
In Touch, The Blog.
Exploring the deeper tissues of therapeutic bodywork.
The Chemistry of Touch: Endocrine Health & Bodywork
Hormones regulate nearly every essential function in your body: stress response, sleep, energy, mood, metabolism, and immune function. When these systems are off-balance, the effects are felt physically and emotionally. Through skilled bodywork, we support the body in rebalancing these hormones by working directly with the nervous system.
The Silent Language of Pain & How to Listen.
Pain is an essential language of the body, alerting us of an imbalance that requires care and attention to heal. Transformational bodywork asks for a deep listening to the body's needs.
Your Brain on Bodywork: The Neuroscience of Touch
Explore how advanced bodywork influences the brain, calming the nervous system, interrupting pain cycles, and helping you shift from survival into safety. It’s more than muscle work—it’s a neurological invitation to heal.
Recall and Release: The Body Remembers
Every fall, every heartbreak, every moment of overwhelm you’ve lived through—your body recorded it. Not as a narrative, but as sensation. Tension. Breath-holding. Bracing. Numbness. These responses may have once been adaptive, but over time, they can become the very patterns that keep you stuck.
There’s No Such Thing as “Just Physical” Pain
That tight hip? It might be guarding. That shoulder tension? It might be holding grief. That jaw pain? It could be connected to a boundary that was never honored. Pain is your body’s way of saying, “Something needs attention.” It's not just about inflammation—it’s about information.
Embodiment Is Intelligence
Therapeutic touch brings you back into direct relationship with your physical form. And not just the “outer” body—but the inner landscape: your breath, your organs, your fascia, your nervous system, your felt sense of self. At Profound Touch, we don’t just “work on” your body—we work with it.
Receiving Is a Skill
Receiving is an act of surrender—not in the sense of giving up, but in the sense of allowing. When you allow yourself to fully surrender to the experience of bodywork, you open yourself to receiving healing on multiple levels: physical, emotional, and energetic.
Motion is Lotion: Mobility & Flexibility
By targeting both the muscles and the connective tissues (like fascia) that surround the joints, we help restore full functional movement. Whether you're looking to improve your flexibility for yoga, ease discomfort from stiffness, or prevent injury during physical activity, our sessions are designed to help your body move freely and efficiently.
Move Better, Work Smarter: How Bodywork Boosts Productivity
We’ve all experienced those days where no matter how hard we try, we just can’t focus. Our minds wander. Our bodies feel restless. We’re distracted and frustrated, wishing for the energy and clarity to power through our to-do lists. But here’s a secret many people overlook: Productivity starts in your body.
Sweet Dreams: How Bodywork Improves Sleep
At Profound Touch, we believe in helping the body return to its natural rhythms. Quality sleep is essential not just for energy and focus, but for cellular repair, emotional regulation, and long-term resilience. And massage therapy offers a powerful, natural way to support it.
Rest is a Revolution: Polyvagal Theory and Bodywork.
Polyvagal Theory is a revolutionary framework that illuminates the way our bodies respond to safety, stress, and threat. When paired with therapeutic bodywork, it becomes a profound map for transformation—not just in the body, but in the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the world.
A Posture of Peace: The Roots of Alignment
For most people, “alignment” conjures images of rigid posture: shoulders back, spine straight, head high. But true alignment isn’t a shape you hold. It’s a state of perception. A conversation between your body, the earth, and your nervous system. Alignment isn’t about looking correct, it’s about feeling connected.
Tensegrity and Human Architecture
When we work with the body through massage, myofascial release, and structural integration, we’re not just targeting isolated knots or muscles—we’re influencing an entire tension-compression matrix. A restriction in one area affects the whole. A release in one place can bring unexpected freedom to another.