Expansive, spacious bodywork
Sessions longer than an hour are my favorite. My style of bodywork is slower paced than most practitioners, and having 90 minutes or more to work with you really allows my strengths to shine. Often when I’m in the flow, the strokes I utilize move at the rate of tissue release, something akin to the pace of squeezing cold honey through a pinprick hole in a sealed straw. Folks sometimes remark that it feels like “squeezing out a tube of old tension toothpaste”. As one of my clients put it, “We’re going to get down to business, and do some serious work. But we’re also gonna take our time and not rush anything.” When my nervous system feels more relaxed and spacious, that information translates through my touch to help your nervous system calibrate to a more deeply relaxed state.
It usually takes a person’s nervous system anywhere from 20-45 minutes to authentically calm down, settle in, and arrive for their massage. It also takes muscular and fascial tissues a comparable amount of time to soften and really accept remodeling inputs. After this happens, the most impactful and profound shifts we are all seeking during a treatment become possible.
More than half of our time together can be spent working in this potent space. We have the spaciousness to work more thoroughly, and through more layers, which ultimately results in a reduced likelihood of later rebounding into the tension patterns that brought you in. Areas that may have tightened back up while you are on the table can be revisited and coaxed into more lasting comfort. All of this translates to better integration when you get off the table.
Through this process, I get the chance to know your system more deeply, in all its beautiful subtleties, patterns, and vulnerabilities, which ultimately helps me to help you more precisely. I learn which pieces are connected to each other, and decipher the most effective techniques for convincing them to shift.
Lastly, you have an increased opportunity to become more aware of your own unconscious patterns, which awards you some chances at getting ahead of them if they show up again after your session. Time spent on my table is a powerful catalyst, but the lasting magic lies in how you might choose to move through the world differently having glimpsed or experienced a different possibility.
Several folks have already figured this out; 90 minute sessions are the most financially savvy and benefit rich way to get on my table. So, perhaps consider a longer duration session for your next treatment. Your nervous system will thank you.
