This blog is simply to highlight the 2023 issue of the MANCHESTER LIFE magazine, from Old Mill Road Media publishers in Arlington VT, that just hit the streets this month. It is distributed throughout all of Southern VT, and in this issue’s NEW IN TOWN section is a listing for my newly relocated health practice in Manchester. Pick up a copy! Share with friends. Check out their website to see the copy.
Here is the text from the New In Town entry —
“BODYWORK is not massage” says Day Acheson who has just relocated his health practice of 30 years to Manchester from Massachusetts. “Bodywork is a name that includes therapy skills for whole body health, from injury and chronic illness to athletic performance, improvements can be made if one knows how.” Day is now in to his 33rd year in this field and has skills of cranio-sacral and neuromuscular therapies, orthopedic massage, zentherapy, and jin shin jyutsu. He has developed a skill set that combines Eastern and Western medical models for musculoskeletal alignment and health, and for systemic illnesses, all with the focus on wellbeing without drugs or surgery. Much more information is available at the web site DaytoDayHealing.com. He can be found at the shared office of Dani Granaroli of Green Mountain Myofascial Release at 7254 MAIN STREET, MANCHESTER CENTER, VT 05255-9531. He is worth the visit.”
My move of my health practice to Manchester came a year ago and I really appreciate having found a suitable office location so quickly and to being welcomed so fully in to the area.
THINKING AHEAD
Why did I move? Like so many, COVID gave me a life-change, starting with a halt to my health practice in March 2020, and then the pause that this provided prompted some thinking ahead. I appreciated my 30+ years being an active provider of therapies throughout Massachusetts, yet now with kids grown, it was clear to me that a move closer to the ski mountains was in order. And perhaps even long overdue.
Apropos of my prior blog, SPRING CLEANING, where I speak of preparing now for summer sports, there is much that we can prepare for in life, like long-lasting good health for example. Here again, a little thinking ahead and preparing can make a big difference.
There is often a benefit of thinking ahead that we can sometimes miss with day-to-day living. Taking a moment to look and see the bigger picture around us in the current situation and also pausing to think ahead to where down our road we wish to be in our future years can be very valuable in making it all happen, and happen well.
I invite you to ask what you might wish for your future health, to think ahead, and then to deliberately adjust your current life-style to create such a future. Our bodies need time to adjust to changes. Our bodies are physical and rely on physiologic processes of building anew. Time periods of months and years are appropriate in order to measure success. And consistent habits keep the course on the right path.
For example, just as the earth turns once each day to give us sunlight and dark skies, we choose to be active and sleep in a daily cycle. How would our lives be if we began each day with a morning stretch to begin the regenerative movement to our blood to prepare for an easy flowing day of smooth movement, and a morning beverage of warm lemon water to stimulate the digestive tract for an active day of transforming foods to nutrition, and a listen to the morning birds to give our mind peaceful stimulation in preparation for a productive day of clarity and decisiveness? Many of us do this already, and many others find time to do this often if not quite daily, and still others wish “if only I had the time…” Well, perhaps the time is actually right now, perhaps the time is today.
There is a new book out that i have not vetted yet for myself yet i do appreciate its intention, which is to present information that we can use to live well for our future years —and perhaps to even live more of them. The book is OUTLIVE: The Science and Art of Longevity by Bill Gifford and Peter Attia, from Harmony Books, March, 2023.
I will be looking in to this book over the next several weeks. It might be the perfect thing for our next steps in paving the way for our future years of excellent and healthy living of fulfilling lives.