MassageFreek

“Right now, Folks, This is the Plan”

Friday, March 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Greetings to those of you who have the good fortune of landing on my little site during the time that this blog entry is at the top. I know I could install one of those rotating post gadgets, but I don’t.

So I have not posted since October because I got writer’s block and I am starting a new blog and that blog will be the blog to represent me and my massage practice practice.

I think there’s an alchemy that happens when one switches intentions. Some people can turn around and switch up their website real quick… while others – they need to consider the options for the future of their blog. Which is to say I needed my brain to re-establish itself to the 2 new presentation method.

I intend to keep this journal and write in it regularly. Since I will not be linking it heavily as something I want to promote my massage practice with, I think I will, likely, post more often because I will be sharing my opinions and observations. Call it my free-form blog – where I get to care, a touch less about proper presentation and give more energy towards revolutionary ideas and unadulterated opinion.

I would like to change the way health care is done in this country and this world.

I think this blog would be a good foundation for conversations about that. The new site – which will be revealed “in 2 weeks” is going to be, as I wrote above, a more professional presentation-type marketing sleek blog.

I want to give useful content.

I want people to be interested in scanning it, reading it and commenting on it.

I would like to get great clients out of it. I do not think this site helps me get any clients at all.

This massagefreek.com site is like a house I built that is in a bit of disrepair because it no longer suits my current everyday requirements. It is, however, some real estate I plan to exploit as best as I can, in ways I had not in the past.

I think it would be a good forum to really let out some of my ideas and conflicts and conversations about the healing world and the practitioners I meet, know and work with.

There are so many similarities and differences. I think the world needs to know that we are very different breed of creature. I think we are often the un-peggable free spirits that raise the bar on normal standards. I think we inspire others more often than not.

I have this great idea for a Biznik event. “Have tea with some body dangerous.” I love the idea. I love the risk of it.

I will submit it soon.

I have been in a lay back spin and just starting to recover. I think I went deep within and found a newer more shinny me. I think all people saw of me for a while was a hole in the dirt – figuratively speaking, of course.

New plans, new ideas.

New people to share with. And monolithic posts. That god only knows who will read them. I hope there was some insight in the end.

I hope it gave you love for yourself and for humanity. I hope it was a super shot of “oh yeah, I like this chick and times are good”

I have illusions of grandiose nature.
I think we all do.
I think that’s why blogs are so popular.

I love blogging. It’s so… dangerous.

the_fun_sierra

Couple’s Massage Classes

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Featured, Seattle Events | No Comments

I’ve been wanting to do Couple’s massage classes for ages but just didn’t get on the ball about until now.

Here are the details:

Location:

Arcania Wellness Center 609 10th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102 (Capital Hill)

Rates: $100 per couple, for December (the first-time class - crafting the experience with the teacher:) Jan/Feb rate: TBA

Dates:

Saturday, December 6th

Saturday, January 17th

Saturday, February 7th

Saturday, February 14th

Sunday, February 15th.

Time Frame:

Starts at 11am and ends at 5pm.

Schedule of Class:

11:00am - 1:00pm - Start out the class with greet and meet - then we go into “lecture”/learning time, have a demo and then we will segue into hands-on massage time with our partners, during which, I will help and give guidance, help and praise when needed.

1:00 - 2:15 We take a late lunch break for 1 hour and 15 minutes during which we will share in a potluck or sack lunch so we stay together and get to know each other socially and share our experiences.

2:30pm - 4:30pm - We will have more hands-on time, discussion, learning and some demo work as well.

4:30pm - 5:00pm - Any last Q&A will happen at this time as well as feedback time and finally clean up and goodbyes.

It is important to me to hold space for couples to feel comfortable and free to try out massage. My intention is to allow couples to have fun, make mistakes, bond and get to know each other in deeper ways.

Like I said in the beginning of this post - these classes from December ‘07 to February ‘08 will be my first. I will be pricing them pretty cheep - according to industry standard - so that we can work out bugs and basically create the class together.

This is a unique and special opportunity to create a class for couples in the future to enjoy. Together we can craft, critique and create a class experience that really comes from the hearts of both the teacher (me) and the couples who choose to take part in this experience.

The *Day-long* aspect of the class is for the full immersion experience. The very best classes I have taken for massage have full-day sharing and bonding experiences. If this proves to be overkill… the schedule will change. We shall see!

Please enjoy and experience with me, this new venture! I’m so excited!

Please ask me questions! sierra@massagefreek.com, 206-465-6344

Massage Clients are not “Created Equal”

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Business Insights, Featured, Massage, blogging, healthly living, injury treatment | No Comments

I never do the same massage twice.

Every one I see has different issues and different lifestyles.

For a long while I have practiced under the name “Massage Freek” and this will soon change. I have spent the last 3 or more years niche marketing to the alternative lifestyle counter cultures that I have known and loved for years.

Over that time I have found that, because of this niche, some people have been afraid to come and get massage from me because they are scared that association with me - in any way - will brand them as “kinky” or having an edgy lifestyle.

Not all my clients are kinksters. Many of my clients are normal and wonderful people who live normal non-’kinky’ ways of life.

People come to me because I’m an expert.

People come to me because I get the job done.

People get injury treatment from me because they know that their money is well spent with me.

It’s really just an added bonus that I’m colorful enough to have “freek” on my business card.

There is a time for change for us all, however. It will soon be - that this blog will be the voice of my opinion, my soapboxes and my challenging of the system. This is where I show my edge. I will also be starting up another blog that is purely massage facts, truths, experiences and full of useful to-the-point information regarding all things massage.

The new blog will be my massage practice blog - not opinions as much as results and experience. I will be practicing under my name: Sierra Faye, unless I come up with a better idea.

But for the record… all my clients are not kinky or in an alternative lifestlye. I will say that all the clients I have seen in the last 3-4 years have been dear to my heart and way way super cool people. All of my clients are beautiful, interesting and amazing people.

It is my life’s passion to connect with ALL sorts of people; even ones that live life in a totally different way from me.

I have found that every one that has trusted me to touch them for healing work, has been like that old cliche’: a unique and special flower.

For as I work with these different massage clients, I see change, growth and the revealing of the precious and perfect person they are - just as they are. No need for “getting better” or “improving” they are just perfect - and I’m just helping them feel less pain and have healthier, happier lives.

I gush… I just really love this work and I love the people I work with.

Simple Answer to Mass Hysteria or Public Fear Disease

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Featured, healthly living, spirituality, stress | No Comments

Andrew Delaney is a special healer, here in the Seattle area.

He, like me, is an advocate for choosing your thoughts carefully. What you believe, you will create in life.

I have been very careful about the messages I have been hearing these days: are they fear-based or love-based? Do these messages invoke anxiety or hope in me?

Andrew sent me a great quote I will share - because it addresses those fear-based messages and says the same thing we have heard thru the ages: love is always the better answer.

“Do not take life’s experiences too seriously.

Above all, do not let them hurt you, for in reality they are nothing but dream experiences…If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself. Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role. What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul. Trust in God [my edit - trust in love and the power of love in you] and destroy fear, which paralyzes all efforts to succeed and attracts the very thing you fear.”

–Paramahansa Yogananda, in a “Para-gram”

Detox Tea and Tri-Cleanse for Healthy Detoxificaiton

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | Featured, healthly living | No Comments

Michael Tierra, L. Ac, O.M.D. has created a product called Tri-cleanse that will help you clean out your GI tract with ease.

The whole intestinal clean-out thing might make you gag but it’s super important to consider at any time of life. I’m sure we have all heard the stories about how many months old meat gets stuck to the sides of the intestines… yeck!

I’ve been doing my own detoxification process and cleanse. I’ve been using Michael’s product and it’s really good!

Don’t get me wrong - it’s not a tasty smoothy but it’s not horrible.

The stuff comes as a powder in a white 10 oz container (I’m sure there are other sizes) with a wide top. You scoop on teaspoon, take some non-citrus fruit juice and vigorously stir the stuff together and then gulp it down. You also drink another 8 oz of water after you do that.

The stuff is kinda grainy so you have to drink it fast.

It’s definitely working to clean me out (sorry about the tmi…) but it’s not painful or unpleasant in any way.

Detox is weird tho. Good luck to you who are doing it.

The clean-out and Detox process can be a bit of a roller coaster. One can experience crazy emotional swings, tiredness, depression, creativity, manic behaviors, weird body smells and breath, skin expressions around lymph node densities (ie armpits, inner thighs, belly, butt, face, neck, kneepits and elbowpits).

mmmm…. yummy.

Yeah, it’s amazing the sort of crap we put into our bodies. It’s no wonder so many people are crazy, overweight and sick.

The crazy feelings you get from detox are all about all those chemicals that are getting released out of stuck places in your body, moving back into your bloodstream to be flushed out. These chemicals are often hormones and chemicals that set off your endocrine system - the detoxing “stuff” goes through the small corners of your brain to activate mental and often emotional impulses that are all toxic and funky.

I have also been drinking a Yogi tea called Detox. Also nice and gentle! tasty too. Unfortunately this morning - I heated up the water for tea in my coffee maker… there were old grounds from yesterday in the top. So I got funky coffee-esqe detox tea.

I probably shouldn’t drink it… but it tastes kinda good.

lol!

My yogi friend Mollie Wood and I were talking about yogi tea. She told me there were these “yogi sayings” on the tea bag papers… I had never even noticed. She’s been to india a few times and currently lives in some crazy cool commune west of the puget sound… She said those saying make her and her buddies want to barf.

Apparently the price of Yogi tea is not just in the cash you pay for it… but the wholy lame little messages you have to endure at the top of your tea bag.

Ah! my my … the hazards and trials of Detoxification!

All Massage Therapists are Crazy

Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I could write for hours about how massage therapists are totally bonkers.

I could go into why they are bonkers, how they start out not being bonkers, who they “go bonkers on” and why they HAVE to BE Bonkers in order to do the job they do…

But not right now. no no. Today… I’ll just start with this:

The most profound insight that goes along with the most beautiful to the most god-awful disgusting:

We see you. We see ourselves. We see lifestyle creating body. We see how balance and imbalance creates everything from disease and career “faluire” to wealth, security and enlightenment.

On a deeper and intimate level, Healer types see so much of the truth of who you are in one handshake… it’s almost scary.

But get this… isn’t the title “massage therapists are crazy”

Not only are we seeing you very clearly and deeply with all your beauty, bliss, strength, addictions and self-sabotage… we see - oh so clearly - our own as well.

Thats is why so many of us are so compassionate towards others.

We are just as crazy as our clients. And in our different lives, with our different priority structures; we heal ourselves while we are helping you to heal as well.

So put that cream in your coffee and stir it.