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What is it?

Massage for relaxation is a general full-body treatment that focuses on softening the contractile tissues that respond to stress. Because stress is a contributing factor to every major chronic health condition, providing relief from the stress response is a powerful healthcare intervention.


Why would I choose this?

You may want massage for relaxation for any one of a thousand different reasons, including the following:

1. Job stress (including the I-hate-my-job blues)
2. Family tension
3. Insomnia or other sleeping challenges

4. Anxiety
5. Depression
6. Recent breakups or other losses


How can this help?

Massage can help you relax by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system (read: telling your body to calm down). This is the system that is in charge of increasing gastric motility/improving digestion, encouraging deep breathing, slowing your heart rate, and helping your muscles to achieve a lengthened resting position. Muscles shorten when they contract--so when you're showing off those new bulges in your biceps, you're contracting those muscles to do it. There's just no way to show them off when you're relaxed.

You can learn more about what massage can do for you at the Touch Research Institute, or at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (a division of the National Institutes of Health).


What kind of treatments?


Goddess Massage
Hot Stone Massage

Deep Tissue Massage
Couples' Massage
Couples' Massage Class



Baltimore Bodyworks (Goddess Bodyworks) is the bodywork division of Goddess Within, LLC. I am currently providing services (e.g., energywork) remotely, courtesy of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and looking forward to meeting with people again when it is safe to do so. That includes you!

Tanisia Smith was originally licensed to practice massage in the same year that epic fantasy writer Robin Hobb published Assassin's Apprentice, the first book in the Farseer Trilogy. Read on through the Liveship Traders trilogy, the Fitz and the Fool trilogy, the Tawny Man trilogy, and the Rain Wilds chronicles...because there will be dragons. This author writes magic and mayhem beautifully and immersively. Her work is delicious.

Since I'm out of the nerd closet, 2002 was the year when we watched the middle movie of a trilogy focusing on a cross-species group of fellows who decided to walk about a thousand miles to drop a ring into a volcano. Only some of us had feelings about it later when we found out they could have hitched a ride.

All those who seek healing are welcome at my table.


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