Andrea's Massages

12/25/2025

From our healing space to yours, be safe and have a wonderful Christmas! ✨️ 🎁🎄🫶🔥

12/24/2025

I gained 586 followers, created 28 posts and received 168 reactions in the past 90 days! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you! 🫶❤️💪🥰

12/17/2025

*Edit: spot has been claimed. Thanks!
Cancelation for an hour tomorrow at 2:45 if anyone would like it. My list people are geared more toward end of day/Saturday spots at the moment so it's open! $5 off 👇 https://www.massagebook.com/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Service-self-sale-/185235?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOL6i9jbGNrA4vqK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoeGvdreapiQIoMfz0owbTRbjhnLhl8E7oL4tPmnpt1ayqe4a8FqQgyjxJCB_aem_a8RlxH21QEQo-ReotnH42g

12/16/2025

Share this post to help give people on your timeline an easy Christmas gift idea! Gift certificates available for print or email here 👇https://www.massagebook.com/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Sale-/185234?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOL6iVjbGNrA4vqHmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuH2lj4IryqeuiNduMDZJbhN7WxpwGfJPvNQr24LH_mYoJOBdPG-LmFPzYGX_aem_3C4ZlrjVskK62HMpyJfDlQ

12/13/2025

Gift certificate sale is still going strong. 💪
We are totally booked up on 60 plus minute spots through Christmas week. So exciting!

With that being said, please contact me if you need to change plans or cancel your existing appointment as I have started a call list for those seeking hour and longer appointments. Thank you all so very much! I look forward to helping everyone feel better before Christmas.
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Feel free to book massages out if you are wanting on the schedule soon, and please note the slight price increase starting January 1, 2026. https://www.massagebook.com/biz/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages

12/12/2025

Christmas is 2 weeks from today! Limited gift certificates left. Click the link below.
Gift certificates for others sale: 👇 https://www.massagebook.com/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Sale-/185234?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOL6iVjbGNrA4vqHmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuH2lj4IryqeuiNduMDZJbhN7WxpwGfJPvNQr24LH_mYoJOBdPG-LmFPzYGX_aem_3C4ZlrjVskK62HMpyJfDlQ

**Please note that prepayment is required to secure your appointment. Should you have any issues with prepayment, please contact me at (641) 638-0634 and I can take payment over the phone if the website is not accepting your card. I can manually enter your appointment once prepayment is made. I appr...

12/11/2025

So, this was a pleasant surprise in my door before work. If it's real, and not a scam or fake or anything similar. Does anyone know if any other businesses have something similar in town? I'm truly honored, but with the way the world is, I'm also hesitant.

12/04/2025

We held off on raising prices last summer, but we have exceptional benefits with Andrea's Massages. We offer complimentary essential oils, cupping, and hot towels with each and every massage. The very best value for your massage needs. Thank you so much Grinnell for your patronage and support! Holiday sales are still in full swing from now through December 26, 2025. Pay sale prices now to book or have ready to book later.

Self scheduling sale link here: 👇 https://www.massagebook.com/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Service-self-sale-/185235?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOL6i9jbGNrA4vqK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoeGvdreapiQIoMfz0owbTRbjhnLhl8E7oL4tPmnpt1ayqe4a8FqQgyjxJCB_aem_a8RlxH21QEQo-ReotnH42g

Gift certificates for others: 👇 https://www.massagebook.com/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Sale-/185234?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOL6iVjbGNrA4vqHmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuH2lj4IryqeuiNduMDZJbhN7WxpwGfJPvNQr24LH_mYoJOBdPG-LmFPzYGX_aem_3C4ZlrjVskK62HMpyJfDlQ

11/28/2025

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

11/24/2025

$5 off, last minute cancelation Monday at 8:30. Schedule with the link below to get $5 off. https://www.massagebook.com/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Service-self-sale-/185235?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOL6i9jbGNrA4vqK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoeGvdreapiQIoMfz0owbTRbjhnLhl8E7oL4tPmnpt1ayqe4a8FqQgyjxJCB_aem_a8RlxH21QEQo-ReotnH42g

11/22/2025

The direct link for the black Friday sales for gift certificates! $5 off singles, an extra $10 off series. I have the link to treat yourself in the comments 🫶

https://www.massagebook.com/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Sale-/185234?ncf_source=friendly_url&src=external&fbclid=IwVERDUAOOpk5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6-AD5luM1pAy-z4GwAJVORit6E54f3ChfljkajlBiUKC8_tP3rzzVTmlOiVw_aem__YtHw1RzrSH2cTNK98kqMA

**Please note that prepayment is required to secure your appointment. Should you have any issues with prepayment, please contact me at (641) 638-0634 and I can take payment over the phone if the website is not accepting your card. I can manually enter your appointment once prepayment is made. I appr...

11/22/2025

So beautifully written.

The Fascia Speaks

As bodyworkers, we touch a system far more intelligent and responsive than most people realize. It is a living memory field, a sensory fabric that holds the echoes of every emotional contraction, every bracing pattern, and every unspoken moment the nervous system didn’t know how to resolve.

We explore these imprints every day. We feel the places where the tissue thickened in response to a moment of fear, the areas where breath stopped during heartbreak, or the subtle density of someone carrying a responsibility too heavy for their age. These are not just restrictions. They are records.

Science is beginning to describe what practitioners have long sensed with their hands. Fascia is densely woven with interoceptors, proprioceptors, mechanoreceptors, and nociceptors, creating one of the most information-rich sensory networks in the body. These receptors do not just relay physical sensations; they respond to emotional states, autonomic shifts, and subtle changes in internal chemistry. When someone is afraid, lonely, overworked, grieving, or carrying unresolved tension, fascia receives that information before the conscious mind can interpret it.

Over time, these repeated emotional signals alter the collagen matrix itself. The ground substance thickens. Elasticity decreases. Glide diminishes. The tissue becomes a physical representation of an emotional history. What began as a moment of bracing becomes a pattern. Eventually, the pattern becomes posture, and posture becomes identity. This is how fascia stores emotional imprints that influence how a person walks, rests, reacts, and protects themselves. What clients feel as stiffness is often the residue of old vigilance. What they call tightness is often the body’s attempt to hold a story that never had a chance to be expressed.

When we work with fascia, we are not simply lengthening tissue or improving mobility. We are entering the emotional architecture of a person’s life. Gentle compression rehydrates the ground substance and makes the dense places permeable again. Slow stretching reorganizes collagen fibers that have been shaped by years of guarding. Pacinian and Ruffini receptors detect the warmth of our touch and signal safety along the vagus nerve. Interoceptors begin to update the brain’s perception of the body, allowing long-muted emotional signals to come into conscious awareness. As the layers soften, the nervous system begins to trust, and trust is the first doorway to release.

This is why clients often experience tears, trembling, laughter, heat, or a sudden memory during a session. The fascia is not only releasing; it is reorganizing the information it once held tightly. Electrical coherence returns. Circulation improves. Sensory accuracy sharpens. The body stops running old protective commands and starts rewriting its operating system. What once felt like a lifelong pattern begins to dissolve in the warmth of contact and presence.

Fascia is a sensory intelligence that interprets experience. The mind does not lead this process. It follows it. The mind interprets what the fascia feels and explains it long after the body has already changed. When we help clients reconnect to their fascial landscape, we are guiding them back to the body’s original language, the language beneath thought, beneath story, beneath habit—the language of emotional truth.

We, the ones who listen in silence, can hear what the fascia has carried through lineage, memory, and time.