Monrovia Athletic Massage

Monrovia Athletic Massage Therapeutic & sports massage, full spectrum sauna, cold plunge, pemf, nanovi, normatec, neck decompression, inversion strrrches, whole body vibration, etc

01/26/2026

Book a massage with Mark. He’s available Sundays 10am to 4pm. Book online. Link in the bio.

As his schedule fills up, he will add more days.

Mark just joined our team at The ARC. He’s absolutely one of the best massage therapists who’s ever worked on me. He’s ...
01/24/2026

Mark just joined our team at The ARC. He’s absolutely one of the best massage therapists who’s ever worked on me. He’s not about using all the tools or doing any fancy moves, instead he’s extremely tuned in, calm and has great hands. The detail he uses is amazing. He will be on our schedule soon. He’ll start with one day and add more as he gets busier. He’s been a massage therapist since 2002, is an avid hiker and musician.

We will be Valentine’s Day couples massage on Saturday February 14.
01/21/2026

We will be Valentine’s Day couples massage on Saturday February 14.


Heres an arm with overuse injuries. I used gua sha & tok-Sen. If you allow too much time to pass after an injury or fro...
01/19/2026

Heres an arm with overuse injuries. I used gua sha & tok-Sen.

If you allow too much time to pass after an injury or from overuse, the pain & tension keeps intensifying. It’s best to deal with it asap.

Valentines Day is 27 days away. If you both love massage, book a couples massage with us. Plan ahead. Now is the time. ...
01/18/2026

Valentines Day is 27 days away. If you both love massage, book a couples massage with us. Plan ahead. Now is the time. DM me to start planning a time & save your spot.

In the gift basket: massage oil, bath bombs, chocolate, ….. maybe a few more things.



01/15/2026

The massage is done at a much slower pace than the video, which is 5x the speed. Before i use this technique, i relax all the muscles that surround the shoulder: chest, ribs, scapula, deltoid, bicep, tricep. After everything around it is relaxed, I get in the space in the armpit, between the ribs and scapula. It’s intense, but magical, because your mobility will improve and it diminishes pain with movement & sleep.


01/08/2026

This helps clear the lungs and cleanses your blood. Great for any age.

It’s a nebulizer. To the small cup add
6mL saline
1 drop peroxide or mms
2 drops lugols iodine 2%

This is great for asthma, flu, helps keep your lungs clear.

01/02/2026

We pay attention to alignment throughout your body to help us figure out your the muscle imbalances and we focus our sessions on that. This is what separates bodywork from massage. The more balanced you are, the more likely you’re pain free.




We focus on pelvic alignment in our massage sessions, aiming to bring the pelvic tilt into neutral. In traditional Chine...
01/02/2026

We focus on pelvic alignment in our massage sessions, aiming to bring the pelvic tilt into neutral. In traditional Chinese medicine, anterior or posterior tilt is believed to cause energy drain. I've observed most people have one hip tilted forward and the other backward, and the more extreme the tilt, the more likely they are to experience pain.

Let’s talk about rib angle.It all comes back to the diaphragm, which is very important for the health of the pelvic floo...
01/02/2026

Let’s talk about rib angle.

It all comes back to the diaphragm, which is very important for the health of the pelvic floor. Why?⁣⁣ The diaphragm sits in the bottom of the rib cage, similar to a dome. The pelvic floor sits right underneath in the pelvis. Together, when the diaphragm goes through its range of motion, it pushes the pelvic floor to go through its full range of motion. ⁣⁣

1. Diastasis Re**us Abdominis⁣⁣

Now, let’s imagine that you’ve just had a baby. You’ve likely experienced rib flaring as a result of your body’s natural instinct to push the ribs up and open to make room for baby. As a result, you may end up with a wider rib angel. When your infrasternal angle (the angel between the two rib cages) is widened above 90 degrees, it’s going to create a lot more tension through the anterior abdominal wall. ⁣⁣

After childbirth, if that anterior abdominal wall doesn’t heal properly, is a diastasis recti (or separation of the abdomen, aka DRA). ⁣⁣The wider the rib angle, the more prone you are to have that separation of the abdominal wall.⁣⁣ Of course, the more separation between through linea alba (between the two muscle bellies), the less ideal the recruitment and the motor control of those abdominal muscles. ⁣⁣In summary: after pregnancy, ribs may be flared, which leads to a higher probability of DRA.⁣⁣

2. Posture

The other reason we want to pay attention to rib angle is because it will affect the way that the rib cage stacks on tip of the pelvis. What we want, more or less, is for the rib cage to be right on TOP of the pelvis (so that the diaphragm and pelvic floor can do their thing today), but also for the sake of having a neutral spine. ⁣⁣

3. Neutral Spine

In a neutral spinal position, the intervertebral discs that go between each vertebrae in your spine can tolerate 3x the compressive load under neutral than they can out of neutral. In other words: when the spine is stacked ideally, your discs are less prone to mechanical injury. ⁣⁣

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In summary, we want:⁣⁣

1. Rib cage on top of pelvis⁣⁣

2. Rib angle to be 90 degrees, more or less⁣⁣

3. Neutral spine⁣⁣

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419 S Myrtle Av
Monrovia, CA
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