Zen Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork

This year marks my 30th as a massage therapist. I am truly grateful for the continuing opportunity to be present and work with clients. 🙏🏻💜

Massage Therapy can be supportive for a broad range of complaints and conditions, including injury recovery, chronic pain, pregnancy, mental health, and physical conditioning. It is not a replacement for medical diagnosis and treatment, nor a quick fix for an acute condition. For many clients, massage therapy is a helpful intervention during challenging times, recovery, or for helping to mange chronic conditions.

I work with clients as they are, and strive to help them achieve their goals. All are welcome regardless of their age, health, issues, size, or identity. Time is allotted for taking a health history and determining the appropriateness of massage and how best to adapt the session for each client. Sessions can be done undressed and appropriately draped, or clothed. Areas included are based on client comfort and goals. Traditional Zen Shiatsu sessions provided on a futon are also available.

I'll be there this Saturday, with several other local Rozzie providers. Stop by and say 👋🏻
Roslindale Village Main Street Workhub Substation

I'm happy to announce that my office is now at 20 Belgrade Ave, Suite 8/9

Transgender and non-binary individuals can often face confusion, misunderstanding, intolerance, and worse when seeking health and personal care services. As a licensed massage therapist, I can continue to expand my understanding of the lived experience of transgender and non-binary individuals, and of the common issues and concerns faced by these communities.

Seeing and accepting the humanity in others in all their diversity costs me nothing; being seen and accepted for who we are can be priceless.

Friday's morning views

Being present in unstructured time becomes increasing rare in an imposed dominant world view of ROIs and schedules, social media scrolls and anxiety, and exhaustion from work necessary for one's survival.

A practice of pausing for a moment when we are able can be helpful. One breath, two breaths, or more.

What can we see, hear, and feel beyond our habitual seeing of tasks and judgements, or numbing and tuning out?

This time of the year reminds me to be gentle with others and myself.

In the shortening days of the waning year, emotions can pass like clouds on a windy day; painful joy or sorrow for those we cannot be with, happiness at reuniting with those long missed, overwhelmed by social obligations, and sadness with the passing of another year, to name a few.

Seeing from the outside, we cannot know the inner struggles of another person. I will be kind and gentle in my merry wishes and not demand cheer or smiles from others.

May we be filled with loving-kindness
May we be safe from inner and outer dangers
May we be well in body and mind
May we be at ease and happy

🙏💜

View from my brisk walk between clients

SATURATED
by Mark Nepo

Heavy drops, carrying more
than they can bear, fall from no-
where, bending leaves already
sagging, and one by one,
the leaves let go.

They drift to the earth,
each quiet as a master
juggler missing everything so
completely that he realizes
he is being juggled.

Surrender is like this.
Not giving up, but
missing and letting go.

(Pictured: Shiro Kasamatsu, Pine in Rain, 1938)
[I originally saw this poem and drawing in the magazine PARABOLA, Volume 38, No. 4]

This time of the year reminds me to be gentle with others and myself. In the shortening days of the waning year, emotions can pass like clouds on a windy day; painful joy or sorrow for those we cannot be with, happiness at reuniting with those long missed, overwhelmed by social obligations, and sadness with the passing of another year, to name a few.

We cannot know the inner struggles of another seeing from the outside. I will be kind and gentle in my merry wishes and not demand cheer or smiles from others.

May we be filled with loving-kindness
May we be safe from inner and outer dangers
May we be well in body and mind
May we be at ease and happy

🙏💜