Melodic Bodywork with Ashlie

T H I S

People look at me some sort of way when I say I get a massage at least once a month — so let’s clear something up.

Massage is healthcare. Period.

It regulates the nervous system.
It lowers stress hormones.
It improves circulation and lymphatic flow.
It reduces chronic tension before it becomes chronic pain.
It supports sleep, digestion, hormones, posture, and mental clarity.

Most of what we’re walking around calling “normal” — tight shoulders, jaw pain, headaches, poor sleep, burnout — is a body that hasn’t been given a chance to release.

Touch is a biological need, not a luxury.
Maintenance is smarter than crisis care.
Prevention is still healthcare.

I don’t wait until my body is screaming to listen.
I don’t believe care has to hurt to count.
And I refuse to treat regulation like an indulgence.

Luxury is excess.
Massage is maintenance.

Treat yourself like someone you love — because that is healthcare.

I do not pay for or carry health insurance the way most people do. Massage is my assurance that my body can heal itself if I take care of her.

Get ahold of your local massage therapist and get ahold of your selfcare.

Massage therapists also take note that what you use on our skin, can multiply the benefits! Especially products like Mystical Mindset Medicinals

VisualiSATION! I like to study anatomy and picture the muscles under the skin when massaging. This helps me choose angles to distribute pressure into a muscle. Follow the fibers and the direction in which they flow. Credit @experienceanatomy

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We’re in the lab today at Experience Anatomy taking a posterior view of our cadaver’s right shoulder. Check out that movement! We can watch as the humerus raises, reaches and rotates. You can watch the scapula slide, glide and protract with all of the muscles responding in a symphony of coordinated movement. This level of cadaveric mobility is possible from a new embalming techniques called Fix for Life. We are so grateful to our donors as they are teachers and guides. What movements and muscles do you see? Credit: @experienceanatomy #rotatorcuff #experienceanatomy #shoulders

✨ Friends, I want to share something close to my heart. ✨

Many of you know me for my deep tissue massage and sound healing, but over the last year I’ve had a profound shift (and a shoulder injury 🥴) that has opened many a door for me!

Breathwork has completely changed my life.

I’ve experienced firsthand what it feels like to move from living in fight-or-flight mode (sympathetic nervous system) into the calm, healing space of the parasympathetic system. The evidence has been tangible—even in my body scent, in my sweat, and in my self-awareness. It’s as if my body is showing me proof of the shift, and we know in this day and age, people need the hard, physical evidence to believe the “un”believable. We have gone so far away from nature and the breath, but the body is a self healing machine. We CAN go back to that, easy and subconsciously.

Because of this, I wholeheartedly believe in breathwork as one of the most powerful tools for transformation. And I feel called to offer WAY more of it—both individually and in groups.

🌬️ Breath is our built-in medicine.
🌬️ Breath is free, accessible, and powerful.
🌬️ Breath has been the bridge for me between stress and peace.

Breath and vibrational healing is ancient knowledge coming back to life, a remembrance of how incredible the body is.

When you shift your breath, you shift your entire nervous system.
When you shift your vibration, you shift your reality.

I’m not quitting massage, don’t fret! Just really trying to push this self healing modality that even massage can’t touch, something I never thought I would say about precious massage!

Be the change you want to see in the world, it’s starts within, it starts with the breath.

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With love,
Ashlie 🌿✨

Melodic Bodywork With Ashlie Painter, LMT - Billings MT | Vagaro I am here to help enhance your human experience.

I bet you’ve never seen IT tension like this! 🤯