We often think the moment a massage ends is the moment to stand up and carry on with the day. But what if those last few minutes of lying quietly on the table are actually part of the therapeutic process? At Olive Tree Therapies, I invite you to stay present for a moment after the hands leave the body. That pause helps your body fully land, supports the nervous system to integrate the work done, and cultivates what is called interoception - our inner sense of what is happenin

This is a post informed by PolyVagal theory (as developed by Dr. Stephen Porges) and based on Deb Dana’s concept of somatic glimmers. My journey into the world of noticing, collecting and cultivating glimmers is a fairly recent one. Glimmers, however, happen spontaneously for everyone, whether you notice them or not. A glimmer - as defined by Deb Dana - are: