MassageFreek

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!

Gratitude vs Criticism

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 | Featured, healthly living | No Comments

If you look at the results you get in life, they can be boiled down to either great or not so great.

Take a look at the thoughts you think normally. Are they more grateful most of the time, or are you sizing up and criticizing situations and people most of the time?

Greatfulness produces situations that give you the experience of being supported and loved by the universe.

Criticism produces resentment.

Take a look at your own thoughts. Are you carrying lots of resentments and critiques and judgements? Or are you getting what you want in your health, wealth and relationships?

Consider being more grateful for everything you have and are experiencing right now in this moment all the time. You may be surprised at how much more peaceful your body is. You may find that you get what you want a little faster and easier. You may find your health improving.

give it a try. be grateful for all you have now.

Spiritual Retreat

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 | Business Insights, Featured, healthly living, stress | 2 Comments

The time has come for me to take a break. I”ll be up in a cabin in the woods for the next 2 weeks while my buddie the yoga master Mollie Wood holds down the fort.So often in life we seem to be in a race against time. We always think that there’s no time to get away. not enough money and time to get away and just do nothing but meditate or read spiritual books. I say that there are times in a person’s life where thy cannot afford NOT to go away.I will still do massage after… I love to be in practice - it humbles and inspires me. But I will be thinking alot about the plans I’ve only hinted at. I have been thinking an overhaul in the way and patterns of my life is needed. To continue the routine I’ve had for a while is out of the question. Things need to change and maybe from the outside they will not look so different and maybe they will.I will be developing my spiritual practice, plans for classes, counseling and I will possibly be facilitating my own spiritual retreats. Energy is needed for these things and when all my energy is going into being present for my clients and trying to just get by and survive -there’s little left for much else - let alone the birthing of a new lifestyle and career.Feel free to leave a comment about any interest you may have in these new developments or to just give me support. I send you all lots of love and good healing vibes!

Super-Simple way to Reduce Carpel Tunnel Syndrome Symptoms

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | healthly living | No Comments

Stretch out your hands and wrists.
Do it now:
1. face your Dominant palm towards your face
2. Flatten and straiten your fingers together and make your palm and fingers flat as possible
3. Place your non-dominant hand on only the fingers and pull them down and away from your palm
In sort of an “arch-like” fashion.
4. hold and Breathe in the stretch for about 1-7 or more minutes. repeat for other hand.

Stretch thumb in similar manner with the goal of stretching the palm tight.

For the wrists:
1. put your palms together in front of your chest between your pecs
2. adjust your forearms till they are pointing strait into each other at the base of the palm
3. hold that, intensify it by lowering your hands (Don’t do this too much - it’s a tough angle for the wrist and you might over-stretch the ligaments holding the wrist joint together)

Disclaimer: try this stuff at your own risk and be responsible with your body - when you feel pain during a stretch, be smart about it and don’t keep holding the stretch. Assess why you might be feeling the pain, adjust your body and if the pain doesn’t go away get further information. If it’s simply a painful stretch - be with the pain of the stretch and get to know the difference between harmful pain with stretching and soreness that happens when a muscle is being stretched and squeezed in a healthy way. when in doubt - call a yoga center, talk to a buddy that does alot of yoga or some kind of expert. your body is smart - you will know when you’ve found the right answer to your body questions.