Natural Body Works Massage and Wellness Center

11/17/2025

✨ Moss and Matter episode 46: The Boundary Paradox. This concept teaches us a powerful truth:
the more we honor our boundaries, the more we elevate our vibration -the more aligned people, opportunities, and relationships we naturally attract.
When we stand in our worth, we signal to the world how we deserve to be treated. Respect becomes the standard, not the exception.

Yet this is where the paradox lives:
Setting boundaries often requires us to face the very fears that make us want to avoid them—fear of rejection, fear of losing people, fear of being misunderstood. Boundaries are not walls; they’re clarity. Clarity allows for the foundation of aligned connection.

To navigate this, we step into our inner detective:
observing behavior, tuning into alignment, and discerning what truly supports our well-being.
This requires courage—to rise above anxiety, to trust our inner truth, and to remember that not everyone is meant to stay.

People enter our lives in seasons.
Some teach us lessons.
Some challenge us to grow.
Some mirror our patterns.
And some help us recognize what we will no longer tolerate.

As we grow, some connections fall away—and that’s not failure.
That’s evolution.

When we release people with compassion, we honor both their humanity and our own.
We learn our needs more clearly.
We refine our value systems.
We choose relationships that support our becoming, not our diminishing.

That is the boundary paradox:
What feels like loss is often the very thing that creates space for deeper alignment, more authentic connection, and a life lived in our fullest self-respect.
It’s an ever evolving experience in the process of our own development, our journey of healing.
Keep turning the page 🙏
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11/16/2025

As a functional root cause lifestyle coach, as well as using Jungian principles within my practice, I help you to uncover information hidden within your body and mind to bring new clarity.
We work together to create an upgraded approach, a version of your future story you wish to build into reality. This process occurs by healing and releasing pieces that no longer serve you so you can live the life you desire.

What if we start choosing to pause to bring presence into our lives?
To trust the pieces falling away are portals to new beginnings?

What if we start to trust ourselves by asking what we want to see our future to look like?
Then making actionable shifts creating that reality?

We’re here to learn, to free our minds, to understand what it means to LOVE..
Beginning with ourselves then ripple expansion outward.

What’s the story you wish to write?
Keep turning the page🙏

This photo was taken by the lovely 🫶

11/14/2025

I love breaking down moves to help understand the variations of getting into poses, movements and building in phases for each stage of your Functional movement journey.
If you’re a beginner and want to try something new and different, check out this practice for inspiration to build that core and pelvic strength.
Some of the biggest challenges are getting the muscles to activate - in the proper order, as well as Maintaining consistency for growth to build/sustain.
Ready to try these moves?
Where are you in this combo?
Can you balance the boat?
Can you get into the 90-90?
Can you lift the knee/foot off the ground?
Are you able to engage the core to hold yourself up?
Straight legs or bent?
So many options to play with, testing your stability and core as you go.
I’d love your comments, and feel free to reach out for 1-1 in the dm’s!

11/12/2025

The Power of Letting Go – A Life Coaching Perspective - always bringing in nature to help aide with the release.
Just as fall releases its leaves without resistance, we too are invited into a sacred season of surrender. Nature does not mourn the leaves it lets go of—it trusts the cycle of renewal. The trees don’t question if they will bloom again; they make space with certainty, knowing that new life is already on its way.

Letting go is not a loss—it is an act of power. It is a conscious decision to release what no longer nourishes your growth: old stories, outdated identities, relationships that have served their purpose, and expectations rooted in fear.

In this season, surrender is not passive—it is an active alignment with a greater rhythm. When we stop clinging to what was, we open ourselves to what can be. Just as fall is a precursor to winter’s quiet rebirth and spring’s vibrant awakening, our own letting go becomes the fertile ground for transformation.

Letting go is not the end—it is the preparation for your next becoming.

11/07/2025

Friday fitness, Let’s hit it!🙌
Adductor and glute work, let’s roll right into it!
When I used to run my fitness studio, I loved teaching Barre classes, Vinyasa Flow and Bellyfit. What a joy it is to feel the burn of the muscles really getting a workout.
This exercise is all encompassing with the lower body.
It creates articulation with the ankle, knee and hip joints while really working each muscle group.
Isometric isolation and alternating small and larger range of motion exercises are great to build strength and stamina.
Moving into 1st position* with the feet - trying to get the ankles to connect- zip in the thighs, and work toward the squat, pressing the knees to the back wall.
Add these movements a couple times per week to build your lower body.
Be sure to share in the comments your thoughts!
Do you like the heals raised?
Do you like full motion or shorter/smaller movements?
Keep going, keep showing up.
Keep practicing your fitness movements🙌

11/06/2025

11/03/2025

Crunches — we should all do them, and here’s why they matter. Crunches help isolate the re**us abdominis — the “six pack” muscle. They reinforce spinal flexion strength, help connect mind-to-muscle awareness of the core, and build foundational control needed for bracing, posture, and stability in everyday movement.

Variations to progress / challenge
• Standard floor crunch
• Reverse crunch
• Bicycle crunch
• Stability ball crunch
• Weighted crunch
Each variation changes the angle or demand on the midline — challenging different upper/lower fiber recruitment and improving core endurance.

Strength training synergy
Pairing crunch/core work with global strength training (squats, deadlifts, lunges, presses, rows) builds a stronger functional core — not just aesthetically tighter abs. Core activation + strength training improves stability, reduces injury risk, increases power transfer, and supports better movement efficiency in daily life — walking, running, lifting, rotating.
Strength training builds the base support — so your core not only looks strong — it actually shows up strong in real movement.

10/31/2025

Healing Begins Where Safety Lives
When you’re ready to elevate your healing, start by evaluating and shifting your environment — internally and externally.
Your nervous system cannot thrive in chaos or fear. Sure you can survive, but ask yourself: where do you find the greatest peace?
Peace and healing blossoms in spaces that feel safe, grounded, and energetically clear.

Creating safety isn’t just about quiet rooms or candlelight; it’s about energetic permission — giving yourself the right to rest, to say no, to release what drains your vitality.
As you refine your physical and emotional environment, you invite your energy to rise to a higher vibration.

Healing accelerates when your surroundings match your intentions.
When your home, your habits, and your boundaries become aligned with peace, your entire energetic field recalibrates.

Ask yourself:
• What environments and people make me feel open, calm, and safe?
• What spaces or relationships make me shrink or tense?
• How can I upgrade one area of my life today to support my healing energy?

The more you choose alignment, the more your energy upgrades naturally.
Healing, after all, is not a destination — it’s an energetic evolution.
Surround yourself with vibrational frequencies that match.
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10/30/2025

With the world so wild in so many ways, it can feel challenging to imagine making a difference. Here’s a secret: You don’t need money to make a difference — just heart, time, and intention.🫶
Offer your skills.
Clean up a local spot.
Create connection circles.
Share local creators.
Start a give-what-you-can exchange.

Impact begins with presence — when you show up, others feel inspired to do the same.
Community grows not from wealth, but from willingness.

✨ Create with Shanna
Community • Wellness • Intention

10/29/2025

Let’s try some fitness movements with elevated knees with table top form, focusing low core engagement and balance practices.
Some of the greatest challenges with these exercises are keeping the core tucked to the spine, keeping the low core engaged, and maintaining balance with the bi-ped movements.
Where are you within these variations?
Building stamina means consistency showing up for yourself.
Keep working at it🙌