Hi.   It's a nice day for it.

I have worked with my hands since I was big enough to dismantle my grandfather's cuckoo clock just to see how it worked (emphasis on past tense).  My curiosity and eagerness to learn how things work led me to become the best and only mechanic for a particular mid-1950s bicycle when I was twelve.  By the time I was in my twenties, I had moved into auto mechanics (my own, then others'), and then into construction and gardening.  Today, I can work with my hands to help heal, soothe pain, as well as to help create a larger awareness of how the human bean functions.  Massage gives me a sense of purpose and I am excited to be part of this justifiably-burgeoning field.  

A while back, I found myself encouraged by a friend to go get a massage.  I was reluctant ("Really? Massage?"), but did go after some insistence on his part.  I can't tell you now why I hesitated because that massage was a very profound experience for me--exactly what I needed. It stopped the chattering monkey in my mind that prevented me from being able to hear myself--it put my parts back where they hadn't been for too long (that was when I realized I had been carrying a particular knot around for more than twenty years!), and I was better able to breathe.  It was tonic to my soul and it drastically adjusted my interpretation on everything I believed I was suffering.  The very idea that fifty minutes of a stranger's manipulating my body parts (while I slept) could change my world was completely alien--almost unbelievable.  However, those issues I had been focusing on so much from inside my miserable experience suddenly became irrelevant to my then-current good mood--I felt lighter in my body and more powerful in my mind, and I actually laughed at the absurdity of it all (and I felt as though I was walking slightly sideways).

So, I decided that I want to use my hands to do the same thing for other cranky people.  If that wasn't good enough a reason, after I enrolled in school, I almost immediately began finding that massage can go much further than just give a person a temporary good feeling.  Some of those ways, according to the Mayo Clinic website, could be: lessening of anxiety, helping with digestive disorders, fibromyalgia, headaches, insomnia, myofascial pain syndrome, soft tissue strains or injuries, sports injuries, temporomandibular joint pain.  Huh.  Who knew?  And that's just the beginning.  In fact, just about every culture worldwide has had their own take--and philosophy--on massage and its benefits since before written history.  It's kind of hard to argue with 6000 years of tradition.

My philosophy in our modern day full of pills and needles is "why not try massage?"  Mom always said, "How can you know you don't like it until you try it?" If you're thinking about it, you're probably past-due. Your results will speak better than I can.  If you're sense of well-being is important enough to you to read this far, please contact me so that we can discuss what's going on with your particular parts.  I may have some simple ideas outside of massage for you to implement, which may just do the trick for you.  This is no pie-in-the-sky theory or woo-woo-magic-land talk (actually, it can be quite magical)--this is thousands-of-years-of-trying-it, practicing-it, finding-what-works-and-what-doesn't--proven methodology.  This is ancient technology passed down to us from ancient hands and it must not be simply dismissed out-of-hand by anyone seeking another possibility--another solution to medication or surgery.