Boswellia Bodywork

Introducing Boswellia Botanicals!! ☺️

I will have a limited amount of Therapeutic Bath Salts available at Pride Night at the Zoo on Saturday night.

Handcrafted with intention by yours truly, Boswellia Melt is intended turn your bathtime into a mind relaxing, muscle soothing and skin nourishing oasis.

Tickets for pride are still available online. Get yours today 💜

Hey y'all! Happy Pride month!

I will be doing my first vendor event out at Pride Night this Saturday at the

Who will I see there? 😊

Very excited for this hands on 4day series of cupping and certification through !

Fundamentals of Cupping, Cupping for Lymphatic Drainage, and Cupping for Pathology and Scar Tissue.

I used her book as one of my sources on cupping for a paper I wrote back in school, so it's exciting to finally get into the classes. 😊

Throwback thursday!! 😊

This was my first Thai course back in 2024 and solidified my interest in Thai massage. Followed that with Foot massage and Weekend immersion last year.

This summer I'm looking forward to the specialty classes- Herbal Compress, Tok Sen and Pha Khaw Ma and finishing up with Master class in the fall!

Thai massage has been wonderful for my practice, my body and my clients. Many of my regulars are loving their results, the work itself, and have swapped over to receiving Thai instead of table.

Highly recommend these courses! 💜

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"You cannot breathe your way out of patriarchy. You cannot cold plunge your way out of structural oppression. You cannot meditate, journal, or yoga your way out of conditions that were designed to dysregulate you.

This is not to say that nervous system regulation tools aren't valuable. They are. I use them. I teach them. I believe in the body's capacity to settle, to find ground, to return to itself.

But when regulation tools are offered as the solution to chronic activation without naming the cause of that activation, they become a form of gaslighting. They locate the problem in your body rather than in the conditions your body is responding to.

The message becomes: if you're still anxious, you haven't tried hard enough. If you're still activated, you haven't found the right technique. If you're still struggling, the failure is yours.

But what if your nervous system isn't broken? What if it's accurate?

What if your chronic activation is a correct response to living in a world where your body has never been fully safe? Where your rights can be legislated away? Where your value has been tied to your appearance, your compliance, your ability to serve? Where violence against women is endemic and normalized. Where the mental load is invisible and unpaid and never ending?

You're not dysregulated because you're doing something wrong. You're dysregulated because your body is reading the environment correctly.

This is the problem with nervous system work that doesn't include political analysis. It pathologizes accurate perception. It tells you to calm down when calm would actually be a form of denial. It trains you to regulate your way into tolerating conditions that should not be tolerated.

What if regulation isn't always the goal?

What if sometimes the goal is testimony?

What if your body's activation is not a problem to be solved but a truth to be witnessed? What if the shaking, the racing heart, the inability to settle is your body saying: this is not okay. This was never okay.

And I refuse to pretend it is.

There's a reason oppressed peoples have always used the body as a site of protest. The body that refuses to be calm is a body that refuses to comply. The body that stays activated is a body that is telling the truth about what it has survived.

I'm not saying don't regulate. I'm saying regulate with your eyes open. Know what you're regulating for. Notice if your regulation practice is helping you show up more fully for your life, or if it's helping you tolerate conditions you'd be better off changing or leaving.

There's a difference between settling your nervous system so you can be present and settling your nervous system so you can continue to be extracted from.

One is healing. The other is sophisticated dissociation.

Your body knows things. It knows what's safe and what isn't. It knows what's sustainable and what's depleting. It knows when you're in the wrong relationship, the wrong job, the wrong room.

The question is not how do I make my body stop reacting. The question is what is my body trying to tell me that I haven't been willing to hear.

Sometimes the most radical thing you can do is not calm down. Sometimes the most radical thing is to let your body speak. To let it be a witness. To refuse to regulate yourself into compliance with conditions that are slowly killing you.

Although you cannot breathe your way out of patriarchy, you can listen to the body that has been registering its impact all along."
—Ailey Jolie

Artwork by instagram.com/haisoohaisoohaisoo

Taking some time for me! Late appointments today, so I volunteered this morning and then did a couple loops at Oak Grove. I've logged ~23.5mi this week plus a gym day so my legs are feeling it.

I wanted to put my feet up so I decided to play around with my table and this is great! Typically your head is where my feet are, and I have used it this way for prenatal. Might consider turning a client or two around this way as this is much easier to elevate legs for circulation than stacking pillows. 😍

This is my setup for a prenatal Thai massage session. (P.s. under the sheet is a blanket aaaand a heating pad 😉)

Did you know you can still receive Thai massage while pregnant? Once pregnancy progresses past 22 weeks, it is no longer suggested to lay flat. Due to this, we make modifications. In comes sidelying and seated massage!

The pillow, bolsters and the wedge help stabilize parent and baby so they can comfortably receive massage. I also have some extra support on hand and a blanket in case they get cold. 💜💜

Blankets, bolsters, blocks, oh my! Massage just got a whole lot comfier! 😍 These bolsters are perfect for sidelying work and more! Can't wait to use them.