Mama Godzilla, Massage and Wellness

Mama Godzilla, Massage and Wellness Jen (miki) Martin
Personal Wellness Guide
Licensed Massage Therapist since 2006, group exercise instructor since 1995. Eternal Optimist
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When was the last time you worked on the intrinsic muscles of your feet?This Saturday 10 am is the last Intentional Kine...
05/22/2026

When was the last time you worked on the intrinsic muscles of your feet?

This Saturday 10 am is the last Intentional Kinetics class until July 🙀

We’re closing out this chapter with the intrinsic muscles of the feet. The small, often completely ignored architecture that holds everything up. Literally.

Most people feel it in their hips first. Tightness. Limited range. A nagging sense that something won’t quite open the way it should. Then the knees — tracking off, complaining on stairs, quietly accumulating compensation. What almost no one considers is that the conversation started much further down.

The intrinsic muscles of the foot are the foundation of that entire chain. When they’re weak or asleep — compressed by shoes, ignored by training programs, never asked to actually work — the foot loses its ability to sense and respond to the ground. That information gap travels upward. The ankle stiffens to compensate. The knee absorbs what the ankle can’t negotiate. The hip braces for an unreliable floor beneath it. Mobility doesn’t disappear. It gets locked away behind a pattern of distrust.

Saturday we restore the conversation from the ground up.

And I promise you: it will be challenging. Not because I’ll push you past your limits, but because you’ll discover limits you didn’t know you had. That’s not a warning. That’s an invitation. Every single person in this room, regardless of fitness level, will find their edge. And every single person will move through it.

Intentional Kinetics is designed to be a standalone — barefoot, no equipment, no prerequisites. These classes aren’t a replacement for your other training. They’re a conversation with it. A way to develop the body awareness and internal feedback that makes everything else you do work better.

You are not a passenger in your body. This class is about learning to drive.

Saturday. In person max 6 people. On-line three spots. Link in bio to reserve your spot, registration required!
Located in the lair of

The floor reveals compensations your daily life conceals.The one thing I recommend to EVERYONE.GET DOWN. GET BACK UP.Rea...
05/21/2026

The floor reveals compensations your daily life conceals.
The one thing I recommend to EVERYONE.

GET DOWN. GET BACK UP.
Read more at mamagodzilla.com/blog

longevity

Part one of my new Body-care Education series is on substack 😊Most people know that massage feels good. Fewer people kno...
04/30/2026

Part one of my new Body-care Education series is on substack 😊

Most people know that massage feels good. Fewer people know why it works — or why it sometimes doesn’t. Even fewer know what they’re doing before and after a session that’s quietly undermining their results.

That’s what this series is for.
I’ve been in this field for over three decades. I’m a Licensed Massage Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Group Exercise Instructor, and Personal Trainer. I’ve spent years studying fascial anatomy, corrective movement, and the nervous system’s role in chronic pain and dysfunction. What I’ve learned is that most people are navigating their own bodies without a map.
Bodywork Education is a map that is accessible.

No gatekeeping. No jargon for its own sake. Just the science — translated into something you can actually use, about the body you actually live in.
New posts drop regularly. If something helps you, share it. If it raises a question, ask it. That’s how this works.

May is in full bloom. 🌸And so is the schedule, but not for long.This summer, I’m shifting toward more private, one-on-on...
04/30/2026

May is in full bloom. 🌸
And so is the schedule, but not for long.
This summer, I’m shifting toward more private, one-on-one work. Which means May’s group classes are a little more precious than usual. Come move with me while the door is still wide open. ANY AMOUNT IS THE RIGHT AMOUNT.
MAY AT THE LAIR
Power Yoga — Wed 5/6 & 5/20 @ 10am
Community Class — Mon 5/11 @ 10am · Fri 5/15 @ 1pm
Intentional Kinetics — Sat 5/9, 5/16 & 5/23 @ 10am
✨ Mother’s Day Yin — Sat 5/10 @ 3:30pm
Yin — Sat 5/24 @ 8am
No shoes. No equipment. Just your body and the work.
Spots are small and they might change — link in bio to grab yours.
And if you’ve been curious about working with me one-on-one? Fair warning — my full attention is a lot to handle. Your patterns, your gaps, your potential. All of it, all session.
My goal isn’t to make you dependent on me — it’s to hand you the keys to your own body. You just have to be ready for that. Now’s the time. 👀.

mamagodzilla.com/classes

Grow your food. Grow your medicine. Grow your power.Three unique plants available this week. All started from seed right...
04/27/2026

Grow your food. Grow your medicine. Grow your power.
Three unique plants available this week. All started from seed right here in The Lair.
⬤ SPILANTHES — Chew a flower or leaf. That electric tingle is spilanthol, one of nature’s most potent local analgesics. Immune support. Pain relief. Antimicrobial. $33 (in clay pot).
◆ SHIMODA EGGPLANT — A Japanese heirloom from a coastal town at the foot of Mount Fuji. Mild, creamy, nearly seedless. Some things deserve to be grown, not bought. $7 cash only
✦ YARROW GOLD — Old wives said where yarrow grows, witches have been. Maybe they were just wise women who knew their plants. Named for Achilles, who carried it into battle to close wounds. It still does. $5.55 cash only

Ron Finley said growing your own food is a revolutionary act. I believe growing your own medicine is too. This is just the beginning. Come find them at Alchemy this week. Each one comes with a care card. I will talk about plants for as long as you will let me. 🌿 oh and stay tuned for a seed share event coming up. I have too many. Let’s grow some s**t together 🤭

The conversation around perimenopause and bone density is important. But it’s incomplete.Women are getting one half of t...
04/22/2026

The conversation around perimenopause and bone density is important. But it’s incomplete.
Women are getting one half of the message — lift weights, protect your bones — without the other half. Build the system first. Understand what’s already been depleted. Know how much load is too much for where you actually are right now.
Asian philosophy and internal movement traditions have understood this sequencing for centuries. Ki, kidney essence, tendon integrity, and alignment aren’t soft concepts. They are the foundation that makes strength training work — and work safely.
You can’t brute-force vitality. And you can’t build on depletion.
If you’re in perimenopause and you want to build strength that lasts, start with intentional kinetics. The weights will still be there when your system is ready for them.
📍 Mama Godzilla — inside Alchemy Hair Salon, Orlando
Group and private sessions available. Online and in person. Link in bio to book. Mamagodzilla.com/classes for more information

04/10/2026

people and places of Florida from my perspective lately ❤️

April classes are here. No equipment necessary, intentionally barefoot fitness.• INTENTIONAL KINETICS: 75 minutes of mov...
04/01/2026

April classes are here. No equipment necessary, intentionally barefoot fitness.
• INTENTIONAL KINETICS: 75 minutes of movement. Mobility, Balance, Strengthening & Recovery. $30pp 4/11 & 4/25 @ 10am
• Community Class: 60 minute movement class rooted in Asian modalities, intensity level driven by participants. $15 pp 4/6@10 am
• Power Yoga: 60 minutes of fast paced mobility and strengthening rooted in Baron Baptiste JIP $30 pp 4/22&4/29@6:30AM (!!!)

New Blog Posted! (link in bio/ https://mamagodzilla.com/blog/reciprocal-inhibition)TLDR; Reciprocal Inhibition is one of...
03/23/2026

New Blog Posted! (link in bio/ https://mamagodzilla.com/blog/reciprocal-inhibition)
TLDR; Reciprocal Inhibition is one of the scientific explanations for why stretching alone won’t loosen tight muscles. When a muscle feels chronically tight, the instinct is to stretch it. And sometimes that helps. But often, the tightness returns within hours, or doesn’t budge at all. That’s because many tight muscles aren’t short. They’re neurologically overactive — held in a state of elevated tone by a brain that has decided, for very good reasons, to keep them on.

If the opposing muscle is weak or underused, the inhibitory signal it sends is weak too. The tight muscle never fully receives the message to release. It stays braced. Not because it wants to, but because the nervous system hasn’t heard a compelling reason to stand down.

What this means for how we move:
We are not simply bodies with tight spots and weak spots, each requiring their own separate intervention. We are integrated neurological systems, and restriction in one place almost always reflects a conversation happening somewhere else.

The tight hip flexor doesn’t relax because we stretched it for three minutes. It relaxes because the glute — its antagonist — finally became strong enough to speak clearly.

The compressed cervical extensors don’t release because we put heat on them. They release when the deep neck flexors are trained to do their job again.

Stretching without strengthening is a monologue.
The nervous system prefers dialogue.

March movement classes dropped! We don’t just chase muscle. We train the whole system — fascia, joints, coordination, b...
03/01/2026

March movement classes dropped! We don’t just chase muscle. We train the whole system — fascia, joints, coordination, breath, and the nervous system that runs it all. Leave your shoes at the door. Bring your full attention.
🫧 community movement - gentle movements based in Asian modalities. 3/4 at 10am, & 3/27 at 12pm. $15 in-person, $5 on-line
🫧 power yoga - fast paced challenging full body workout. 3/2 at 6:30 am (!😬!) $30 in person only.
🫧 MG resistance/mobility- INTENTIONAL KINETICS. all levels, challenging 75 minutes. 3/8 at 10am, 3/17 & 3/19 at 6pm. $30 in-person, $10 on-line
🫧 foam rolling - all levels no equipment necessary. 3/14 at 7pm. $30 in-person, $10 on-line.
🫧 yin - all levels gentle. 3/15 at 5/30 pm. $30 in-person, $10 on-line.
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