JLM Therapeutics Massage and Yoga Therapies

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

AKA Yoga for Desk Jockeys!Working at a desk can really wreak havoc on a person, right? Especially if you are working fro...
06/19/2026

AKA Yoga for Desk Jockeys!

Working at a desk can really wreak havoc on a person, right? Especially if you are working from home and don't have a great office set up!

Either in-person at my studio space or livestream from the comfort of your own home, join me for some therapeutic yoga. This July workshop focuses on how you can use yoga poses and breathing techniques to reduce neck, shoulder and upper back tensions. You can be assured of a bit of laughter and nonsense, and also some awesome companionship with like-minded yoga people.

Welcome to "Yoga for Tight Upper Back, Neck, and Shoulders (Core 3)"! This workshop is the next step after our pelvic floor and strong core classes, and it’s all about easing upper body tension. I like to call this one “Yoga for Desk Jockeys,” because I’m seeing so many clients with tight upper backs, necks, and shoulders who spend long hours at a desk or sitting all day. We’ll focus on strengthening the lower body a bit so your upper body can work smarter, not harder. We’ll explore simple movements you can do right from your seat to help release work stress in the moment, rather than letting it build up throughout the day. We’ll dive into the anatomy of the torso and see how the head is supported by the rest of the body, which helps us relax those neck muscles more effectively. And yes, expect to laugh a lot along the way—come ready to enjoy yourself! This workshop is perfect for those of us stuck at a desk for eight or more hours a day. We’ll explore the power of short movement breaks and how they can significantly improve how you feel, move, and even work. Who knew that yoga at work could boost your productivity? We’ll cover neck and shoulder anatomy, flow through an all-levels therapeutic yoga practice for any and every body, and wrap up with some breathing and meditation. Join us to get some relief and maybe even a few giggles!

Click the blue Register Here button below to sign up for less upper back issues.

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

Aug 15th - Yoga for Better Breathing (https://momence.com/l/dahBA2R1)
Sept 12th - Yoga Upside Down (https://momence.com/l/mXhrmMGX)
Oct 17th - Yoga for Hand, Wrist and Elbow Relief (https://momence.com/l/wyhmgm4l)

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, Jul 11, 2026.

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Short clips and fun learning in Online CoursesHey there, yoga teachers, massage therapists, and anatomy enthusiasts! Eve...
06/15/2026

Short clips and fun learning in
Online Courses

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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What exactly is your core?Well, it's not just washboard abs, but your waist, your back, your pelvis and even your ribcag...
06/12/2026

What exactly is your core?

Well, it's not just washboard abs, but your waist, your back, your pelvis and even your ribcage!

Either in-person at my studio space or livestream from the comfort of your own home, join me for a therapeutic yoga workshop focusing on how you can use yoga poses and breathing techniques to tone your core from the inside out. You can be assured of a bit of laughter and nonsense, and also some awesome companionship with like-minded yoga people.

Yoga for a Strong Core (Core 2)! Building on our "Yoga for a Healthy Pelvic Floor" class, this workshop zeroes in on strengthening the base of your core. We’ll explore how simple breathing techniques can target your deep core muscles, specifically the transverse abdominis. A strong core not only makes folding, twisting, side-bending, and back-bending a breeze, but it also gives you room for deep, satisfying breaths. Plus, a robust core supports better digestion, lower blood pressure, and a more flexible spine. So yeah, a strong core brings a ton of benefits! In this workshop, we’ll also dive into twisting and wringing out spinal tension. We’ll chat a bit about the core, spine, ribs, and arms before moving into an all-levels therapeutic yoga practice, open to any and every body. We’ll wrap things up with some breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga nidra. You might even find that your shoulders and neck relax more as you master your twists—it’s like a two-for-one deal! We’ll pay extra attention to breathing because, let’s face it, the core is our main breath powerhouse. Who knew that changing your breath could both strengthen your abs and help your back relax? Come on in and let’s work that core and ease that tension together!

Click the blue Register Here button below to sign up for healthier hips.

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

July 11th - Yoga for Tight Upper Back, Neck and Shoulders (https://momence.com/l/x9hAeMDV)
Aug 15th - Yoga for Better Breathing (https://momence.com/l/dahBA2R1)
Sept 12th - Yoga Upside Down (https://momence.com/l/mXhrmMGX)

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, Jun 13, 2026.

Click here for event details from JLM Therapeutics!

It lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and increases patience, or so I've been told...Just do a simple Google search ...
06/10/2026

It lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and increases patience,

or so I've been told...

Just do a simple Google search on "benefits of meditation" and you'll find over 2 million articles highlighting the physical, emotional and mental benefits of meditation.

So does that mean you need to rush out to buy a fancy meditation pillow or bench, plinky plunky music, candles, statues and become a Buddhist to benefit? Um, nope, not at all!

Breathing, meditation and awareness take up five of the Eight Limbs of Yoga, in the classic Raja Yoga model. That's over 50% of the basis of yoga teaching! I find this somewhat astonishing, as it certainly wasn't the focus of most of my first twenty years of doing yoga. It was even part of my martial arts training from way back in the day (Shao Lin Kung Fu, from the mid 80s to mid 90s).

What's it all about then? The simplicity of breathing, meditation and awareness sometimes seems astonishing. Just stop what you're doing and watch yourself take five breaths. There's no special way to actually breathe. Just slow down enough to watch what happens when you breathe, five inhales and five exhales. So?! What did you notice? Now, do it again, and start noticing the subtle differences in these breaths that might not have happened in the first round. What does your brain do? What thoughts pop up? What emotions come to the surface? Now we're looking more at meditation and awareness.

Here's the catch. Meditation is not an instantaneous change. It's a progressive practice of always coming back to just slowing down for five breaths and noticing what comes up emotionally and mentally. AND continuing to breathe another five aware breaths while you feel what's coming up emotionally and mentally, and not necessarily having to do anything about what comes up except witness it.

Here's where it becomes a little uncomfortable, when we start to notice our reactions to slowing down, our reactions to watching our breathing, our reactions to our own physical, emotional and mental state. Meditation is challenging because part of the practice is coming back to the slowing down when it is the absolute last thing in the world we want to do.

It is deceptive in its simplicity, and that's the genius of it.

You get to explore what your breath feels like when you're stressed out, how short it is, how clipped the inhale or exhale is. You explore how soft and effortless a relaxed breath feels like when it happens on its own. AND you don't have to control a single aspect of your own breathing!

Take a deep breath and notice the difference from the ten breaths you took earlier. Is it mostly moving in your throat, your chest, your belly, your armpits, your back, your pelvic floor or somewhere completely different? I'm sure you can make each and every one of these parts move consciously. Yet what happens when you just let yourself breathe and you get to be aware of it?

It's almost like meditation lets you get a glimpse into the workings of your subconscious and unconscious mind! It is part of why massage can be so effective and relaxing, as you're spending an hour just letting yourself breathe.

Now, take five more breaths where you just let yourself watch them, the inhale, the pause, the exhale and another pause. Look at that! You've just meditated. Well done!

Let me know if you have any questions about meditation and I can add more of it into your next session with me, easy peasy. Isn't it curious this information comes after two months of chatting about resolutions and breathing...

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How do you actually breathe? Yogis call it Pranayama and it's as important as poses! You don't hear that question every ...
05/27/2026

How do you actually breathe?

Yogis call it Pranayama and it's as important as poses!

You don't hear that question every day, do you!

We all know we're supposed to breathe deeply and it'll help reduce tension, blood pressure, uncomfortable emotional responses and such. So how does it actually work?

When you take a Rest/Digest/Recover breath in (where you're activating your parasympathetic nervous system), the following things should happen in your torso.
1) the diaphragm contracts down into the belly
2) the pelvic floor relaxes down slightly
3) the soft palate lifts slightly
4) the belly expands and the rib cage muscles lift

The reverse happens when you breathe out.
1) the diaphragm relaxes up
2) the pelvic floor contracts up slightly
3) the soft palate lowers slightly
4) the belly and the rib cage muscles contract

So, this is ideally what happens when we're totally relaxed, life is good, and we have very few stressors going on in the moment.

Um, I don't know about you, but this doesn't happen frequently to me during the day, in traffic, working with clients, answering emails, responding to texts, scrolling through social media, and more.

Well then, what is happening in the torso all the other times of the day? We're in our Fight/Flight/Freeze breathing, where our diaphragm, pelvic floor and soft palate do anything except what's listed above!

Here's the cool thing about breathing. We all do it differently, and the more we can just be aware of it, the more we can do something about it! Yoga has all sorts of breathing exercises to strengthen, tone, relax and synchronize those three diaphragms mentioned above, so they start working together like a team.

Take a few moments now to just witness what you're doing when you breathe. There's no need to fix it at all. In fact, don't fix it in any way. Just watch it so you know exactly what you're doing when you inhale and exhale. I promise, if you watch what you're doing for five breaths, you'll probably relax a bit and your breathing will change on its own, moving toward that relaxed breathing.

If you want to learn more about how yoga can change your breathing, check out Donna Farhi's Breathing Book (https://jlmtherapeutics.com/product/the-breathing-book-good-health-and-vitality-through-essential-breath-work/) for some awesome exercises, or join me for a Self Care Saturday class (https://form.jotform.com/jlmyoga/self-care) where we always focus on breathing throughout class.

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Simple tennis ball rolling for deep tissue benefits in a short online courseHere's a quick and easy way to take some dee...
05/25/2026

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

Here's a quick and easy way to take some 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, you desk jockey, you.

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!

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