Massage is like working out! It is deeply healthy for you!

Monday, March 17th, 2008 | Deep Tissue, Featured, Massage, healthly living, injury treatment, stress

I often find my clients having a hard time carving time out of their busy schedule for massage.

I know for me, that over the past 7 years of massage practice, it can still be a challenge to carve time in my own schedule. The rational and “workaholic” section of my brain argues that “Surely we could be doing something more productive! This is just pampering!”

Yes, even my mind is kinda narrow minded about the subject. But of course, by now, I ignore the voices in my head that argue against something that is good for me.

The truth is, massage is one of the most special and unique ways to do something really healthy for yourself. When you put yourself in someone else’s hands, there’s a deep letting go of responsibility and stress. Most of us really need to get our stress down anyway. Massage gives you one of the few passive ways to achieve this goal.

Massage is really healing! Especially if you come to me - a deep tissue or injury treatment specialist - you have a chance to permanently alter your body for the better so that the activities of your life do not cause the pain and aches they have in the past. Scar tissue and adhesions get reduced and you leave the massage table feeling more open, free and relaxed in your body.

Massage can feel so good that I think people often think of it only as a luxury. YES! It feels Great! But that is not where the benefits stop. The combination of feeling like your pampering yourself as well as really taking care of the miracle that is your amazing body gives you such an empowered feeling that life doesn’t seem so hard.

Your work becomes easier. Your body moves freely. Your mind is more open to possibilities, kindness to yourself and others and creating more of a life that you love instead of one that is the constant “go-go-go” that breaks your body, mind and heart down.

Do yourself a favor and see massage as healing. See massage as a necessary part of your health and healing regiment. All the other ways to heal yourself can seem like chores: eating veggies, working out and taking vitamins, but massage is the healing thing you do for yourself that makes you feel good - and it’s so much easier to be happy doing it than eating veggies.

Carve out the time! Get a massage. It feels good and it’s deeply good for your body, mind and heart!

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Sierra Kennedy, LMP

I believe you are the authority of your own body. So when you come to my office, I meet you as you are. It’s a busy world, and staying on top means we must first take care of our bodies.

Type of massage provided: In-office or Home Visits available. Deep Tissue, Injury treatment, Neuromuscular Technique, Structural Integration, Swedish, Heated Stone Massage, Bindegewebs or “Connective Tissue Massage”, Myofascial Release, Cranio-sacral biodynamic technique, Reiki, Deep Muscle Therapy, Trager

Thanks for visiting the Massage Freek Website.

Office Location: 216 Broadway Ave. E. #202, Seattle, WA 98102
Phone Number: 206-465-6344
E-mail: sierra@massagefreek.com

Testimonials

From Eric Koszyk. Wow! What can I say? Sierra is a truly gifted person and therapist. She is very knowledgeable and passionate about massage. It helps that she is extremely intuitive and a very caring human being. Her space on Broadway is very warm, comforting and inviting.

As a fellow massage therapist, I highly recommend her, especially if you are looking for extensive deep tissue work which she is amazing at. You will leave her place wiser; her treatments will change your life.

From Joe Shirley I still remember the first massage I got from Sierra over six months ago. My neck was chronically bugging me, and my carpal tunnel thing was acting up. She asked my permission to go for it. I said yes. It hurt. She told me to trust her, and I did. And both my neck and wrist felt great afterwards. She went right through that crap and out the other side. Amazing.

From Matt Hanson Sierra is fantastic! I felt she was really attentive to the needs I expressed about my upper-back and shoulders. I was really impressed that she could identify other problems spots quickly and how they positively affected those areas that were bothering me most. I have had several massages and she has the strength and understanding to do a incredible job.

From Dennis Dilday I’ve had close to a hundred massages from more than a dozen different therapists and I can say Sierra’s are unique and wonderful. She relates and interacts with the layers of facia in a way others can’t. While determined to get a response from the tissues, Sierra is also tuned into her patient and keeps the experience pleasant and interesting. Clinically, she’s both confident and competent.

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