MASSAGE THERAPY

Featuring Arizona business that I recommend!

Carefree Pilates:

Dana Sterling of Carefree Pilates is a certified Pilates instructor with over 10 years of experience. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology, and an associate degree in Pure and Applied Science. These degrees provide her with a strong foundation of biomechanics and anatomy which is unique in her field. Her approach focuses on prevention and long-term solutions rather than quick-fixes. She educates her clients in optimal posture, alignment, and correct movement patterns. Clients with special and post rehabilitation needs will benefit from Dana's understanding of pathoanatomy. She specializes in mechanical lower back problems (such as herniated disc, Stenosis, Spondylolisthesis,) and clients who are recovering from surgery, or trying to avoid it. Dana certified with Polestar Education in 2000 and again in 2005 for continuing education. She is also PMA certified.

Mobile Veterinary Services:

Dr. Jenna Renshaw of Assisi Veterinary Service is Board Certified in Canine and Feline Practice, and is an excellent Veterinarian Doctor. Dr. Renshaw comes to your home with her mobile clinic-on-wheels, and she's less expensive than most brick and mortar clinics. Eliminate the stress to your animals from driving in the car, and let the Doctor come to you. It's so much better for your pets.

Training & Coaching Professional:

In business since 1984, Debra Exner is a speaking, training and coaching professional. She helps businesses and individuals move into action. Debra works with individuals who want to maximize their effectiveness and satisfaction at work, while maintaining a healthy life/work balance. Contact Debra to schedule a free, no obligation, 45 minute telephone coaching session.

Tasty Cafe and Bulk Herbs:

Chakra 4 Herb & Tea House provides the highest quality organic herbs, teas, spices, oils, custom blends, and other plant-based products. They offer education on the use of herbal medicine and food to support health and an organic lifestyle in the city. In the Cafe, they offer delicious, safe, real food that is locally and organically grown whenever possible, nutrient-dense and of a high vibration, full of life-force energy, and prepared with love.

Reevis Mountain School:

Reevis Mountain School of Self-Reliance is a wilderness homestead, spiritual retreat, and school for skills and attitudes that enhance self-reliance. Reevis provides a place of inspiration, peace, and reverence for nature, where, in a magical remote wilderness setting, students and interns can learn natural healing and self-reliance skills, experience growing their own food, develop spiritual awareness, enjoy a spirit of community, and live healthfully.

Phoenix Area Yoga Studios:

Phoenix area yoga studios are listed on my yoga website.

Featuring Retreat and Learning Centers that I recommend!

Breitenbush Hot Springs - Detroit, OR

Esalen Institute - Big Sur, CA

Findhorn Foundation - Forres, Scotland

Hollyhock - Cortes Island, B.C., Canada

Omega Institute - Rhinebeck, NY and Watsonville, CA

7% of your payment was donated to Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute in 2009.

7% of all gross receipts from my private massage practice were donated to Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute in 2009. CAI's mission is to promote and support community-based education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

I read Three Cups of Tea on the airplane over the December 2008 holidays and it inspired me like never before. Greg Mortenson has a huge heart and is a living Saint of the highest merit. For the last 15 years, Greg has forged relationships with a forgotten and impoverished people in the most remote and dangerous regions of the world in order to improve the quality of their lives by helping them build schools.

It costs $1.00 per month for one child's education in Pakistan or Afghanistan, a penny to buy a pencil, and a teacher's salary averages $1.00 per day. I am honored to support Greg Mortenson's efforts through my own work as a massage therapist by donating 7% all gross receipts from my private practice.

Greg Mortenson goes to war with the root causes of terrorism every time he offers a student a chance to receive a balanced education, rather than attend a radical extremist madrassa. I truly believe this is the most effective strategy to secure our nation and peacefully fight terrorism.

Learn about Greg Mortenson's work from a YouTube video.

Listen to Greg Mortenson in a Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross.

Three Cups of Tea Since 1993, Greg Mortenson's CAI has built more than 78 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan with an emphasis on educating girls. Research has proven that educated girls are more likely to marry later, have fewer children, contribute to family income and insist their own children are educated. They are less likely to die while giving birth and their children are less likely to die. They are less vulnerable to disease, sexual exploitation, and child labor.

There are national benefits as well, including economic growth and prosperity and stronger democracies. In short, there may be no better investment for the health and development of poor countries around the world than investments to educate girls.

"Three Cups of Tea is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of our time. Greg Mortenson's dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it's proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world." - Tom Brokaw

Robert meets Greg in Scottsdale, Arizona on 2/4/09