Treating Anxiety & Depression
Living with anxiety and depression can be challenging. Here are some tips you can use in order to alleviate your symptoms and improve your quality of life.
The Teal Team Advantage
A coworker recently pointed out something awesome that I’ve been neglecting to be grateful for. When you work as a massage therapist on your own, it’s just YOU. You bring to the table (ha!) your knowledge, skills, and ab
Massage and Parkinson’s Disease
Teal Center therapist Angelee Oh shares her experience in helping people with Parkinson’s disease through post-exercise massage.
How to Interpret Your Body’s Messages
Your body is usually trying to tell you something, often with pain, lack of movement, stiffness. Let’s learn to listen better together.
Mental Health, Self-Care, and Bodywork
Massage and Craniosacral Therapy support symptoms related to mental health disorders.
What Does Holistic Health Really Mean?
The four aspects of holistic health, body, mind, emotions, and spirit, are each deeply woven into the other three. Modern science has shown how emotions affect our biology at a cellular level and how our beliefs impact our mental health and physical well-being.
Are you Feeling Swollen? – Try Manual Lymphatic Drainage
Lymph massage can help with swelling, detox and pain. Whether caused by disease or a surgery, well-executed MLD can ease painful symptoms.
Thai Massage – More Than Lazy Yoga
Thai Massage uses acupressure, Ayurvedic principles, and assisted yoga postures to open you up and bring you back together.
When You Hear “That” Word
There are plenty of diagnoses we don’t want to hear. One of the biggest is “cancer”.
It’s not just what cancer means inside your body. The treatments for cancer are often difficult, disruptive, even grueling. The process can be chaotic and more than a little terrifying.
You don’t have to go through it alone.
There is a special branch of massage therapy called oncology massage. It helps you endure the reality of living with cancer and cancer treatments and living your life as a cancer survivor.
Oncology massage is less of a special technique and more of a knowledge of and appreciation for the complexities, both physical and emotional, of dealing with cancer. Someone practicing oncology massage will use every technique and modality they’ve every learned when necessary. Everything from Swedish to lymph drainage to scar release.
Changing Massage to Match Your Life
There isn’t a special massage technique for our elder years. What massage therapists call “geriatric” massage is about understanding the changes that happen in your body and your life as you move into and through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. When we understand the changes, we can adapt the skills we already have to your specific reality. We can take the time to be knowledgeable about medications and their effects. We can prepare ourselves to support you in your big life changes with compassion and professional competency.
Happy Feet, Happy Body – For Everyone
Reflexology is often mistaken for simply “a good foot rub”. Admittedly, it is an excellent foot rub but it’s so much more.
Thinking About Getting Your First Massage?
Thinking about getting your first massage ever? You might be wondering what it will be like, and you may even be a little worried. A little pre-massage anxiety is normal for your first time, but it’s not necessary. Here’s how it will go: