Tree of Life Massage & Wellness has been blessed with wonderful clients and more business than we could handle.  Because of this, we will be transitioning to online scheduling for most appointments and offering greater scheduling availability.  With this move, we will have expanded hours to include morning, day, evening, and Sat/Sun appointments.

We are happy to announce that we are teaming up with other gifted therapists to better serve our clients and community.  With the diverse talents these therapists bring, we are able to reach out to more people and introduce them to the amazing benefits of massage therapy.  We will be making available a specialist in prenatal massage who also performs cold stone migraine relief therapy and a unique facial toning massage series as well as a truly "Zen" Swedish massage experience.  

We will also have access to another therapist who is an athlete herself and has a passion for improving athletic performance and helping other fitness enthusiasts prevent injury.  She gives an incredible deep tissue massage and is going to Las Vegas soon to study more pain relief and injury prevention using athletic taping techniques.  We are thrilled to welcome Hannah and Whitney to the team!

Today is the 1 year anniversary of my dad's death. I will be honoring his memory at BSA Hospice tomorrow with free chair massages to the staff & families of patients. (The flyer I made for hospice with pictures of my dad is on  the pdf file.) It is very healing to me to be able to do something concrete in his memory that I hope is meaningful to others. I am very thankful for the time I had to spend with my dad in his last few weeks holding his hand and comforting him with touch. I am also so grateful to the caring staff at hospice that eased his transition from this world to heaven with their compassionate service. 

    This weekend I'm taking ANOTHER class.  I'm really excited about it because it will help me get & keep my clients out of pain.  We were fortunate to have the opportunity to schedule ourselves or our own clients the day before class for an appointment with the teacher, Micheal Critz, who travels teaching continuing education classes to therapists.  He has worked in a pain management clinic on thousands of patients, and has many varied credentials.  One of the most important credentials is that he, himself, has suffered from chronic pain in the past, but is now pain free!
    This morning I took one of my clients who has chronic neck pain to get worked on by this amazing practitioner.  We were lucky enough to be able to video tape the techniques he used to stretch overly tight muscles, and allow the spine to return to the correct position naturally and immediately. 
    My client has had chiropractic adjustments every 2 weeks for years.  The adjustments are very painful, but if he didn't get them, his pain would get worse. Yet, he hasn't really seen any improvement in his condition from the adjustments alone.  He began getting massages from me since November 2011 with great improvement in his range of motion and pain relief.  However, the range of motion improvement from just 1 session with Micheal Critz was amazing!  I can't wait to apply these techniques to my clients and help them get out of pain for good.