Song of the Week

Listen to this song as you read to help open you up. Dreamer Too by anaiis

Updates!

If you need last minute gifts, buy a somatic experiencing session, Swedish Massage, Thai Bodywork, or a Couples Bodywork Class for you, and your beloveds. Bodywork classes are a especially fun gift! You can sign up for one to five sessions. For five sessions you can learn a short massage sequence together. For single sessions, I cater lessons on Swedish massage, Thai Bodywork, or craniosacral and we focus on quality of touch for the area of the body, mind, spirit that needs it most. For many couples this is the neck and back. We review communication, blood flow, where the bones, tendons, fascia, attachment points, tender spots, energetics, and spirit of these areas, all of which knowing can move your touch from feeling ok— to feeling like the best massage you’ve ever had! Standard rates are $150/hour, and if you can’t afford that, reach out by responding to this newsletter, or booking a free 15 minute consult, we will make it work together.

Now for some seasonal updates. We are blessed by casting of the longest shadows of the year! The intensity of the sun is a quarter of the maximum level we had in June. That’s why you’re so pasty. Poor you. Hundreds of Bohemian waxwings are returning to the Gand Marais area to eat the bright red orange fruit from native mountain ash. White tailed deer are eating basswood, sugar maple, bur oak, red cedar, red-osier dogwood and more. They are eating about six to eight pounds of twigs each day! Follow these role models and try making twig tea. I’ve made tea by boiling young twigs from maple and oak trees and it was delicious! I like wood flavors. I also added some edible mushrooms like phellenius ignarius for richer sensory and medicinal experience. I highly recommend trying it out IF you can correctly identify all the ingredients.

For Japanese winter solstice time rituals, we are eating lots of kabocha squash, taking yuzu baths (unless you’re allergic to that like I am), having a bonfire, sharing food, focusing on spiritual work, and if you’re Ainu practicing Iyomante, or the bear ceremony.

In Irish tradition folks are creating winter solstice evergreen alters, celebrating the time when the “sun stands still” with the phrase “grianstad gheimhridh shona daoibh", if you win the lottery to be inside it at the right time when the passage tomb aligns with the winter solstice light.

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I offer individuals and couples trauma informed somatic therapy/coaching, craniosacral therapy, Swedish massage, Thai bodywork, myofascial release, group workshops, and healing through art, play, and connecting to nature. Free 15 minute consultations can be booked on my website if you’re intrigued or have questions.

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xoxo Eiko