Eat, Drink and Be Peaceful! A Party!

Celebrate and Be Warm!

Thursday, December 9th at 5:30pm
850 2nd St. Ste. A, Santa Rosa, CA 95404

We're throwing a party to celebrate a year of abundance! We'd love to see you in our newly decorated office and eat yummy food with you! I'm adding warming elements to my treatments, and will be giving samples of treatments with warm neck pillows, booties, and more! At 6:30 I will lead a short session of breathing meditation in my room.

I am offering a $15 discount on all massages and gift certificates booked that night. Massage is such an amazing gift for yourself or for someone you love to rejuvenate the body and soul, and let go of worries.

RSVP if you can, and also feel free to drop by either way.

Happy December, holidays, winter, and YOU!

Jessica



New Hours
My new office hours are:

Tuesdays 2pm-6pm
Wednesdays 4-6pm
Thursdays 4-6pm

Come To Our Holiday Party!

We want to celebrate our newly beautified office with you!

We have filled our space with the beautiful landscape paintings of Jill Keller Peters, flowers and plants and pillows! Come relax in our relaxing place and eat some cheese, drink some wine and enjoy!

We will be offering great discounts on Gift Certificates and packages!

This year I am focusing on WARMTH and offer a warming neck pillow, table warmer and cozy sheets to all of my treatments. Warmth adds relaxation and a sense of home. Experience the peace!

Thursday, December 9th at 5:30pm at our office - 850 2nd St. Ste. A, Santa Rosa, CA 95404.

Bring friends! We'll see you soon!

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To Take a Deep Breath

If you feel like it's difficult to take a full breath in, try lengthening by lifting your chin towards the ceiling as you inhale. This motion lifts the chest and gives the lungs more room to expand. As you exhale bring the chin back to a level, center position. Repeat as much as you like, moving slowly and carefully. Enjoy!

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Breathe, You Are Alive!

Today (and tomorrow) is the Day of the Dead in Mexico, a day where they put up pictures of loved ones who have passed, and decorate altars with favorite foods, flowers, and beautiful things. It's a happy day. Today I celebrate my son and especially miss him.

Today is also a day that I am alive. A day to go outside and breathe in the Fall air, the changing trees, to be grateful that I get to be here on the earth and love my family and friends.

I breathe in a full, herby, spicy breath of air, and I slowly breathe out. I feel my body taking in the oxygen, letting out carbon dioxide. I feel my heart beating and I acknowledge that I am LIVING, and that it is for now and not always, and I am grateful!

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Watch Something Slow

Take a three minutes today and watch something that moves slowly. It could be tree branches, the steam off of your coffee, a cobweb in the breeze, you find it.

As you focus on this movement, notice how your own body changes as you take it in. Enjoy these moments of simply observing the beauty in this movement.

Notice your breath slow, your heart rate slow, your thoughts slow, as you let everything go but this one action of watching.

Our lives move inhumanly quickly. But our nature is more like a tree than a computer. It's so wonderful to allow some connection to a graceful movement, and realize that this could be how we live more often!

Take a deep breath, and move gracefully through your next task!


Enjoy!
Jessica Malmberg
Giving You Back to Yourself
Therapuetic Massage and Cranio Sacral Therapy

Begin Where You Are - Starting a Breathing Practice

You don't have to be this really deep, philosphical, spiritual person to have a simple practice of setting aside a moment just for breathing every day.

Now that I have baby Luna my routine has changed, but I CAN wake up, sit with her in my arms, and take three slow, deep breaths, before we start our day. It helps put me in the present moment, in my body, and in an easy state of mind.

The point is, you don't have to change into the person you IMAGINE having this great practice, you can just be exactly who you are, and bring in the breath in a way that works for you. It is helpful to try to do it the same way each day. Here are some hints:

1) Choose a time. (example - morning)
2) Choose a place (bed, couch, porch, car)
3) Choose an amount - ( 3 breaths, 5 minutes, 20 minutes)
4) Do this every day

If you do this the same way each day, see how your days shift, and how your breathing shifts. Keep it simple, and enjoy it!

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Breathing for Flow

"The feeling I like to maintain in my body is a streaming, breezelike sensation in my belly and chest. I call it flow. I take care to notice when I am nout of flow. Usually it is because of some emotion I am withholding. A few good breaths are usually all it takes to reestablish flow in my body." Conscious Breathing by Gay Hendricks, PhD

Conscious breathing doesn't mean you have to be constantly thinking about your breath, but that here and there throughout the day you check in and see if you're tightening up. Things like traffic, a difficult phone call, a long line, can bring up emotions that make us hold the breath. When you notice the holding, allow yourself some refreshing, calm breaths and see if you shift into a nice flow.

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Breathing When You Feel Tired

This excerpt from the book Conscious Breathing by Gay Hendricks tells how he uses breath to help his body during his computer time.

"I have learned to use body-cues as reminders to take a conscious breath or two. One cue is a slightly achy feeling in my back, shoulders, and arms that is a signal to me that I'm getting tired. As I typed, I seemed to feel this cue every five or ten minutes. Whenever I felt it, I would take a few deep belly-breaths and change my body position slightly. The achy feeling would immediately disappear."