Why Root Therapy

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Someone recently asked me about the abundance of plant photos on my Facebook feed - how does all this plant stuff have to do with massage? It was one of those wonderful underhanded pitch questions - oh, let me tell you! - that are fun to dive into. And so, I give you my top 5 connections between body work and organic growth (a.k.a. Why Root Therapy):

1. There is no fixing. With plants and people, my role is to help create the conditions for new expansiveness, not to diagnose or impose.
2. What is more amazing than watching someone/thing embody her/his/its full self?
3. Courage. I witness so many acts of bravery in my clients, both at the level of sinew and of story. I see that in those dahlias (courtesy of Broadturn Farm), don't you?
4. Joy. I can find as much unhindered, easy, new movement in my three-year-old as those dandelion seeds (ahem) she's so happily letting fly across the yard.
5. Beauty. In all forms.  At all levels.