Sensing What’s Good For You
At Massage Therapy Center Palo Alto, our expert therapists re-align your muscles and tissues so that you not only breathe better, but your sense of what is an appropriate decision speaks to you clearly and effortlessly.
What Causes Stress For You?
When we are stressed, our body responds as though we are in danger and releases hormones that speed up our heart and breathing, to give us a burst of energy. This is known as the fight-or-flight stress response. Our bodies recover from normal short-term stress…
Eternal Spring
'Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claim me, so many heavy coats. I didn’t choose them, I don’t fault them, but it takes time to reject them. Now in the…
The Feel-Good Remedy For Stress
Experts estimate that 80 percent of disease is stress-related. Thankfully, therapeutic massage and bodywork are available to combat this frightening statistic. The profound physical changes that massage has on your body will affect many areas of your life. Besides increasing relaxation and decreasing anxiety, massage…
Lucia Miracchi: Therapist, Educator, MTC Owner
Lucia Miracchi, CMT, CHP, has contributed significantly to the field of somatic healing arts for over 35 years, both as a therapist and an educator. In 1981, she was a co-founder of Massage Therapy Center and Body Therapy Center School of Massage, where she was…
Techniques That Relieve Cold Symptoms
The congestion and aches of a cold can be debilitating and depressing. Here are some simple acupressure and lymphatic techniques that you can use to relieve your symptoms. Try using a combination of these for five minutes every few hours while your cold is at…
The Body Knows
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up. ~ Sue Monk Kidd Our high quality therapists at Massage Therapy Center Palo Alto will give you the best bodywork sessions to shore up your circulatory and immune systems, keeping you strong…
Joy and Gratitude for Health
We begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life. ~ Mark Nepo Choose friends who are joyous people. See these people frequently and you will find your spirits…
Your Thoracic Spine
About 80 percent of Americans experience back problems at some point. Most people attribute back pain to their low backs or necks, but oftentimes issues in the upper back are actually to blame. Although the upper back, thoracic spine, doesn’t get much attention, it’s literally…
Priceless Gifts
An empty moment grew immense as space. And suddenly happiness of being entered me. I heard in my heartbeat the birth of time and each instant of life one after the other came rushing in like priceless gifts. ~Anna Swir At Massage Therapy Center Palo…