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The Pampered Spirit is expanding it’s services and increasing visibility every day.  This is an exciting company with top notch therapists and technician’s.  Where experience and talent is recognized and appreciated.  If you would like to join our team.  The Pampered Spirit is hiring in all modalities of massage therapy, yoga instruction, nail and skin care.  Please visit the website thepamperedspiritnj.com

Benefits of Massage Therapy

in the workplace are expanding everyday!  77% of Top 100 companies for women offer massage.  In NJ ADP, Lionhart, EMG & Erickson Communities have made massage a part of their employee benefits programs, and you can too!

With any type of commitment a Wellness plan is no different.  It’s impact being measured over the long-term.  In today’s world of instant gratification and immediate mesurable results some employers have steered away from wellness programs all together. Not pursuing a massage therapy program in your company can be a costly mistake. 

 One major benefit would be to reduce the frequency of workman’s compensation and disability claims.  Think about this; is it better for a 35 year old female to be out of work for 2, 3 or even 4 weeks for carpal tunnel surgery or does it make more sense to provide weekly massage to help reduce or eliminate this repetitive strain injury?

Massage therapy works to increase flexibility and circulation, decrease blood pressure and relax major muscle groups.  massage breaks up adhesion’s in the muscle we call “knots”

A 15 to 20 minute weekly workplace massage will yield these benefits.

 When you begin to promote wellness in the workplace employees  will not only see the message over and over again, “wellness”, but they will be experiencing wellness as it relates to massage.  The more we see and experience wellness the more “wellness” will relate to our daily lives and the more likely we are able to make better choice.

A Wellness Programs aim  to keep people healthy.  Taking those at risks and reducing or eliminating that risk.  The goal is to help you reduce the number of claims and absenteeism, increase focus on the job and boost employee morale.

How to start a Wellness Program: Choose a  Company that is well established, insured and has experience offering on-site massage therapy. Couple with other experts ie; yoga instructors, nutritonist, in the wellness field to design your very own unique program.   

Implementing your Wellness Program. First, management needs to support the program. Next, set well established goals to measure impact of program and communicate with your company’s health-care provider and state for reduced rates and tax credits. Finally encouraging letters to participants to show support.

Protect your most valuable assest; your employees. 

Bodywork Spa & Market, formerly Best of Nature, is have a sale during the month of February on table warmers.  $49.99  With the cold weather here what better way to PAMPER your clients with a little extra warmth.  For those of us who travel the table can get pretty chilly.  This is a must have item!

My First Mammography!

 It’s cold and gray outside, typical February morning.   My appointment is not till 2:30.  The waiting is making me anxious!  In the shower I frantically start doing a self-breast exam and begin to worry if everything is normal; was that lump there last month?  I’m dressed; it’s 12:30 p.m.  I run a few errands around town and find myself forgetting simple things like; my cell phone and the coffee on the counter at WaWa.  I desperately need some more caffeine.   I am starting to sweat and I am not wearing any deodorant.  I play around on the computer till 2:05.  Time to leave, the wind blows the car door against my shoulder; ouch!  I arrive at the Brick Imaging Center at 2:20. 

The receptionists’ were extremely polite.  Everyone at the center appeared warm with sweet dispositions.  I filled out paperwork with a pen in the shape of a rose.  More sweetness!  Next, I am greeted by my technician; the person who in a few short minutes will be lifting, moving and pressing my breasts onto a plate.  I am lead through two curtains to a pseudo dressing room where I undress and re-dress in a poncho split up the front and split slightly higher on the sides.  I am glad I wore my “big” jeans for the occasion!  Now for the wait….there is two other women in the room with me dressed in pastel capes with pocketbook swung over their arms.  After only five minutes I complain out loud to my robed comrades, “Boy, how long do we have to wait in hear”?  I realized at that moment it had only been a few minutes.  I guess I couldn’t stand the silence.  I began to get into a good Ladies Home Journal article on cheating spouses when I hear, “Mrs. Turnbach, come with me”.  (Hold on one minute, it dawned on me this is the second time since I’ve arrived I have been called Mrs. Turnbach, Do they HAVE to keep reminding me of how old I am and that I am here for a mammography!)

The Test:

The technician could not have been nicer.  We talked about hair.  She liked my hair cut.  I said, “I didn’t really do anything with it today” (you know, no reason because I was just being checked for CANCER!) Her hair was thin, shoulder length with bad bangs, she said she always had the bangs and was considering growing them out.   She wanted the reverse bob like me but did not think it would look good. (As much as I enjoyed talking to her, I’m thinking is it over yet?  Are the pictures being taken as we speak?  Is there someone else coming into the room to man handle my breasts like raw meatballs in a busy Italian restaurant?)  My eyes begin to dart around and I said to the sweet tech, “O.K.”.  She must have known I was then ready.  The instruction begins, “Swing the right side of the cape over your shoulder please” Miss nice girl with bad hair said.  Boob is exposed!  Who cares, I have no problem topless. (For some this may be embarrassing and nervousness may set in)   I just didn’t know, since it was my first time, what to do in this position?  Do I stand straight, move my breast to the right, and turn sideways?  Then the lady gently lays her soft hands on my breast and kneads the tissue (three times; top bottom and side) forward onto the squishy breast plate.  The test was a breeze.  Two pictures each breast.  The first picture is taken head on; first right breast, then left.  The pad your breast laid on was soft and warm.  Watch out though for your ribcage that leans up against the metal of the machine, that’s chilly, Burr!  The clear plastic plate came down on my breast, squishing it like a sandwich.  I glanced down and notice numbers 1, 5, 10, 15 on the “breast plate” Mine filled it all the way to the 15!  Not bad I thought (like I even knew what these numbers meant).    Hurt?  No!  Weird?  Yes!  Especially if you look down at your breast tissue and see it in a way that you HAVE NEVER SEEN A BREAST LOOK BEFORE.  Not even Picasso himself could masterfully arrange this form.

Back in the waiting room…

I open a Christmas issue of Redbook and WA-LA!  A before and after picture of a lady, with thin Blonde hair, with the reverse boob (oops, I meant bob, I will leave that slip) I rip out the picture for what’s her name because of the similarity.  I am still in my super hero cape!  Wait wait wait…, 20 more minutes.  “Mrs. Turnbach”, (I am used to being called by my sur name at this point, “Yess!”  “Come with me”.  We step into a room and I am barely through the doorway before the nurse says; “Everything is fine, you have healthy breast tissue, we will see you back… (Is she kidding? fine? I went through all of this and I am fine, this is surreal, I was prepared for the worst, hair loss, reconstruction if necessary, buying everything with pink on it, when is the walk?)   In 5 years at age 40, 35 is just a base line. Then after the age of 40 it is once a year, O.K.”  I respond with a big, “O.K., O.K.”!  Yippee, I trot back to the dressing room/waiting room.   There was some baby powder I took advantage of since you have to have the test with no deodorant on or perfumes.  Dressed, my black Coach bag dusted with powder, I leave the office but not before finding Miss Nice Person to give her the picture of the Redbook Model.  She seemed to genuinely appreciate the gesture and said she may just get the nerve to try the new style one day.  Then she asked me if I cut hair?  “No”, I said.

Off I go…back in my truck I felt dizzy…where am I going?  Hey, who cares, I do not have cancer, Thank God! THANK GOD!

Breast Cancer awareness has significantly increased over the past several years.  In 2007, 32 million dollars was raised for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.   Perhaps all this awareness has frightened some women believing; I could have breast cancer.  This may or may not be the case.    The best detection of this potentially fatal and life changing illness is the Mammogram!  So GO! GO every year, DO NOT wait, there is nothing to be worried about; See!

Honey…rub my back!  Does that sound familiar?  Do your hands get tired after a few minutes of giving a massage? If you answered yes then sign up for an evening of fun and relaxation with your partner.  Learn specific pressure points to help reduce stress while not getting stressed yourself!  This is a great workshop for anyone wanting to better their connection. 

Instructors will provide massage tables, oil/cream, music and expertise.

Couples will bring sheets, towel and wear either bathing suits or tank and shorts.

Class will be held ot Om Baby Studio’s in Point Pleasant

Call for upcoming class!

732-299-8793

Before I get going with this I would just like to thank all my friends, family and customers that have made this dream a reality!  Owning my own business has been a dream of mine since I was in 6th grade and sold gum in school!  Special thanks to Mom & Dad for believing in me.  Lisa Mazzuca for her savvy computer skills and web-mastery.  Judy Zocchi who believed I could always do it on my own.  My customers for their continued support and many referrals; where would I be without all of you!  1st Sergeant Heather Smith because we all need hero’s.  My husband for supporting my crazy schedule and many hours away from our family.  Thank you!

Hello World! This is the new blog for The Pampered Spirit Mobile Massage and Spa Company!