Doorways for Healing
I would love to share something very dear to my heart…how both music and massage offer connection.
To our deepest emotions. Music can open up a portal to feel.
No matter what is happening in our world, music has the power move us through something. It's what has brought me out of my darkest times and allowed me to feel my strongest joys. It's like the deepest part of me is reflected back in sound. I believe it’s ultimately what has steered my life, bonded me to my husband Liam and something I COULD NEVER imagine living without.
Last night we journeyed to Brisbane to see his favourite band, Sigur Rós - three hours there and back on a school night!
If you’re not familiar with them, it’s four Icelanders that craft sweeping, orchestral strings, ambient textures, that feel otherworldly and deeply emotional. Their arrangements don’t follow rules. They use non-literal language allowing you to project your own feelings onto the music to feel whatever the music pulls out of you.
What makes it nostalgic for us is that their music captures the essence of the Icelandic landscape - Volcanic, icy, melancholic, breathtaking and takes us right back to our time together in Reykjavik when it was just the two of us exploring the country's unique magic.
Massage, like music, has the power to bypass words and speak directly to the nervous system. Just as Sigur Rós opens an inner portal through sound, massage opens one through touch. Both are deeply intuitive, they access the places we store our grief, joy and tension, and both create a safe space for those emotions to surface.
When you receive a massage, your body shifts out of defense and into presence. With physical release, emotional release often follows. We hold so much in the body - stress in the shoulders, heartbreak in the chest, anxiety in the gut. Massage can unlock those places.
It gives you permission to let go, the way music gives you permission to feel - Doorways for healing.
Anyway, I had a really deep desire to write about this truly magical evening that broadened my mind and will stay with me always.
