Thai Fusion Massage. Jason Grey, LMT

04/29/2024

Spring in the Sonoran Desert

03/14/2024

Spring in the Sonoran Desert :)
As you spring back into movement and wellness from winters hiatus, listen to your body. You’ll be driven into go mode as nature buzzes about you. Remember that the best race car drivers utilize the brake pedal not just the gas pedal. Rest and recovery will be a part of your bodies natural process and a counter to action and activity.
Learn new stretches, approaches, and methods with a customized bodywork session or a stretching consultation. Contact me to find out more information or book with Jason online at Neuma.space

10/31/2023

Say hello to Jason Grey! Jason is our go-to for a completely customized, relaxing massage. Trained in Thai and Swedish massage, Zen Shiatsu, craniosacral, reiki, and more, he's passionate about providing an integrated bodywork experience that's just for you.

📍5318 S. Civano Blvd, Tucson, AZ

10/13/2023

Give your body the personalized care it deserves with our Custom Bodywork. Enjoy 60, 90, or 120 minutes of dedicated attention from our skilled therapists on our plush memory foam tables. Whether you're seeking workout recovery or a relaxation-focused massage, we'll curate a session unique to your needs. Treat yourself today!


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09/18/2023

Greetings and updates to all :)

Thai Fusion massage is now working out of the Neuma Collective. What are you looking for? Have you had massage and bodywork prior? The 90 or 2 hour bodywork sessions are top pics by long term clients.
If you would like to schedule with me here are some links. One is to the Neuma website where I work under the Neuma collective. The other link is to the square apps booking page for me at the Neuma location.
If you have any questions please let me know.
Thank you,
~Jason Grey

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We are a team of licensed massage therapists offering custom bodywork, Ashiatsu, hot stone massage, pre-natual massage, and more. Relieve pain & stress and bring your body back into full alignment.

03/16/2023

Article I wrote :)

In discussing stretching with clients, the most common response tends to be, "I know, I need to stretch more." In these cases, stretching is understood from a theoretical standpoint, but not exercised from a practical standpoint. When I come upon this in my consulting, I start at the basics, and tell my clients they should stretch like a cat.
A cat stretches when it needs to, it does not follow a set regimen, or a weekly schedule. A cat is intently stretching what it needs, how it needs, as often as it needs, and doesn't waste time doing movements it doesn't need. If you watch a cat stretch, you will see something very specific and non-linear going on. A cat moves in strange ways and twist as it elongates, demonstrating intentional movement.
Your body is different from the next person, so you will want to customize your movements. There are specifics that can only be understood from the inside out. Start by spending 5 minutes at a time on the ground rolling and moving around trying to feel stretches.
Stretching creates a beneficial stress on the bones, increasing bone density. The result is that if you get in a car accident, for instance, you'll absorb more trauma before your bones break.
- Twist your arms at the wrist and elbow to the left then to the right, to the fullest extent, while outstretched for an arm stretch. Small and large forward and backward circular arm movements, with arms out to your side, keep the tone of the shoulder girdle flexible.
- Stretch the lateral torso, from left shoulder to left waist, by reaching your arm above your head, and breathing deep expansive breaths between the ribs. Do this on both sides and you will help release tension in the chest muscles and side body, which is truly the root cause of many shoulder and neck issues.
Tight or weak gluteal muscles cannot stabilize the pelvis, and can be a major cause of low back pain. The glutes are shock absorbers at the base of the spine. When they aren't strong enough, the spine has to do its own shock absorption. Calf muscles and hamstrings are also shock absorbers. You can use a tennis ball for an acupressure stretch.
- Place the ball on the ground and gently lower onto the ball your hamstring, calf or glute. Your stretch should feel good and not be painful, or you are doing it wrong. Targeting these areas will have an effect elsewhere, balancing out nerve pathways and blood flow corridors.
Carpel Tunnel Syndrome can be best kept at bay by applying these same concepts to reduce myofascial adhesion and increase irrigation of the synovial fluid into the joints. Spelling the alphabet in cursive with the hands or feet, with the appropriate limb outstretched, works wonders.
Yoga emulates many animals in asanas, such as Downward Dog, Cat Pose, and Cow Pose. It is a great combination of stretching and flexibility while also strengthening the supporting muscles. Strength and flexibility must be kept in balance to avoid symptoms and dysfunction. It makes sense that so many people love yoga, as it is a natural, animalistic way of moving! When you customize your stretching regimen, adjust it to your changing movement habits, you will be stretching like a cat.

Written by Jason Grey

01/03/2023

New Year New You: Nervous System Reset

The nervous system and its endocrine accompaniment include the neurotransmitters and hormones that are the signaling mechanism for the functionings of the body. This neuro-endocrine axis remains the frontier of science when it comes to understanding the human experience. While not completely understood, knowledge has been gleaned from scientific studies that may be used to approach the body in new ways while also serving to validate and explain certain aspects of traditional and alternative healing methods.

The depth of subject matter is vast, but to take a quick dive into the subject, and to entice the reader into further inquiry, let us consider some things.

The food you eat will contribute to your physical wellness, and additionally to your mental and emotional health. To generalize, your food is either a poison or a potion, something adding to your wellness or detracting from it. Long term repercussions of poor eating habits compound into emotional and mental distress, and physical sickness. The philosophy of health and wellness from India for example, called Ayurveda, uses food as a primary, foundational tool for wellness. General health consultations assess an individual and strategize an approach of food as medicine via the chemistry of food. A standard dietary adjustment of 3-21 days is expected to begin a reset towards wellness.

Healthy habits add to your wellness. Modern assumptions are that it takes about 30 days to reset a habit. The key here is self-awareness, discipline, and commitment. An application of will-power will be what it takes. Your will power is your best attribute, when you use it. Small adjustments toward major changes will generally be the better approach. Just like a certain yoga or stretching sequence, an exercise or dietary regimen, or the speed and distance one may choose to run will need to be customized for the individual, your unique combination of causes, reasons, and excuses will need to be dealt with on an individual level. Rest assured that we are not static beings, we are incredibly dynamic capable of many great things.

If you find yourself having a hard time, have courage, it is a catalyst. Fear may always be a possibility, but courage has to be a choice. Energy put towards frustration, self-judgment and self-criticism is better served elsewhere. We may say that it is better to put your energy into virtues over vices. Applied knowledge is wisdom, otherwise its only as good as a book on the shelf. Attitude creates atmosphere which creates culture. Reset your attitude and love yourself.

The nervous system is the repository of the mental, emotional, and physical experiences of the body. In massage and bodywork we are able to influence the healing process by initiating the parasympathetic side of the nervous system with sedation. Healing from trauma and recovery from injury can take time, and it is important to respect the pace of the process. When we chase pleasure to cope with pain, we are talking about the hormone Dopamine. Dopamine receptors can become over-stimulated and downregulate, ending up requiring more of the same stimulus for the same effect. This is the addictive side of things. Happiness on the other hand is related to Serotonin, and does not down regulate. For this reason, chase happiness not pleasure.

In a relaxed, sedated state, the client can catch up on their mental, emotional, and physical backlog; things they haven't had time to process or deal with. This is a meditative state that once experienced and learned, the client can access on their own. The practical aspects of many types of meditation are best summed up in the analogy of a cell phone: you have to plug it in to charge it. Meditation practices are put the body into a sleep-like meditative state, which modern science has termed Non-Sleep-Deep-Relaxation, or NSDR. In this state the body gets a break from the sensory overload and fast pace of the outside world. Meditating when you need it is the key.

The yin side of yin and yang, as a concept of balance, means taking that recovery time so that you can have a strong yang aspect, or go-mode. Rest can be the best medicine. You can't be all gas pedal and no brake pedal when driving, and when you are driving, you obey red lights and stop signs for a reason. Similarly, your body is communicating to you in subtle ways that you can choose to heed or to ignore. Your gut feelings, the intuition, the urge to move or to stretch or to rest, the voice inside your head that says go to sleep and don't binge watch another episode. Listen to that voice and honor it and it will serve you.

Today just do one thing. Breathe out and let your body breathe in what it needs. Focus on, in a relaxed way, coaxing your breath to empty out all its contents, and let your inhale be shallow, medium, or deep for a couple breaths. Do this for ten breaths and you will have an instant nervous system reset.