Metaphysics Massage & Wellness

12/01/2025

I’m a huge fan of baths for relieving muscle tension — especially when paired with Epsom salt. I also love tea baths and herbal baths for energetic cleansing. Working with plants the way our ancestors did reminds me how we are all interconnected. Using intuition, today’s tea bath included:

• Cumin — ignites inner fire, moves stagnation, strengthens resolve.
• Coriander — cools emotional heat, softens irritation, promotes clarity.
• Fennel — clears psychic residue, aids emotional digestion, brings gentle confidence.
• Mugwort — opens intuition, enhances dreamwork, dissolves heavy or stuck energy.
• Mistletoe — ancient protective ally; renews vitality, restores boundaries, calms the system.
• Rose hips — heart-opening, softening, reconnecting you to compassion and beauty.
• Chamomile — soothes the nerves, relaxes tension, encourages surrender and rest.
• Lavender — purifies the aura, harmonizes energy, resets the nervous system.

The bathtub might be the most underused healing resource in our society. If you have a bathtub and are able-bodied, this is one of the most accessible ways to calm and regulate your nervous system. The key with hot baths — especially for trauma, tension, or chronic stress — is consistency. Your body learns safety through repetition.

We came into this world through a womb, and warm water is one of the most primal signals of safety we ever receive. A hot bath recreates that memory: enclosed, held, supported, weightless. The nervous system responds because it remembers.

Adding plants — if you’re not allergic or sensitive — offers an even deeper layer of support. Always rinse with clean water after an herbal bath.

I hope one day to have a water space so I can offer this as part of my services for deeper relaxation.
It’s a Pisces mermaid dream. 🐚🌿🛁

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours 🍁 (Grandbabies are the best💗)

11/26/2025

Matt & I also have two couples massage spots open for Saturday Jan 3rd 10:30am & 1:30pm Message me to reserve!

11/25/2025

11/22/2025

My favorite way to spend a Friday night. The Felt Safe Experience mini diy addition. Give it a try and tell me you favorite part in the comments!

11/21/2025

January availability :
Monday Jan 5 @ 10am
Sunday Jan 11 @ 10:30am
Sunday Jan 18 @ 10:30am
Sunday Jan 25 @ 10:30am

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11/21/2025

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Mechanoreceptors are a remarkable part of the fascial system. They are the microscopic sensory “listening stations” embedded throughout fascia that constantly read pressure, stretch, tension, vibration, and movement. They allow the body to feel itself from the inside. Without mechanoreceptors, movement would be clumsy, uncoordinated, and disconnected. With them, movement becomes fluid, responsive, and intelligent.

Fascia is loaded with various types of mechanoreceptors, each communicating with the nervous system in its own unique way. Ruffini endings respond to slow, sustained pressure and create a parasympathetic calming effect. Pacinian corpuscles respond to vibration and rapid changes in pressure, helping the body coordinate sudden movements. Interstitial receptors monitor subtle stretches, tensions, and internal shifts; they comprise nearly eighty percent of fascial sensory input and directly influence pain perception. Golgi receptors, found near ligaments and tendon insertions, respond to deep stretch and help down-regulate muscular tension.

When a bodyworker touches fascia, these receptors are the very first structures to respond. Slow, sustained contact helps melt hypertonicity because Ruffini endings signal to the nervous system, “It’s safe to soften.” Deep or directional stretch activates Golgi receptors, signaling muscles to lengthen. Gentle vibration or oscillation stimulates Pacinian receptors, enhancing proprioception and enabling joints to move with greater confidence. Even the quietest technique, a still fascial hold, stimulates interstitial receptors, which can modulate pain and reduce sympathetic overdrive.

Altogether, mechanoreceptors weave the sensory intelligence of fascia. They are the reason the body can adapt, coordinate, stabilize, and move with fluid grace rather than mechanical force. They turn every subtle change in tension into information the brain uses to refine posture, balance, and movement patterns.

So when we work with fascia, we’re not just stretching tissue. We’re communicating with an enormous sensory network that shapes how someone moves, feels, and inhabits their body. Mechanoreceptors are part of the reason fascia is both biomechanical and deeply emotional.

11/19/2025

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