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Apex Massage for Women is a private therapeutic massage practice for women. The Web address, Clear Being, highlights the intention of the massage / bodywork to bring clarity to being, the whole of us, our body, mind, heart and spirit.
We seek massage most readily to relieve pain, stress and anxiety, and in the process find that there is another way of being that we lose track of in day to day life. Massage reawakens the comfort and ease in our being. It reawakens our Qi, or energy, letting us feel alive from the inside.
So whatever it is that first brings us to a massage therapist, we soon find out, it is so much more than just applying techniques to our muscles.
We say that massage or bodywork can integrate our body, mind, heart and spirit, but in reality, these aspects of our being are already integrated - what we’ve lost is our sensation of wholeness, our sensation of integration.
Everything we are is based in our body - our emotions are sensations and responses without our being; our thoughts also; our spirit also. We are amazing beings with such potential. Taking the time to refocus on our inner sensation brings us home to ourselves.
We live in a time when everything calls us out of ourselves. There is seemingly unlimited distractions and learnings possible with activities, schools, and all kinds of electronic media.
Embodiment - the feeling (sensation, experience) of being connected and at one with our physical being - requires a connection to sensation - inner sensation.
We tend to be focused outside. Not to really be in touch with ourselves. Not really connected inside. That is called disembodied.
Massage at any level, done therapeutically, is valuable, healthful, helpful.
Massage connects you to your physical being. It invites you beyond conceptual thought, into the sensational universe that is our body being.
Massage will most always relieve discomfort. For many reasons. It works, giving temporary relief.
To relieve chronic discomfort takes a multi-session approach.
It can mean changing sitting, standing, sleeping patterns. Eating differently. Stretching. Exercising.
If there is damage, it can often mean working in collaboration with a doctor - be it chiropractor, osteopathic, orthopedic; or with a physical therapist. That takes understanding in depth what is causing the pain, and what is the behavior that is sustaining the pain.
In my work, given the nature of my own growth in embodiment, and my thirty year aspiration to give bodywork therapy, I aspire to invite you into a deeper relationship with your whole being. Since this is the work that I am engaged in for myself, with the massage therapists and structural integrators that I receive work from, it is natural that I wish to offer this depth to my clients.
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