Jenna Rae Boow - Registered Massage Therapist

Golfers - Part 3 of the stretch series. 🏌️

That tension you carry in your shoulders after a round? It’s often not just the shoulder - it’s your chest and lats pulling everything forward.

The golf swing is a rotational pull, and it leaves your pecs tight and your lats locked up. When your chest is tight, your shoulders round forward and your backswing gets limited.
When your lats are tight, your shoulder blade can’t move freely - so you lose range and power.

This pair fixes both. The doorway pec opener releases the front of your chest and shoulder, and the lying lat stretch lengthens through your side body to free up that shoulder blade.

The result? A fuller, freer swing with less restriction pulling you forward.

Do these before you golf to prime your body, and after to release what the round locked in. A few rounds per side, holding a breath or two each time, most days of the week.
Save this for your next round. ⛳

Part 3 - the final golfer stretch in the series. Thanks for following along!

Your body keeps a running tab.

Stress you didn’t get to process. Days you pushed through. The “I’m fine” you said out loud while your shoulders crept higher.

It settles in - into fascia, into breath, into the way you hold your head. It shows up as exhaustion. As stretched-thin. As holding it together so well that no one around you knows how heavy it’s gotten.

Massage gives your nervous system permission to come down out of go-mode and what felt purely physical? Maybe it was never just that.

You can let it all go here. That’s what the space is for.

You’re allowed to bring all of it. Not just the tight muscles. 🤍

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Golfers: Part 2 of the stretch series. 🏌️
Your thoracic spine is built to rotate, but the golf swing demands it move freely and that your chest and shoulders open up with it. When those get tight, they pull everything forward and limit your backswing and follow-through.
The open-book stretch hits both — it opens up rotation through your mid-back while releasing the chest and front of the shoulder. And because your hips stay stacked and stable, your lower back stays quiet and the rotation stays where you want it: your upper back.
The result? A fuller, freer swing with less strain getting passed down to your lower back.
Do it before you golf to prime your body, and after to release what the round locked in. A few rounds per side, holding a breath or two each time, most days of the week.
Save this for your next round. ⛳
Part 2 of a series - one more golfer stretch coming your way.

Most people assume a tight neck means a weak neck. Usually it’s the opposite — it’s tight because it’s overworked.

Every degree your head drifts forward, the muscles along the back of your neck have to work harder to stop your skull from dropping toward your chest. So when you’re scrolling, those muscles aren’t relaxing. They’re bracing. Do that for hours a day and they never really switch off — which is a big part of where tension headaches and that rope-like tightness across the shoulders come from.

Here’s the part that matters: you can stretch and massage all you want, but if the position causing it doesn’t change, the body just loads it right back up.

So before you blame your “bad neck,” look at where your screens live. Bringing your phone up toward eye level does more for chronic neck tension than almost anything you can do to the muscles themselves.

Your body isn’t failing you. It’s compensating, beautifully, for a position we ask it to hold far too often. 🤍

Golfers, this one’s for you. 🏌️ (Part 1 of my stretch series)

That tightness through your mid-back after a round? Your thoracic spine is built to rotate, and when it stops moving freely, your lower back and shoulders pick up the slack.

Thread the needle opens that rotation back up - so your swing moves the way it’s meant to, with less compensation everywhere else.

Do it before you golf to prime your body, and after to release what the round locked in. A few rounds per side, holding a breath or two each time, most days of the week.

Save this one for your next tee time. ⛳

Part 1 of a series - more golfer stretches coming your way.

You asked for Part 2, so here it is 😂 I save these up because honestly, you all keep me laughing through every shift. Drop the funniest thing you’ve said on a massage table 👇🏻.

A few gems from the table 😂 RMT life is 50% bodywork, 50% comedy. Drop the funniest thing you’ve ever said mid-massage 👇🏻.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the way nature wears its adaptations so openly.

A tree can grow uneven, scarred, twisted toward light, shaped by every storm it’s lived through… and somehow we still view it as beautiful. Strong. Worthy of admiration.

But when life shapes us, physically or emotionally, we often meet those same adaptations with criticism instead of compassion.

Working with the body has taught me that people carry so much more than tension physically. The body reflects protection, compensation, emotion, memory, exhaustion, resilience

And I think there’s something incredibly powerful about being met with compassion in those places instead of shame.

Maybe not every part of us needs to be “fixed.”
Maybe some parts simply need to feel safe enough to soften.

Where can you meet yourself with some love & compassion today 💛.

Heavy legs. Sore feet. Tight calves. Achy knees. Low back tension.

I’ve been hearing this from so many people lately — and honestly, your body makes a lot of sense. 🤍

Your lower body carries you through life every single day while also working against gravity to circulate blood, oxygen, and lymphatic fluid back up through the system. Add stress, long hours, nervous system overload, decreased movement, shallow breathing, workouts, standing, driving… and the body starts talking.

Sometimes as heaviness.
Sometimes as tension.
Sometimes as exhaustion.

The body is always communicating — we just have to learn how to listen to it a little differently.

Massage therapy can help support circulation, tissue mobility, nervous system regulation, and overall movement through the body so things don’t feel quite so “stuck.”

Sometimes your legs aren’t weak.
They’re just working really hard. 💛.

I think a lot of people confuse pressure with progress.

Like if you’re not constantly pushing, stressing, overworking, or holding everything together… then somehow you’re falling behind.

And yes - discipline matters.
Growth takes effort.
Showing up for yourself matters.

But living in a constant state of tension isn’t the same thing as being committed.

At some point, the body starts keeping score.

I see this all the time through massage therapy and nervous system work.
People become so used to clenching, rushing, overthinking, and carrying everything alone that they forget what it feels like to actually relax.

To breathe deeply.
To feel safe in their own body.
To move through life without always being in survival mode.

And I don’t think healing or growth comes from forcing ourselves harder and harder.

I think real growth happens when effort and self-connection can exist together.

When you can work toward becoming better without abandoning yourself in the process. That’s true alignment.