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Jana Powers, LMT

214-926-7350

janapowers.lmt@hotmail.com 

Available by appointment

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Menu of Services

  

Swedish Relaxation Massage - Full body massage, using long slow strokes to reduce stress, loosen muscle and relax the body.

Therapeutic Massage - Combination of deep tissue, trigger point, myofascial release and swedish massage to address areas of tenderness, discomfort, or limited mobility.

Sports Massage - Combination of therapeutic massage and stretching to used to try to help the athlete's body achieve maximum performance and physical conditioning with a decreased chance of injury or pain and a quicker recovery.

Pricing

60 Minute Massage    -  $ 65

90 Minute Massage    -  $ 80

120 Minute Massage  -  $ 100

Outcall Charge - add $15 to above pricing

Incall and Outcall available

Incall location:

KeKino Institute of Healing
1620 Custer Road
Plano, TX 75075

10 am to 7 pm

Spring Break

This has been a great week. I have enjoyed being home with the kids. The weather has been so mild and balmy. Some busy days and some slow days. Good times. I even found time for a little cleaning and yard work. Not bad at all.

Yesterday we went, as a family to Fort Worth, we visited the stock yards and the science museum. We even experienced a fire drill complete with Fort Worth firemen. The kids were excited. We were all tired by the end of the day, but overall a success. Love the one day trip, so much easier than multiple day family vacations. Much better for Dylan, and to be honest, for me as well. For as we all know family trips are working vacations for Moms (and Dads too).

Spending the day out of the house with Dylan is a anxiety provoking undertaking. For example I was standing next to Dylan in a China exhibit and we were both enjoying looking at the kitchen they had set up. I began to read an interesting fact written on the wall and when I look up Dylan is gone. I run around looking for him just in time to see him disappear around the corner. I run after him and don't catch up till he has turned right down the hall and was almost to the elevator. He wanted to ride the elevator and decided to take matters into his own hand. If I had look up one second later I would not have seen which direction he had gone. And it would have been a whole different day from there. I think this example is representative enough to demonstrate why one would not want to sign up for a whole week of these situations.

Needing to write again

Writing for me has always been my poor man's therapy. I have talked through so many issues on paper. I have trouble thinking in a straight line in my head. Ideas seem to blow through my head like a summer breeze. Filling it with swirling possibilities one minute and disappearing the next. If I don't capture them on paper when they show up, I am bound to lose them and find myself saying "what was that amazingly good idea that I had yesterday". So here I am in 2011, a year that is bound to bring all sorts of new ideas blowing into my head. I started massage school at the end of January. I actually did it. Just the initial step to starting down a new path is exciting to me and opening the window to my mind and letting in a fresh breeze. So although I have less time than ever, I feel the need to write. To mark the path as I go so I can see how far I have come, when I get there (where ever there is).

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Another opportunity that I have snapped up is the chance to take a 30 day online class with Heather B. of the blog beauty that moves. It has been one of the two blogs that I visit daily. The name of it is 30 day vegan. Don't be fooled. I am not planning on becoming a full time vegan, but I do want to become a part-time vegetarian/vegan and am looking forward to the class that starts on March 7. So I look forward to sharing my thoughts and learning from that as well.

Winds of Change

My difficult summer is about to come to an end on Monday when both of my boys will be in school full days. I hate to say it but I feel a heavy weight being lifted from my shoulders. I will be working part time with the kids in school so I will have 5 hours twice a week of me time. Most of this me time will be donated back to the family in the form of running errands or housework, but I plan to spend some of this precious time on myself and I don't feel guilty about that at all. I have spending any free time that I can scrape together making plans to use this gift of time wisely. I have several plans for the future that are simmering right now and I am truly excited about all of them.

• One thing I will be doing next week is setting up visits to several local massage schools that I am interested in attending. I am very excited about setting out on this new path. It feel very right for me now. I have been thinking it over and praying about it for about 6 months and I am ready to start the process. I won't be able to start classes until next year, but I am happy to be certain of my next steps. That will also give me some time to work on my own wellness and weight loss programs. I know that in massage school you have to practice on your class mates and I would like to go in knowing that I look the best I can.

• I also plan on using my days off to be active and really challenge myself physically. I can go to the gym, go for a hike, or ride my bike to run errands. The sky is the limit really. I can't wait to visit my secret getaway in the woods by Town Lake. I love my labyrinth. I need to take a picture of it to post.
• I also plan to get back into my organic co-op that has a Tuesday pick-up since that is one of my days off. I am ready for all these changes bring them on.
• The one change I need to make and know will make all the difference to my health goals is logging my calories everyday. I am so bad about logging breakfast and lunch and leaving the rest blank. Doesn't really help at all if you don't write everything down. This will be a struggle, but it is the cornerstone to any efforts to change my body for the better.

In Nature

Today I spent the day hiking at the Heard Museum. It was such a nice and sunny day, I could not spend it indoors cleaning the house. There were birds everywhere in the woods and grasslands. I wish I knew the names of them all, but I was happy to enjoy them in nameless beauty. I took my camera with me and took some lovely pictures. I had a peaceful walk and sat and wrote in my journal. Just a perfect day.

After I picked Lulu up from school we went to feed the ducks at the park. He enjoyed this tremendously. There were mallards and a few Canadian geese. The aggressive big ducks with the ugly red eyes were not there and that was much more enjoyable. They charge you when you flash any bread at them. Lulu really enjoyed it when the ducks would chase each other fighting for the bread. He found this highly diverting. Mainly because playing chase is the height of entertainment in his book.

When Dilly got home, we worked on pedaling his bike. He did a good job. We are so close to him being able to ride by himself. Practice, practice, practice. I can hardly wait to celebrate this milestone.

The ultimate luxury - time

Time is healing me. I can feel it sooth my worn out soul. The more I use the time that I have to exercise, explore, create, read, connect with others the more human I feel...the more happiness I feel.. the more joy I feel. It is a natural wellspring of joy, not forced or faked or concocted. It bubbles up from inside me and and changes how I interact with those near and dear to me. You just never know how thirsty you are till you finally get a drink.

Secret Garden

Since being off of work for 3 weeks now, the thing that I am enjoying the most is the gift of time. Time to stop and follow my mental meanderings and take that internal journey through thoughts and feelings and sometimes to follow more corporal inclination to want to know what is down that street. Today I had the time to do just that. Both kids were in school today, so I decided to skip the gym and go walking at Town Lake in McKinney. There is a Rec. center right before the turn off for the lake and there were signs for a book sale. I pulled in....I had time. I looked around for a while. I did leave with one book I have been wanting for a while called 'I Love Dirt'. It is a book about activities to encourage children to interact with nature.

On the way to my car I saw that back behind the parking area was the beginning of a nature trail. I went and looked at the trail map and saw that there was a meditation garden further down the trail. I was curious. I decided to explore...I had time. I started down the trail about 50 feet only to find the path 6 inches deep in water for the next 50 feet so I had to turn back. I look at the map again and realized that there was another entrance a few feet down the road. I found the entrance and started down the path. This path had little raised bridges to go over the water. It was perfectly lovely. It only takes a little wilderness to forget that 75 central is less than 100 feet away. I walked for a little way and then jogged a little bit. There was a serpentine creek that followed the trail for most of the way. After about 15 minutes I came across the Meditation garden. It was a stone circular labyrinth. So very cool.

I decided I would give this form of Meditation a try. I started on the path and followed slowly to center all the while talking to God about the progress I have made on my goals I am currently focused on. It was very soul restoring, a spiritual exercise. The best way I can describe it is like doodling with your body so your mind is free to focus on other things. I will definitely be going back there....if I have time.