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The briefly famous series Making Room (11 prints) and a new series, Equity (30 prints with texts), will be on display at Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, from March 30th to May 5th. |
Ensoma is now also open Tuesdays, 12:30 to 4:30 PM, to accommodate those of you with flexible “Lunch” breaks during your weekly nine-to-five, and for those working “From home”, who can handle a conference call while being groomed and sip on champagne: this is your chance to multi-task.
Also, as I persevere in emancipating my practice from old fashion patterns, at last, I’m in phase with the hip payment option: say goodbye to your checkbook -however some of you actually appreciated recovering the lost pleasure of handwriting, now you may also swipe your card*. Another payment option: trading talents or goods —let’s talk.
*Thanks to Tony W. (mentor), who brought me that brilliant Square gadget.
Dear all,
Thank you for supporting this singular practice of mine, throughout 2011,
This past year was transcendental for Ensoma, and at a personal level, interacting and sharing with each and every one of You, I was moved to be able to expand further my own empirical humanity!
Now, let me claim my new title: Queen of the Sticky Affairs, a.k.a., Best Of Citysearch 2011 Hair Removal Business proprietress. Seriously, you seem to enjoy it. Especially from discovering some exhilarating Yelp reviews. Ahh, I am getting such a lovely ego boost {blushing} from this buzz. Thank you.
Note: the practice will be closed January 19th through January 31st, to reopen on February 1st 2012.
(I will be resourcing, practicing the art of living à la française…)
While anticipating Valentine`s Day, please consider booking in advance. Gift Certificates can be purchased in person (book online a gift certificate pick-up), or by mail.
Whenever the schedule appears unavailable for your preferred dates & times, please sign-up directly on the Waiting List, as I consistently consult it, and I may be able to accommodate you.
Happy New Year!
Bien à vous,
-Your Marion.
Charles Papillo‘s most recent { sacred } art installation within Ensoma resembles a large-scale mandala. An organically crafted epidermic bark of layered papers, which transpires an ephemeral and fragmented tale, encrypted over a hypnotizing multicolorful iris.
The newest cure-all may be an ancient one: simple touch. The Chinese have been using massage for all kinds of medical conditions for centuries. Now, Western research is confirming that massage isn’t just for muscle pain.
Massage creates chemical changes that reduce pain and stress throughout the body. One way it does this is by reducing a brain chemical called substance P that is related to pain. In a TRI study, for example, individuals with a form of muscle pain called fibromyalgia showed less substance P in their saliva (and they reported reduced pain) after a month of twice-weekly massages.
Destress, stay healthy, massage may boost immunity. Several studies have measured the stress hormone called cortisol in subjects’ saliva before and after massage sessions, and found dramatic decreases. Cortisol, which is produced when you are stressed, kills cells important for immunity, so when massage reduces your stress levels and hence the cortisol in your body, it may help you avoid getting a cold or another illness while under stress.
Blood Pressure Benefits: Massage reduces hypertension, because it stimulates pressure receptors that prompt action from the vagus nerve, one of the nerves that emerges from the brain. The vagus nerve regulates blood pressure, as well as other functions. In a 2005 study at the University of South Florida, hypertension patients who received 10 massages of 10 minutes each over three weeks showed significant improvements in blood pressure compared to a control group who simply rested in the same environment without any massage.
Technique Tactics: There’s little evidence to support one kind of massage over another. The key is pressure firm enough to make a temporary indentation in the skin.
Does a good massage do more than just relax your muscles? To find out, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles recruited 53 healthy adults and randomly assigned 29 of them to a 45-minute session of deep-tissue Swedish massage and the other 24 to a session of light massage.
All of the subjects were fitted with intravenous catheters so blood samples could be taken immediately before the massage and up to an hour afterward.
To their surprise, the researchers, sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health, found that a single session of massage caused biological changes.
Volunteers who received Swedish massage experienced significant decreases in levels of the stress hormone cortisol in blood and saliva, and in arginine vasopressin, a hormone that can lead to increases in cortisol. They also had increases in the number of lymphocytes, white blood cells that are part of the immune system.
Volunteers who had the light massage experienced greater increases in oxytocin, a hormone associated with contentment, than the Swedish massage group, and bigger decreases in adrenal corticotropin hormone, which stimulates the adrenal glands to release cortisol.
The study was published online in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
The lead author, Dr. Mark Hyman Rapaport, chairman of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai, said the findings were “very, very intriguing and very, very exciting — and I’m a skeptic.”
The sun of the hands mobilizes the mute flesh
-Andrée Chedid
The Voice
Buried beneath daylight’s clamor
Gold and the seasons
Beneath groaning streets
And the ferment of cities
In my grave of care
And blond laughter
In what bare tomb must I lie
To summon the voice
That speaks like my soul?
