Rekindled Bodywork

Trap work, anyone? ☺️
I have a few openings left between now and Christmas break, so please DM me if you are interested in finding your way to my table! We are also scheduling ATSI 12-series sessions in the new year, so if you have questions about structural integration please hit me up!
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Partnered with Soothe (outcall massage service) to work at the Spartan Race in Granbury today! Lots of fun!
Not pictured - the table caked in mud, wind gusts that brought dust in and carried people’s belongings across the barn, hugs from the people who completed the Beast or Ultra yesterday and came back to race again (the Sprint) or get 10 more minutes of bodywork. Some of the college aged athletes completed midterms during the night in between! 🙌🏼🔥
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"It's okay to be a man."

It's not okay; It's necessary.

You look around cities and see all these buildings go up. These men, they're doing impossible things. They're working on the sewers; they're up on the power lines in the storms and the rain. They work themselves to death (often literally).

The gratitude for that is sorely lacking, especially among the people who should be most grateful: the social justice bent who are among the most protected and privileged people the world has ever produced.

They take everything they have for granted, failing to understand that there's a massive infrastructure of unbelievably hard-working, solidly laboring working-class men breaking themselves in half regularly, making sure that everything that always breaks works.

A little gratitude for that is in order.

I took an introductory (prerequisite) course with a mind to attend the structural integration program in the spring of 2018. But that summer my plan was utterly derailed by sustaining a Traumatic Brain Injury. A year later, still working hard to regain executive function, I was able to begin the program and do 2 out of 3 modules.

I registered to complete school in Europe in 2020…but I’m sure it doesn’t stretch your imagination to learn that was canceled. I was so sad. Everything had *seemed* meant to be about that plan. Eventually new dates were set, and I returned to Maine for six weeks this spring to complete this endeavor.

Through it all have met some lovely practitioners, made new friends, found some of my edges and worked with those for growth, and fallen more deeply in love with the Structural Integration approach to working with the human body.

I am excited to practice Structural Integration as a manual therapist, and while I look at a piece of paper that says I’ve done 600+ hours in this course, I feel that I’m just standing in a doorway just about to begin.
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Having a little dinner together with some classmates as we wrap week two of six in our final segment of Anatomy Trains Structural Integration certification. Nice little segue into our weekend.

We watch each other struggle and blossom, learn, support each other’s processes as best we can while experiencing our own journey in this intensive. It can be exhausting mentally, emotionally, and physically, but it’s good. It can also be renewing.
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