Vitality Fitness + Thai Bodywork

10/31/2024

Eye Massage & Breathing Technique - https://mailchi.mp/5c9fa09b8246/practicing-at-heartwood-center-10606076

10/26/2024

01/17/2024

I have a treatment room at Heartwood Center in Evanston where I practice Thai Massage & Zen Shiatsu.

During treatments, I provide compressions utilizing different parts of my body to open joints and manipulate tissues. I lengthen muscles and ligaments by providing range of motion work. I balance energy flow throughout the body by using pinpoint finger pressure. Let me know if you would like to schedule a treatment.

Heartwood has a couple treatment rooms available if anybody would like to practice at Heartwood. Contact info in picture below.

12/05/2023

4-7-8 Breathing to Relieve Anxiety & Stress - https://mailchi.mp/4e15496d21e8/practicing-at-heartwood-center-9094722

06/20/2023

Summer...the season of joy -

Tomorrow, June 21 is the Summer Solstice, which marks the first day of Summer.  Summer is the season of joy.  We feel happy to finally be active outside in the warmer temperatures after being bundled up in layers of clothing during the cold Winter. I was in the park today doing my “Motion is Lot...

03/21/2023

Spring Equinox & The New Moon and Braiding Sweetgrass -

This year, the Spring Equinox occurs on March 20th and the New Moon immediately follows on March 21st.  Both events indicate new beginnings.  The Spring Equinox marks the beginning of Spring, and the New Moon marks the beginning of a lunar cycle.  This year the Spring Equinox and New Moon are wi...

02/19/2023

Video & Benefits of Thai Bodywork & Shaitsu -

Thai Bodywork & Shiatsu provide physical, emotional, and spiritual virtues. Benefits include: -relaxing -nourishing -calming -helps to be present in our own heart, the world around us , & relationships -allows us to grieve -allows us to perceive our inherent self-worth -supports sleep -provides a...

01/10/2023

10 Minute Exercise Routine for Everyone -

This is a 10 minute exercise routine that everybody can do.  I will demonstrate the full and modified version.  The routine consists of Jumping Rope for 1 minute and then 5 Burpees, and you do that for 5 rounds.  If you don't have a jump rope or you can't jump, then you can use an invisible ju...

12/07/2022

Fire Cider Tonic -

Do you know the history of the lyric “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” from Mary Poppins?  The song was written by two brothers, Robert and Richard Sherman.  Robert became inspired with the lyric after he arrived home from a long day of creating music for the movie Mary Poppins...

11/02/2022

Gratitude Journaling -

For the last 3 years I have been writing in a Gratitude Journal.  Every evening as part of my bedtime routine or sometimes the next morning while drinking my coffee, I write down 3 things that happened during the day (or previous day) in which I am grateful.  A few years ago, I heard about this t...

09/27/2022

Autumn...nourish your roots and eliminate what is unnecessary -

Autumn is the art of procuring sustenance and letting go of what no longer nourishes you.  It is the season of Lung and Large Intestine.  Our lungs inhale oxygen which cultivates our energy and sends that energy downward to nourish our roots with pure essence.  Our large intestine eliminates wast...