Sarassage Therapeutic Massage

11/12/2024

Hi all! My pricing will be going up $0.10/minute as of January 1, 2025.

The new pricing is as follows:
30-minutes: $57 (was $54)
45-minutes: $85.50 (was $81)
60-minutes: $114 (was $108)
75-minutes: $142.50 (was $135)
90-minutes: $171 (was $162)

10/27/2024

I was asked to be a guest speaker at SOHMAR, the massage school I attended almost 18 years ago. The students are currently learning about business and I was tasked with talking about my experience as a business owner.

I created a presentation titled “10 steps to opening a massage business.” As I worked through the list, the information is detailed and so nuanced at times— I could feel that I was losing some of the students. But then I was hit with a wave of pride!

When you’re in the thick of starting & building a business, there’s so much to learn & implement as well as sacrifice, fail at and muster the strength to begin again. Looking back at 10 years of Sarassage, I am reminded how much I went through to start a business and how many people will never truly understand it. I would be remiss to not share how great it feels to prove naysayers wrong! As someone who struggles with imposter syndrome, this presentation (that *I* was asked to write!) reminded me how much I have achieved and how proud I should feel!

Thank you for the invitation Michael Mcaleese! My spirit needed it.

07/17/2024

“…hidden gems in the healthcare system.”

Well shucks! I’ll take it 😊

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PUBLISHES LARGEST STUDY EVER ON MASSAGE THERAPY USE

July 2024

"Many people receive massage therapy and for many reasons. But according to a new study – the largest and most comprehensive ever conducted on the subject – the prevalence of visits to massage therapists is higher than one might have imagined and the reasons may be surprising."

“What our study shows is that it’s probably not helpful any longer to label massage as an ‘alternative’ therapy, with all of the marginality that the term conveys.”

“Licensed massage therapists ought to be respected as mainstream practitioners, whose profession provides a therapeutic approach not just to address pain and functional challenges but to foster wellness and overall well-being, physical and emotional.

Everyone can benefit from working with a skilled massage therapist. They’re the hidden gems in the healthcare system.” - Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health. (Robert Rogers/Baylor University)

Study Link: Journal of Science & Healing
Prevalence & Determinants of Massage Therapy Use in the US
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830724000958

05/18/2023

Please read my updated Cancellation Policy:
I ask that you respectfully give a 48 hour notice of cancellation.
I accept cancellations via phone call, voicemail or text message to: (331) 444 – 2884; or via email to sarah@sarassage.com. Please specify who you are!

Cancellation within 48 hours of an appointment or a no show results in a fee of 50% of the scheduled session’s price for the first offense and 100% of the scheduled session's price thereafter. If you are in the middle of a package, you will receive one free pass. All subsequent missed appointments will result in the deduction of one credit from remaining packaged sessions. If I’m able to fill the slot, there will be no charge. Fees for missed appointments must be paid before another appointment can be scheduled.

If frequent rescheduling becomes a pattern, rearranging schedules is challenging and time-consuming to manage. If your schedule does not allow for pre-planned appointments, and cancellations and rescheduling requests happen regularly, future bookings will not be accepted.

I understand emergencies and illnesses occur. If you have a fever, have been in the hospital, or a systemic infection begins a couple of hours prior to your scheduled session, please cancel to protect yourself, myself and other clients. If your children are ill and need you at home, please cancel. If there is severe weather, please do not travel if you feel it puts you in danger. There will be no charge for these types of cancellations.

Anything else? Reach out to me and I’m happy to clarify or further explain my policy.

04/27/2023

“This might sound depressing but none of us has the luxury to keep on taking our lives for granted.”

You don’t have the luxury to keep on taking your life for granted. Stop wasting your time because you don’t have an eternity left.

04/24/2023

5. The intricacies of what’s in it for you. – Time teaches us that we keep nothing in this life until we first give it away. This is true of knowledge, forgiveness, service, love, tolerance, acceptance, and so forth. You have to give to receive. Such a simple point, and yet it’s so easy to forget that the giving of ourselves, without a price tag, has to come FIRST! It’s the giving that opens us up to grace.

The older we grow, the quieter we become and the less drama we engage in. Life humbles us gradually as we age. We realize how much nonsense we've wasted time on.

04/16/2023

Yes!

It’s time to ditch this sound bite for better advice.