A manual should be given to us along with our body. It is one of the most amazing products of consciousness and light. As Eliphaz Levi once wrote, light personifies itself by veiling itself, and the personification is only stable when the veil is perfect.

Personification of light speaks to the nature of the unfolding of the great cosmic play we are all a part of. Essentially, it is an attempt to answer the questions why does anything happen to anyone, is there freewill, and why is illusion necessary?

Personification can be thought of as a bending and moving in ways that give the temporary appearance of shape, depth, color, vibration, and so on. For the affect to be convincing, light must veil its true nature. As movement is layered with different speeds and frequencies, more and more complex forms arise. As the personification of light goes from subtle and simple to increasing complexity, human identity or ego becomes possible allowing for the possibility of feeling and experiencing physical reality; in particular for us, the point of view of being self-conscious.

Being conscious allows for the illusion that has been created from light to appreciate itself. What good is a masterpiece with no observer to appreciate it? In our case, the masterpiece appreciates itself. This is perhaps the single greatest affect of the personification of light.

Stable personification provides the continuity necessary for self-consciousness. The veil must be perfect for the masterpiece to appreciate itself. We must live in the absence of our truest nature.

Unfortunately, living in separation from the source and our true nature leaves us with an indescribable longing that is seemingly unquenchable. How can we not be what we are? We are drawn to being whole again and removing the veil; and in this sense, we have a very deep death wish.

Spirituality is a mixed blessing. It satisfies our need for union in small progressive ways at the cost of approaching the line where personification destabilizes and everything we love about being human and living in the physical world is made unreal and disengaging.

When the veil is perfect, there is no freewill. Approaching the dissolution of the veil, freewill becomes possible. The price is extreme. For the essence of life is at stake. This is the beautiful paradox revealed in the one sentence.

Okay enough pontification on to bodywork...

Just when I feel like I know something about the human body, I'm shown a new way to relate to it. There seems to be endless ways. Since form affects function and vice versa, how we use it and relate to it determines how it will orient and organize itself, which affects our glands, organs, moods, and energy levels. It can be made into a vehicle for experiencing the most exquisite pleasures or into a torture chamber of unrelenting pain and agony.

If that isn't complicated enough, we have to know something about the mind. For if our minds are allowed to have free reign, they become like spoiled children or in the worst cases demons. Our thoughts and emotions eventually, if not immediately, manifest in our body. Over time, the body's shape will literally match up with the psychological and emotional make-up of a person. Likewise, we can change our physical posture and affect our thoughts and emotions. This begs the question; do we try to change our bodies or our thoughts and emotions or both at the same time? Is one of these routes easier than another? The answers appear to be quite individual. If we weren't so stuck in our point of view of self, we might find the process utterly fascinating and want to be in it and experience the process with appalling desire.

Since I have a good understand of anatomy and physiology and have an analytical mind with respect to problem solving, as a massage therapist, I can help you with injuries, physical pain, and the physiological problems that arise due to structural imbalance. My work involves extensively charting the body's alignment, determining whether structural imbalances need to be addressed outside of bodywork, and then taking care of the problems that have been facilitated due to longer-term imbalance. With this approach, I'm looking to figure out why you have chronic problems and to address them with permanent solutions.

As a yogi and a massage therapist going through my own therapeutic process, my approach to massage and bodywork is always finding new territory. Almost every technique I use, I do on myself daily. I have a daily practice of yoga, self-massage, strength work, therapeutic stretching, and meditation. As my daily practice refines itself, my approach to bodywork gets smarter, more efficient, and more elegant. I believe that there are ways to do the deepest work without going through a lot of pain and I endeavor keep in mind that the body is an intelligent system and that everything is the way it is for a good reason.

My disposition is very calm. Just being in my presence will help relax you without me doing any massage. Since I do quite a bit of yoga and meditation and have a healthy lifestyle including eating well, my vibrational frequency is high. This benefits you because being around me will help raise your frequency. This will help you with your outlook on life, your mood, and patterned reoccurring thoughts. You want to work with a therapist that is healthier and happier than you are and knows that being a therapist involves a daily practice that helps resolve not only their own garbage but also their clients' garbage. Energy moves from denser concentration to lighter concentration. The therapist should be ready to pickup some of your stuff and be able to process it. If the therapist is vibrationally denser than you, you may pick up some of their garbage.

I've been a massage therapist since August 2003. I graduated from the Central Florida School of Massage Therapy in Winter Park. I integrate the following modalities - Posturology, Therapeutic Stretching, Fundamental Integration, CranioSacral Therapy, Positional Release, Neuromuscular, Body Tuning, and Sat Nam Rasayan.

While I appreciate many forms of yoga and meditation, it is Kundalini Yoga that I find myself doing the most. I'm trained as a teacher, teacher periodically, and it is a good part of the yoga I do everyday. In fact, I would say that it is yoga that got me into massage. I was into yoga almost a decade before I got into massage. When I went through teacher training for yoga, I felt that the training was substantially insufficient in training teachers to know and understand anatomy and physiology. I remember thinking that the best yoga teachers were also bodyworkers. White Tantric Yoga, which is closely related to Kundalini Yoga in the West, is what definitively led me to study massage. Doing White Tantric, I realized that many of the practitioners are also yoga teachers and bodyworkers. To really understand what was going on and get the most out of it, I felt that I needed to get into some kind of healing modality.

I'd like especially those Internet oriented clients to know that I am a Florida state licensed massage therapist. I am nationally certified through the NCBTMB. I am a member of the FSMTA and that all work I do is within the legal and ethical boundaries of these organizations.

Private yoga instruction: 1.5 hours - $72 (at the Kundalini Yoga Center)

Pricing for table massage:

You come to me (incall)

• 1 hour - $72
• 1.5 hours - $108
• 2 hours - $144

I go to you (outcall)

• 1 hour - $81
• 1.5 hours - $117
• 2 hours - $153

Chair massage: $72 per hour.

I accept cash, check, and credit(Visa and Mastercard). Note that all numbers numerologically add to 9.

There are several ways I can work with you.

• You come to me. There are several locations I can work from.
• I come to your home.
• Or I come to your work place (chair massage, clothed table massage).

The best way to contact me about making an appointment or to ask about anything related to this site is by phone.

Otherwise, you can reach me by email.

What's New

January 24, 2012: Added my favorite green juice, Columbia Gorge Just Greens to the Diet page.

January 9, 2012: Added Thai Massage to the modalities menu. Updated my massage education page.

January 5, 2012: Added my preferred goji berry vendor to the Diet page.

January 4, 2012: Added KeVita and goat milk kefir to the Diet page.

December 4, 2011: Added Coco's Chocolates to the Diet page.

December 3, 2011: Updated massage license documents and links. Separated the Kirtan Kriya page and added a link to purchase the music as an individual mp3.

November 21, 2011: Removed products from the Diet page with honey and brown rice syrup as a sweetener.

I have been mulling over restructuring the site. I cannot track web statics with the way I put it together. As a transition, I have been separating pages out like the Diet, Breathing, Moola Bandha, and Pranayam Series pages. They are on the original menu but link to separate pages; on which, the menu system is reduced to a home link to get back to the main page.

October 27, 2011: Removed products from the Diet page with Agave Nectar as a sweetener. I may removed all products with sweeteners next.

November 29, 2010: Added Geopathic Stress page and I am now offering Dragon Line blocking as a service.

April 17, 2010: Added Coconut Aminos and Coconut Curry Raw crackers to my food page.

I have been hopping around geographically for more than a year. I have spent some time working on a web site for my Mom's dental practice. I started working on a sweetener page but the list of sweeteners out there is very long and I don't like the subject to start with. So, I have been slow to work on this site for a while.

March 26, 2009: I have been attending Richard Freeman's classes in Boulder. I have updated my Ashtanga page to include my enthusiasm for his teaching.

January 28, 2009: Moola Bandha has been added to the Yoga Practices menu.

October 24, 2008: Chocolate Hemp Milk has been added to the diet page. I am no longer offering classes at the You Health Center because I am moving to Montana in a week.

Education

At one time, I would have said that I would love to be a professional student. I meant that in the sense of formal education. Over time and exposure to some exceptional teachers and having had some unusual experiences, my point of view has changed. I'm not saying that I no longer want to learn new things. It is quite the opposite. I want to learn and discover fresh, new things looking toward uncharted territory. I'm finding that the traditional education system (and I've had plenty of exposure to it) and what most people think of as formal education has little of any real value to offer. At best, it can give someone a starting place to begin doing his or her own research. I would like to believe that that is what I have taken from it.

I do believe in collaboration, mentorship, and leveraging what other people know in conjunction with what I find through my own self-exploration. My background is a mix of all these things, as you will find if you spend the time to further explore what is under this heading in the menu.

Starting from kindergarten, I seemed to have a natural inclination for working with computers. That continued on right through high school. When I had to decide where I wanted to go to college and what I wanted to do, like most kids, I really didn't know what I wanted. I knew that I was good with computers and I'd enjoy computer science. What I really wanted was to take a break from the education system and figure out what I wanted. That didn't go over with my parents very well. So I applied to a number of schools and looked at computer science. When I got accepted to University of Virginia, I figured that it was a good enough school (ranked number 1 or 2 public school in the United States on any given year); I thought the campus was beautiful, and I saved money on it being in state.

Computer science at UVA is in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. So, I went through an engineering program. I can't say that I enjoyed college a whole lot. I was much too busy studying and staying up all night doing projects. However, it was the right place and time for me to be.

While in Charlottesville, Virginia, I discovered a Tibetan approach to spirituality, Bon and Dzogchen, which currently has one of its primary locations right there, Ligmincha. Getting involved in Ligmincha, influenced me to study the Chinese and Tibetan languages, which it just so happens, UVA has excellent programs for these.

When I moved to Florida to work for Federal Express (information technology), one of my co-workers wanted to take swing lessons but didn't want to go alone. He asked me to go and I didn't put up much resistance. He had chosen the John Parnell dance studio, which is somewhat well known for the father of the Parnell daughters and his ability to coax money out of people and then squander it. While I didn't learn much about dance exactly, I did meet some wonderful people that took me over to a newly forming studio called the Zebra Room.

The owner of the Zebra Room, Trish Sie is an exceptional dancer and instructor. I studied as many forms of partner dancing as Trish would teach me. We mostly focused on American Rhythm and Latin. Three years later and a lot of drama, the studio, in a way, came undone. Trish started heading more in the direction of teaching children which led her to create the Snark-a-Snoops now in LA and doing quite well.

One of my favorite dance teachers is Melanie Sandvig, I worked with her for two to three years and I would have continued if it were not having to down grade my spending habits along with leaving the technology field. Melanie is one of the most successful professional dancers in the Orlando area and happens to be an excellent teacher as well. She is known for her precision understanding of styling and at the same time making it beautiful. She like the neoclassical artists understands that precision geometry and creativity combined make the most exquisite beauty.

I moved on to work with many of the dance instructors in Orlando finding my real destination in Tampa with Timothy and Michele Mason. They aren't simply the best smooth dancers and instructors in Florida, they are known quite well internationally having originally moved here from England. I worked with Michele for a couple of years; basically until I hit the crossroads with my work as a software engineer verses a yoga teacher and massage therapist. If it were not for exceptional and supernatural events that led me to become part of the community that makes up the Kundalini Yoga Center in Altamonte Springs, I would have moved to Tampa to work for and with Timothy and Michele to startup their studio, the Easidance Ballroom.

The experiences I've had in the dance world have given me some unusual insights into movement, body mechanics, and alignment. On a personal level, it taught me a great deal about being in someone else's body space and about touch related issues that aren't taught in massages schools.

Under the Modalities menu, I list the forms of massage and bodywork and in some cases influences that I integrate into my work. I'm not completely enamored with any known modality as the only means to approaching bodywork. The modalities I cover are the ones that my path has taken me to. I haven't intellectually chosen any of them outside of my life experience. While these modalities are plenty interesting, they may not be the best out there or even exactly the right ones for you. They are an expression of my experience and if you are drawn to work with me, then at least one of these or a synthesis of these must resonate with you as well. Clients and therapists often have something in common with respect to problems they have encountered in life.

Chair massage has become quite popular in the last ten years. It makes massage fun and accessible to many people who would never get massage otherwise. There is a common misconception that chair massage is a lesser form of massage than unclothed table massage. Many people think that chair massage is just for stress relief and a feel good experience; when in fact, in some ways chair massage is better than table massage. For instance:

• If a client is positioned correctly in a chair massage chair, their spine is lined up correctly and their head is supported in such a way that the muscles in the neck relax and stress patterns release without any massage occurring. Tables do not support the cervical curve.
• The shoulders are very accessible in a chair such that it is easy to do range-of-motion and stretches with little fuss.
• The body positioned in a chair, takes stress off of the low back by flexing the hips and bending the legs at the knees. People with severe low back issues, need extra cushioning on most tables.

With a little bit of creativity, almost anything can be accomplished in a chair that can be done with a table. In fifteen minutes, a lot more can be accomplished than most people would think. It is possible to get vascular, lymphatic, and cranial circulation boosted. Restrictions in major muscle groups can be addressed and the body can be realigned structurally. Obvious affects include more energy, easier more pain free movement, a stronger immune system, and a brighter outlook on the day.

From the therapist's point of view, chair massage can be more physically demanding than table massage. Clothed massage often uses with greater frequency the more strength related techniques like petrissage (lifting and kneading like with dough). This really is the only draw back. I can think of none where it concerns clients.

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is an approach to bodywork focusing on the semi-closed hydraulic system of cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the nervous system, its protective tissues, and the ligament like tissue where bones come together and move with respect to each other in the cranium. The movement associated with these anatomical structures provides the nervous system with nutrition and filters out toxins. There is a great deal of physical bodywork that can be done with getting this system back into balance or into balance in the first place as the case maybe but this really is the starting ground for CST. Going into deeper territory, the nervous system is used as a diagnostic for delving into energetic, emotional, and psychological issues that drive dysfunction that may occur on any level.

CST has been shown to be effective at treating a wide range of medical problems.

• Migraine Headaches
• Chronic Neck and Back Pain
• Motor-Coordination Impairments
• Colic
• Autism
• Central Nervous System Disorders
• Orthopedic Problems
• Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
• Scoliosis
• Infantile Disorders
• Learning Disabilities
• Chronic Fatigue
• Emotional Difficulties
• Stress and Tension-Related Problems
• Fibromyalgia and other Connective-Tissue Disorders
• Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome (TMJ)
• Neurovascular or Immune Disorders
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Post-Surgical Dysfunction

I have studied CST I and II through Upledger's organization. While it provided me with a strong repertoire of tools and an anatomical understanding of the nervous system, it did not impact my approach to bodywork strongly until about six months ago (beginning of 2007). For years, I had been experiencing a growing level of dysfunction on my right side particularly in my head. With the help of Kundalini Yoga, I changed the fact that I could not breathe through my nose but that did not get to the core issue. As things got worse, I noticed that I had less enervation to my right eye, the right side of my back was getting chronically tight, and my right leg tended to fall asleep when I would meditate. Near the beginning of 2007, I taught myself a technique based on yoga and bodyworking principles, with cranial therapy in mind, to affect my dural tube strongly in such a way that many of these symptoms radically changed for short durations of time. I have since found that Paul St. John has an excellent approach for dealing with this and that is what I now use. His organization at one time worked very closely with Upledger but since they split off, his cranial approach has differentiated by being structurally based while the Upledger approach is physiologically based. I highly appreciate both approaches and will study further with both organizations.

Body Tuning is a form of bodywork based on western physical therapy, yoga, osteopathy, acupuncture, tai chi chuan and reflex therapy. The most well known practitioner of Body Tuning in the Unite States is Shmuel Tatz based out of New York. I got exposed to this work from one of his best students and co-workers Glenn Black. I attended a workshop Glenn Black held at Omega Institute.

From my experience of the work, it is a clothed table modality. It involves a great deal of movement, intuition, and understanding of anatomy and physiology. The work is very efficient often working on two or three parts of the body at the same time. The idea being that if you can distract the client sufficiently, they won't be able to resist, hold onto unconscious patterns, and block efforts to loosen up and rebalance the areas being worked on.

It is very difficult, to say the least, for someone to do this work the way Glenn Black or Shmuel Tatz does it without having done bodywork for decades. They multitask so much and are so efficient that they accomplish in fifteen to thirty minutes what most therapists cannot accomplish at all or at least without doing months of sessions with a client. Having said that, there are still so many things that can be learned from the Body Tuning approach and integrated without being that talented. It shifted my point of view on bodywork considerably and it gave me a new guidepost to try to reach. It took me a couple years to digest what I was shown in that workshop. In August 2007, I planned to take another workshop at Omega with Glenn Black. He had a freak accident and his workshop was cancelled. Ironically, I ended up being in Gurmukh's class doing Kundalini Yoga.

Fundamental Integration is form of myofascial bodywork that Monica Reno has come up with based on her more than twenty years of experience providing massage to athletes. She has tremendous knowledge in anatomy and physiology. Her palpation skills concerning fascia are unmatched. This work tends to be very structurally oriented taking into account how misalignment occurs in the body with respect to oppositional muscles. Much of the work focuses on appropriately separating muscles and the surround fascia such that muscles are fluid and capable of their maximum strength and that they can fire independently as needed as opposed to firing groups. The benefits include more energy, feeling lighter, being able to runner, bike, swim, etc. faster and longer with less effort. The body works more efficiently after receiving this work.

I seem to be the only one writing about this work on the web even though it is Monica's intention at some point to teach this work widely. She has her hands tied up right now with her spa, the Tuscany Day Spa in the Villages at Lady Lake. In fact, I believe that she has cut way back on doing massage herself.

Most of my knowledge of her work is based on watching her work and participating in the training for a study she conducted comparing her work with Swedish massage on runners preparing for a marathon. At this time, the results of that study have not been published or made available. Anyhow, a good part of my work is modeled after watching her work and observing her body mechanics.

Posturology is the study of posture. My training is through Neurosomatic Educators based out of Tampa Florida. It is Paul St John's approach to charting the body, such that the structural imbalances become apparent. It also provides a standard to measure therapeutic progress.

Below is an example of the charting I do. Measurements are taken standing, lying down, and sitting. Generally, the body should be treated based on imbalances that are present during standing. Because the body is always trying to keep the eyes level with the horizon, it bends, twisting, and rotates in whatever way it needs to right the eyes. If our eyes are not level, we experience vertigo and cannot do anything. In nature, we would become prey. So, keeping the eyes level, the righting reflex is a top-level priority and gravity has everything to do with how that works. When lying down, most if not all imbalances should correct. When they do not correct, we call them a fixation. Bodywork and massage are particularly good at correcting fixations. If the body goes into dysfunction in a new way when lying down, we call that a subtle proprioceptive mechanism. It indicates that the person needs visceral work; one of their organs is under unusual stress. I can also get a pretty good idea of whether there is a leg length imbalance from the lying down measurements. Taking measurements while a person is sitting allow me to determine if their hips are equal in size.

In the example below, the person's hips have gone into an oblique position, the right ilium is flaring in and the left is flaring out. Typically when this happens the temporal bones in the head go into an oblique position in the opposite way. As goes the hips, so goes the head, in an opposite way. When obliqueness is present and unaddressed, no other bodywork will stick and provide lasting results. Obliqueness locks in place most imbalances.

The person below has a smaller right tibia and fibula, lower leg, and a smaller left femur, upper leg. Between the imbalances in both legs, they are equal. At first it appears noteworthy but it turns out not to be causing any problems.

From the sitting position, I determined that the right ilium is smaller than the left. First, I take all the measurements. Then if the hips are out of place and I suspect a leg or hip length/height difference, I will put the hips into a balanced position and then see how much lift is required under one of the feet and/or hips to put the body into structural balance. In this case, the person needs a 7 mm lift under the right foot when standing and a 7 mm lift under the right sit bone when sitting to prevent the imbalances I've charted from occurring.

I see that the left foot has a fallen arch. This is part of the body's compensation for trying to cope with one side being bigger than the other. Likewise, the left hip rotates into a negative position allowing the head of that femur to be higher, making the leg functionally a little shorter. The right side of the body in this example is projecting, tilting forward. With all of the compensations that the body is doing, it has actually made this person's body functionally smaller on the left side and as a result, the right is rotating and tilting forward. Generally when in balance otherwise, the body will rotate and tilt forward on the bigger/longer side.

When the body is structurally in balance, the left and right sides are even and level when the person is standing up in the three planes, sagittal, coronal, and transverse, correct posture comes natural. It does not require effort or special awareness. When a person has bad posture, it usually is not their fault. It isn't because they are lazy. They, in fact, have to work very hard to deal with all of their imbalances. The body has more energy and is more efficient when it is in structural balance. Further, form affects function. The organs and glands, and in fact all physiological aspects of the body, work better when there is structural balance. For example, when one side of the body is more out of balance than another, it is not uncommon for the associated armpit to produce less favorable scent. Quality of scent is, in general, directly related to structural balance. From the point of view of nature, it makes complete sense. Survival of the fittest and mating is driven by scent. Another example of form affecting function is that when a person has a smaller hip on one side and obliqueness increasing towards its maximum, a person can experience dyslexia. The bones in the head should move oppositely from the hips. When the bones in the head get out of balance enough, parts of the brain do not communicate with exact precision. Memory has very specific positioning. When the bones in the head go out of balance, the brain's ability to calculate correct positions for certain types of memory is effected.

Neuromuscular Therapy is a form of deep tissue work that focuses on pressure points. When specific pressure points are desensitized or released, they relieve referred pain in other parts of the body.

Neuromuscular Therapy works with five types of imbalance that occur within the body.

• Ischemia: Lack of blood supply to soft tissue
• Trigger Points: Specific pressure points in muscle tissue that refer pain to other parts of the body
• Nerve Compression or Entrapment: Pressure on a nerve by soft tissue, cartilage, or bone
• Postural Distortion: Imbalance of the muscular system resulting from the movement of the body off the longitudinal and horizontal planes
• Biomechanical Dysfunction: Imbalance of the musculoskeletal system and the incorrect movement patterns that go with it

I've been working part-time for a clinically oriented massage establishment called New Directions Health & Bodywork Professionals since May of 2004. They place a strong focus on Neuromuscular and CranioSacral Therapy. Working there has been a driving force for me to get to know both of these modalities.

The concept behind Positional Release is really quite simple. Position the body such that for a given area where there is hypertension or pain, stress is taken off of that area and it is allowed to reset. For example, if there is pain and tightness in the upper part of the shoulder, the trapezes or levator scapula, the therapist makes sure that the client is not helping and lifts the shoulder up and in towards the head. The therapist can now work on those muscles and have them release easily with very little pain. Another good example is the position a chair massage chair holds the head and neck. The muscles in the neck and at the base of the skull automatically begin to release. Ideally this approach is always used. However, it is not straightforward as to how to position the body to release stress on certain muscles or groups of muscles. I try to use this approach as much as possible.

Sat Nam Rasayan is an application of meditative awareness cultivated by Kundalini Yoga. By becoming increasingly aware of what the various aspects of their own body, mind, and emotions normally feel like and how they feel different when in the presence of another person, the practitioner can know things about other people, particularly imbalances. By putting awareness on and providing energy to imbalances in the client, the practitioner provides an opportunity for change, without judgment as to how or when the change will occur. This practice takes the ego out of the equation for the practitioner.

Energetically speaking, characteristics in individuals follow from people who strongly embody them to those that don't, as they spend time together. It is similar to one of the laws of thermodynamics. When a hot body is brought into contact with a cold body, heat follows into the cold body until both bodies reach equal temperature. Character traits, emotions, intellect, physicals imbalances, really anything works likewise on an energetic level. An easy way to notice this is with speech patterns. When two people send a lot of time together, they tend to talk and think alike.

The yogi takes advantage of knowing this in that they notice the shifts that occur when they are around a given person or environment. The shifts in their own body due to external factors tell them a great deal about their surroundings. This is essential how the practice of Sat Nam Rasayan tunes into problem areas. With awareness steadily put on a problematic area, the additional energy and the perception provide an opportunity for change. In fact, just from the point of view of perception, change occurs. Science and medicine are becoming increasingly aware that perception shapes reality. By observing a thing, the observer becomes a co-creator. How they view the object, their karmic view on reality, contributes to changing the object or putting greater emphasis on its next manifestation being similar to the last. Merely observing a thing can change it.

Sat Nam Rasayan is an art of energy and awareness.

I'm finding that the best bodywork results are achieved by applying just the right stretch for a given problem. Many people have told me that they get the best, most lasting results from Thai massage. Since Thai massage is mostly stretching that statement makes a great deal of sense to me. I think that even better results can be obtained. Most Thai therapists are doing the same routine on everyone, every time. I believe in applying a great deal more specificity. I do not limit myself to any particular approach to stretching.

I highly appreciate Aaron Mattes's Active Isolated Stretching. I use some of his stretches. I particularly like his psoas stretches.

Having a substantial exposure to yoga, I draw upon my understanding of asanas for specific therapeutic results. One of my favorite stretches comes from the second series of Ashtanga yoga, Parighasana, the Cross Beam of a Gate Posture. It opens up the low back one side at a time like no other approach I know. By the way, this is the final version of the posture. Anything approaching this also produces results therapeutically.

I've come to really appreciate using Thera-Bands for stretching and strengthening. The Thera-Band products provide quick, easy ways to work on otherwise hard to get to areas like the sides of the hips and the tensor fasciae latae muscle, for instance. I've recently added a number of Thera-Band exercises to my daily routine. One of my favorites is stretching the fingers apart. We mostly use our hands for gripping. The muscles in the hands and forearms become unbalanced based on over use in flexing. I put my hands one at a time into a Thera-Band with the fingers together and then stretch my fingers apart repeatedly. Also, I think using Thera-Bands to strengthen the back of the neck and stretch out the front is one of the best ways of addressing a reverse cervical curve, or military neck.

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Private yoga instruction: 1.5 hours - $72 (at the Kundalini Yoga Center)

Pricing for table massage:

You come to me (incall)

• 1 hour - $72
• 1.5 hours - $108
• 2 hours - $144

I go to you (outcall)

• 1 hour - $81
• 1.5 hours - $117
• 2 hours - $153

Chair massage: $72 per hour.

I accept cash, check, and credit(Visa and Mastercard). Note that all numbers numerologically add to 9.

There are several ways I can work with you.

• You come to me. There are several locations I can work from.
• I come to your home.
• Or I come to your work place (chair massage, clothed table massage).

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The best way to contact me about making an appointment or to ask about anything related to this site is by phone.

Otherwise, you can reach me by email.