My massage practice is an extension of my yoga and meditation practices.

I am a certified yoga teacher and a daily meditator.  Like my yoga and meditation practices, massage is a practice of returning to the body and the breath again and again.  By grounding into the present moment, I am able to respond skillfully to what is actually happening. People often talk about massage therapists being intuitive, but I think that what is often thought of as intuition is really just dropping deep into the present moment and PAYING VERY CLOSE ATTENTION.

I often experience my sessions as conversations with the body.  My touch is an inquiry. The body answers. I ask if it’s willing to shift or soften or wake up, whatever is called for, while remembering that there is a whole person living inside that body, with all of their patterns and scars, joys and sorrows.  And I give whatever form of love or grounding or space that I have to offer in that moment.

To me, each body is sacred, having held that human being since their birth. I massage hands and I imagine all that those hands have done in this lifetime. I touch feet and remember that they have carried that person every step they have ever taken. I hold someone’s head and imagine all of the thoughts that have passed through it. And then sometimes, I imagine people as babies, each part of their body lovingly cared for by a parent or caregiver. I aspire to touch with that kind of love (even if it’s with an elbow in the glutes! ;)