Why OceanaBodywork?

Do you remember when someone special stroked your head and/or back and expected nothing from you?  It was their way to express comforting touch.  Everything became safe and cozy in your world, right? I do something similar.  I discharge your nervous and lymphatic systems through comforting touch that quiets your mind and opens your heart. These therapeutic movements melt away stress and other toxic accumulations.

There is a spontaneous flow to my massage as I follow your energy currents. Your arm and belly or thigh and foot may be touched simultaneously, lulling you away from "thinking mind" into present time -- awake and alive!  Many clients become entranced with these flows and desire to expand their consciousnesses by getting involved in Advanced OceanaBodywork. 

 

Why comforting touch massage?  Why deep-tissue?

Comforting touch* specifically works with your nervous and lymphatic systems while sports, deep tissue, and Swedish massages concentrate on connective tissue, the muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

*Comforting touch massage is sensual and is designed to awaken the senses.  A metaphor for this is instead of waking up with an alarm clock, your body wakes up naturally and refreshed.

 

Those who

• have chronic and acute stress condition often respond well to a combination of strokes
• want to unwind and "soothe their ruffled feathers," comforting touch is the Rx remedy
• prefer deeper massage are welcome to my table as I am a rehab massage therapist

 

What other benefits arise from comforting touch massage?

 

Imagine a frozen stick of butter.  As I request you to do the following, please pay attention to your body's reactions. Think of your "to do" list.  Sorry!  Our over work over agitates us.  Stress freezes/hardens the belly.

 

Imagine a thawing stick of butter.  Comforting touch massage allows your body to thaw, softening the belly, and melting the armoring around the heart.  Sensuality, because it feels so good, connects us to our hearts and brings us back to the moment - safe and relaxed. The physiological definition of relax is when a muscle and/or the mind moves in any direction with alacrity (eagerness, promptness, quickness). Isn't this what we want for ourselves and others?

 

Stephen Levine in his book A Year to Live, How to live this year as if it were your last. wrote a masterful poem/meditation about soft belly.  I use this meditation when appropriate. 

Who is Oceana?

 

Oceana is my Tantric Kriya Yoga name.  There is White Tantra and Red Tantra.  Though I know both, OceanaBodywork concentrates on White Tantra. Why?  First of all I keep within the legal scope of the Texas Massage Law and you can't get to Red unless you know White.  White is a meditation system that teaches initiates how to move and channel energies in oneself and others without sexual contact.  You feel this through OceanaBodywork and if you are looking for an unusual meditation system you can learn this through Advanced OceanaBodywork.

More About White Tantra/Red Tantra

White Tantra stands alone and is a preliminary practice to Red Tantra.  In other words, White Tantra is a singular cultivation.  Red Tantra is a duel cultivation practice.  Two people in sexual union cultivate and circulate energy through sexual union in Red Tantra practices, which they learned how to do in singular cultivation.