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Listening to the Body: Understanding Tension Through Somatic Bodywork—Part 3
An educational series from Exalted Grace on how the body stores tension and how my style of therapeutic bodywork helps release it. Many people experience recurring muscle tension, posture discomfort, or stress in the body without fully understanding why it happens. This series explores how the nervous system, breathing patterns, posture, and connective tissue all interact to shape the way our bodies hold and release tension. Each article offers a deeper look into what’s happe
Carlie Nagy
Apr 234 min read


Listening to the Body: Understanding Tension Through Somatic Bodywork—Part 2
An educational series from Exalted Grace on how the body stores tension and how my style of therapeutic bodywork helps release it. Many people experience recurring muscle tension, posture discomfort, or stress in the body without fully understanding why it happens. This series explores how the nervous system, breathing patterns, posture, and connective tissue all interact to shape the way our bodies hold and release tension. Each article offers a deeper look into what’s happe
Carlie Nagy
Mar 264 min read


Listening to the Body: Understanding Tension Through Somatic Bodywork—Part 1
An educational series from Exalted Grace on how the body stores tension and how my style of therapeutic bodywork helps release it. Many people experience recurring muscle tension, posture discomfort, or stress in the body without fully understanding why it happens. This series explores how the nervous system, breathing patterns, posture, and connective tissue all interact to shape the way our bodies hold and release tension. Each article offers a deeper look into what’s happe
Carlie Nagy
Mar 115 min read
How Massage Therapy Can Build Us, Not Break Us— The Bodyworker’s Iron Shirt
Within the massage therapy profession, there has long been a quiet concern about sustainability. Many therapists hear early in their training that this work may not be something the body can sustain long-term. It’s not uncommon to hear that the average career of a massage therapist is only a handful of years, often cited somewhere between five and seven before burnout, physical strain, or repetitive stress lead practitioners to step away from the field. This has led to a prev
Carlie Nagy
Mar 23 min read
Where Care Was Meant to Live: From the Daughters of Charity to Modern Somatic Practice, the Sacred Heart Building Reflects an Enduring Lineage of Accompaniment through Life’s Transitions
In preparing to co-facilitate an upcoming meditation with Nuriel inside the historic Sacred Heart building — an experience we are calling The Reset Method: A Guided Unwinding with Live Sound — it has become increasingly difficult to see the space as simply a venue. To gather people in stillness and guided release within walls that once held birth, illness, recovery, and death feels less like hosting an event and more like participating in a continuity. The structure remains,
Carlie Nagy
Feb 185 min read
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