Welcome!
I love helping people to slow down and decompress.
After doing massage for 30 years, I still enjoy slowing down, honoring the healing spirits, and helping my clients to release tension.
In our fast paced society massage is a blessing that helps us go within to our own peaceful place to become more aware of our body's needs.
Here's my January Newsletter:
Joy: A feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
JOMO: Joy of Missing Out (Peace with what you choose to do)!
Combining Acceptance of Reality with Joyful Empowerment of Self can
set you up for Contentment and Decisiveness!!
Hello friends,
Welcome to 2026!
I am still trying to consistently embrace JOMO (Joy of Missing Out) as I continually strengthen myself and separate from groupthink. Last night I was woken up by the loud sound of fireworks at midnight. I went outside but didn't see anything but my sleepy neighborhood (no sight of humanity or fireworks). The cloudy sky must've helped with the acoustics of fireworks elsewhere in Albuquerque...so loud!! I then felt like I was an old person missing out on fun times! Yet I had chosen decisively to stay in and go to sleep early with my husband. Amazing that I still have brain-washing to re-program in my 50's!! LOL
Have you heard of Santosha?
From AI: It's a Sanskrit word meaning "complete contentment, satisfaction, or acceptance" and is a key principle in yoga philosophy that ecourages finding peace and joy in the present moment, accepting what you have, and releasing the need for constant change or external validation for happiness. It's about being "enough" and appreciating your current situation, not as passive resignation, but as a foundation for inner peace and growth, leading to supreme joy.
How to practice Santosha:
* Appreciate the Present: Notice and be thankful for your current situation, your body, and your life as it is.
* Release Comparison: Stop measuring your worth or happiness against others or past achievements.
* Find Joy Within: Understand that true happiness comes from an internal state, not external possessions or achievements.
* Let Go of "Better": While still striving, appreciate where you are now instead of constantly wanting things to be different.
Notice the words "while still striving." It takes striving and discipline to grow in wisdom, take care of your body, and to choose change over sameness.
I like the combination of Acceptance, Joy and Decisive Action. All that affects the physical body and our capacity to heal... which is why I talk about these thoughts. I hope that all of us can empower ourselves (body and mind) this year and practice Santosha!
Love, Niki
*I will be starting up my Playful Yoga classes next week after the holiday break and will also sub Yogalates (Yoga + Pilates) January 10th at 9 am!
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Other Massage Therapists to try:
Officemate Becky Whiteman combines Thai Massage with traditional massage: (575) 613-2058
Officemate Genevieve Hawk is great with deep tissue and specific work: (505) 459-5810
Mandy Hanson (505) 226-5999
https://mandyhansonlmt.square.site/home
Carl Hime (505) 681-6409
https://carlhime3lmt.amtamembers.com/
For a Physical Therapist who's also a Massage Therapist try:
Renai Gallagher (505) 514-6031
https://renaigpt.com/
For Craniosacral Therapy try:
Eric Moya, Jeanne Gorham, or Ellen Santistevan
For Acupuncture and Natural Healing try:
Pamela Cornish DOM (505) 999-7305
https://www.pamelacornish.com/
For Love Life Coaching call:
Joielle Shepherd (505) 585-1006
joielle@joyfulloveguide.com
https://www.joyfulloveguide.com/
For Health Coaching:
Kate Honegger (505) 239-4295
"You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind. It is not a thing that crawls into the sun for warmth or digs holes into darkness for safety, but a thing free, a spirit that envelops the earth and moves in the ether. If these be vague words, then seek not to clear them. Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end."
-Kahlil Gibran
Yoga Videos for you to try:
Knee Aches or Instability https://youtu.be/XjA_jgrfyRc
Back Tension https://youtu.be/cKGlhNTp8tc
Jaw Tension or Clicking https://youtu.be/17ZZsQUdOsw
Low Back Pain https://youtu.be/FmpupA1Ib2c
Hip Aches or Pain https://youtu.be/lGuZxNMyj-U
Calf spasms https://youtu.be/-IhnZsCuwRo
Core Weakness https://youtu.be/gHF2HcftgDU
Shoulder Aches or Pain https://youtu.be/IngmVCoEL6Y
All my YouTube offerings are free. Enjoy and let me know if you have questions.
My Wednesday 12-1 Playful Yoga has 3 options: In person, Zoom, or get the video of class emailed to you. All for $15.
Playful Yoga With Niki
Tuesday 5:45-6:45 PM Yoga 1-2 at Midtown Sports n Wellness
Wednesday 12:00-1:00 Online and at Albuquerque School of Healing Arts
Thursday 5:30-6:30 PM at Albuquerque School of Healing Arts
Bodywork with Niki: Voted into The Top Five Massage Therapists in Albuquerque the Magazine's Best of the City 2018, 2019 & 2021!
Tune up your body and quiet your mind with individualized bodywork.
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"Listen with ears of tolerance.
See through eyes of compassion.
Speak with the language of love."
-Rumi
Anything that is not love
is only a visitor to your body.
You are not anxious
stress is simply flowing through you.
You are not permanently depressed,
sadness is simply visiting you.
You are not lost,
confusion is simply wandering within you.
And you are not broken,
pain is simply passing through you.
-Tahlia Hunter
Inspired by Rumi's poem "This being human is a guesthouse"