Body & Soul provides Massage for NSMC Cancer Walk

Body & Soul Massage and Wellness provides massage to Walkers in NSMC Cancer Walk.

For the 7th year Body & Soul is volunteering its services to the NSMC Cancer walk. "We feel it is really important to give back to the community" said Ann Sousa co-owner of Body & Soul. Kasey Lane, licensed massage therapist feels, "For years, I was the one raising money and walking or running for various charity's. This event is a way for me to share my talents with the community". "Cancer has touched many people in my life. Volunteering for this event is way for me to honor their memory.", licensed massage Linda Houle.

The 19th annual NSMC Cancer WALK is Sunday, June 21, 2009 at the scenic Salem Willows. Over the past eighteen years the WALK has contributed more than $14 million to the NSMC Cancer Center, ensuring the availability of the most sophisticated oncology services on the North Shore of Boston.

For more information visit:
http://nsmc.partners.org/web/giving/cancer_walk

Massage therapy now an accepted healing technique

The Boston Globe, Sunday April 26th

........"Massage has moved out of sleazy backrooms to become an accepted healing technique with therapeutic and rejuvenating benefits. According to the American Massage Therapy Association, almost one-quarter of adult Americans had a massage at least once in the last 12 months, and employment for massage therapists is expected to increase 20 percent by 2016. And with the anxiety of widespread unemployment, housing foreclosures, and rising prices, massage can help manage stress."
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