If you read my website or know me personally you know and understand my passion and deep desire to help people heal themselves, relieve stress and feel healthy.   Recently in the last month or so I have been dealing with a serious health concern that had me really look at the food I was putting into my body. I was already eating pretty healthy and was still having some health issues.  There is a huge body of work that supports how gluten really affects the body/mind.  I went off of gluten/wheat 2 weeks ago. I wasn't eating a ton of it, but the little I was eating was still affecting me. Since the 2 weeks I can say I feel amazing, my body/mind have so much clarity. A clarity I noticed wasn't there before.  I would notice my brain felt a bit a foggy each time I ate wheat/gluten.
  In addition I have noticed that after years of doing massage many healing insights are gained from my massage sessions with clients.   I am in the process of writing a more in depth article, so for now I will share a lil bit of what has occurred to me and through me as a result of going off gluten and cutting out all processed food, dairy and meat out of my diet. Sugar and I pretty much parted ways a while ago.    A bigger process of my own healing literally guided me into these realizations and I share them with a deep knowledge and reverence for helping people feel good, inside and out.    So when I say you are what you eat,  I mean it because I experience it myself and I also see it and feel it when I massage clients.   I offer this little bit in hopes that it will spark a greater awareness in the food/drink that people are eating and drinking.  Much love!

Welcome to the food journey that is you
You are what you eat. Literally.  All that you eat and drink gets processed and digested into life giving nutrients and energy to run your body /mind.   There is no separation between what you eat/drink and you.   So it makes sense to eat food that is truly healthy and organic. Your body is a temple. Food is meant to nurture and give nutrients and energy, an altar offering of your prayer to yourself is what you put into yourself in food and drink.
Think of it like an investment for yourself.
We come into this world as pure potential energy.  We are made of this pure potential energy and it carries a vibration and frequency to it…much like a radio has different frequencies to it..so do we and so does food/drink.   The more natural organic food carries a higher healthier frequency or vibration. 
When you eat lower vibration food your body/mind becomes more susceptible to stress, illness and disease.


What are lower vibration foods?   Anything that is processed is lower vibration. When a food has to be processed or additives and chemicals put into it takes away the natural energy giving nutrients of the food.
So lower vibration foods are things processed like breads, pastas, dairy, baked goods, meat, sweets.
Just because it says organic still does not mean is great for you because it can be organic and still be processed, still have the life giving nutrients stripped away. It can say organic pasta on it but if the pasta has been processed to white pasta, then there is very little nutritional substance in it.  it’s the same with sugar any version of sugar.  In fact there is nothing nutritional in sugar at all.  Same thing with meat and dairy.   Especially if it is processed, pasteurized dairy or non-organic meat.   Yet from a vibrational energy scale...meat and dairy are low on the vibration scale, they take a tremendous amount of energy for your body to digest, even in organic form. 

To be continued....just some food for thought for you....


Here is great article on sugar does to the body excerpted from a wonderful book called Sugar Blues

http://www.quantumbalancing.com/news/sugar_blues.htm


Here is a great little article if you want to study further food and energy vibration
http://www.exploremeditation.com/energy-vibration/



Namaste and Blessings

Cheri

                                           Therapeutic Massage in Redding, CA.
 
 

In Redding, CA and searching for professional, high-quality therapeutic massage therapy or a yoga teacher? At my massage sanctuary in Redding. I offer a wide range of massage therapy and yoga therapy options. If you aren’t in Redding and want massage gift certificates, I offer those online too, through Pay Pal. This way even if you don’t live in Redding, CA you can still gift massage therapy or yoga therapy to your loved ones that do live in Redding. Check out my massage article on side by side massages for couples, friends family. They are wonderful to experience together! Plus I offer private massage instruction for couples. Visit my article for couples massage instruction for side by side couples instruction. Together learning the art of therapeutic massage therapy with presence and awareness.

 
 
ahhh...so love yoga...the slow yoga...where I am so present in my body/mind awareness and breath that I feel every fiber of my being. Love feeling the release of the bliss filled energy as I move deeper into a stretch and feel my tight muscles let go. Sigh...so good and so god! Massage from the inside out and outside in....♥
 
 
_So so so love what I do...massage therapy and yoga therapy can sometimes be demanding, emotionally, physically and spiritually...and yet I am still amazed at the body/mind. The aliveness, organic pulsation of life flowing through people. We are a 3-d manifestation of our thoughts, our lives, the food we eat...how we think. Almost 12 years..and the insights and realizations just keep getting more beautiful. I am blessed to be allowed to flow into people's body/minds the way I do. The beauty, pain, love, sorrow, peace within people is divine. ♥
 
 
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Good morning Redding. Wanted to let everyone know that the Quantum Healing Yoga Workshop is being moved to Saturday January 21st 6-8pm. I have a list started and there is even more growing interest. This is not a traditional yoga class in terms of learning to do poses, so please have a foundation in yoga practice. This is a class in raising your energetic vibration through using, yogic exercises, meditation, poses and travel into your heart space. The heart is a huge center for energetic resonance and vitality....check out my Hearticle on my website for that information We are amazing creations of vibrational energy, so this yoga workshop is the self massage therapy of your own vibration from the inside out....Love and many blessings to you...♥
 
 
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Good morning sunshine..I love you....How many senses do you have to soak up the universe? Sight, Sound, Taste, Touch, Smell. The heart is a sensor too. Taste with your heart, through your heart. To...taste with the eyes, taste with the fingers, taste with the ears, taste with the nose, taste with the eyes. You can also taste with your inner eyes.....taste with the entire being of awareness. Every cell in your body has all these senses.....Feel it....mmmm mmmm....it is delicious...♥( a little bit of what we will be working on in the yoga workshop on Dec 10th. The inner massage therapy of your awareness and heart to open deeper to who you truly are).
 
 
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Remember in yoga class...you are not in competition with anyone....including yourself. Drop into your body, drop into your being and learn the art of inner seeing...from this place you learn how to honor your heart, your poses, your breath and to feel that divine flow of energy for you. There is no where to be but here and now feeling into your muscles, your tissues, your breath space. So just because someone next to you might be a 'gumby' or a 'pretzel'....remember your body and your awareness are up to you, and even a yoga teacher can not give you that inside of yourself. Yoga is not a quick fix..it a path of focus into yourself to unwind and find the deeper parts of your being of your relaxation and of your own bliss....♥
 
 
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Looking for gifts made in the USA? Cheri's massage therapy in Redding is lovingly made and produced right here in the US. Are you looking for special deals for the shopping flurry the day after Thanksgiving and want to shop local? Starting at 12:01 A.M. on Friday after Thanksgiving I will be offering blowout specials and gift certificates for massage. My operator's will be standing by to take your calls for buying massages gift certificates for your friends and loves. Not really since I am the operator and I will be asleep...but Massage Gift Certificates are a super gift to give your loved ones, all year round. What a way to help them relax, heal, de-stress and just feel good. Many Blessings to you...♥
 
 
 I am pleased to announce that I will be moving offices beginning Nov 13th. I am super excited to be moving into a bigger space that offers me the ability to offer massage, body-wisdom yoga and mind/body awareness workshops.These workshops will be offered on a love donation basis..so please keep your eyes open for these coming very soon...or contact me directly so I can fill you in. This is an exciting move and the healing sanctuary of my office is going to be beautiful. Hope everyone is having a beautiful day. Massage specials with the grand opening as well! Just ask...♥

     A massage and yoga sanctuary of healing, meditative therapy for your mind/body. Dedicated to helping you heal, relax and re-connect to the essence of who you truly are.




 
 
As I graduated from massage school years ago the director of the school gave us some parting advice, “Some of you will continue on successfully in this industry and some of you won’t.  If you are passionate about this and want to succeed,  my recommendation is that you massage as many people as you can right away, more than what you have already massaged during your training.”
 I smiled the other day as what he said popped into my head. This after massaging a couple of clients where deeper realizations were experienced on both our parts. These weren’t realizations that could be taught from a book or from a teacher in front of the room, it was these kind of realizations the massage director knew would come to us after years of dedicated massage practice.
Organic, raw realizations of being so present that you experience deeper universal truths of how amazing our mind/body truly is.

As I sunk my elbow deeper into my clients back muscles there was a point where my pressure could go no further. An internal resistance, which as a novice massage therapist years ago would have had me try harder and massage harder,  many times hurting my own body. All while feeling how no difference had been made with my clients tight muscles.

When I met this resistance recently in a client,  I do what I always do. I slowed down more and backed off in my pressure just a bit. This to give the muscles a little energetic message that it was ok to let go and relax. Sometimes in these cases the muscles are so wound up from internal stress,  they do not let go and will not let go no matter how hard a massage therapist presses.  I promise.
In this case as I let up in my pressure, then the client himself realized he was not letting go internally.  He internally felt how it was his mind that was affecting his muscles being tight.  I was so happy for him that I let out a happy giggle.  A joy for me to witness. He could feel that deeply in himself and his own internal awareness/resistance. He knew  his resistance to his own relaxation was why his muscles were deeply tight.  A beautiful moment for both of us.  He said he had never experienced his internal awareness like that before. Then I knew it would set the stage for him to really begin his healing process of awakening to deeper relaxation in himself.

The other amazing realization actually came when working on another client doing deep tissue massage as well.  As I met his resistance I let up a little again. I asked him to be aware of what his breath was doing which is always a good thing to do with any type of massage.  As I started to explain a little more about breath linking to internal resistance, I made the utter connection that if we can be aware of our breath as a conscious vibrating energy(and it is), that breath work can be like giving ourselves an internal deep tissue massage & deep inner yoga stretch at once. All from the inside out.  Our energy gets bound up inside just like our muscles get bound up outside. Plus it is all connected as one. Breath is a bridge linking both.  As I said it will not matter how deep I massage tight muscles.  When we have inner bindings and stress in our soul and are not aware of it our muscles stay chronically tight and tense.  We can learn to consciously let it go > If we don't we coil right back up to being tight.

As I made this realization during the massage, the client was also experiencing it internally while I was explaining it to him.  In combination together he used his breath to give himself the internal unwinding while I was doing the external unwinding with my hands. During which I was realizing how much I love what I do and am truly blessed.  Then I realized it was exactly those beautiful moments of synchronistic, conscious connection that my massage director was talking about.  I smiled in deep gratitude for the gift of wisdom he gave us all.


 

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