Brawnergy Massage & Bodywork

A bit long and clinical, but it’s a fascinating read on the changing scientific understanding of the mind/body interaction. The potential implications for massage and other manual therapies is exciting! Biofeedback, the use of sensory stimuli, physical therapy, etc, have been shown to help reduce the anxiety caused by the combination of high interoceptive awareness and alexithymia (as Fotopoulou and colleagues have shown), and often found in autism, heighten interoceptive awareness in anorexia and attention disorders or lower it in depression and somatoform disorders, where, as the neuroscientist Georg Northoff has argued in his book Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind (2016) Thanks to Walt Fritz PT for sharing!

Brawnergy is proud to present Debra Hadden, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and wellness educator in a series on Managing Pain and Wellness. This 6 session series will explore the latest information on bio-psycho-social aspects of pain, therapeutic tools to manage and improve the experience of pain, and integrated self-care and healing. Seminars begin July 31st. Limited space. Call to sign up.

Massage appointments available Tuesday morning (July 6th) as early as 8am. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to fit in your self care, this is it! Don’t wait! These spots go quick! brawnergy.com

Prolonging the benefits of massage means understanding how your body is responding to stress. We have partnered with Thorne to bring you at home testing kits and supplements to help you do just that! To order - https://www.thorne.com/u/PR387737

Great news! Thanks to your wonderful support, we raised over $300 last month for the National Breast Cancer Foundation! This donation can provide: 12 women with the life-saving help of patient navigator 6 women with a HOPE kit to provide comfort during breast cancer treatment... 3 women with the opportunity to attend support meetings to find strength and encouragement 2 women with screening services such as mammograms without fear of cost We are Grateful. Touched. Humbled. Proud. And we cannot thank you enough for your contributions and words of encouragement. Peace Love Massage

The wait is OVER! We're happy to be back and in the swing of things! We're still following all the precautions and keeping up on some boarder line germaphobic sanitation. -- We want everyone to feel safe and comfortable coming in to have some much needed bodywork done. Give us a call to schedule today!

As the counties continue to open, more and more of us are spending time commuting to the coast. Let’s make sure the time we’re spending in this driving position is optimal for our bodies. From the bottom up: - Lean your seat all the way back from where it normally is. We’ll reset it once we find good posture.... - Set your right foot on the break. Now check in with your left leg. Make it match your right leg as much as possible. That means don’t let your knee bow out to the side, don’t let your foot point towards your door. Keep it in a similar position as the right leg, with similar pressure pushing through the heel as the right foot. ** this is important for our hips** - Let’s move into our hips. Your back isn’t against the seat so it should be easier to make sure your butt is under you instead of your low back. If you’re not sure, just stick your butt out a little bit and you’ll feel your low back engage it’s muscles to help you sit up straight. - Keep your spine erect on top of your hips, and your head on top of your spine. Even when we move the seat back up to help support us, our head won’t be touching the headrest. - Let’s move into our arms. Keep your elbows in close to your body. Your rotator cuff already does so much work, let’s take this time to give it as much of a break as possible. That means those arm rests are now useless to you. - Put your hands on the wheel. Instead of the 10 and 2 position, use the 4 and 8 position. Now let’s give our overworked muscles a break. Instead of gripping the wheel with your thumb and pointer finger, let your thumb come onto the front of the wheel, with the thumbs pointing towards the ceiling. Grip the wheel with your middle, ring, and pinky fingers almost like if the wheel was a stick out in front of you, like you’re trying to break the stick in two. Let this slight force you’re applying to the wheel come from the elbows coming in towards your body so we don’t white knuckle the wheel. ;) - Are your shoulders still slouching forward? Let’s engage that midback be rolling our shoulders forward, then, up, then back - hold in that back position by pinching our shoulder blades together here. - Is your head still forward from your body? Imagine someone smushing your face back with their hand tuck your chin and try to find that imaginary wall behind you. Feels a little weird huh? Now let’s move the back of our seat into position to support us HERE. It’s completely normal to feel a bit awkward while finding new postures for your body because YOUR normal has been different for so long give your body time to find its NEW normal. Your future self with thank you. ;)

Yep, we're re-reopening!! We will officially be open again this Sunday, 9/27 for appointments and can't wait to see all your lovely faces! We're beyond excited to come back to this space of healing the traumas and built up stress and emotions from this year and years past. The world needs more healing and we're ready to deliver! If you had requests or appointments on the books before all this, we'll be starting our phone calls tomorrow to get you back in. Feel free to check out our online scheduler for therapist availability and request your first appointment back with us!

It was so much fun while it lasted those two fantastic weeks! We figured out our flow and had amazing compliance with all the new regulations from both staff and clients. We’re so blessed to have been able to create a space where everyone could feel safe coming in, some of us for hours, and we can’t wait to come back! And the way time is going this year, it’ll happen before you know it. :) . . . *If you are a member, we will not be restarting our auto-debiting in August as planned. Let’s postpone until we can provide you with services.

We are excited to share that we are re-opening next week!! We will have limited operations and extensive safety protocols in place, as well as some changes to scheduling - more details will be provided throughout the week. We are currently taking appointment requests in our online scheduler: https://bit.ly/3dtV3ZU... Those of you who had standing appointments before the closure will be contacted directly to get you back on the schedule. Thank you for your support throughout these crazy times. We look forward to seeing you soon!

We hope your day is filled with family fun and bliss! we’ll be back soon to catch up on that well deserved pampering. Thank you for raising such wonderful humans the world owes you one

Any takers? can’t wait to be able to touch you all again!

Thank you for all of your amazing support and donations! We’re just about to hit the $500 mark and half way to our goal! Once we hit $750, we’ll be raffling off a gift basket to all the donors! #massagetemecula #massagemurrieta #feelingthelove #supportsmallbusiness

Thank you for the outpouring of love and support - it truly means the world to us. Intuit, Yelp, and GoFundMe have teamed up to create the Small Business Relief Initiative to help support small businesses affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. This initiative offers a grant that will match up to $500 of funds that are donated through a GoFundMe campaign that we just launched. We are committed to serving our community during and after this crisis, as well as our team members as th...ey grow professionally and personally. We also realize that close-contact businesses such as ours are like to be effected long after resuming operations. And while we were hesitant to launch this campaign, we believe that our community will agree with us that this is an excellent opportunity for us to come together and support each other through hardship. We understand this is a difficult time for everyone and that we are not the only ones impacted by this crisis, and our close relationships built through service to our community have only further demonstrated how important our work has been to so many people suffering from chronic pain, illness, injuries, and high stress. We are extremely grateful to everyone who is able to contribute, no matter how much or how little. If you are unable to donate at this time, please consider sharing this campaign with friends and family - every bit counts! Thank you for allowing us to be a part of this wonderful community. We wish you and your loved ones all the best through these difficult times, and look forward to serving you in our office again soon! http://gf.me/u/xuy7m7

Stress relief tip for the day - borrow your kids colorful crayons/ pencils/ markers and color coloring has proven in countless replicated studies that coloring reduces fear, stress, anxiety, and increases creative thinking, problem solving, and our ability to manage stress. I think we could all use a bit of that right now. There are a few studies that also suggest mandala (designs like what’s pictured) coloring is more effective than other types of coloring. Sounds like a really good addition to home schooling side benefit: mom and dads drawings might be good enough to hang on the fridge #massagetherapy #anxietyrelief #stressrelief #wegotthis #takethatcovid19

Sometimes it’s looking forward that gets us through these times and sometimes it’s looking back. This is from my first spartan race I did with my husband a couple years ago. Looking back on it is helping me remember that I don’t have to stop my entire life. I can still take deep breathes and work on my personal self and goals. Working out has always given me a sense of control and personal power. Mindset is half the battle and in times like these I know what I need to fall back on. What’s your emotional safety net? #emotionalintelligence #emotionalhealth #wegotthis

Due to the overwhelming recommendations from government agencies and our massage board, we’ve decided to do our part in promoting social distancing by closing our doors until further notice. We recommend you do not seek massage therapy services during this time, especially if you are a high risk population including #seniors #cardiovasculardisease #respiratoryissues #autoimmunedisease or anyone with any condition that compromises your health. We urge you to do your part by staying home and giving our overloaded healthcare system a chance to help those already infected. ......Stay tuned for self-care stress relief techniques coming to you in the comfort of your home!