Terri Newman LMT

12/23/2025

Infusing some organic coconut oil with neem and intention for a couple of clients with eczema. I'll add some essential oils when it's done and package it up!

12/13/2025

Confessions of a Myofascial Trigger Point

I was never meant to be permanent. I began as a moment, a response, a slight tightening when holding felt safer than releasing. At first, it was subtle, just a brief pause in the tissue's rhythm. But the body asked me to stay. So I did. I shortened my fibers, thickened my layers, and held the chemistry still. I became a place where the river slowed and gathered its weight.

The body learned to move around me. Fascia stiffened along familiar lines, rerouting tension and sensation elsewhere. Pain drifted outward, tracing old pathways through the shoulder, jaw, back, or breath. I wasn’t creating chaos. I was containing it. I held pressure because something inside wasn’t ready to let go.

Then the hands came, not hurried, not demanding. They rested with warmth and attention, and I felt the first change before I understood it. Compression softened the alarm. The nervous system quieted its vigilance. Hyaluronic layers warmed and began to slide. A gentle current brushed past me as the fascial wave moved through the body, reminding the tissue of motion I thought had been lost.

When the wave reached me, it paused. I was seen. The hands didn’t press me deeper into holding. Instead, they slipped beneath me, lifting me gently toward the bone. The pressure shifted in different directions, changing the shape of everything I had been holding together. My fibers lengthened. Blood returned. Chemistry softened. I felt warmth where there had been tightness and a trembling where there had been certainty.

I tried to stay. Old patterns don’t dissolve easily. But time was offered instead of force. Breath moved. Electrical chatter quieted. The nervous system loosened its grip on the story I had been carrying. Slowly, and with only a little drama on my part, I melted. The dam cracked, and the water I had been holding found its way forward again.

As I released, the river surged outward, carrying the change through the fascial lines that connect the whole body. Where I once stood, there was space, warmth, and movement.

I was never the enemy; I was the pause that kept the body safe until it was ready. And when it was finally met with patience, presence, and understanding of a healer like you, I let go. The river remembered itself, and so did I.

O.P. ~ "The Body Artisans"

12/01/2025

11/08/2025

What do you do each morning that calls you home to your intention for the day?

09/24/2025

One of my favorite things about Ayurveda is the whole, fresh, nutritious, delicious food 😊

09/09/2025

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04/09/2025

Collaboration and sequencing of care 💖 Come see how our network of chiropractors, dentists, osteopaths, craniosacral, lymph and zero balancing therapists, and functional medicine doctors can help you step into well-being 🌱

"The opportunity exists that we stop treating the patterns of compensations (symptoms) and through multifactorial approaches help our patients to progress along a continuum to better states of health, also referred to as the sequencing of care."
~ Kathryn Conlen ~

12/22/2024

Feeling grateful for my clients and my little space. Who's next? ☺️