JLM Therapeutics Massage and Yoga Therapies

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JLM Therapeutics Massage and Yoga Therapies Move, Feel and Be Better. We specialize in
Massage Therapy to help feel and relieve acute and chronic pain
Yoga Therapy to help you move and feel better

Short clips and fun learning in the comfort of your own home! Online Anatomy Courses can actually be entertaining, trust...
10/12/2026

Short clips and fun learning in the comfort of your own home!
Online Anatomy Courses can actually be entertaining, trust me.

Hey there, yoga teachers, massage therapists, and anatomy enthusiasts! Ever left one of my anatomy workshops feeling like you need a little extra help to fully grasp all the details? Or maybe you’ve finished a 200-hour or 300-hour yoga teacher training and found that the anatomy section didn’t dive deep enough for you? You could also take a lot of yoga classes and just want to learn more about the foundations of anatomy, how your body moves and how to move it even better! If you’re feeling like you could use a refresher or just want to get a better grip on the human body, I’ve got something exciting for you!

I’m offering a workshop that’s perfect for anyone looking to brush up on bones, joints, muscles, and movement. We’ll make anatomy fun and interactive, so you’re not just memorizing facts but actually understanding how everything works together. We’ll cover all sorts of cool stuff like physiology, kinesiology, and how these concepts apply directly to yoga poses. Plus, we’ll touch on Ayurveda, palpation of bony landmarks, yoga philosophy, and brain hemisphere laterality.
In this course, we’ll use Ray Long’s Key Muscles and Key Poses, some great anatomy posters, and my own teaching manual to guide us. We’re diving into goal-oriented and awareness-oriented practices—both crucial for growth as practitioners and teachers. Expect a mix of hands-on learning, philosophy, subtle anatomy, and a blend of Western and Eastern models of the human body. And of course, we’ll be focusing on self-care practices because, as the great thinkers like Socrates and Shakespeare said, knowing yourself is key!

The workshop includes over 120 videos covering everything from bones and muscles to hands-on palpation, seven yoga practices, three mantra practices, and three yoga nidra sessions!

Ready to dive into some entertaining anatomy? Click the link below for more details and to register. You can start anytime, as it’s all online. Remember, I have a musical theater background as well as biology, chemistry, comedy, language and martial arts. You're certain to be entertained...

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Let's use yoga to relieve hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder pain!This quarter focuses on building upper body strength, and...
10/09/2026

Let's use yoga to relieve hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder pain!

This quarter focuses on building upper body strength, and in this workshop we look at common arm issues that prevent that. Whether your wrists won't let you do down dog or plank, or your elbows hurt playing tennis, or your shoulders ache when you wake up, this therapeutic class is geared toward helping you out.

Either in-person at my studio space or livestream from the comfort of your own home, join me for some therapeutic yoga. This October workshop focuses on how you can use simple yoga poses, breath work and meditation to relieve upper body tension. You can be assured of a bit of laughter and nonsense, and also some awesome companionship with like-minded yoga people.

This class is designed to treat your hands and wrists to some intentional movement and ease. If you’ve been typing, gripping, scrolling, or lifting all week and your wrists are humming a little protest, this workshop is very much for you. We’ll slow down, soften into the body, and practice therapeutic yoga-inspired stretching, breath awareness, and mindful release of tension.
You don’t need fancy poses, just a bit of thoughtful movement, a curious mind, and a willingness to listen in. Let your body show you where it’s holding tightness, how it could work better, and what it’s ready to let go.
By the end, you’ll emerge with calmer joints, warmed muscles, less locked-up feelings in your hands, and a little more freedom to use your body, not simply endure it. Why sign up? Well, because your self care starts directly with you, and your hands that do so much work, deserve to feel more ease.

Click the blue Register Here button below to sign up for the breathing workshop.

Click the links below for more information on upcoming Self Care Saturday classes and even register for them!

Nov 14th - Yoga for Shoulder Relief (https://momence.com/l/R5h0B084)
Dec 12th - The Art of Slowing Down (https://momence.com/l/WQhMg0xB)

Online Video Resource Library

All of my past Self Care Saturday videos are available for 30-day rental through my website, in case you need some gentle inspiration, or just a Josh fix as some have called it.

Click here (https://jlmtherapeutics.com/workshops/) to look through the entire library, and look for the Videos tab.

Check out our event on Saturday, Oct 17, 2026.

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Here come the holidays! Socrates is accredited with this statement, as well as two others that are in the Temple of Apol...
10/07/2026

Here come the holidays!

Socrates is accredited with this statement, as well as two others that are in the Temple of Apollo in Delphi; Nothing to Excess, and Certainty Brings Insanity. Wow, talk about unpacking some meaning!

A yoga teacher friend and I keep each other accountable to some yoga philosophy tenets with weekly check-ins about monthly topics. This month's topic for me is self-study, Svadhyaya in Sanskrit. I believe Socrates' words sum this up perfectly.

We've discussed self care, your nervous system, breathing and more over the past year, all with the purpose of self discovery. When you learn that your body is an amazing tool to work with, you work with it differently. Your breath teaches you that you're stressed or relaxed, safe or threatened. Your nervous system clues you in to your surroundings and gives you excellent messages as to when you can heal and when you can move.

As we move into the holiday season, we tend to throw all these signals out the window as we celebrate to excess and convince ourselves of our certainty. So perhaps this year you make a vow to yourself to slow down a bit and choose differently. Smaller course corrections tend to be more successful than big sweeping changes. Aesop gave us that lovely story, with the Tortoise and the Hare.

Massage and yoga therapies give us an hour of time where we slow down enough to question our own motivation and then actively commit to small changes for ourselves, for our own health. My one wedding vow to my husband Russell was "I vow to take care of myself for you", and I asked him to say the same in return, and to this day almost eight years later, it's still a challenge!

So commit with me to a weekly practice of self-study for the month, in whatever self care modes you use, and be accountable to another person for your small, steady shifts toward taking better care of yourself for others.

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Simple tennis ball rolling for deep tissue benefits in a short online courseWe talked Massage 101 last month, and here's...
09/28/2026

Simple tennis ball rolling for deep tissue benefits in a short online course

We talked Massage 101 last month, and here's a way to take some of that deep tissue work home with you!

Feeling like you need a massage right this minute, but your schedule’s just too packed? No worries—I’ve got a quick fix for you! Grab a tennis ball and start working out those tight spots right at your desk, whether you’re at home or at the office. The best part? My online "Have a Ball Self Massage Course" offers a full-body massage experience where you stay fully dressed, and it’s way more affordable than any massage therapist in Denver!

In this four-week course, you’ll get weekly video lessons showing you how to use a tennis ball for a complete self-massage. Here’s the breakdown:
• Week One: We kick things off with your feet, shins, and calves.
• Week Two: We move on to the hamstrings, adductors, and quadriceps.
• Week Three: We tackle the hip flexors, IT band, and diaphragm—those spots can really use some love!
• Week Four: We finish up with the spine and shoulders, front and back.

And to top it all off, you’ll get bonus tips for massaging your hands and forearms, which is a game changer for your neck and upper back if you’re glued to a computer all day.

Ready to get started? Click the button below and turn those tennis balls into your personal massage therapist!

Online Video Resource Library

All of my past Self Care Saturday, Men's Online Pelvic Floor Conference and Have a Ball videos are available for 30-day rental through my website, in case you need some gentle inspiration, or just a Josh fix as some have called it.

Click here (https://jlmtherapeutics.com/workshops/) to look through the entire library, and look under the Videos tab.

Click here for event details from JLM Therapeutics!

Is deeper work really better work? Not always, it turns out! I know, imagine that! First off, let's talk about your nerv...
09/23/2026

Is deeper work really better work?

Not always, it turns out! I know, imagine that!

First off, let's talk about your nervous system and how healing fits into this. We toggle between the Fight/Flight (Sympathetic) and Rest/Digest (Parasympathetic) aspects of our nervous systems. We need the sympathetic part to get up in the morning, to do cardio, to work, and more. We need the parasympathetic to settle down, to process heavy emotions, to appreciate beautiful things around us and to fall asleep.

Massage therapy normally puts us into that parasympathetic mode. The massage room itself is usually calming, the music is generally calming, the lighting is often very relaxing. So we're put at ease just walking into the space.

Then I usually ask what you're feeling, which parts of your body are speaking to you, where you'd like me to focus and how you'd like to feel by the end. A lot of people say they want really deep work at this point. They want to feel the effects (usually soreness) of the massage for a few days afterward, to get their money's worth! Trust me, I completely understand this and have heard it a lot over my career.

Here's the deal though. When you're getting worked over that deeply, where you're holding your breath, where you're squinting your eyes, hoping it's almost over, telling yourself it's just for a few more seconds and it'll all be worth it in the end, you are completely in Fight/Flight/Freeze mode. Your body is tensing itself somewhere against the pressure (Fight), your nervous system wants to get off the table and run away (Flight) and that deep exhale once the deep pressure is released says you've been tense (Freeze). Your nervous system thinks you're under threat and is telling you it's not actually healing in that moment. The switch is fully in sympathetic mode.

It's not always a bad thing to be in this place. But if every massage we're getting keeps putting us in this sort of response, where it takes a couple of days to convince the body to come out of it, we're not ever getting into the Rest/Digest/Heal system. In fact, we could be continuing the trauma we think we're healing, pushing it deeper into our tissues.

Well then, what now? What do I suggest instead? Well, I'm going to answer that with another question. What if you asked for less pressure, just to that edge before you hold your breath? What would happen if you used those signals from above as warning signs that the work is too deep and needs to be subtly adjusted? How would the massage change if you stayed in the parasympathetic experience more than 50% of the time? You would probably be sore less, yes, and you run the risk of feeling better for longer.

Here's the point. Deep massage shouldn't hurt, ever. And if you feel a sense of accomplishment from hurting after a massage, please know you are hurting after a massage that shouldn't hurt. It's that simple. Perhaps there's something scary about letting your body truly relax and heal. "Good" pain and "bad" pain are both pain to our feeling brain, the nervous system. The thinking brain has negotiated a vocabulary around the pain. But the truth remains that pain is pain, and you are tolerating, even encouraging it by hoping to hurt after a deep tissue session.

I've been in the field for over twenty years, I've worked on a lot of bodies, and I am happy to discuss the subtleties of this with you during your entire session. Trust me when I say I have found that direct physical experience of parasympathetic deep tissue work is the most effective for people. You have to feel the difference between deep tissue parasympathetic massage and deep pressure sympathetic massage in your own body.

Hopefully this gets you looking forward to your next massage! Ask your therapist to back off just a touch when you feel an intense sensation, wait five breaths, and I bet you notice the tension releases a touch faster than you expected.

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3443 S Galena Street Ste 150
Denver, CO
80206

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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