Of course you can. People seek massage for many reasons. Those that play sports may have already developed body awareness and have also been conditioned to use massage as part of their training. However anyone can seek massage as a therapy, from office workers and their desk shoulders, to those in rehabilitation or those feeling overwhelmed by life. Massage primarily targets muscles and soft tissues, but it also can assist the respiratory, lymphatic, circulatory and nervous systems. Plus it feels great, which means you get to relax while knowing you’re doing good things for yourself and your body.

If I had a dollar for everytime I hear this, I’d be very rich. In all honesty, yoga isn’t something we get good at. It is a practice that may deepen and evolve as we move through classes, trainings and life but it doesn’t come with a grade. Yoga by definition is to yoke, to connect. Social media has done a disservice to the yoga name, asanas are most likely what people associate yoga with, which in reality is such a small part of yoga. Try a class and you’ll find out soon enough, there are no score cards in my yoga sessions.

Flexibility for yoga is in the mind. When we move through a class you are guided into shapes and poses If there is restriction in a shape that is how your body presents that day and that’s okay. The structure of your bones, the muscle shape and its tone, the connective tissue that shapes the body will all impact how you arrive in a shape. Having flexibility in the mind will give you permission to move into and stay in the shape. That is all the flexibility required.