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Massage Therapist, Pink Lotus Creator, Cat Lover
I am passionate about helping women reclaim their natural radiance through Facial Renewal techniques and Ayurvedic Lifestyle practices. I believe when women reclaim their radiant energy, it allows them to the be a force for positive change in the world.
Hi, my name is Athena and I am a massage therapist who specializes in the face and wholistic facial renewal techniques. Throughout my career, I have been fascinated with the face, and how the face mirrors what is happening in our bodies, emotions, and spirits.
As an aging woman myself, I found myself frustrated and angry with the messages I was receiving about getting older from our (in my opinion) very sick culture–that I held no real value after my reproductive years and that I had to accept slowly becoming frail and invisible. I disliked the promotion of chemical and surgical "anti-aging" solutions that I saw everywhere and the constant feeling of pressure to look "younger."
Companies globally make hundreds of billions of dollars from products and procedures that rarely give us the radiance and glow we are looking for. They are dependent on keeping us feeling less than and insecure, so we will continue to buy their often dangerous and toxic products, hoping to solve the problem of deep unworthiness that they helped to create.
I believe we can change the narrative to one that we know to be true in our hearts: that we are vital, vibrant beings who can claim our faces and our whole beings as radiant and valuable throughout our lives.
I created Pink Lotus to offer an alternative to those narratives–that we can become more vibrant, alive, and impactful as we age. That true beauty is an essence that has nothing to do with the messages our culture has told us about our faces and our worth.
But, there is the reality that our faces do show the effects of stress, loss, and a lifetime of self-sacrificing our energy to care for others. We need to address this reality to become the radiant beings we so long to be.
I've synthesized the best of all the ancient and modern techniques I've studied to create programs that are fun, doable, and truly help to restore our vibrance and radiance.
The path to radiance is a journey. I invite you to join me and a community of like-minded women to be faithful companions with you on this journey. I've given you everything I know to help get you there as efficiently as possible. I hope you will join us!
I have been a massage therapist since 1995. Over that time, I have taken many continuing education courses and repeatedly found myself drawn to the face, not just for aesthetics, but for how deeply the face reflects and affects all levels of being: body, mind, and soul.
Because of this, I was drawn to study multiple eastern bodywork modalities that address not only the face but the whole being including: Vietnamese Dien Chan Facial Reflexology, Ayurvedic Marma Point Therapy, and Komorebi Facial Gua Sha.
More recently, I discovered the cutting-edge world of fascia and healed my chronic neck and shoulder pain along with 20 years of chronic migraines. This led me to become a Block Therapy Facial Flow Practitioner and Instructor. I have also studied Somatic Movement techniques for pain relief of the upper body including the shoulders, neck, and jaw.
Finally, and possibly most importantly, I have passionately studied Ayurveda for over ten years and am a certified Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor. I love how Ayurveda encourages us to live in harmony with the seasons and cycles of nature and our lives, and I incorporate Ayurvedic principles and lifestyle habits into all of my work.