Are you ready to get serious?

What’s up everyone Mandie here. So by now you all have had a chance to read the email I sent you about “What are you doing for your body?” and to check out the awesome package deals I’m offering.

Now it’s time to get serious about your bodies. I feel like many people are taking the “therapy” out of Massage Therapy.

Do you go to a Physical Therapist “one time” and expect results?
Do you go to a Chiropractor “one time” and expect results?
Do you go to the GYM “one time” and expect results?
Do you go to a Massage Therapist “one time” and expect results?

Do you go to “different” Physical therapists, chiropractors, massage therapists, and gyms every time you take care of your body?

If this is YOU then click away now and don’t waste my time, thank you.

To get results for your body to feel great and function properly YOU go to the same Professional for many visits to get THERAPY!

That’s what I’m offering for you as a Massage “therapist!” When you come to see me on a Regular Basis you get Therapy.
You feel better over time.
Your body functions better over time.
Your pain diminishes over time.
This cannot happen with one visit and going to multiple therapists. I know your body better and what it needs the more I work on it. For you as the client you don’t have to feel like you are starting over again and again every time you get a massage.

Now that I’m only working 3 days a week I don’t need a lot of clients. I want only SERIOUS CLIENTS. I am offering the FIRST 20 SERIOUS CLIENTS to come in for a massage once a month for a low price (as long as you come in within every 30 days, if not, the price goes up). These prices are based on the PREPAY for 4 Massage Deal. Otherwise, just buy one of the Prepay Deals whenever you finally want a massage therapy session.

FIRST 20 SERIOUS CLIENTS ONCE A MONTH OFFERS:
$35 for 60 minutes
$50 for 75 minutes
$65 for 90 minutes
YOU HAVE TILL JUNE 15 TO GET IN AT THESE SERIOUS RATES,
After that it goes up $10 each.
As far as ONLINE booking goes, I will no longer offer it. It allows too many excuses for you not to rebook when you’re done with your massage session. Again you are taking the Therapy out of Massage Therapy.

I appreciate all of you for using my service over the past few months, but now it’s time for me to get to those of you who are really serious about your body’s health. My goal of this email is for you to TAKE ACTION for YOUR HEALTH. I’m not asking you to empty your pocket books like doctors, chiropractors, and physical therapists do. I’m asking you to avoid going out to eat a meal or buy coffee a couple times a month, and get your massage on.

TAKE ACTION, MAKE IT HAPPEN. MANDIE DOKOS LMT 801-245-0415

What are you doing to take care of your body?

Hey everyone Mandie here. So I want to talk about what are you doing to take care of your body?
Many of us are going day to day with pain in our neck, shoulders, back from too many hours at an office desk or at your work.

PAIN can be caused from any motion you do in your life, whether it's staying completely still or actively moving weight. What do you do to manage your pain?

Do you ICE the hurting area for 10-15 minutes at a time?
Do you take relaxing HOT SALT BATHS to ease muscles?
Do you GET UP & MOVE at work to keep blood and oxygen flowing through those constricted muscles?
Do you STRETCH at all during the day? Both ACTIVE (moving stretch like wind mills) & STATIC (holding the stretch for 10seconds)
Do you take a TENNIS BALL or LACROSE BALL and use it to do MOBILITY WORK?
Do you EXERCISE 3-5 times a week?
Do you get MASSAGED @ LEAST 1 TIME A MONTH?

OR

Do you take PAIN MEDICATION to bandaid the pain?
Do you IGNORE the pain?
Are you HOPELESS to get the pain to go away?

When we don't keep our bodies moving the way they are intended to then our muscles shorten and toxins and lack of blood flow occur in our muscles. We develop constrictive knots in our once smooth pliable muscle layers. Before you know it you have pain in all kinds of forms: tingling, sharp, needle like, spasms, referring, achy, dull...PAIN!!!

Here is what MASSAGE can do for YOU:

Alleviate LOW-BACK PAIN and improve RANGE OF MOTION.

Assist with shorter, easier LABOR for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays.

Ease MEDICATION dependence.

Enhance IMMUNITY by stimulating lymph flow—the body's natural defense system.

Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.

Help ATHLETES of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.

Improve the condition of the body's largest organ—the SKIN.

Increase joint FLEXIBILITY.

Lessen DEPRESSION and ANXIETY.

Promote tissue regeneration, reducing SCAR TISSUE and STRETCH MARKS.

Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving CIRCULATION.

Reduce postsurgery adhesions and swelling.

Reduce SPASMS and CRAMPING.

Relax and soften injured, tired, and OVERUSED MUSCLES.

Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body's natural PAIN KILLER.

Relieve MIGRAINE pain.


I have made changes to my schedule and pricing. I am only working Tuesday 12-7; Thursday 11:30-5:30; Saturdays for June 11:30-4:30 but starting in July 2:30-7.

To make MASSAGE REGULAR for YOURSELF...BUY A PREPAY PACKAGE DEAL.
$15 OFF on 1 prepay massage
$40 OFF on 2 prepay massages
$100 OFF on 4 prepay massages
pay online www.mandiedokos.massagetherapy.com or call Mandie 801-245-0415 & BOOK ONLINE

New Availability

Hey everyone. I had to change my schedule around some due to the joys of juggling babysitting responsibility with my husband. So I no longer am working Friday nights, but I am still available on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and don't forget Saturdays for all you working class that can't get in during normal business hours.

Thanks everyone for being awesome and making my biz a success. Peace!

KSL Voucher

Just wanted to remind you all that May is the last month to get in before your KSL voucher expires June 1, 2011. You have to book your appointment by June 1, 2011. After it expires it is no longer redeemable. Please book online and do not wait to get in till it's too late. I'm the only therapist this deal is good through, so my availability is limited. Thank you.

3/26/11 Prioritizing and Life

Hello everyone Mandie here. So after a lot of consideration I decided to quit my BNI "business network international" group, and I'm focusing my attention on me, my family, spirituality, and work. Many of us struggle everyday with prioritizing our lives. How do you feel about that?

I realized that after starting to work for myself at the beginning of January that my mind is constantly on work. Well you only can be so productive in life when that happens. Let us not forget to take "ME TIME" so that's exactly what I'm doing on my days off. It's time for me to get a massage, go somewhere fun with my family, read a book, and focus on my relationship with my God. Again, What are YOU doing for your ME TIME?

Ways I am improving on Priorities in MY LIFE:

1. Working out 2 to 3 times a week. Why? This makes me feel good about my body physically, and feel better mentally it releases endorphins and clear my mind.

2. Spending more one on one time with my kids. Reading, writing, and playing.

3. To save time I listen on my Podcast to articles produced by the Watchtower and Awake (my spiritual food), I'm still working on regularity at my spiritual meetings.

4. Arranged my schedule to make sure my husband and I have time everyday to hang out with each other. When you're juggling schedules to not have a babysitter your relationship can get rocky.

5. I'm forcing myself to take care of my body. How? read on:

I'm not following the 4HB to a T but I am eating healthy foods and when I don't eat something healthy I make sure I start the next day off with a FRESH START. Don't focus on YESTERDAY focus on TODAY.

I also make sure to not worry about how many calories I'm taking in, but focusing on LISTENING TO MY BODY when it's hungry, thirsty, tired, etc. Also GET OFF THE SCALE.

Being a Massage Therapist people assume I get massages all the time. This is false. I do my best to get worked on every month, but that doesn't always happen. So my GOAL is to Make Myself get at least 1 massage a month!!!!! I realized after my last massage how yucky I felt from toxins being released that I need more regular body work. You may feel the same way after your sporatic massage.

Well this is all I feel like writing for now. Hopefully it got you thinking about "me time" and making sure you are doing what's most important in your life. Thanks all.

Four Hour Body update 3/3/11

I know I know it's been forever since I posted my progress with 4HB. I am still having success on the 4HB I'm down 12 1/2 inches total and like 5% body fat, but my weight is only a solid 9 pounds down. I've had my ups and downs over the past couple weeks. Got sick on one of my binge days from eating too much sodium, totally made me throw up and have a migraine the following day. I've tried to eat more balanced meals and eat more calories because I realized I haven't been consuming enough food and that's why my weight isn't going down. I'm taking a breather this week from the complete fat loss 4HB program. I'm eating 1 carb meal a day and I'm skipping my binge day this week. On a positive note, I have been working out 3 days a week doing various Kettle Bells exercises. I'm loving my workouts, and enjoying the benefits of weight loss. As far as personal issues I'm still going through forever now is my sleep or lack there of, and flatulence from the dam beans and veggies. I'm taking a digestive enzyme and making sure to take calcium and magnesium (before bed). I love the benefits I'm noticing from the garlic, green tea, and so on. I'm going to start taking the ORENDA pills for immunity and toxin flush out of the body. Keep up the good work and stick with it!!!!

Week 3 four hour body

I just finished up my week 3 of the 4 hour body-fat loss. I decided it wouldn't be best to do my weight and measurements since I'm a woman and well Aunt Flo came to visit which is making me retain more than normal. Halfway through week 3 I was down another 2 pounds, but when I got on the scale today I was up 3 pounds from week 2's results. Oh well it's not bugging me that my body is like this right now it's just what it is. My husband and I started our last glory eat day Friday night with a yummy pastrami cheeseburger, fries, root beer, and cheesecake for dessert. I had to work Saturday so I ate extra goodies before work and during. I have to admit when I got home Saturday from work after the 24 hour deadline I went ahead and continued eating bad food, bought a chicken teriyaki foot long from Subway and had 2 snack size candy bars. On Sunday I did really well being back on my fat-loss meal plan despite the agonizing cramps and lack of energy. Today was a challenge I had to co-op at my son's preschool, which means snack time is no good for me, so I stopped at the store on the way there and bought juice for the kids and pistachios for myself to eat at snack time. I was thrilled when the other mommy who co-oped brought carrots and celery for the kids...Yeah!! I can eat that. It was an exhausting 3 hours with twenty "4 year olds" but I survived and all in all it's been a good day. I haven't done my 20 minute kettle-bell exercises since Friday and I'm certainly not up for it today, but tomorrow I'm on it...that's my goal and I have to do it!

PURE WORKOUT

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Come into Pure Workout for a FREE first time workout with Aaron and Judah Dokos.

Call Aaron @ Pure Workout (801) 245-0603

http://www.pureworkoutslc.com

Aaron's Recommended Diet Plan: 4 Hour Body diet blog http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/06/how-to-lose-20-lbs-of-fat-in-30-days-without-doing-any-exercise/

Aaron is my husband and his passion is working out and teaching people how to workout to maximize their potential. Aaron's "take NO for an answer" philosophy is what helps Pure Workout to do the coolest Strength and Conditioning workouts you can find.

What are your fitness goals?

What diet are you currently on?

Are you getting the results you want in your current exercise program? Or better yet are you working out at all?

Aaron and I both feel working out and massage therapy go hand in hand with eachother. "If you don't use it you'll lose it;" I'm sure you have heard that quote before, and it is so true. The body needs to move around; needs to be strengthened; and needs to be massaged to relieve stress, pain, and sore muscles. Keep in mind...The body is our vessel and we need to take care of it. Taking time out to take care of yourself is what everyone of us should do.

Pure Workout Clients receive this discount:

$45 for 1-hour massage

$75 for 1 1/2-hour massage

4 Hour Body

So I decided to start using my blog for helping me keep track of my 4 Hour Body progress. So my first week I had a lot of doubt about the possibilty of losing weight when I get to eat whatever I want one day a week. Well I had cravings and some withdraws from not eating carbs and sugar but all in all it wasn't that hard to stick to the choose 1 from each group: veggies, meats, and beans. Now I'm sure eating chicken wings is not the best meat selection but my husband and I love them, so that's an at least twice a week meal. Also starting to have 1-2 glasses of red wine a day is really helping my nerves and sugar cravings.

Well here are my results for Week 1 (1/29/11) I lost 5 pounds and 2.25 inches throughout my body, mostly in my shoulders, waist, hips, and thighs. Week 2 (1/22/11) I lost 2 pounds and 3.25 inches. So now I'm into week 3 and I gotta say the cravings are a little more intense this week since I'm working a lot more and I had family in town tempting me. I'm debating changing my "guilt free" day from Saturday to Sunday when I'm off work. This week I'm looking forward to eating Alfredo sauce with raviolis, and I want a bacon cheeseburger. So for now I'm going to eat my carribean jerk chicken with corn, black beans, salsa, bell peppers, and avocado. Yummy!

Changed Availability

Hi everyone due to the high demand from KSL purchases. I am now working Tuesdays thru Saturday. Please book online. Thanks!

New Website

Hello everyone, just wanted to let you know I have a new website with all my information policies, benefits, and more. BOOK ONLINE APPOINTMENTS click on the BookNow link below.
http://mandiedokos.massagetherapy.com

Web coupons

Hello to all of you who have purchased a coupon to receive a massage by me. Just wanted to let you know to call me for questions and appointments at 801-245-0415, or book online.

Forest Aura Massage is on the side of Ivy Place that faces K-mart, and next to Leprachaun Inn. In order to stay on time I ask that everyone arrive 5 minutes early to fill out a policy form. If you arrive late I will have to deduct that time from your massage. I do have to leave the door locked in between massages for the safety of myself and you since we do not have a front desk person. Thank you, Mandie

Massage Recommendation

This is a recommendation from my friend Jay of Jay's Total Flooring:
"I have used Mandie's service several times. At all times Mandie maintained a professional and friendly attitude. Mandie as a person has been helpful as well as informative. Mandie's service has also been top notch. I would definitely recommend Mandie to anyone in need of massage therapy."
You can contact Jay at 801-759-3103 for all your flooring needs. He did a great job installing carpet at my husband's Pure Workout gym.

Seated Chair Recommendation

This is a recommendation from Jeri at Leverich Group in Murray, UT.
"Thank you again for doing chair massage in our office! Our group really loved it! Your massage definitely helped me relax and it worked out the kink in my neck and shoulder that had been bothering me for most of the week! What a great treat and such a good way for us to care for ourselves. After the massage I was really aware of my posture and how I scrunch my shoulders up while sitting at my desk…….no wonder my shoulders are so tight and tense. Also, thank you for your recommendations on effective stretches to alleviate some of the tension."

3 Ways to fit a Monthly Massage into your Budget!

1. Don't go out to a sit down restaurant...save that money and get a massage instead.
2. Budget out all your monthly expenses i.e. Bills, household items, food, gas, personal care. Remember for every $1 spent on a massage reduces $7 of future medical bills from ailments.
3. Prioritize what's most important in your life. Where does taking care of your body fall into that list?

Benefits of Massage

Improve Circulation and Mobility. Eliminate waste products from the body through your lymphatic system. Relaxation helps with managing stress and recovering from injuries faster. Helps reduce Inflammation.