You will feel relief from life's discomfort, and motivated to make the wisest steps forward for your well-being Our background includes over 14 years of professional training, including ⚜️ Bachelor's of Science in Psychology (Linfield College, 2013). some master's level training in education (Arizona State University, 2015), with 10,000+ hrs in teaching and health program design ⚜️ Teaching degree in Tai Chi and Medical Qigong (including 3.5 years of direct training, Phoenix, AZ, Zen Wellness, 2015) ⚜️ Massage Therapy License (OR, WA) with over 8 years trans-disciplinary medical bodywork training ⚜️ Doctorate in Acupuncture and traditional Chinese Medicine (National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon [USA], 2025) These experiences have enabled us to design holistic and personalized health programs that guide and motivate patients in nourishing the roots of true health, eliminating the causes of dis-ease. "Where there is flow, there is no pain. - Chinese Proverb (通，不痛） Mobility massage teaches relaxation, postural alignment, mindfulness, and body awareness. It improves blood flow to all regions of the body, helping the body heal from dis-ease while improving health consciousness. "Nourishing Goodness" Mobility Massage focuses on engaging the bones of the body, increasing their density, helping them in their role of producing healthy blood, minerals, and hormones. By improving blood production and flow - which increases feelings of relaxation, energy, and contentment ("I am enough"), - mobility massage may also enhance the feeling and expressing of emotion.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​​Emotional Liberation Emotions may get stuck due to the fast pace of life, and after trauma that did not have time to be fully processed. Failure to express trapped emotion may lead to repeating the same mistake or trauma, as the subconscious mind attempts to heal or express what was trapped in the first place. Liberation of trapped emotion - through awareness and appropriate expression - permits progress. All this is to say - with regular mobility massage, a patient may find their self flowing underneath the muck, and into their best life. ​ Improving Stability and Longevity ​ Postural alignment improves flow to internal organs, and all throughout the body - eliminating pain, improving comfort, and protecting against injury or said differently - preserving physical integrity! ​​​​​​ This subtle and direct learning strengthens with every visit, growing into a usable skill-set over time. ​ Contentedness Bodywork also provides a form of touch, a basic need. When touch is absent, it can lead to higher risk of disease, and challenges with memory and mood-regulation (Cai & Zhang, 2015). Until this need is met, which may be challenging in those who live alone or with limited human interaction - it's possible feel a discontent not satisfied by anything else. Suppressing this need may show up as increased pain, masking with substance use/abuse, or as other signs of discomfort. ​ Reference Bagci, H., and Yucel, S. C. (2020). A systematic review of the studies of therapeutic touch after the year 2,000. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 13 (1), pp. 231. Cai, F., Zhang, H. (2015). Effects of therapeutic touch on agitated behavior in patients with dementia. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2 (3), pp. 324-328, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2015.08.002 ​ Receiving therapeutic touch in the form of mobility massage can be a life-changing source of contentment. ​ ​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​​​While Mobility Massage has all these benefits and more - ​ The greatest health comes from the structure it's delivered in. ​ This structure, explained below - consistently affirms postural wisdom from the bodywork - and knowledge of health's foundations from the regular conversation - long enough to become ever-nourishing and life-long habit.​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​

Guaranteeing Success with structured healing and health-promotion ​ ​ Every massage begins with an initial check-in, which includes: ⚜️ Progress-i-View - checking in on the primary goals you are working on, the effects of the last massage, and any barriers to progress - whether emotional, behavioral, mental, environmental. ⚜️ Lifestyle-Lift - Strengthening and fine-tuning habits you are working on. Usually those behaviors we have identified as most important to reaching your health goals as efficiently and as effectively as possible. Research-based health domains that we may check-in on and strengthen during the visit check-ins ⚜️ Mindfulness-based Therapy. If you are new to the practice, we may introduce mindfulness practices to help you feel more relaxed and insightful during the massage. ​​ If your treatment plan includes movement or we identify it as necessary for achieving your goals, we may introduce some movement at this time, too. ​ *Dr. Timothy has teaching degrees in tai chi and medical qigong - Chinese medical and martial arts that teach postural alignment, relaxation and balance, while maintaining (and improving) memory and brain function. He is skillful at sharing basic exercises that improve mobility, tranquility, and physical comfort. The massage is an opportunity to relax into awareness, discovering new insights about your Self, or your body. ⚜️ You may notice what movements allow areas of tension to relax, or areas that felt empty becoming warmer. ⚜️ You may settle into a trance-like state, in which solutions to hang-ups appear, receiving insights that motivate your best life! ​ ⚜️ You may go into a deep relaxation or even fall asleep (from which many emerge refreshed). Integration - Strengthening the Good ​​ After the massage, we will discuss anything that feels different in your body afterwards, and any insights or observations you made during the visit. We share our observations, and anything we feel is going to help you get the most out of this experience at home. If we feel it will benefit you to follow up, we will provide our reasons and tentative plan, and if you feel in alignment with them, we go about scheduling the next visit. This 'check-in, massage, and check-out' structure provides ample time for learning new habits, for becoming more and more relaxed, and unfolding into a container designed to optimize your best health, your best life, and capacity for helping. ​ ​ ​Treatment Planning ​​ After the first visit or two, if both patient and provider believe the approach is going to help with meeting the patient's goals, we will develop and discuss a plan of treatment. Each plan is based on the condition, and the life situation. Usually, it involves regular visits (varying from twice weekly to monthly), until the goals are met!

How long will it take for me to resolve my dis-ease / meet my health goals for good? Dis-ease essentially means a lack of ease. Something has occurred that makes living less easeful, in the body, and/or the mind. Dis-ease may originate in patterns acquired from repetitive behaviors, life experiences, genetics, environmental or family conditioning. Reversing or better managing disease means replacing or better managing these patterns with new ones. ​ The science of healing looks at which behaviors restore balance, comfort, clarity, and strength. Health is maintaining these qualities, in spite of life's challenges. ​ All change requires consistent effort, applied strategically. How long does it take for change to stick? While the answer depends on a number of factors (including how long something has been around, time available to devote to learning and implementing new routines, and to invest in regular treatment), change generally happens according to the following: 1) It takes . . . 1️⃣ day to change your mind 3️⃣0️⃣ days to change the emotions 9️⃣0️⃣ days to change the blood chemistry (hormonal patterns) 1️⃣ year of implementing a new behavior for it to stick in the body, becoming 2nd nature 2) However many years something has been around, divide that in two - that's how many months of regular visits it will take to resolve. While these findings are general principles originating in the findings of medical and spiritual traditions over millennia, they are supported by modern findings in neurobiology. 🥑 When beginning a new practice, or behavior, although a patient may be aware of this next best step for some time, it only takes a moment to make the choice to step boldly forward. Thus, only 1 day to shift the mind. 🥑 At the 30 day mark, new connections have been forming in the nerve networks of the brain, reinforcing the new behavior. Although in the beginning of change, there may be physical resistance to the new behavior; at some point it is normal to start craving the new behavior. Usually at this point, some benefits from the new behaviors are being noticed, at which point new mental stories also encourage the behavior to grow in strength. Thus, "30 days to change the emotions." 🥑 At the 90 day mark of consistently pursuing change, these new connections in the brain can show up as positive structural changes (e.g. 8 weeks of mindfulness meditation increased nerve-cell density in the areas of the brain associated with memory, and nervous-system regulation, with decreases in the regions associated with fear and negative emotion) (reference beneath image). Reference: Calderone, A., Latella, D., Impellizzeri, F., De Pasquale, P., Famà, F., Quartarone, A., Calabrò, R. S. (2024). Neurobiological Changes Induced by Mindfulness and Meditation: A Systematic Review. Biomedicines 12 (11): 2613. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines12112613 ​ Blood cells also completely replace them selves every 2-4 months. Hormones are held and distributed in the blood, and hormonal patterns correspond to shifts in the heart and mind. This means, around the 90 day mark of consistently implementing change, old entrenched behaviors or thought patterns - things that appear comfortable, but that are not good for what's best - begin to lose their ability to "grab us." There is greater clarity around what is good, and greater strength to follow through with it. ​ Deeply-entrenched trauma or childhood conditioning is often stored at even deeper levels, and therefore takes longer to shift. It's symptoms and related patterns may shift more easily; and still - habits or relational patterns acquired more recently commonly lose their pull at the 90 day mark. ​ By this point, while the biology is shifting more deeply into alignment with our desired health shift, the mental recognition of the benefits of the new behaviors is also stronger, motivating us to keep taking the next best step. We may feel contentment with this new groove in life, and may even notice the new behaviors shifting daily mood, personality, and outlook. Thus, "it takes 90 days to shift the bio-rythms (and blood chemistry)." 🥑 By this point, a great number of benefits are coming to the surface. The next step is really making the new behaviors solid, habits for life. Persistently pursing a change for a year brings it to the deeper layers of the body, making these new behaviors second nature - meaning they continue nourishing what's best in life, without us having to give them much attention. This does not mean it is not work or not effortful at times; it simply means we have given the new habits enough time to show their benefit, and to stick around; that the work to maintain health is extremely clear, and the benefits so apparent that we cannot but be committed to continuing. Thus, it takes "1 year to change the body."