In order only as they come to my mind and not by priority or top reason. I just read a challenge to come up with such a list and I am happy to do so. I spent years wanting to move back to Portland then just a few months ago we were offered a transfer to get ourselves back there with a salary and all. You know what I did? I cried! Not tears of joy either. I still love and adore Portland but my heart is here and for so many reasons, I will probably have to keep adding more to the list. So here goes:
1. Traffic. We simply don't have it. Even when people here start thinking there is traffic it is nothing absolutely nothing!
2. Easy to get around.
3. Fast to get around, I recently forgot about an appointment downtown. When I got the "are you coming?" call I jumped in the car and rushed down to arrive only 15 minutes late and I was able to park right outside the office. Can Seattle or Portland offer this, I don't think so!
4. I can go to a park and enjoy the quiet more often than not. There are certain parks that are often busy but so many green spaces exist where you can find peace and solitude.
5. Hiking and biking is easy and right around the corner almost anywhere you live.
6. Cost of housing is WAY lower. I can live in the neighborhood I want to live in and I am not confined to a tiny space.
7. Pride. In the past 3-5 years Spokane has really begun to appreciate itself. I am proud to live in Spokane.
8. Loving Spokane shows you really are an individual and independent thinker. It's easy and trendy to love Seattle and Portland, it takes a true individual to see what a gem Spokane really is.
9. Spokane is not pretentious and does not really have a really specific identity. For example, we all know what a Portlander looks like, we all know what Seattle ite(?) looks like. I for one don't know what a Spokanite looks like and the freedom in that is huge. Not following me? Well, think about conformity and peer pressure here, we all subconsciously give into it on some levels. The peer pressure and conformity in Portland for example is on display in shows like Portlandia. While the pressure leads to some great things, cycling, eating healthy and looking out for the planet, it is pressure just the same. In Spokane I love it here, but I don't identify with it so I don't feel any conformity or peer pressure. If you don't get me here you never will, sorry.
10. on a lighter note, cheap and plentiful golfing, I know I just started but I am excited to get into it!
11. Also, cheap and plentiful snowboarding, although I haven't ridden on years. :)
12. The garbage goat, yes really.
13. Great public Schools
Friday, April 22, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Finishing Day.
I'm feelin a little emotional as I prepare to head home. Mostly I am truly exhausted. It was a wonderful week. Wonderful women. A fantastic passionate instructor and a beautiful technique that can only get better and better with time. I won't be surprised if I find that in no time at all my hands may get an early retirement. :). Book yourselves now. I have no doubt my passion and excitement about this treatment will call people to my table. You won't regret it.
~M
~M
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Advanced Ashiatsu. AMAZING!!
I don't even know how to describe it. Watching is amazing, receiving is amazing, giving is, well you guessed it, amazing. The moves are fluid and strong. Deep and smooth. They will not only penetrate fascia and muscle tissue but definitely create an incredible transcendental experience.
I really enjoyed ashi before. Now I feel passionately about it.
The instructor, Jeni Spring loves what she is doing. I mean really LOVES it, with an abundant sort of energy that offers itself to you. I know I will be going home with some of that energy and passion, we all will, and then I will share it with you,
This is hands down, or feet down I should say, the best workshop I have ever taken. I love the energy that every one of my fellow massage therapists brings to the class and I would enjoy spending one on one time with any one of them. That in itself speaks volumes. Jeni's passion and teaching style are both relaxed and calm as well as bold and intuitive.
I am definitely working with an elite group of passionate and like minded women and I feel very blessed to be here! Gina, Dannette, Michelle, Sandra, Lindsey, Amy and of course Jeni, thank you for such a great two days, I look forward to tomorrow.
Tomorrow we get to blend all we have learned into a smooth flowing dance of barefoot massage that is sure to melt anyone.
I can't wait!
~M
I really enjoyed ashi before. Now I feel passionately about it.
The instructor, Jeni Spring loves what she is doing. I mean really LOVES it, with an abundant sort of energy that offers itself to you. I know I will be going home with some of that energy and passion, we all will, and then I will share it with you,
This is hands down, or feet down I should say, the best workshop I have ever taken. I love the energy that every one of my fellow massage therapists brings to the class and I would enjoy spending one on one time with any one of them. That in itself speaks volumes. Jeni's passion and teaching style are both relaxed and calm as well as bold and intuitive.
I am definitely working with an elite group of passionate and like minded women and I feel very blessed to be here! Gina, Dannette, Michelle, Sandra, Lindsey, Amy and of course Jeni, thank you for such a great two days, I look forward to tomorrow.
Tomorrow we get to blend all we have learned into a smooth flowing dance of barefoot massage that is sure to melt anyone.
I can't wait!
~M
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
New Scheduling
I know I know, I am always changing things around, or so it seems. However, the truth is that I am always striving for newer and better ways to make your experience as grand as possible. You are worth it! For a long time I have been wanting a way to send you birthday discounts and thank you's and welcome to my practice emails. Yet I had no way of doing this conveniently.
When technology is what it is , I find it painful to look through my notes and search out everyones birthdays. My mom even made me a little book of birthdays once, very sweet and thoughtful, but still I failed to use it. Finally, I have found a program that will keep me in the loop on your birthday so I will not forget AND it will make my entire business run more smoothly as well! I love technology!!
For now, continue to book your appointments as usual. When the change occurs there will be a link in my menu bar that says : SCHEDULE NOW! just click it and viola you are ready to schedule your next appointment, plus have the opportunity to review any past appointments in case you forgot what your favorite service was! I think you are going to love this new booking system. The best part, it isn't too far off of what I was previously using so you will still enjoy the same easy to use calendar to see the dates and times I am available.
I hope to have it up and running before I leave for my Ashi training, which I am incredibly excited about!! You should be too, you are the lucky ones who get to enjoy this decadent and therapeutic service!
~M
When technology is what it is , I find it painful to look through my notes and search out everyones birthdays. My mom even made me a little book of birthdays once, very sweet and thoughtful, but still I failed to use it. Finally, I have found a program that will keep me in the loop on your birthday so I will not forget AND it will make my entire business run more smoothly as well! I love technology!!
For now, continue to book your appointments as usual. When the change occurs there will be a link in my menu bar that says : SCHEDULE NOW! just click it and viola you are ready to schedule your next appointment, plus have the opportunity to review any past appointments in case you forgot what your favorite service was! I think you are going to love this new booking system. The best part, it isn't too far off of what I was previously using so you will still enjoy the same easy to use calendar to see the dates and times I am available.
I hope to have it up and running before I leave for my Ashi training, which I am incredibly excited about!! You should be too, you are the lucky ones who get to enjoy this decadent and therapeutic service!
~M
Monday, March 28, 2011
Cultivate paece and calm in your life
Stretch and breath
Exercise and build strength
Practice Presence
Practice Presence
Practice Presence
Smile
Exercise and build strength
Practice Presence
Practice Presence
Practice Presence
Smile
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Hypnosis and my special place
I have been feeling a little more than a little down lately. I took on the world in February and trucked through the month with such passion and zeal that my body declared March a month to inhale. To slow down. To move inward and rebuild my fire. As with most women i know, I don't always feel I have time to slow down and rebuild the fire. So then my body took matters into it's own hands and I got sick. I have watched my family go through colds and remained healthy and thought I was on a roll but now I had truly left my poor immune system tired ,depleted and depressed. Just waiting for something to take it down, to take me down and force me to slow down for a few days.
Wanting to get back on my game and looking for a magic cure to stay there, to avoid the ebb and flow and the need to constantly recharge I sought out some professional help. I visited with a business coach last week and that got me excited and fired up. Then today I tried hypnotherapy. It was really good. The rest of the day after though, I did not feel recharged. What I felt was calm, and exhausted. I felt ok with being exhausted.I felt comfortable and at peace with my lack of efficiency and motivation. I have been kicking ass for weeks and now it was time for me to slow down, and finally, I was ok with that.
She told me that there is no magic cure, ( Sure,I knew that! I can dream right?) she told me what I really needed was to congratulate myself, to celebrate myself, all of my selves, all of the mini me's that do so much. The mother, the wife, the business woman, the financial planner, the housekeeper, the teacher, the massage therapist, the organizer, the schedule keeper... I am sure I am missing someone, or some part of me but the point was that all of these parts are constantly giving and giving and giving and..... No wonder I crashed. No wonder I have crashed so many times before.
I recharge my phone every single night. Without fail.I would like to start giving myself the same courtesy, or being more understanding with myself when I am not able to.
My special place
About 12 years ago I was preparing for a dance that I was going to be doing with a group of people in Olympia. For our prep we had a guided meditation. I went really deep, I remember someone saying that too as they waited for me to come out of it. I love guided meditation, I am great at visualizing. That day I was to go to a place where I felt safe and happy. I was to meet someone and they were to give me a gift. My place was instantly very clear to me; a lone tree in a field, it was warm with a gentle warm breeze. When you zoomed out a little you saw that there was a stream that ran by my tree and headed into a heavily wooded forest not too far away and yet not to close either. My gift was wrapped in a lovely box, the kind that you can just remove the lid. When I opened it, a heart flew out and away.
A few years later when I was in need of my place again I was able to call on it with such ease. It was incredibly vivid and it took me where I needed to go. Sometimes at the tree, sometimes flying away with the heart.
Today almost instantly I was there again. As soon as she started the hypnosis, I drifted there directly. It was peaceful and beautiful and nourishing, just as I had remembered. Before my session I had felt disconnected to the things that I hold most dear. I was feeling lonely and isolated because of it. After my session and visiting my special tree, I knew that I was not alone, I knew that those things I love most are right here, I have just been very very busy and stuck in the part of my mind that ignores the heart and the creative center of me.
It is good to know that I was never that far from where I wanted to be in the first place. I look forward to my next session!
The reason I wanted to share this with you is because I know that, while my specifics may be mine alone, I am not alone in feeling disconnected. I know I am not the only one who crashes from time to time. I know that I am certainly not the only person that pushes herself way too hard with much too little credit and self appreciation. So pat yourself on the back. Tell your inner critic to knock it in the head! You are beautiful, you are lovely, you are strong and wise and capable and smart and fragile and whatever else you know to be true and much more. Tell yourself this, everyday. Recharge that battery every night. EVERY night. Bring peace and happiness into your life, start by appreciating everything you do.
I guarantee you will affect more than just yourself.
~M
Wanting to get back on my game and looking for a magic cure to stay there, to avoid the ebb and flow and the need to constantly recharge I sought out some professional help. I visited with a business coach last week and that got me excited and fired up. Then today I tried hypnotherapy. It was really good. The rest of the day after though, I did not feel recharged. What I felt was calm, and exhausted. I felt ok with being exhausted.I felt comfortable and at peace with my lack of efficiency and motivation. I have been kicking ass for weeks and now it was time for me to slow down, and finally, I was ok with that.
She told me that there is no magic cure, ( Sure,I knew that! I can dream right?) she told me what I really needed was to congratulate myself, to celebrate myself, all of my selves, all of the mini me's that do so much. The mother, the wife, the business woman, the financial planner, the housekeeper, the teacher, the massage therapist, the organizer, the schedule keeper... I am sure I am missing someone, or some part of me but the point was that all of these parts are constantly giving and giving and giving and..... No wonder I crashed. No wonder I have crashed so many times before.
I recharge my phone every single night. Without fail.I would like to start giving myself the same courtesy, or being more understanding with myself when I am not able to.
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About 12 years ago I was preparing for a dance that I was going to be doing with a group of people in Olympia. For our prep we had a guided meditation. I went really deep, I remember someone saying that too as they waited for me to come out of it. I love guided meditation, I am great at visualizing. That day I was to go to a place where I felt safe and happy. I was to meet someone and they were to give me a gift. My place was instantly very clear to me; a lone tree in a field, it was warm with a gentle warm breeze. When you zoomed out a little you saw that there was a stream that ran by my tree and headed into a heavily wooded forest not too far away and yet not to close either. My gift was wrapped in a lovely box, the kind that you can just remove the lid. When I opened it, a heart flew out and away.
A few years later when I was in need of my place again I was able to call on it with such ease. It was incredibly vivid and it took me where I needed to go. Sometimes at the tree, sometimes flying away with the heart.
Today almost instantly I was there again. As soon as she started the hypnosis, I drifted there directly. It was peaceful and beautiful and nourishing, just as I had remembered. Before my session I had felt disconnected to the things that I hold most dear. I was feeling lonely and isolated because of it. After my session and visiting my special tree, I knew that I was not alone, I knew that those things I love most are right here, I have just been very very busy and stuck in the part of my mind that ignores the heart and the creative center of me.
It is good to know that I was never that far from where I wanted to be in the first place. I look forward to my next session!
The reason I wanted to share this with you is because I know that, while my specifics may be mine alone, I am not alone in feeling disconnected. I know I am not the only one who crashes from time to time. I know that I am certainly not the only person that pushes herself way too hard with much too little credit and self appreciation. So pat yourself on the back. Tell your inner critic to knock it in the head! You are beautiful, you are lovely, you are strong and wise and capable and smart and fragile and whatever else you know to be true and much more. Tell yourself this, everyday. Recharge that battery every night. EVERY night. Bring peace and happiness into your life, start by appreciating everything you do.
I guarantee you will affect more than just yourself.
~M
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