Cedar Creek Bodyworks

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Cedar Creek Bodyworks

Family massage, bodywork, and spa therapy! Colleen Dolan, LMT has been a licensed massage therapist since January 2007.

She has over 12 years of experience working in her own massage practice in Dallas helping clients with high stress lifestyles, anxiety/depression relaxation, trauma healing, recovery/sports massage for recreational and professional athletes, and chronic pain management. She is trained in family-centered bodywork including prenatal and postpartum massage, infant, and pediatric massage with certifications in touch therapy for NICU, hospital based pediatric massage, touch therapy for common childhood ailments, and touch therapy for Autism/Sensory Processing Disorder. She is always learning and loves staying current with research and training. Most recently, she’s added functional movement therapy to her services including kinesiotaping and table Thai massage, as well as some fun spa therapy!

11/22/2025

So many clients turning into prenatal clients! 💜

Remember, you can continue your massage therapy appts throughout your whole pregnancy!
Massage, bodywork, and spa therapy for your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd trimester! 🤰🏿💆‍♀️
(903) 655-4243

11/21/2025

Thanksgiving is one week away! 🦃

If you're finding yourself needing a self-care break, text 903-655-4243. 🤎

11/19/2025

Calming Touch for Young Children

Young children feel their world through their bodies. After busy days full of movement, emotions, and new experiences, calming, connected touch can help them unwind, feel safe, and settle into sleep.

Soft, nurturing touch boosts oxytocin (the love hormone), lowers stress, supports co-regulation, and creates a predictable bedtime rhythm that says, “You can relax now.”

Here are some simple ways to weave calming touch into your evenings:

✨ Story Time Strokes
Light strokes down the arms, circles on the back, or a warm hand on the heart as you read.

✨ Bedtime Spa Moment
Warm your hands and offer slow strokes on legs, arms, or back — gentle, rhythmic, and cozy.

✨ Naptime Hand Rest
A steady hand on the back or chest + slow humming = instant nervous system support.

✨ Cuddle Rhymes
“Round and round the garden,” tracing stars, or simple squeezes paired with songs.

✨ The Calming Crown
Soft strokes across the forehead and temples to help little bodies release the day.

Calming touch turns bedtime into connection time — a moment to end the day in love, safety, and peace. 🌙💛

11/12/2025

Bodywork helps the body work. 💪

Some sports are ending and new seasons are beginning, which means recovery is essential!

*Thera-Swedish is the perfect combination of resetting and therapuetic relaxation.

*Sports + Recovery targets the overworked areas and incorporates some needed stretching.

*Deep Therapeutic works on deeper layers of soft tissue using slower, concentrated strokes.

*Table Thai Fusion focuses on keeping you moving with compressions and stretching.

*Kinesiotape creates space in joints, changes pain pathways, and helps with inflammation.

*Chair + Thai Fusion can help improve upper body function with focused massage and movement.

Let's plan your recovery to keep you performing at your best!
(903) 655-4243

11/06/2025

🍂 “Autumn Adventure: A Fall Massage Story” 🍂
(For ages 3–8 — read aloud as you do each stroke)

1️⃣ The Autumn Breeze 🍃
“The cool fall wind begins to blow, dancing through the golden trees. It brushes your arms and back with a soft, whispery touch.”
👉 Massage stroke: Light fingertip strokes up and down the arms or back — soft and airy like a breeze.
2️⃣ Falling Leaves 🍂
“Red and orange leaves flutter down, twirling gently through the sky. They float and swirl across your back before landing softly.”
👉 Massage stroke: Gentle circular motions on the back or shoulders, like spinning leaves.
3️⃣ Rolling Acorns 🌰
“Tiny acorns tumble from the trees and roll across the forest floor. They roll and tap along your back as they find their resting spot.”
👉 Massage stroke: Use fingertips to make small rolling or tapping motions down the back.
4️⃣ The Busy Squirrel 🐿️
“A squirrel scampers quickly, gathering nuts for wintertime. He scurries up and down your back with happy little steps.”
👉 Massage stroke: Quick, playful fingertip strokes up and down the back.
5️⃣ Pumpkin Patch 🎃
“You stroll through the pumpkin patch, round and bright and orange. You trace the shape of the pumpkins with slow, gentle circles.”
👉 Massage stroke: Use palms to draw large, slow circles on the back or shoulders.
6️⃣ The Cozy Blanket 🧸
“Now the leaves make a soft, warm blanket on the ground. They rest gently over you, keeping you snug and safe.”
👉 Massage stroke: Place warm, still hands gently on the back — calming hold.

🍁 “Autumn whispers goodnight. The trees are still, and so are you.” 🌙

11/04/2025

At what age can kids get a massage?

Any age! Some of my youngest clients have been just a couple days old. Children get many of the same benefits from massage as adults, if not more since they are still growing!

I add some special touches to my massage therapy for the littles. Massage Monkey definitely has the best clients! 🐵

Plan your family massage today. 💜
(903) 655-4243

10/30/2025

Happy Halloweeen Eve! 🎃👀

Give your nervous system a little less spook with a massage designed for it. 🧠
💀(903) 655-4243

10/28/2025

Make massage your healthy treat this Halloween! 🖤 🎃

Schedule yours at (903) 655-4243.

10/19/2025

Calming, magical story for little pumpkins! 🎃

Fun and not-too-spooky Halloween massage story for kids — gentle, cozy, and full of sensory play. It guides you, the parent, sibling, caregiver, through massage strokes paired with Halloween imagery, helping children feel calm, safe, and connected. 🌙🦇🧙‍♀️

10/18/2025

🎃Pumpkin Deep Breathing Exercise🎃

Hold a small pumpkin in the palm of your hand. Use your pointer finger of your other hand to slowly trace up a ridge and breathe in. Then trace down another ridge and breathe out. Continue tracing the ridges of the pumpkin while deeply breathing in and out.

🎃The weight of the pumpkin on the arches of the palm of the hand= PROPRIOCEPTIVE sensory system.

🎃Engaging the TACTILE sensory system to trace the ridges of a smooth surface.

🎃Deep Breaths combined with a visual focus offers PROPRIOCEPTIVE input through the lungs and diaphragm. Engage belly breathing for more impact.

🎃Using both sides of the body (BILATERAL COORDINATION)- Holding the pumpkin with one hand and tracing with the other hand.

Want the printable poster AND coloring page to use in therapy sessions, in the home, and even during trick-or-treating or Halloween parties?? Get a copy here: https://www.theottoolbox.com/pumpkin-deep-breathing-exercise/

10/17/2025

The average human body contains enough bones to… make an entire skeleton. 🦴

Don’t creak and crack into next month. Show your skeleton some love with a massage or bodywork!
(903) 655-4243

10/16/2025

Prenatal Massage🤰
Massage is beneficial for mom and baby throughout the whole pregnancy!

Research shows prenatal massage therapy can help reduce anxiety, decrease symptoms of depression, relieve muscle aches and joint pains, and improve labor outcomes and newborn health.

The bodyCushion system is one of the most advanced orthopedic positioning devices. It supports the body on its bony structures, allowing the body to rest without applying pressure to sensitive soft tissue areas. It’s completely adjustable and offers safe, restful relief throughout pregnancy. It can be used so you can lay comfortably face down during your massage, in a supported, inclined position while face up, or in a side-lying position which allows more shoulder support than pillows alone.

Plan your mom-to-be massage today!
(903) 655-4243

Address

108 S Pinkerton Street, Suite 116
Athens, TX
75751

Telephone

+19036554243

Website

http://www.massagebook.com/biz/cedarcreekbodyworks

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