07/30/2024

Great information!! Use 'em or lose 'em!!

03/25/2020

COVID - 19 Update: I'm sure most of you are already aware, or at least suspect, that the current Coronavirus situation has shut down massage therapy practices across the country. Just in case you were wondering, yes, I have been shut down for 12 days already, and will continue to be closed until it is safe to practice.

What you may not know is that in Virginia, Massage Therapists are considered healthcare providers, licensed by the VA Board of Nursing. We are, however, not considered 'essential', though I am sure that many clients would argue that point.

I am so very sorry for those who need work - I personally feel your pain. But it is just not worth jeopardizing your health, my health, or the health/lives of your family.

My clients know my feelings - "It's NOT about the money, it's about helping people". So rest assured, I WILL be here when it's safe for you to visit again! Thank you for your patience and understanding. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Alyce

03/02/2020

March is Brain Injury Awareness month. There is help.

02/29/2020

Benefits of Cranial/Structural Frontal/Occipital Decompression:
– produce observable and measurable positive results in behavior
– effectively treat Autism, Asperger’s, ADHD, hypersensitivity and other
learning disabilities
– give children with Autism or learning disabilities a chance to experience a
more normal and productive life
-produce a noticeable improvement in:
motor skills
coordination
strength
the ability to concentrate
the ability to learn and apply new physical tasks
– detoxify the brain and body
– reduce scar tissue and inflammation from concussions that can cause
memory problems and other dysfunctions
– result in significant improvement for early-onset Alzheimer’s – many are
often able to move back into normal life activities
– boost the immune system
– reduce chemo fog
– reduce the effects of anesthesia after surgeries
– reduce the level of heavy metals in the brain
– reduce toxicity from multiple medications and drugs
and so much more!

This technique very effectively treats and manages: autism, learning disabilities, swelling in the cranium, detoxing the brain and body, post-surgery detoxing, scar tissue from concussions, focusing and eye problems, prevention of Alzheimer’s, sinus and inner ear swelling, concentration challenges, right/left brain integration, emotional shock and post-traumatic stress disorders, lymphatic balancing, and more!

Service provided locally by Palmyra Massage and Bodywork. More information available at www.palmyramassage.com under the "Structural Energetic Therapy" tab. I CAN help, please just ask!

Swedish & Deep Tissue Massage, Structural Energetic Therapy, Emotional Energy Release Therapy, Relaxation & Pain Relief!

12/10/2019

Cortisone injections for hip and knee pain lead to more complications than previously thought, research has found.

11/30/2019

Self care is so important, yet so many of us (myself included) neglect it to the point that we are exhausted every day. Take care of yourself first!

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest
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11/26/2019

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Black Friday and Cyber Monday will be here before you know it, and everyone will be swarming the stores looking for amazing deals. Well, here's one you can get without venturing out into the crowds. Give that special someone the gift of health, wellness and relaxation, with a gift certificate from Palmyra Massage and Bodywork, located in Lake Monticello, VA.

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10/03/2019

It's all about your heart !

Move it from the mind to the heart.

07/20/2019

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