I'm a chiropractor and I teach and evaluate bodyworkers at the Swedish Institute and Getting Better Bodywork.

 

I can't actually describe what Manya Zuba does. I can tell you what happens when she works on me, and why I recommend her to my clients, especially to professional singers, to those suffering from chronic stress, and the dying.

 

I hired Manya to massage my friend John, who was dying of Parkinson's disease in a hospice.  For a surprisingly reasonable rate, Manya made John's end-of-life transition full and free.  She came to John every single day, spending two, and often more, hours a day over the eleven days that he spent dying.  For years, John had been crumpled and curled into a ball with Parkinson's tension, and what's worse, he was off his medication. Even in a coma, John looked like he was cringing. It took five massages with Manya for John to relax into a flat-lying, soft and comfortable position I had not seen him in for three years.  He lay breathing softly but fully.  Her work attracted the hospice workers to her, and they were also healed by her presence and John's changed presence as he died in peace.

 

Manya works on me as well. Her work is disarmingly, deceptively simple and slow. I'm a "fast" person and a few minutes into our first session, I found myself thinking, "Dear Lord, is it all going to be this slow?" And that is my last specific memory of the session. I can't tell you a thing about the next 2 hours and 20 minutes she worked on me except to say that I felt energy coursing through my body and increasing body and mind grounding. Afterward, I felt relaxed and alert, full of energy and calm in my mind. And I could feel how slow and simple would make my life fuller, happier and more efficient.

 

I rely on my hours with Manya for well-being of body, mind and spirit.