Andrea's Massages

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.

11/20/2025

Anytime Fitness Grinnell thanks so much!

11/20/2025

Direct link for (limited) Gift Certificate massage deals: https://www.massagebook.com//andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Sale-/185234

Direct link for (unimited) self schedling deal: https://www.massagebook.com//andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages/massage/deals/Black-Friday-Service-self-sale-/185235

**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...

11/19/2025

Only one hour massage open before Thanksgiving! Book online here: https://www.massagebook.com/biz/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages

11/18/2025

A great app to help with your yoga start! I love this for beginners, restorative is a great place to start with 20 minute workouts to help build your confidence, excellent with full description on how the stretch is to be done and most times where you should feel it. Non sponsored, just love some good yoga!

Down Dog provides a studio-like yoga experience in the comfort of your home.

11/18/2025

Our Black Friday sales are live! Now through December 26, we are offering single massages at $5 off, and an extra $10 discount on series purchases. Existing patients received email notifications last Friday. This year, gift certificates are limited to 45, but self-scheduling services have no limit. We encourage you to prioritize self-care.

Last year's gift certificate sales were successful, but some confusion happened when Massagebook did not let self-purchased gift certificates be used for appointments for themselves. It is essential to remember that gift certificates are ideal for gifting, and those received from others can be used without restrictions. (I know it may seem confusing, I'm trying to keep it as simple as I can.)

The same offer is available for personal use by bypassing the gift certificate tab altogether and avoiding this confusion if you simply want the deal for yourself.

11/11/2025

Happy Veterans day! We thank you for your service! Schedule massages online here: https://www.massagebook.com/biz/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages

11/06/2025

Friday hour massage available tomorrow. https://www.massagebook.com/biz/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages

11/03/2025

Friday's are all booked this month, and holidays are right around the corner. Book yours here 👇 https://www.massagebook.com/biz/andrea-cooper-stajcar-massages