Posts Tagged ‘massage’

Fluid Fascia and the Energy Body Workshop

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Date: May 22nd 2010
Time: 9.30am for 10am start — 6pm
Loca­tion: The Old Chapel, 125 High Street, Marsh­field.
Cost: £55

I’m organ­is­ing a CPD mas­sage work­shop for the lovely Susie Legge. If you’re a prac­ti­tioner and you’re inter­ested in attend­ing, please con­tact me.

Work­shop Out­line:
This one day work­shop will be an edu­ca­tional and exploratory jour­ney into the most per­va­sive tis­sue of the body: fascia. Through med­i­ta­tive aware­ness and inves­tiga­tive con­nec­tive touch, we will learn how to recog­nise fas­cia, pas­sively stretch it and pave the way for deep trig­ger point work, free from unnec­es­sary effort or pain.

The day will also include guid­ance on how to facil­i­tate and sup­port the release of hold­ing pat­terns in both the phys­i­cal and energy body.

About Susie:
Susie was first intro­duced to yoga phi­los­o­phy and prac­tice at the age of 11 when her par­ents met their mas­ter and trained as yoga and med­i­ta­tion teach­ers. Nearly 10 years later she began to explore yoga and heal­ing work. Curi­ous about the power of ener­gy­work, and fas­ci­nated by the work­ings of the body, she trained in shi­atsu and a num­ber of other heal­ing arts, includ­ing Ayurvedic,Thai,Tibetan,Western mas­sage and reflexology.

For the last 13 years, Susie has worked, stud­ied and trav­elled around India, South East Asia, Europe and the Americas, sharing what she learns as she goes. She cur­rently spends her win­ters teach­ing yoga and mas­sage in India and the sum­mers in Europe where she leads yoga retreats and mas­sage train­ing workshops.

www.yogaswaha.com/teachers.htm

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Join me at a photographic studio opening

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

images by markoIf you’d like to hob knob with the Mayor and be a guest at the open­ing of Marko Dutkas por­trait stu­dio, please join me (where I’ll be doing some mas­sage of course) next week Tues­day, for some refresh­ments, enter­tain­ment and an oppor­tu­nity to gaze at Marko’s fine photography.

Wednes­day 7th Octo­ber 2009.
6pm until 9pm.
2 Dorset Close, Bath, BA2 3RF

Please RSVP to Marko Dutka.
01225 428881 or info@imagesbymarko.com
imagesbymarko.com

Marko says: “We are proud to announce the open­ing of our new por­trait stu­dio in Bath and to invite you to par­tic­i­pate in our open­ing evening. The stu­dio will offi­cially be opened by the Lord Mayor of Bath at 6.30pm.

As well as a show­case of Marko’s work we will also have a vari­ety of linked busi­nesses there on the evening to enter­tain and inform you.

At present these are:
Clau­dia Spoto of Clau­dia Lucia Hair & Makeup.
Bron­wen Grover of Bespoke Fin­ery.
Leora Sharp — Holis­tic Mas­sage and Body­work
Tracy Row­botham of Cher­rri Burelle Floristry.

Images By Marko will also be mak­ing a spe­cial Por­trait Pho­tog­ra­phy offer to all guests on the evening.”

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Belly grumbling during massage

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Vagus nerveThere are 2 main sys­tems in the body that we are con­cerned with when it comes to mas­sage; the sym­pa­thetic and parasym­pa­thetic ner­vous systems.

The sym­pa­thetic ner­vous sys­tem (fight or flight response/stress response) is the sys­tem that helps us ‘keep going’ when we are under stress and the parasym­pa­thetic ner­vous sys­tem (relax­ation response) is the one that helps us chill out. The Vagus nerve is respon­si­ble for the func­tions of the relax­ation response.

The pic­ture above shows the Vagus (mean­ing ‘wan­der­ing’) nerve starts in the brain and extends to all the main organs in the chest and abdomen. It is the only nerve that does this. By breath­ing deeply, we stim­u­late the many Vagus nerve end­ings which results in the switch­ing on of our relax­ation response.

Amongst other won­der­ful things, mas­sage slows down our breath­ing result­ing in the afore­men­tioned: relax­ation on, stress off.

So, we’re on the mas­sage table, we’ve got a nice and relaxed stom­ach, colon and small intes­tine. Diges­tion is increased and our bel­lies start rum­bling. It is there­for not uncom­mon to have escap­ing gas, from either end, dur­ing a mas­sage. In fact, it’s a sure sign that we are nice and relaxed. Your mas­sage prac­ti­tioner won’t even expect you to stir from dream­land to excuse your­self.

As and aside, this is why mas­sage is great of any­one with diges­tion chal­lenges.

So next time you have a mas­sage and you expe­ri­ence this, don’t be shy, it’s all part and par­cel of our bod­ies amaz­ing response to the good you are doing it by get­ting on the mas­sage table.

All hail the Vagus nerve!

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Might our ability to handle stress be better if we know we’ve got that massage appointment booked?

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I’ve been mus­ing on some­thing inter­est­ing which has pre­vi­ously not occurred to me.

We know the effects of stress reduc­tion, dur­ing and post mas­sage, are mas­sive. But I never con­sid­ered what the psy­cho­log­i­cal effects of hav­ing an appoint­ment booked in the future might be i.e. pre mas­sage. Might the knowl­edge that our next mas­sage, being just around the cor­ner, help us to ‘cope’ bet­ter when stress lev­els are high for a period of time?

It’s like hav­ing that hol­i­day is in sight; it’s a lit­tle eas­ier to deal with every­thing that might be get­ting too much. I pro­pose the same to be true about hav­ing a mas­sage to look for­ward to.

If we are going through a stress­ful time, surely sub­con­sciously, or maybe even con­sciously, we are able too remain sane in the knowl­edge that, in a few days, we can just let it all drift away and feel the post mas­sage effects for the days to come?

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