Dawn Burke, CMT - ext.

Massage

Massage and Your Body

There are many reasons why people decide to receive massage.  Some want to address physical pain.  Some want to ease emotional suffering.  Some want to relax and nurture themselves.  Whatever your motivation, some possible benefits are:

  • Maintaining or regaining healthy posture and body balance
  • Relieving muscular tension
  • Improving blood and lymphatic circulation
  • Speeding and easing recovery during athletic training and events
  • Lowering blood pressure
  • Removing waste products from the muscles and lymphatic system
  • Facilitating healing from illness and injury
  • Easing emotional distress
  • Reducing stress
  • Relieving pain
  • Encouraging self-acceptance and love.

Massage moves the blood and lymphatic fluid in our bodies in addition to reducing physical and emotional stress.  Given these facts, our bodies respond in many different ways to being massaged -- some of which are involuntary.   Memories old and new can come into your consciousness.  You may get cold, develop goose bumps, or become sexually aroused.    Some people fall asleep almost immediately upon lying on the table, and some people become hyper vigilant.  Additionally, physical and emotional release is often part of a massage session -- an aching muscle lets go as does an aching heart.  On yet other occasions, your body may not be ready to let go at all.  These things are normal reactions to massage, and they can be appropriately and safely addressed through good communication between client and therapist.

About Dawn Burke

Dawn graduated from Syracuse University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in political science, and from Vermont Law School in 1991 with a Juris Doctor Degree.  She loved her job as a Public Defender, and tried her hand at many different areas of civil law.  In the end, she found that she was fighting her natural talents by focusing on a career so seated in conflict and mired in stress.

After receiving a hot stone massage in 2002, Dawn was inspired to attend massage school.  She graduated from The Boulder College of Massage Therapy, one of the best massage schools in the country, in 2003.  This school requires 1,000 hours of education to graduate, and offers many more hours of additional classes; she graduated with over 1,200 hours of education.   In school, Dawn learned how to perform Shiatsu, Swedish massage, normalization of soft tissue techniques, integrative massage, sports massage, orthopedic massage, infant massage, Thai massage, and pre/post-natal massage.  She earned a license to practice massage in Maryland in October 2003.  Dawn attends continuing education classes often, and holds certifications in pre/postnatal massage, sports massage, and orthopedic style massage.   She has additional training in hot stone massage.  Dawn holds national certification and Maryland state licensure for massage therapy.

In Maryland, Dawn started practicing massage therapy in Bethesda, Maryland at Aveda and at Jolie.  Additionally, she worked at the Complimentary Care Center.  These work environments helped Dawn hone her skills, introduced her to Aruvedic philosophies, and helped her learn the joy and relaxation that come with salt scrubs and hot stone massage.   Working in The Center for Mind Body Therapies now, her clients enjoy the flexibility of time a spa cannot provide, and Dawn can use all the types of body work she knows during each session depending upon what the client needs.

Everyone benefits when they receive skilled and nurturing touch.  Dawn’s goal is to provide this to her clients.


Contact: dburke67@hotmail.com

P: 301-631-2936 ext.