Weaving Light

Excited to share this offering with the community 💕🙏

What would it feel like to move through your week feeling calm, grounded, and connected to yourself?

Somatic Massage is more than relaxation—it's an opportunity to release stored stress, reconnect with your body, and create lasting change in your nervous system.

Many clients find that regular sessions help them feel more resilient, sleep better, manage stress more effectively, and show up more fully in their lives.

Give yourself the support your body has been asking for. Book your session today and experience the difference consistent care can make.

I have been a licensed massage practitioner in Olympia for 17 years now, and am so grateful to get to serve such a wonderful community! ✨️🙏

If you are ready to schedule, or have any questions please check out my website and email me at [email protected]

✨️Thursday June 4th opening for massage✨️

My schedule has very recently shifted and Thursdays will be my only open massage day. If you would like to get on my calendar, now is the time!!

Treat yourself to this very unique and deeply regenerative time, you deserve it.

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Text 360-515-1002 to schedule ✨️

Blessings, sweet community~ I have 3 openings for somatic healing massage in June, and then I will be closing my books for quite some time. If you would like the opportunity to experience a session with me, please reach out ASAP to secure one of these 3 openings I have remaining. I am going to link my website. I hope this spring has been blossoming with gentle kindness for you all! 💚🙏
https://weavinglight88.wixsite.com/weaving-light

I had the honor of doing massage at this incredible quilting event in Eatonville, WA this weekend. While 14 hours of massage is absolutely not my norm, and I will be taking a bath in my muscle melt later, I am filled with so much gratitude to work with such sweet humans. It was incredible to witness their craft, and the passion and dedication of these women. These women make quilting look like an Olympic sport! 💚🙏

Happening tonight!

I love when the sun breaks through, my whole office illuminates and charges the space up! I especially love when I am in a session, eyes closed, tuning in on a quantum level, and I find THE spot. I hold it, feeling into every tiny fiber and leaning into whatever visuals arise, sometimes an element shows itself, sometimes a stone or crystal, sometimes a plant, sometimes it is a memory... when needed I will guide the person through connecting to whatever visual shows itself to me in order to help me move the stuck energy through... and so many times it has happened where as soon as the muscle or trigger point or stuck energy liberates, the sun breaks through like a holy moment with God. Those "I cannot make this stuff up!" Kind of moments. I am grateful for the magic that reveals itself through this work!

WoW!!!! I must admit, I struggled with the choice to raise my prices. I am so passionate about my work, and I would love to keep my work accessible to everyone. However, I also struggle to make ends meet each month as a single mother to a very hungry and quickly growing 11 year old boy!

I decided to look up the cost of an hour long massage at a massage chain establishment where I worked as my very first job fresh out of massage school and....WHAT?!?!?!? This is the price for a 50, FIFTY minute massage. A massage that might not even be that great...

I want to let everyone know right now, that I stand by my work. If you are ever unhappy with your massage, I will refund 50% of the cost, no questions asked. I have 18 years of experience, advanced training, and a connection with body/energy work that will be felt as soon as our fields connect.

This is another great reminder that I am worthy, and we should all ask for what we believe we are worth.

This post gives a really great break down of Gua Sha aka 'scraping' and some of its benefits. I have integrated Gua Sha into my work for many years. The results are incredible!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14a7aAQChRh/

THE HEALING SCRAPE. 🪨🩸

If you have ever seen an Olympic swimmer with dark red circles on their back, you have seen "Cupping." But there is an even older Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) technique that looks far more brutal, yet is profoundly effective: Gua Sha (or "Scraping").
In Western physical therapy, it is now known as Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) or the Graston Technique.
To the uninitiated, it looks like you are severely bruising the skin. But biologically, you are hacking the body's repair system.

Petechiae vs. Bruising
A normal bruise is caused by blunt force trauma that crushes blood vessels, causing deep internal bleeding and tissue damage.
Gua Sha is different. By repeatedly scraping a smooth stone over lubricated skin, you create intentional, highly controlled friction. This pulls stagnant, deoxygenated blood out of the deep muscle capillaries and up to the surface of the skin, creating tiny red or purple dots called Petechiae (in TCM, this is called the "Sha").
You aren't crushing the tissue; you are essentially vacuuming the stagnant metabolic waste to the surface.

The HO-1 Enzyme Miracle
Why purposely create petechiae? Because of the biochemical response.
When your immune system detects these tiny pools of blood at the surface, it panics. It thinks there is a massive injury.
To manage this "fake" injury, your cells massively upregulate an enzyme called Heme Oxygenase-1 (HO-1).
HO-1 is one of the most powerful antioxidant and cytoprotective enzymes in the human body. It breaks down the heme (from the red blood cells) into carbon monoxide and biliverdin, which act as extreme, localized anti-inflammatories.
The Hack: The HO-1 floods the entire area. It doesn't just clear the red marks; it penetrates deep into the muscle fascia, putting out the fire of chronic, decades-old inflammation and tension that a normal massage could never reach.

Fascial Remodeling
Beyond the enzymes, the physical scraping breaks up fascial adhesions—the "glue" that binds muscle fibers together when we sit at desks all day. It physically reorganizes the collagen matrix, restoring immediate mobility and range of motion.

⚡ Protocol:
How to do it safely:

The Lubricant: NEVER scrape dry skin. Apply a generous amount of massage oil, tallow, or coconut oil to the target area (like a tight neck or shoulder).

The Tool: You can buy a specialized Jade Gua Sha board, a stainless steel Graston tool, or even use the smooth edge of a heavy ceramic soup spoon (which is how Asian grandmothers do it).

The Angle & Pressure: Hold the tool at a 45-degree angle. Press down firmly and scrape in one direction (usually away from the center of the body or down the muscle). Repeat the stroke 10-15 times until the red "Sha" appears.

The Aftermath: The red marks will look intense but should not feel deeply painful like a bruise. They will fade in 3 to 5 days, leaving behind a profoundly relaxed muscle.

📚 Source: Explore (NY), "The Science of Gua Sha", Harvard Medical School study on microcirculation and HO-1 upregulation.