Metta Wellness, Ayurveda, Massage & Wellness

Creating space for self care, connecting to your true self, simply being present. These are just some of the benefits of meditation, and the focus here at Metta Wellness . Invest in your self, taking time for self care like mediation is investing in your future.  We hear so much about stress, auto immune disorders, chronic fatigue, due to the modern lifestyle. This is where doing some self care is key to your long term health. Start your self care off with a guided mediation here at Metta Wellness! Join our classes or book a one on one mediation to get started on your self care.

Living in the now How do we live in the now? Being right where we are, right now.   Allowing our-self to be in the now, living your space. Live life as beautiful and peaceful as you can, right now.   We suffer as we stay stuck in our past and in fear of what may be as we look at our future, but not living now.    Living now, present to be fully in our space, in our bodies in our life. This gives us peace, and joy in understanding that we live now, and allowing the past to be what was, and the future to be what will, and now is.   Living in the now also allows the body to let go of holding patterns. The body is a vessel, holding our past through emotions, these can be powerful in both positive and negative. When we live in the now we give the body permission to create space. Space in the body gives room to silence, allowing inner stress to shift, to soften.   Being present in the here and now, give your self time to be just where y...

Our focus during the summer months is on self care and building a better relationship with ourselves. Self care is a hot topic at the moment but it is important to remember its more then just sweets and relaxation, it's a focus on health, both physically and mentally. Look for our tips and new classes to get in touch with the inner you.

This is a journey! As we reach the starting point of this next step, a new journey, self care is in my view this weekend. This weekend we will be doing the final projects in the new Paxton space, before the clean up and placing furniture! This is the time that I step back and breath, and do a self massage with  coconut oil to keep the body cool and hydrated during the busy time. Coconut oil has many benefits, and when used for massage brings the balance inward. Coconut oil not only smells great, but goes onto the body easily. I prefer to use a raw coconut oil, and scoop it right out of the jar and start applying it to the body. The easiest way for self massage is to place an old towel down, start at the head and just work your way down the body, sitting on your towel at the end to get into the feet. Benefits to using coconut oil: Protects the skin from drying, cracking Eliminates body Oder Protects skin from aging, peeling Perfect carrier oil for essential oils for ...

This is a very busy time of the year for most of us. Family, friends work parties, busy schedules and not enough time for everything! Most of us go though a feeling of some stress during this time of the year. Lets refocus, and find a space that we can breath, relax and find some peace during this time of the year. One of the ways that I like to find peace in this time of the year is to step back and look at things from a new light. Everything in our life moves so fast, taking a few minutes to just look at the big picture,take a breath, we all do the best we can. This is the same, you may not make every holiday party, or have every gift that you wanted to give, but you have your self, your family. This is for me a simple way to breath in, breath out and be thankful,at peace. Being peaceful in the your space, in your presence will give a vibe that carries out past you to others, being a part of peace on earth. Wishing you peace on earth this season.

Their are so many benefits to Reiki, but the one that stands out the most is the inner calm and peace you feel, in and around you. Reiki is a simple, natural healing method, using your own healing energy to bring  balance.This healing energy involves an awakening of the spirit within you and stimulates the healing far beyond. When I work with clients I find that Reiki comes in as a powerful tool, so what are some of the benefits: Relaxed, allowing the mind to calm(moving out the busy chatter of the mind) Release, with the mind calm, the body unwinds and releases the stress held in the body  Self time,self Care: giving back to the self helps keep you in a healthy healing space.  Immune strength, the body has the natural ability to heal, over time the body builds this streght allowing it to deal with the stress that enter our body and mind. Energized. with the mind calm, the body relaxed, you are able to get back to a state of natural balance. The body can foc...

As we come to the end of another month, summer will quickly come to an end. Now is a great time to sneak away and take those last minute trips. Take your time when planning your trip, or just a day to sneak away and pack a few self care items. Look ahead at your journey, are you spending time outside,  will you be in the car for long hours sitting or driving. are you staying at a friends house, rental or hotel are their potential allergens , such as a pet do or environmental differences from your own space. Taking just a few minutes and looking at a few simple questions, you can then plan your travel care packet for your trip.As you have seen in the past month, I pack my herbal teas, allergy oils, cold capsules, and magnesium lotion. I am packing for my trip now, and looking at the fact that I will be camping, hiking and harvesting herbs, I will make sure I have my care packet supplied with herbal bug spray, anti itch stick and immune boosting teas to help with m...

Metta Wellness offers Maharishi Ayurveda, what is that you ask: Ayurveda is a 5,000 year old traditional way of healing form  India  based on a whole body approach of mind, body, and spirit. Working with your  doshas  and daily routine to create balance.  Maharishi Ayurveda  has worked over time to bring the principles of traditional Ayurveda here for everyone and that is just what Metta Wellness is working to do. Maharishi Ayur-Veda  is a health care system based on an analysis of health from the deepest  quantum mechanical  level in nature, the  Unified Field . Vata, Pitta and  Kapha , the three doshas, were the first expressions of the Unified Field. They are located at the deepest  level of nature’s functioning. Vata, Pitta and Kapha are subtle but powerful fields that create the structure and function of the physical world including the  human body . Maharishi Ayur-Veda works to treat...

Yes, recovering from Thanksgiving! I hope that you all had a wonderful thanksgiving, spent time with family, enjoyed good food, and some great laughter. Now we can start recovering from Thanksgiving. The holidays are are typically enjoyed by most , some of us enjoy them more then others, and we feel this in the days to come. We over eat, do a larger amount of driving, maybe an extra glass of wine, and yes, family can be stressful. All of this indulgence in a short time, is - well the holidays, but we can do some things along the way to reduce some of the stress, and make for a smoother holiday. It is expected that we will have some stress over the holidays, so lets finds some ways to move into recovering from Thanksgiving easier, and rest of the year a little more relaxing. Drinking plenty of water: yes, staying hydrated during the winter months is important, now you add travel, lots of food, family and stress. Water will help decrease headaches, keep the body nourished, hydrat...

Yes, positive becomes positive! My work as a massage therapist is so much more then just massaging the body, it's about listening to my clients and encouraging a balanced way of life. I find sometimes the simple things like being positive help me and help working with my clients everyday. Every day we make a choice, to get up and start our day, and what kind of day we will have.Once we step out into the world we then make a choice of how we are going to effect others around us. It seems so simple, but many of use do not take the time to think about this or even consider this into our daily lives. Take a step back, when you are on your way to work, or at the store, your interactions with others will effect how you move forward, it's only fair that your reaction would do the same for another. When your with your group of friends and everyone is having a great time, laughing, talking, being kind to each other, you are more apt to be friendly, laughing, enjoying, its kind ...

The joy of creating my own oils, teas, and salves with wild harvesting.  Wild Harvesting Roses for Heart Glycerin  I have worked in massage therapy and Ayurveda for the last  nine years and through this time have learned, and continue to learn the art of creating. With massage you are always learning and working and finding new(sometimes old) ways to work with and help with issues of the body. With Ayurveda, we are looking at the body,mind spirit connection and finding ways that you can build balance in your everyday life. With balance we create harmony and in harmony we are in a healthy space. While working at the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center in Lancaster,MA I learned to make oils for dosha balance. When learning  the oil making, we worked with large amounts of herbs, most would come in a dry or powdered form, and we would make the oils from their.Over time I learned how to blend herbs for our clients for many different healing treatments, such as oils t...

You hear this from me a lot, take time for yourself. So have you? With our schedules so busy, and the feeling of having to get everything done, its a wonder we forget to stop and take time for ourselves. I shared some easy recipes with you this week and some ideas of dry brushing as I have focused on self, and getting ready for spring, and spring allergies. At Metta Spa , Ayurveda is the controlling factor of my space, how we eat, sleep, exercise, and so on, so my goal is to share with you every week easy tips to add into your daily life to find balance. So as we go off for this long weekend, many of you will have Good Friday off along with Easter Monday, so I am sharing a real easy wake your skin up recipe. We found this one to work great is you make it the night before and use it in the morning. Wake Up Coffee Facial: 1/3 cup base oil, almond,sesame or coconut 1 tsp organic honey 1 1/2 tsp coffee grounds(use the ones from your morning coffee) Add everything together and...