Taproot Bodywork Resource, LLC

Couples Massage Classes will be offered April 5th and 19th.  Use your tax return to invest in the good health of your relationship!

One of my intentions with this blog is to provide some space to reflect on what it is to be a massage therapist.  This evening I’m thinking about marketing, and how it’s been my achilles heel as long as I’ve had my practice.  I’ve relied on flyers in my neighborhood, Craigslist, and word of mouth in the past, and would suggest them to new therapists as a cheap means of getting started.  In the nearly 5 years since I’ve started my practice, however, I do think it really has become necessary to have some sort of web presence.  To that end, here I am. 

 This evening I spent digging around Wordpress, looking for a great new theme.  By virtue of being picky, a little Type A, visually oriented, and not at all computer saavy, I’m in over my head, and thus extremely grateful for the assistance of Clay at http://www.trestlemedia.net/.  Thanks Clay! 

Hello folks

I give you Gabrielle Roth, dancer and former faculty member at the Esalen Institute:

“For me, massage is a spiritual practice for both giver and receiver.  In everything is the seed of its apparent opposite, and in no practice is this more apparent than in the ordinary act of reaching out to touch another.  We need each other.  We each possess the power to heal, and this power can only move through creative action.  We, who have been so lost, desperately need keys to unlock the wisdom of affection and intimacy in safe, natural, and organic ways.  Massage is such a tool…”  from Connecting through Touch by Peggy Morrison Horan.

Last month’s couples massage classes were full, and awesome.  Check out the reviews by searching for Taproot Bodywork Resource on InsiderPages.com.  Spaces are still available in this weekend’s class, on March 9th, and on March 22nd.  April classes will occur on the 5th and 19th.  Email or call if you’d like to learn to connect with your sweetheart through massage, in this great class.

REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER  Gift certificates purchased in December as holiday gifts expire at the end of this month.  Do remind your lucky recipients to schedule their hour of relaxation. 

This past Monday I received a massage from one of my favorite therapists.  I thought I was being smart, having just gotten out of the car after a 2 day drive home from 5 days of skiing in Big Sky, MT.  And then yesterday I pulled my way through my first rowing practice in 5 months.  I’ll be scheduling another massage at first light.  Portlanders are all manic in the spring - sound like you?  Come on in - we’ll work the whine out of those newly awakened muscles, and get you on a healthy path through the active season. 

Hope you’re well, and enjoying the heady scents of spring.

Michelle