Artemisia Massage and Healing Arts

06/03/2026

Language is such a key tool for creation…. From my first introduction to complementary and alternative paradigms and healing in massage school, I was re-minded to respectfully and care-full-y consider how I framed my thoughts as well as my words. It’s interesting to observe the memes crossing my feed this morning — lots of ‘stop’ doing this and defensive or violent language framing what is intended to be helpful or self-helpful. I’ve been there and I hear you…. However — in journalism classes I took many years ago, we were encouraged to make our first statement both eye-catching and encapsulating the entire story, as that may be all the reader reads. Some of the early feminist writers completely revised chunks of the English language to be more holistic and inclusive — and some were downright in your face, to make a point as well as just to reframe the world… I don’t necessarily agree with the way they did it, but they did invite consideration of how I (or we) picture (write) my (our) thoughts. I’m also in process, as we all are every day, as to how I frame my world and worldview, thoughts and concerns and process. An invitation to me, as I invite clients when they use negative self talk, and to all of us, to consider carefully what we create with our words (not to mention thoughts!)… hmmm…. Have a fabulous and beautiful day!

05/26/2026

Growing things (and Beingness) today!… I’ve been thinking of incidents and accidents, hints and allegations (thank you, Paul Simon!) — the small things any person might do or say that cause ripples— sometimes positively and sometimes negatively…. It’s interesting how we can latch onto the negative… And if we don’t ask kind or thoughtful clarifying questions ‘from the source’ or of the source… those small acts of uncertainty, insecurity, anxiety, carelessness, can take us down a spiral of anxiety and fear, gossip and malingering petty meanness to others — particularly if we aren’t ‘curious’ — or fearless! — and ask what we might do for or, perhaps more to the point, invite another to do to rectify or heal and resolve the issue…. This clarification, if done with grace and lack of ego, can clarify instantaneously so that the potential for ‘spin’, escalation, and harm - drama, if you will— is shut down … And it’s interesting how, with grace for self or other, with fearless and kind invitation to explanation or clarity, the incident never spirals into drama at all…. And we all have experienced and can name the brilliance of the small things that positively impact us and raise the level of interaction for all…. It feels so healing to lean into that way of Being!

05/07/2026

Navigating the world these last weeks has been a bit like ‘the weather’, — 70s one day with all the promise of garden growing; 20s the next with snow and a nice fire in the wood stove — the world is fluctuating wildly between extremes. Accordingly, “The work” of being a healing practitioner these days seems — for me at any rate! — to be anchoring into wild hope and Being Love — radiating that safety and ‘presence’, less as something to latch on to or ‘grasp’, and more as a frequency to attune to so that one can flow with the sudden shifts and changes as we decide how and what to be (hopefully Love and Loving Presence!) in the world when we are able…. Feel the difference? Receiving support from something or someone you know to be supportive and Loving is key — and ‘distance’ is as close as a phone call to ‘catch the wave’… How’s that for … corny but true? Over and out, blessings and wellness and support all your ways!

04/12/2026

Did you know we have over 20 muscles, ligaments, and connection points that work together to help us move our jaws at the temporo-mandibular joint? ‘Just’ chewing our food involves an incredibly complex arrangement of interactions that create that movement— this supposedly ‘mechanical’ activity requires chemical, electrical, and even subatomic — neurobiological communications — in order to get multiple tiny muscles embedded in fascia and linked by tiny tendons, ligaments, and other structures, to perform what we take for granted as an everyday activity. I took a class for continuing education on temporomandibular joint disorders — which I would venture to say affect every single person I seen (or have seen!) on the treatment table… and it blew my mind once again to review the specificity and details of this one area of the body… And it was a gift and reminder that we are always learning more about the body through research and practical techniques — and to honor clients and selves with continuing to learn more, both about the body and about the many techniques that professionally trained practitioners may review or learn to respectfully and effectively work with the many ‘tissue issues’ that present! I am grateful indeed to have again renewed my Board Certification for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (that’s BCTMB #312176-00)with the National Certification Board For Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB)

04/07/2026

Happy Easter Monday, all…. A desert spring and a more conventional spring sight… May new life and hope abound for all!

02/21/2026

The Thinking Practitioner podcast has yet another fabulous subject and leading educator in the massage profession, Ruth Werner, to unpack it… on dizziness! I look forward to listening….

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01/04/2026

Warmest and best of New Year’s to all in these complicated times! Today’s cover photo is from a few days‘ ago hike, nearby… On our hikes, we nearly always find remnants of people who have lived here from 100 years and going way back… the things they have discarded, the remains of their work and ways of supporting themselves…. I am curious sometimes, wondering what their ‘normal’ looked like and curious how they navigated massive changes, as we are doing…. As I read, see, hear, and sense into the world around us these days, this new year indeed feels different… the framework or matrix that we are all connected through is shifting dramatically….

I am finding that when I take the time to ‘do/be’ the Awakening Healing Axis practices and protocols, I am supported and flow with - and heal! — the changes in my own life more easily, and can offer that to clients through appointments and classes…. AHA! work clears space for more effective flow through one’s Body and Being (that being health on all levels/dimensions), and helps renew or clarify an anchor to Spirit and Self — it provides more effective grounding to who and how I am in the world…

AHA’s practices — which anyone can do if integrated into one’s life — help me to return to connection to the Divine and and highest Self and be nourished and ‘reset’ when - as we all do! - things get knocked off-center or off-balance. Learning how to manage one’s energetic Self at all levels is a key to flowing with and healing patterns in personal, community, and global relationships — and that ripples out into the world from each pattern that we change individually. It takes time - -but there is no time like the present, eh! :-).

I am always, and would be honored and delighted to participate in that pattern ‘reset’ as you and as we are all adapting to and healing in a changing world. The physical massage work and the energy pattern shift work together and that takes time and consistency to change those patterns, as fascia research shows… I’ve noticed with clients that doing an ‘only’ AHA energy healing appointment shifts the patterns more deeply — and thus the whole shifts at a different level…. In some ways, as I’ve done AHA’s complex workshops over the last seven-eight years, it seems like AHA is a modality and set of practices that is perfectly timed for supporting us through these times!

So — warmly to each One… And may Divine grace and healing flow through your lives and support you/us, your/our communities, — indeed through your/our world as a whole.

11/27/2025

The Rio (Upper Rio Grande River) was showing off on its way through town again, earlier this week. I feel profoundly privileged and grateful to live where I do, have the brilliant, kind, and powerful children we have, have a loving and fun partnership, and — last but by no means least - to have a way of making a living which brings service to others in ways large and small…. Thank you to those who have been on my table once or dozens of times — you make my work and life so fulfilling! My life (our lives!) are so profoundly rich — not in $$ unless I compare it to many people around the globe — but in the ways that matter…. I wish to you and all of us in finding the joy of ‘mattering’ — being with others, in the small beauties of the world in our immediate space, sharing our gifts and the beauties with others — and in savoring the richness available in each moment. Blessings, all, this US Thanksgiving Day! See less

11/12/2025

A deep bow of respect and appreciation to Veterans for hard work, sacrifice and ongoing showing up…. The timing of my holiday rate reduction did begin with Veteran’s Day…. I see folks are checking! :-). Sooooo… Yes! I am indeed running a stress relief holidays rate reduction to $50 an hour for the holiday season for apptmts and gift certificates… I sent out emails to those who I have emails ‘for’ and posted a couple of flyers locally, but I should probably confirm here on the social media for those who might be wondering! It felt important, especially this year, to make massage therapy and energy healing work a little easier for those who appreciate and would like to gift that way of caring for Self and others… A token of gratitude and ‘extra’ care in these stress-full times, until Dec. 28! Call or text, or email, please, as social media is not where I schedule…. And - I have more generally updated my https://joannekaufman.amtamembers.com website. Though I am not advertising this special there, it is in effect if you contact me there as well! Holding space of deep gratitude and compassion - seeing all the pictures of northern lights from around the country was heart warming tonight!

Joanne Kaufman provides world-class massage therapy in Del Norte CO. Call and start improving your health today: (719) 580-6158

10/29/2025

‘Be/Stay curious!’ — A phrase we often hear or use in to energy healing classes or education… Turns out curiosity/awe/wonder is good for you/us! Soooo… stay curious!

From reduced inflammation to pain relief to increased levels of dopamine, there are tangible benefits behind emotions like curiosity and amusement.