Michele Chapman RMT

11/27/2025

Bookings are limited from now till January, commit to yours before it's too late.

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09/30/2025

09/27/2025

Savasana: The Hardest Pose You’ll Ever “Do” (Because You Can’t Actually Do It)

From the outside, Savasana looks like the easiest thing in yoga. Just lie down, close your eyes, and relax. Easy, right?

Well.......maybe not.

The moment you settle in, your brain pulls out the megaphone:
“Did I send that email? What’s for dinner? Oh no, I forgot to switch the laundry…”

Suddenly, “just lying there” feels like running a mental marathon.

Why It’s So Hard

We’re wired to keep moving, fixing, producing.

Stillness feels unnatural, even threatening. Your nervous system is used to being “on,” scanning, planning, and proving your worth through busyness.

Savasana interrupts that pattern. It asks you to stop doing and practice being. That’s confronting. But it’s also where the deepest reset happens.

Science tells us that in stillness, the parasympathetic nervous system finally gets to do its thing: heart rate slows, breath deepens, stress chemistry shifts, and your body starts to repair. It’s not laziness, it’s integration.

The Brave Work of Letting Go

Mastering Savasana doesn’t mean lying perfectly still without a thought in your head. It means noticing the chatter, softening around it, and staying anyway. It means trusting that the world can wait while you give yourself ten sacred minutes.

That’s not weakness, it’s courage. It’s choosing rest when everything around us says to keep pushing.

Why We Should Embrace It

Because life isn’t only about the effort. It’s about the pauses in between. Savasana reminds us that integration is just as important as action. It’s the moment where your practice seeps into your nervous system, your tissues, and your spirit.

✨ Next time you’re in Savasana: notice the fidgets, the impatience, the urge to get up early. Smile at it. Breathe through it. That’s the practice. That’s the gift.

How do you experience Savasana? Are you able to let go?

07/10/2025

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06/06/2025

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06/03/2025

Massage openings this week June 3 to 6,
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Thursday 3:00
Friday 12:30

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With over 20 years experience and training, I combine a variety of modalities allowing me to help you release tension from your body, and help you relax.

05/17/2025

Don't forget to rest on this long weekend, we forget that rest is required too!

04/02/2025

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