Karuna Massage

✨ Thank you, , for the opportunity to create some fresh content! It’s been such a joy getting to know this incredible community.

Through the ups and downs of a pandemic and economic challenges, I’ve felt so honored to serve my clients. To those who have shared milestones, trusted me through life’s seasons, and given me space to do what I love—thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I’m excited to share that I’m transitioning into a full-time nonprofit role, but I’ll still be here for you! I’ll continue to offer evening and weekend availability, and if you don’t see a time that works on my schedule, just send me a DM—I’ll do my best to make it happen.

Kansas City, thank you for everything. I’m so grateful for this community, and I can’t wait to keep working together. 🩵

Keep that fascia healthy!

The Tissue That Connects Our Muscles May Be a Key to Better Health Fascia is more important than previously thought. Here’s how, and why, you should care for yours.

❄️ A few things for the new year ❄️

❄️ New pricing begins Feb. 1. Hours remain flexible. Book by appointment and please reach out with questions.

60-Min - $100
75-Min - $110
90-Min - $130
120-Min - $160

🌿 Gift cards are available. Thank you for your patience to all who asked during the holidays! I’m happy to accommodate.

✨ Working on a few new facelift things around the studio. Just in time to cozy up from a chilly January! Also stay tuned for Karuna’s website launch! After two years it was finally time.

💜 As always, I appreciate your referrals as I intend to keep this space small and in close energy.

“We all harden ourselves, every single day.

We may not know it as it’s happening, but we will undoubtedly experience its effects.

Tension is the stress response finding a home in our body.”
—Jillian Pransky, Deep Listening

In my experience, muscle tension is different from muscle tightness.

Tightness is when you use a muscle in some way and it doesn’t return to its resting length, say from exercising or gardening or moving heavy furniture.

Tension usually contains a psychological or emotional component.

Tension can be long-standing and result from something physical, like the way we try to protect ourselves from a past injury. Or it might accumulate as a result of an old hurt—the way we may slouch because we were made fun of in third grade. Maybe it’s something we carry from living in a house where parents were always fighting or from living in a country that’s in constant strife.

Our body is responding to feeling provoked or overwhelmed, to feeling left out or unloved. Tension is the way we store what we don’t want to feel, and it’s also the way we shield ourselves from what we don’t want to take in.

✨Meeting tension requires compassionate awareness, patience, and kindness.✨

✨August is National Wellness Month, which is the perfect time to prioritize self-care.⁠
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This month, we celebrate personal wellness, managing stress, and making healthy lifestyle choices in our routines.⁠
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As practitioners, we often prioritize the well-being of others before our own. And even though we live busy lives, here’s your reminder to incorporate personal wellness into your everyday routine.⁠
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💡Here are some simple ways you can step back and focus on you:⁠
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1. Get outside and exercise.⁠
2. Drink lots of water.⁠
3. Get eight hours of sleep.⁠
4. Relax and do things that make you smile.⁠
5. Cut back on sugar.⁠
6. Schedule a massage!⁠
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Visit www.MassageTherapy.com to support an ABMP member when you book your massage.⁠
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Strong core = better posture and pain relief over time. 10/10 would recommend 💜

5 Exercises for Core Strength Switch up your typical core workout with these movements.

Hip mobility makes ALL the difference as we age. If yoga isn’t your thing, try some intuitive stretching. Set 5 minutes aside and open those hips!

6 Deep Hip Openers to Try Instead of Pigeon Pose A practice to help you open your hips in all directions.