Monthly Archives: September 2010

Our 100th Blog Post!

I’d like to take a moment to celebrate our 100th Blog Post! Thank you, dear readers for following along on our journey, sharing your ideas and comments, and enjoying our posts. A special thanks to our amazing interns and Guest Bloggers, Kimber Gillus and Emily Landry, for their hardwork and dedication! We look forward to [...]

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Good Reads: NY Times – Massage Benefits are More than Skin Deep

We love that the New York Times and other major publications are reporting on massage studies recently! In this September 21st article written by Roni Caryn Rabin, this hotly debated question is asked : Does a good massage do more than just relax your muscles? To find out, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los [...]

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Miles for Midwives: Training for a 5K Run

This post is written by Emily, our intern here at Massage Williamsburg.  Emily and Rachel originally met at an ALACE/toLabor doula training last July, and Emily has since begun school at Swedish Institute in Massage Therapy. Although I’ve long enjoyed yoga, stretching, walking everywhere, and dancing, I’ve never been into hard-core endurance activities.  I have [...]

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News: We're Hiring!

Are you a fabulous Licensed Massage Therapist? Massage Williamsburg is looking for caring, skilled, and knowledgeable NY State Licensed Massage Therapists to join our hardworking team. We have an abundance of awesome of clients in the neighborhood and would love to share our practice with the right person. Please send a cover letter and resume [...]

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Clean Cleansers

A few weeks ago, New York City-based wellness blog Well + Good NYC wrote about the not-so-awesome ingredients in favorite cheap face cleanser Cetaphil.  If you have ever wondered about the ingredients in your cosmetics, soaps, and lotions, this is a great crash course in some of the most frequently-used ingredients in common drugstore brands! [...]

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Massage is Shown to Help Immune System, New Study Shows

Here’s an awesome Article from ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2010) — “Researchers in Cedars-Sinai’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences have reported people who undergo massage experience measureable changes in their body’s immune and endocrine response. Although there have been previous, smaller studies about the health benefits of massage, the Cedars-Sinai study is widely believed to [...]

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Tips for Getting Your Best Night's Sleep

From time to time when a new client comes for massage to address neck and shoulder pain, they are surprised to hear questions about how they lay while sleeping.  Many people sleep in the same positions frequently, and some of these positions involve contortions of the spine, shoulder girdle, and neck that cause extended slight [...]

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Massage for Sciatica

A friend cornered me today to ask questions about her sciatica.  After suffering from shooting pains in her hip, buttocks, and legs for several years, she was finally diagnosed with sciatic pain a year ago.  She was given general advice to go to some yoga classes to help stretch the deep muscles of  the hips [...]

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Popsicles for the End of Summer

Below we’ve shared some popsicle recipes that combine the best tastes of end of summer fruit in a nutritious snack that cools you off.  If you have popsicle molds already, you’re all set.  If not, you can find a variety of fun molds on the internet, or just use paper cups or re-use clean individual [...]

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