈🎈

01/07/2026

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Foundation Training Reminders!

Level 5 of 10

January 14-18, 2026
Dr. Shea zooming in on January 14

Level 1 of 10 (openings available)
February 11-15, 2026

Level 2/10
March 18-22, 2026

You have a chance, if you are interested, in the ten level foundation training to begin with a level 1 in February. The training will launch in March and span over two and a half years. For a certification in Biodynamics through The Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America.

Please call Tam at the school if you are interested. 618.239.6400.

Level 5 practitioners….SEE YOU SOON!!!!!!
🩷Holly

01/07/2026

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Today, we celebrate something profoundly meaningful.

These students graduated after losing their school with no notice, after navigating disruption, uncertainty, and experiences that should never happen in educational spaces.

They stayed. They rebuilt. They learned anyway.

This graduation is not just about completion of coursework—it is about resilience, self-trust, and reclaiming learning in a safe and humane environment.

I am deeply honored to witness your courage and to walk alongside you as you crossed this threshold.

You earned this. Every bit of it. 💛

Love, Holly and the BTCSM staff.

Honored Graduates:

Brian Armstrong
Jasmine Covington
William “Wish” Harrison
Michelle McNamara
Christine Stroede
Evelyn Wells

01/05/2026

When we rest in our true nature along the middle path, we discover a heart of greatness amidst it all. 💛

12/31/2025

A New Year Blessing 🌺

As the year turns, there is nothing you need to fix, improve, or become.

Nothing is missing.
Nothing is late.
You are not on your way — you are here. You are perfect just as you are.

May this year be less about changing yourself and more about staying with what is already whole.

You are already enough.🌺

Love, Holly.

12/30/2025

Thank you to all who shared such kind wishes on my birthday. May the love you offered return to you many, many times over. I am grateful. 🙏🏻
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Love, Holly.

12/29/2025

Wishing a
Happy, Happy,
Happy Birthday to our very own
Holly Cameron Pinto

12/25/2025

🙏🏻

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, however you’re spending it, from our hearts to yours.

12/25/2025

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