The Mindful Body - Integrative Bodywork

🔹️Abdominal Massage🔹️

Your gut holds more than digestion- it holds stress, tension, ans emotion.

Gentle work here calms the nervous system and supports digestion, bloating, lower back pain and PMS, PCOS and endometriosis symptoms.

Working through the belly, ribs and diaphragm can create space to help you breathe and exhale more fully.

Paired with castor oil and aromatherapy creates a deeply grounding and restorative experience 🌿

Ask about adding abdominal massage to your next massage session.

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Think about how often you use your hands.

From the moment you wake up until you go to bed, they're reaching, holding, grasping, squeezing, opening and closing.

Most of it happens so automatically you never notice.

Now think about the things you do every day:

📱 Holding your phone
🎮 Playing video games
⌨️ Typing
🔧 Fixing cars
🚗 Driving
🐕 Petting your dog
🍳 Preparing food and drinks
🌱 Gardening

Your hands and forearms do so much, and they hold on to so much. We clench when we're stressed. We grip the steering wheel. We hold our phones for hours at a time. We repeat the same small movements over and over.

And your hands don't work alone. Most of the muscles that move your fingers and wrists actually live in your forearms. That's why tension in your hands so often shows up as tightness in your forearms and elbows, and from there it can travel up into your shoulders, neck, and even your jaw.

When I work on a client's hands and forearms, I often hear, "Wow, I didn't realize how much tension was there," or "I had no idea my hands and arms were this sore."

Have you noticed stiff, achy hands or tightness in your lower arms or elbows?

Your hands take care of you all day. Let them be cared for too. 🌿

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Some tension isn't just physical. It's everything we've been holding in. This is a space where you can slow down and tend to what you've been holding.

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Something I've been sitting with lately, and a client's message this morning brought it right back up. 🌿

A question I get a lot: why doesn't energy work "stick"?
Here's the thing — I don't love the word "blocked" when it comes to chakras. It's not quite accurate. Chakras aren't things that get stuck in some fixed sense — they can be open, closed, active, overactive, underactive, excessive, or depleted. That's the real language of how energy moves.

So when a chakra feels "stuck," it's not stuck on its own. There's a cause and effect at play. Outside factors — our patterns, our habits, our experiences — are what create that stuckness in the first place.

Which brings me back to the bigger point: Reiki is not a cure-all. Our bodies have real capacity to heal, but healing asks something of us too. We have to be active participants in it — reflecting honestly on the patterns and conditions in our own lives that are keeping us from the well-being we want.

Reiki can shine a light on those areas. It can't do the whole job alone. The rest is ours to take ownership of.
More on this soon. 🌿

Pain isn't just physical.

Our body's speak to us.

When we are in pain, we tense, we push through and we ignore.

Our body speaks louder and our nervous system sends us more pain, because maybe now we will listen.

Pain is not punishment, pain is a symptom, a sign that something is wrong.

The longer we ignore, or the longer we experience chronic pain, our nervous system can get locked in the 'on setting'.

Offering a state of relaxation can help the nervous system begin to turn off, gradually turning down the pain receptors.

If you have been trying to smash 🔨 away your chronic pain and tension with little to no results, perhaps it is time to try a different approach.

Call or schedule a massage, Reiki or combination session with Autumn to give your body a break from being 'on' all time.

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