https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1 daily 0.75 2026-01-21 https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/what-is-clean-language-and-how-does-it-improve-massage-outcomes monthly 0.5 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/8366b4c0-610a-4c3d-a7c2-054c412e99f1/0d9ec1f7a4b4173c4ae4e7d84a2fe9f41768937210.jpg Blog - What Is Clean Language and How Does It Improve Massage Outcomes? If you’ve scheduled a session with me in the past year then you have no doubt been prompted to select whether or not you'd like to add a ‘Clean Language Session’ onto your massage. Now, most of you are probably asking yourself…’does this guy swear so much that we need to pay extra for him to stop?’ Well, luckily (or unluckily depending on who you are), that’s actually not what that add-on is asking you. Clean Language is actually a separate service that I offer which I learned in late 2024. It’s what we would consider a ‘Mind-Body Practice’ which aims to illuminate the intrinsic connection between our thoughts and their subsequent expressions in the body…or vice versa. This particular mind-body practice is a dialogical medium in which, through a series of particularly structured questions, we create a space to allow your mind and body to have a conversation. This means that you’re going to have an opportunity to decode the sensations of your body into verbal language - which is typically metaphorical. With this information, we can create broader connections between your pain and the events that are currently happening in your life or have happened in the past. This opens up new doorways of treatment and understanding - which can yield immediate results or foster a more fertile soil for future healing. So wait, what do we mean by ‘Clean’ then if it’s not about swearing? Well, we’ll get to this in more detail in the coming sections but to respond briefly, we regard this process as ‘clean’ because the facilitator is not interjecting any of their own biases or judgements into the process. The structure of the questions are such that there is very little interpretation or insight coming from the practitioner. This creates a space that is ‘clean’ in the sense that it’s not being muddied by the facilitators perspectives, which allows the client to stay connected to their own internal processing rather than be pulled or influenced in subtle ways. There’s some nuance to this that we can explore once we lay some more groundwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/4ee10e9f-404a-4d9a-99c4-08a1e56b335f/David-Grove-Six-Steps.jpg Blog - What Is Clean Language and How Does It Improve Massage Outcomes? - Realizing this predicament, David Grove set out to create a series of questions that wouldn’t require the client to abandon their embodied metaphorical landscapes. This proved to be fairly challenging as much of the structure of our language subtly imposes the speakers views onto the conversation. In order to not impose his interpretations onto what his clients were reporting, David began forming his questions with as little words as possible. In fact, much of his responses were simply repeating the words that his clients said verbatim, not only with the same wording but also the same cadence. This allowed their original emphasis and delivery to remain unchanged, which creates a sort of linguistic mirror. In hearing their words repeated back to them paired with the simple open ended questions, his clients found themselves connecting more firmly to their own experience, almost as if David wasn’t there at all. Immersed in their own sensations, thoughts, emotions, memories, hopes, fears, pains, and excitements, his clients were able to see new connections that they were unable to access prior, ultimately allowing them to see new pathways toward therapeutic breakthroughs, insights, and clarification. Over the decades, Grove expertly and precisely elaborated on this system to create what is now known as Clean Language. It’s practiced in fields all across the therapy, professional development, artmaking, and business worlds. It’s accessibility and relative ease of facilitation has allowed it to augment an uncountable amount of practices across the world. This is where I come in, as a manual therapist who strongly emphasizes the mind-body connection in my work. Before we get into the intersection of massage and clean language though, I think it’s important to cover some of the core topics of the Clean paradigm, such as, the importance of metaphor and leveling the ‘expert-patient’ power dynamic. (Pictured to the right is David Grove) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/35eef86b-3013-48b2-be84-91e0f6cde064/bb27a627eb19b3e5866d340efd516c14.jpg Blog - What Is Clean Language and How Does It Improve Massage Outcomes? In order to really tap into the full power of clean language, it’s incredibly helpful to understand what a metaphor is and how deeply they’re embedded in our cognition. On the surface, most of us could define a metaphor roughly the same; we know that they’re figures of speech that directly compares two things by stating one is the other without using ‘like’ or ‘as.’ Some examples of this are: ‘She has a heart of gold’, ‘Life is a highway’, or my most used metaphor, ‘I could eat a horse’. Now obviously these are not literal statements but rather comparisons between an abstract concept and something tactile. The woman’s heart is not literal gold, it’s just that it has qualities that we would associate with gold; whether it be a glow, a richness, or a pleasantness. Life isn’t an actual highway, but it’s like a highway in that its open, long, and has to be journeyed across. I couldn’t actually eat a horse when I’m hungry but…wait no, that one is real for me. While we’re likely all familiar with metaphor in this context, what you may not realize is that metaphor is actually a core mechanic of how we think and communicate with others. According to the ‘Conceptual Metaphor Theory’ created by George Lakoff, metaphor is not merely “a decorative device, peripheral to language and thought”. Rather it is “central to thought, and therefor to language itself.” This comes most into play when we’re trying to understand abstract concepts. Take for instance the example of a THEORY which isn’t a physical thing; you can’t hold it, you can’t smell it, you can’t taste it, yet we have an intuitive sense of what a THEORY is. In order for us to talk about THEORIES though, we need to have some way of relating with it that can create a shared understanding. While there are many ways to conceptualize a THEORY, the one that we tend to use the most in our society is that a THEORY is like a BUILDING. They can be built on strong FOUNDATIONS or SHAKY GROUND, they can be BUILT UP or TORN DOWN, and they tend to have a FRAMEWORK. These feel very obvious since they’re so baked into our language (another metaphor), but these are creations that we’ve all agreed to and based (another metaphor) our shared understanding on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/e1d4d080-3ca5-4a52-bc71-d871ba822317/ecole-bosch-vision-de-tondal2_0.jpg Blog - What Is Clean Language and How Does It Improve Massage Outcomes? So as we can see from this brief exploration, metaphor is a much more complex phenomenon that we conventionally give it credit for. It is central to the structure of our thinking itself, how we organize knowledge, and how we use abstract language. In order to even think about something that isn’t in the tangible world, we have to relate it to something more graspable, whether it’s physical or just less complex. The implication that this brings us to is that our understanding of the world is less about separate linear data points that we’re stringing together and it’s more of a web of criss-crossing meanings that are informing each other simultaneously. An example of this in action can be seen with the ARGUMENT is WAR metaphor. In order to understand what a WAR is, we have to compare WAR to a PHYSICAL ENTITY. “The war is spreading”, “The conflict has broken out”. We could also describe the WAR as a substance, “The war has engulfed the region”, “Tensions are thick in the air”. So in order to comprehend ARGUMENT as WAR, we also need to understand the metaphors that make up our understanding of WAR. The last twist of complexity that I’ll introduce here is that these webs of meaning are UNIQUE to each individual. While there are huge overlaps in our meaning maps that we learn culturally, much of our cognitions are conditioned based on our lived experience. So when you tell me that you’re barely keeping your head above water, what I hear might have some overlaps, it’s ultimately going to experienced differently than what you’re communicating to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/067c8519-f787-4a85-acee-3fbf1630701a/536045b9940f870aedc963f3df8838f8.jpg Blog - What Is Clean Language and How Does It Improve Massage Outcomes? - Here’s a mock clean language session followed by how we would incorporate it into the massage: Facilitator (F): Where would you like to begin? Client (C): I’ve been noticing some pain in my left shoulder. F: Is there anything else about pain in your left shoulder? C: Yeah it seems to radiate down into my arm F: Is there maybe a texture, color, or shape to this pain in your left shoulder that radiates down into your arm? C: It’s kind of like a jagged red lightening bolt F: Is there anything else about a jagged red lightening bolt? C: Yeah it feels like it’s buzzing. F: That buzzing is like what? C: It’s like an angry hornet whose hive has been destroyed F: What would this angry hornet whose hive has been destroyed like to have happen? C: It would like to settle down and feel secure in a new home. F: What would it feel like for it to settle down and feel secure in a new home? The client pauses for a moment, allowing some message to come through. C: It would stop buzzing and find some stillness. I think it’s already starting to calm down a little just in acknowledging that. F: Would this be a good place to pause and go into the massage? C: I think so!. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/daa39c54-9953-46c9-bd5d-f950c63d6c7d/transcoded-1741377388.jpg Blog - What Is Clean Language and How Does It Improve Massage Outcomes? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/why-safety-is-important-for-your-nervous-system-and-how-massage-can-help monthly 0.5 2025-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/e5b79a70-004e-48ac-823d-2250bc0a3943/balanced-stone-stack-stockcake.jpg Blog - Why Safety is Important for your Nervous System and How Massage Can Help https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/bbcbdafd-2df0-4acb-98af-e38b930541e9/The_Autonomic_Nervous_System.jpg Blog - Why Safety is Important for your Nervous System and How Massage Can Help Now, I wouldn’t blame you if after reading that, you made a commitment to never again be in a sympathetic response. But wait! It’s important to note before we move forward that both of these aspects of our embodiment are important and adaptive. If we didn’t have the fight/flight response, we likely would have been eaten by tigers in our distant past. The goal with this article is to not demonize our own biology but rather understand it so that we can equip ourselves with the knowledge to embody it more fully. The sympathetic response has it’s own wisdom and if we’re able to recognize it when it’s present, we’ll be able to tap that wisdom and ultimately let it go when it needs to be dropped. Before we move on to talking about regulation, I think it’s important to spend a little more time discussing what happens when we’re in either the sympathetic or parasympathetic response. That way we can begin to see it within our own experience and begin tracking our internal rhythms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/e71084a0-4473-4a24-aefb-e5c3b77dcc64/Chiropractor-for-Stress-in-Onalaska-Wisconsin.jpg Blog - Why Safety is Important for your Nervous System and How Massage Can Help 5. Other Examples While the ones above are most pertinent to our broader conversation, the entire body goes through changes when we’re sympathetically activated. Our pupils dilate to let more light in, our immune system dampens (meaning we’re more likely to get sick), we sweat more, and we have troubles with urination. These are the most directly observed effects but there are more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/2e6f3b1e-b71f-4aa2-b5e7-65966e34d53b/cozy-scene-of-a-covered-person-in-bed.jpg Blog - Why Safety is Important for your Nervous System and How Massage Can Help 5. Reduces Tension in the Body The most obvious facet of being relaxed is…well being relaxed. When we’re in a parasympathetic response state, our bodies are able to find an effortless sense of ease which can help us let go of the stresses of the day. This is obviously great for many reasons but one of the more inspiring ones that I find is that it helps us move more gracefully. There’s a beauty and a deep meaningfulness that comes from smooth and intentional movement. The more we can perform actions from this place of relaxation, the more conditioned our body becomes at being relaxed. This carries out beyond the confines of our home and seeps into our interactions with the world at large. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/62418ed8-d11e-4fd5-82f6-8d9b894356a3/360_F_438807715_37GCjmBdpn16KmZxPWrFWMaMALgHEOW8.jpg Blog - Why Safety is Important for your Nervous System and How Massage Can Help The more we can intentionally access our parasympathetic state, the easier our time of navigating pain will be. This is why generating safety in the nervous system is paramount to our healing process. This doubles so when we are experiencing pain; can we simultaneously hurt and still find relaxation in other parts of our body? It’s a profound question and it’s one that’s explorable within our unique circumstances. It serves as a tremendous resource that gives us an opportunity to carve out a space within our stressful or pained experience so that we can connect to new insights into our lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/de3f48fc-8188-47af-9fd9-fd058149fb05/pexels-photo-240040.jpeg Blog - Why Safety is Important for your Nervous System and How Massage Can Help 4. Walking in Nature As mentioned above, nature is a wonderful regulating partner. Science has shown time and time again that spending time outside amongst the trees and the creeks does wonders for helping us feel a sense of grounded peace. Our regulation is dependent on our surroundings, meaning that we tend to become activated because we’re being met with something stressful. A big part of our inability to be resilient is because we’re separated from the natural surroundings that we’ve evolved with over millions of years. Reconnecting with nature reminds us about our inherent interdependence with all things…and that is a hell of a resource. https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/important-update-were-moving-locations monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/65430b22-3a51-4150-98e5-9888e886ecda/2025-08-03.webp Blog - Important Update: We’re Moving Locations! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/other-potential-non-physical-causes-of-pain monthly 0.5 2025-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/84d2acf2-5fee-4b6d-ab47-683147d1e042/pexels-photo-3601094.jpeg Blog - How Changing our Lifestyle Changes our Pain Try: Low-impact exercises like swimming, walking, or cycling. Stretching and yoga to stretch, become more flexible, and relax the nervous system Strength training to build muscle, protect joints, and improve health markers in every category Tai Chi/ Qi Gong to learn how to make complex movements while staying totally relaxed Dancing to move your joints, express yourself, and explore the flow state Somatic Practices to cultivate presence, body-mind connection, and to process difficult emotions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/b0bef7b5-8185-4c58-84de-21c9ed972e49/0_LwiIp2qmw10-L_6Z.jpg Blog - How Changing our Lifestyle Changes our Pain Food Recommendations: Fatty fish (salmon,sardines) Leafy greens (spinach, kale) Berries (blueberries, strawberries) Spices like turmeric and ginger. Whole grains (quinoa, oats) Legumes and beans Green tea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/b1c08c94-ab9a-44ba-9481-4aa88e1b84e5/3102914696_97c7e02079_c.jpg Blog - How Changing our Lifestyle Changes our Pain Limit: Refined Carbs (white bread, pastries) Added sugars and sugary drinks Processed meats (bacon, sausage) Trans fats (partial hydronated oils) Excess alcohol Ultra-processed foods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/ebea583b-e543-41d7-9a53-e4ef84987bb6/pexels-photo-4057839.jpeg Blog - How Changing our Lifestyle Changes our Pain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/480f0aa0-bf40-4c11-a64c-f68179dda459/pexels-photo-3771069.jpeg Blog - How Changing our Lifestyle Changes our Pain Improve sleep by: Keeping a consistent bedtime routine. Avoiding screens 1–2 hours before bed. Making your bedroom cool, dark, and quiet. Avoiding caffeine and heavy meals in the evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/b3d91568-d07c-47da-8476-da79487298c3/5861011893_de68d0ca4b_b.jpg Blog - How Changing our Lifestyle Changes our Pain Consider: Massage therapy for muscle pain and tension. Acupuncture for chronic pain, especially in the back and neck. Heat and cold therapy to soothe sore or inflamed areas. Yoga Therapy for a more involved and dedicated practice Shiatsu for a more traditional and slow approach to relating to pain Somatic Practices to heighten our mind-body connection Cranial Sacral for a gentle and slow presence sharing These therapies can often be combined with conventional care for more complete relief. https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/podcast-why-we-hurt-and-what-to-do-about-it-with-dr-lorimer-moseley monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/should-i-get-an-mri-for-my-pain monthly 0.5 2025-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/fed26f47-e66f-4016-b619-a6bd08c09a34/275285919_a7816d7ded_b.jpg Blog - Should I Get An MRI For My Pain? - When you’re in pain—especially if it’s been going on for a while—it’s natural to want answers. Many people are sent for an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan to “see what’s going on.” MRIs can be helpful in some situations, especially if there’s a serious injury or a clear medical emergency. But according to modern pain science, getting an MRI for ongoing or unexplained pain might sometimes do more harm than good. Not because the scan itself is dangerous, but because of what happens afterward. Here’s what you should know to make what I’d consider an informed decision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/22bcb47c-813d-4b60-bdd1-a71914c82b52/woman_in_yoga_pose-rawpixel.jpg Blog - Should I Get An MRI For My Pain? - The problem with this is that the responsibility falls on our shoulders to manage our painful situations. This active approach asks a lot more of us than the traditional passive approach of paying somebody else to take care of our issue. It requires curiosity, patience, courage, determination, and strong self-compassion. It is possible though! With the help of a competent pain-science informed clinician (of any kind really) you can begin to initiate the changes required to live a less painful life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/a71728fd-0e01-44d0-9bfa-f4e442ee41cf/Human_eye_iris_5.jpg Blog - Should I Get An MRI For My Pain? - While it’s natural to want a clear, physical answer for your pain, the reality is more complex—and more hopeful. You’re not broken. You’re not stuck. Your body is strong and adaptable, and with the right approach, your pain can change. The notion that the issue is within our neural circuitry and biochemistry rather than the gross material of our muscles, joints, and bones actually opens up the doorway to many different forms of treatment. https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-massage monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/9cf5c162-e78f-4e51-8745-c415b9dff805/Piriformis+Stretch.jpeg Blog - How To Get the Most Out of Your Massage Massage is a wonderful practice that can provide so much for us in our fast paced, modern lives. For starters; it can help alleviate pain, calm our anxieties, lift our spirits, and provide a space for us to connect more wholly with our bodies. Deeper than that though, massage can be viewed as a practice which connects us to our higher aspirations and intuitions. In order for it become that though, it takes a reframing of what’s possible and an expansion of our perspectives. That’s where I hope this article can be of service to you. To begin this journey, it helps to learn how we can make the most out of our time with the practice of massage therapy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/1660841313549-M6T394014AC69XV7YT11/Pain+Blog+Pic.png Blog - How To Get the Most Out of Your Massage The last benefit I’ll mention here is that this education can also help us frame our pain in a way that reduces our stress about it. This pain of being in pain exacerbates the noxious sensations we experience and can trap us in a hard to escape loop of increasing sensitivity. By learning it’s true nature, we can settle into the experience without fear of there being something injured or fundamentally broken about us. It also paints an optimistic future in that we can change the way our nervous system fires over time and cure our pain from the ground up. This educational process is one we can take together as we couple the manual therapy with a drip feed of information and perspectives from experts around the world. There is a degree of effort and interest required to take this step and many people may not want to take the leap - but for those of you that do, I’m confident it can dramatically change your relationship to pain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/9905e457-dc7a-4262-a968-699d9634f2d9/pexels-photo-5793899.jpeg Blog - How To Get the Most Out of Your Massage Keeping this in mind, we can begin to use massage as a practice that teaches us how to completely relax into our bodies. Since the goal of massage is to bring us into a state of ease, we should be attentive to the moments when we’re the ones actively tensing. My guess is that the guarding and assisting that takes place on the table often has something to do with the tension and tightness that brought us to massage in the first place. With awareness, massage can be transformed from a passive service we receive into an active practice we engage with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/1736963336449-UONY62GJIVKTCSLSNJED/unsplash-image-dOhJtfXJZfw.jpg Blog - How To Get the Most Out of Your Massage Having a more direct access to our intuition can be hugely beneficial not only for shifting our pain patterns but also for discovering other insights about our life at large. The way this information comes to the surface will be different for every person and situation - it may be an image, color, sound, or full on dream. The key here is to note what it is that’s arising in the mental stream and to treat it as important. These are pieces of information coming from a deeply embodied place and they have some semblance of meaning for your system - otherwise they wouldn’t have stuck in your subconscious! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/f68aa885-f733-41df-99f1-7df8c476dee3/467485069_1935303263629294_5616681386918908649_n.jpg Blog - How To Get the Most Out of Your Massage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/whats-my-approach-to-massage-therapy-about monthly 0.5 2025-01-15 https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/podcast-clean-language-metaphor-and-working-through-trauma-with-nick-pole monthly 0.5 2025-01-15 https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/five-biggest-myths-of-massage-therapy monthly 0.5 2025-01-15 https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/podcast-exploring-your-body-mandala-with-mary-bond monthly 0.5 2025-01-15 https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/podcast-the-healing-benefits-of-the-therapeutic-relationship-with-walt-fritz-pt monthly 0.5 2025-01-15 https://www.bkbodyworks.net/blog-1/new-class-announcement-foundations-of-mindfulness monthly 0.5 2023-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/e0653f89-3e91-46f6-a521-d837158eeb76/BK%2BBodyworks%2BMindfulness%2BMeditation%2BGrand%2BRapids.jpg Blog - New Class Announcement: Foundations of Mindfulness - Make it stand out Foundations of Mindfulness A Journey into Mind, Body, and Heart Tuesdays, April 18th - May 9th 6pm - 7:15pm Benji Salon and Spa $100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d73c0077cac30af6bd6a64/7379b64c-1a0b-44ec-bdf2-ce4bbe02ee3e/BenjiSalon-184.jpg Blog - New Class Announcement: Foundations of Mindfulness - Meet the Teacher Brett is a licensed massage therapist and mindfulness meditation instructor from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his teaching certification from the Dalai Lama’s, Tibet House US and Dharma Moon. 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My name is Brett, I’m a licensed massage therapist and mindfulness meditation instructor located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I specialize in a form of massage therapy that combines elements of Myofascial Release Technique (MFR) and Deep Tissue into one relaxing traditional Swedish flow. I’m a huge nerd when it comes to understanding pain and as a result, I do my best to uphold an evidence based approach to my treatments. You can expect a massage session unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. It’s gentle, attentive, and holistically minded - emphasizing the fact that you’re resilient and capable of healing. Beyond the realm of traditional bodywork, I’ve also received certification to teach Mindfulness Meditation from Tibet House US. This is a 2600 year old practice which helps us synchronize our mind and body. Doing so helps those struggling with chronic pain to be less reactive, more compassionate, and increasingly patient with their symptoms. For those not struggling with pain, it’s an incredible practice that helps us find clarity, stability, and a sense of resiliency. 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