Hand in Hand Massage

10/06/2026

I’m introducing you through this podcast posted today, to my gong mentor, Bear Love, a very special person, as he talks about his history with gongs, the making of his flumies (the white friction mallets I use), deep listening, sound healing, vibrational awareness, silence vs sound, listening vs entering into sound….

Enjoy! 🌼

Bear Love is an internationally respected gong practitioner, educat...

23/05/2026

Learn vital seated, standing and lying breath techniques and their philosophy to effect your nervous system, calm your mind and optimize your lungs and overall health.

A sliding scale fee is offered for each participant. Space is limited. Registration link in comments.

22/05/2026

Taking your blood pressure may be one measure of your health status while gong baths and massage are health practices that optimize your life and your health.

05/05/2026

Now available at the Tuesday and Thursday markets, your choice of table or chair massage.

27/04/2026

A huge heartfelt “thank you” to everyone who came to our library talk/demo today on Full Spectrum Bodywork!

We began with a mini gong bath and went from there to Deep Tissue Massage, filling in many of the gaps between the two, energy work, nervous system work, lymphatic and myofascial work, craniosacral, polarity, Asian Bodywork… giving an understanding of their connectivity and the value of having a depth of training and understanding, not so that you can come to us for sessions but so that you can be better informed about the benefits of the full spectrum of bodywork, how working with it is more beneficial than what most people already know about… Swedish Massage & Deep Tissue.

Our studio is located in Boquete, Panamá, where we offer specialized 1 - 3 hour massage & bodywork sessions, sound and gong baths, workshops & classes. We are Monique & Blane and we have been Massage Professionals since 1991. We have taught at many schools in the U.S. and abroad and have worked wit...

20/04/2026

Craniosacral work optimizes cerebral spinal flow and has the same detoxification qualities as deep sleep.

We offer Craniosacral Work sessions and CSW integrated into your massage sessions. Link in comments.

“Sleep is not passive. Every night, during the deepest stages of slow-wave sleep, your brain conducts a molecular housecleaning operation of staggering efficiency — and without it, the seeds of Alzheimer's disease may be sown with every restless night. A 2025 study from the Boston University Neuroscience division used simultaneous EEG, functional MRI, and flow-sensitive MRI in 119 healthy adults across a range of ages to directly image cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics during natural sleep, confirming that large-amplitude waves of CSF pulse through the brain in precise synchrony with the slow neural oscillations of deep sleep, physically flushing amyloid-beta and tau protein out of the brain parenchyma.

The mechanism depends critically on synchrony. During slow-wave sleep, large populations of cortical neurons fire together then fall silent together, creating rhythmic changes in cerebral blood volume. Each time a wave of neural activity falls silent, blood briefly exits the cortex, creating a pressure gradient that draws a fresh pulse of CSF inward. This pulsatile flow drives the glymphatic system — the brain's perivascular waste drainage network — at its maximum efficiency. Disrupted slow-wave sleep breaks the synchrony, and glymphatic clearance drops by up to 70%.

The aging connection is stark. Slow-wave sleep diminishes with age, beginning the very decade of life — the 40s — when Alzheimer's pathology starts its 20-year silent accumulation. Researchers are now testing acoustic stimulation — gentle sounds timed to boost slow-wave sleep oscillations — as a non-pharmacological method of enhancing glymphatic clearance. Early trials showed a 28% increase in CSF flush rate in participants using the acoustic protocol.

The most powerful Alzheimer's prevention drug may already exist. It is called deep sleep.”

Source: Boston University, Science, 2025

17/04/2026

Coming up! Our talk & demo at the library. Click the link in the comments to register.

07/04/2026

07/04/2026

It was a beautiful, relaxing and yet a very busy morning of massage at the Tuesday market today. An amazing unbeatable combination!

02/04/2026

Register for our talk on the 27th and learn how to enrich your Massage & Bodywork experience and results through Full Spectrum Bodywork.