Mama Mio

In her work, Key Burns  combines multiple healing modalities with medical intuitiveness. Key is a Reiki Master in the Usui System of Natural Healing and Karuna schools and she has practiced and educated for the past 15 years.  An extraordinary woman with extraordinary touch.

Sacredness of Touch

People often ask me why I became a massage therapist. I found it more a calling then a career choice. While in massage school I met many types of individuals pursuing careers in massage for various reasons. I found myself looking forward to the practice of massage on my classmates. The tissue and skin seemed for me to hold all of the memories and experiences of this individual. Be it good, bad, sad, joyous, it did not matter, what I found interesting about touching skin and the muscles beneath was the body holds all of our experiences, thought forms, and memories until given the opportunity to release them. Through working with many types of people coming from a variety of backgrounds I found the one constant to be the courage to allow another being to touch and change the texture and holding pattern in the body. I began to realize the enormous trust we put into our massage therapists and the true intimacy involved. As I work with people I am aware of the profound trust and courage this being in front of me is offering. I have come to understand and deeply appreciate that any being allowing us to touch them is worthy of profound respect. For me this is the basis of my work anything less then profound respect being offered compromises the relationship between therapist and client. The grace offered by massage is unmatched for me and when offered from a grounded, sacred and loving space I believe it can change both the therapist and the client in insightful ways.

Penny Bussell Stansfield has been a certified massage therapist and DONA International (Doulas of North America) Birth Doula and Doula Trainer since 1998. She is a prenatal massage instructor and teaches Mama Mio Mama’s Touch spa treatments for supermamas in the United States.

A client of mine came every two weeks for a prenatal massage throughout her pregnancy. Every session, I would begin by placing my hands gently on her belly and I would talk to her and her baby in a gentle, soothing voice. I would suggest she took soft, full breaths and I would say: “picture your baby nestled in your body and imagine that as you breathe in, your breath gently touches him/her like a soft, loving hand, supplying all the oxygen and nutrients that he/she needs. As you breath out, see the caressing hand of your breath gently lift from him/her taking all tension with it”. This became a ritual at each massage therapy session. When my client went into labor, she would place her own hand on her belly for each contraction and play my soothing words in her head. This ritual kept her calm and focused throughout labor and she had a beautiful birthing experience.