Category Archives: Massage
High Performance Nutrition, Pt. 2
The difference between hitting your peak performance levels and hitting a wall often comes down to nutrition. Here are some more recipes to help you reach your training and fitness goals. Gluten Free Pizza 1. Grill 1/2 cup chicken sausage until it’s cooked through. 2. Preheat oven to 475 degrees Fahrenheit. 3. Garnish one Venice Bakery gluten-free seasoned [...]
High Performance Nutrition, Pt. 1
Are you training for a race? Looking to lose weight? Trying to get in better shape? Nutrition will play a huge role in how successful you are at any of the above mentioned endeavors. The harder you start pushing your body, the more it will need in the form of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients in [...]
Bath Time
A good soak in a warm bath is a wonderful wintertime ritual. Combined with an massage in the comfort of your home and you’ve got a complete in home spa experience. It really is hard to beat the relaxing, cathartic effects of lounging in a warm bath, where the mind can so easily find peace [...]
Some Surprising Facts About Massage
You know all about the relaxation benefits of massage—there’s no better tonic for tired muscles or flagging spirits. But you may not know about some of the other amazing benefits of massage, especially when it’s a regular regimen. It has a lot of positive payoffs you may never have thought about. Massage Can Make You [...]
7 Safety Tips for Autumn Yard Cleanup
In your neighborhood, leaves have probably turned gold and red, the weather has cooled down, and homeowners’ thoughts have turned to outdoor cleanup. But hauling out leaf blowers, ladders, mowers, and rakes—not to mention using them—opens us up to the possibility of pain and injury. Typical fall cleanup tasks such as raking, pruning, and cleaning [...]
Don’t Overload Kids’ Backpacks
Strategies to Eliminate Pain and Discomfort Associated with Overloaded Packs As kids return to school this fall bearing heavy backpacks, don’t wait for them to complain about back pain. Instead, pay attention to their posture and keep a keen eye on all the items loaded into those packs each day. According to the Consumer Product [...]
Exercise With Your Fascia in Mind
Pat shuffled into her massage therapist’s office wondering what was wrong with her muscles. After two weeks of working overtime at her job, she had resumed her normal exercise routine. Instead of the relief she expected, she left the gym with more pain and even developed a disturbing complication: tingling in her fingers. Fortunately, her [...]
Building a Healthy Foundation with Massage
Therapeutic touch is an instinctive and eloquent form of communication that has been molded into a healing art. Larry Costa, author of Massage: Mind and Body,writes that massage has many “physical and mental benefits, including … relieving muscle soreness, increasing flexibility, easing chronic pain, reducing tension headaches, boosting the immune system, promoting restful sleep, and improving [...]
Adequate Sleep Helps Control Your Weight
From premature aging to a compromised immune system, the side-effects of sleepless nights can add up, according to Barbara Harris, editor-in-chief of Shapemagazine and author of Shape Your Life: 4 Weeks To A Better Body — And A Better Life! (Hay House, 2002). During her more than 15 years at the helm of Shapemagazine, Harris compiled the secrets to [...]
Tips for Better Posture
As a massage therapist, it’s evident clients need help with either their neck and shoulders, or their low back—or all of the above. Most people have a tendency to blame these things on sleeping habits or sitting at a computer all day. While these things may be contributing factors, it’s really the tension we hold [...]
