Kauai Massage Therapy

12/07/2025

I work with fascia. I don't necessarily work with meridians, or at least I'm not trained to.
They're technically different, but as the science of the body evolves, we're learning that maybe, they're not.

Western anatomy gives us one language for the body.
Eastern medicine gives us another.

You can call it vagal tone, you can call it a knot, you can call it blocked qi.

They're both describing the same tissue, the same systems, the same patterns. Just from different angles.

I don't think we have to pick one framework and dismiss the rest. The body doesn't live by a single map. It's chemistry and memory and fascia and energetic flow all at once.

What I've learned from studying multiple approaches is that they all see something true.

Fascia is mechanically responsive and it follows pathways that look a lot like meridian lines. Lymph moves like a tide and it stalls when we're stuck.
Organs hold emotional patterns and they also shift with breath and touch.

I'm not interested in proving one system right and the others wrong.
I'm interested in what happens when you understand the body through multiple lenses.

As bodyworkers, we're translators. We listen to where the systems intersect and the stories meet.

I hope I inspire you to embrace the systems that resonates most with you. 🧬

12/03/2025

12/02/2025

I'm opening up my 2026 teaching schedule for Sarga 101 👣

Four courses on the island of Kauaʻi in Kapaʻa, small groups of 6 practitioners each.

🌺 March 4-7, 2026
🌺 June 17-20, 2026
🌺 September 16-19, 2026

35 CEUs when you complete both the in-person and online portions.

I keep the class size small because I want to actually work with you, not just demonstrate at the front of a room. You get focused 1:1 attention throughout and your questions answered as they come up.

If your hands are tired or you're curious about working more sustainably, pick a date that works for your schedule. Learn more at https://www.kauaimassagetherapy.com/learnsarga 👣

11/26/2025

Nina manages a spa at a high-end resort in the Maldives.

She's trained in everything. So when she says she was skeptical of Sarga Bodywork, I completely understood.

What changed her mind wasn't me hyping up Sarga Bodywork but was understanding why it works.

Once you see how using your feet leverages gravity differently than your hands, the whole myofascial approach makes sense.

I won’t lie! It's still hard. Learning to use your feet takes completely different body awareness from what we’re used to.

But it's sustainable in a way hands-on work isn’t which gives us longevity and a happy body at the end of a busy day.

I'm teaching Sarga 101 on Kauaʻi December 10-13 with space for up to 6 practitioners. 🌺
Message me for the details!

11/18/2025

I've taught students from Japan, Indonesia, the USA and the Maldives! 🌎

What gets me every time is when someone says they learned Sarga with me, even with a language barrier.

Kana told me she could follow along confidently despite struggling with English.

That's when I know the technique itself is solid. If your body can understand it without perfect translation, it's built on logic not just instruction.

If your hands hurt and you're looking for another way to work deeply, Sarga might be the answer you’ve been looking for.

I'm teaching on Kauaʻi December 10-13. Message me for the details. 🌺

11/18/2025

I’ve taught students from Japan, Indonesia, the USA and the Maldives! 🌎

What gets me every time is when someone says they learned with me, even with a language barrier.

Kana told me she could follow along confidently despite struggling with English.

That’s when I know the technique itself is solid. If your body can understand it without perfect translation, it’s built on logic not just instruction.

If your hands hurt and you’re looking for another way to work deeply, Sarga might be the answer you’ve been looking for.

I’m teaching on Kauaʻi December 10-13. Message me for the details. 🌺

11/10/2025

I’m teasing a bit here but I was really feeling like I had bolts in my neck on this day and I was super grumpy! Grrrr, zombie like. 🧟‍♀️

Fortunately Alicia worked the fascia of my traps and neck with a Structural Integration, myofascial tecnique that we both learned in our training at .

The founder, Lee Joseph, made a profound impression on our bodywork and lives with his interpretation of Ida Rolf’s Structural Integration techniques and somatic awareness practices.

Here Alicia is anchoring the tissue of my trapezius muscles, the one that can make you feel like a hunchback, and calling for motion. This gives my nervous system the felt sense of the tissue being returned to my back, instead of raised to my ears. The shift is amazing as you usually see a person’s shoulder’s drop sometimes as much as an inch or more.

In the moment the work may be deep and intense, but after, you feel alive again. I could once more take a full deep breath. If you watch closely you can see the moment in the chest rise.

Mahalo Alicia! Book with her Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays at the link in the bio.

11/10/2025

We “listen” with our hands (and feet) and this is how 🫶🏾

10/28/2025

Movement is medicine

10/21/2025

10/21/2025

“Where you think it is, it ain’t” —Dr. Ida Rolf

Ida Rolph was the mother of Structural Integration: a system of working with the fascia and the alignment of the bones to ease physical pain. She saw connections and patterns of holding in one area causing pain in another. She worked with the nervous system and the fascia to release these tension patterns.

We see the body the same way.

Where you think we need to press, is often not what is going to bring relief. This is especially true for low back pain. If you follow our stories, you’ll see lots of anatomy videos about this concept. Often tight gluteal and rotator muscles cause pain and tension in the low back. Before we relieve the pain in your back, we need to deal with the pain in your butt and from all angles.

These expressions often have some root in the truth. We’ll address the tension patterns from all the angles > physically, mentally, emotionally. There’s room for whatever needs to be expressed, felt, and eventually released.