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Sports people value massage very highly – sports massage works on several levels. Used before exercise it can prepare the body for the increase in activity not only by warming and loosening the muscles and joints, but also by stimulating the system, both physically and mentally. This is the key to improved performance.

After an exercise session, massage speeds up the elimination of waste products(in particular lactid-acid) by stimulating the lymphatic system. The accumulation of these waste products during exercise is the cause of much of the stiffness and pain experienced afterwards.

A routine of pre-exercise massage and limbering will help to prevent strains.  Most sports also put increased strain on the legs, buttocks and back. Previous injuries can make the back prone to recurrent pain. With regular and thorough back massage (particularly before exercise), the likelihood of injury is reduced.

So if you are going to do some intensive exercise like running marathons it’s vital to have massage before and after! Feel free to email for your marathon massage barcelona at nunu@thevitaltouch.com

Good running,take care and look forward to hearing from you!

Nunu

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I’m very excited to share with you that next week I am mixing a special massage oil mix for Valentine’s!

Come and enjoy a Therapeutic Deep Relaxing Oil Massage with:

Jasmine - emotionally warming, relaxes, soothes, uplifts and help self confidence. Perfect skincare oil.
Frankincense - soothes, warms and aids meditation. Comforting oil during cold season. Excellent for toning and caring for mature/ageing skin.

All at a special discounted price of 20% off. This offer lasts for the whole of next week, you can come or you can buy a giftvoucher for yourself or someone, it’s simple, call me or email me for more details.

Come and enjoy some care!

Valentine's Massage

Stay passionate,

Xnunu

-I always traveled, lived in different places since I was a small child and then went to a British school in Mexico City until I finished A’ Levels.
Having studied with people from all around the world, now I know that it helped me see the world an easy place to get around.
Before Barcelona I lived in Paris and London and felt that Barcelona was the place in Europe to live.

2) What is it about film and moving image that makes you tick? How did this passion come about?

-My father is in the business and other members of my family as well, so I grew up on a film set, on editing suites and going to Post production sessions in LA.
Since I was 13 years old, I know I wanted to work in this business.
But what is more exciting about film is helping lines in a piece of paper become a film.

3) How did’ The Lift’ come about?
-Long story!
A Mexican guy I met when I lived in London convinced me to move here to start a Production Company and I felt it was the right time, so I just moved here and went for it.

4)The film production and commercials industry has suffered a lot in the crisis, I have seen you stay very positive and faithful during this period, how have you managed to?
-If I were not positive, I wouldn’t survive. This industry is about being creative and innovative, if you can’t think that way in terms of business, you don’t have a company.
To be honest, I’m always positive, life is short, better live happily.

5)You have been subsidising your staff with a 20-min energising chair massage every Wednesday at the office for 3 years(even through the crisis) why?
-I feel I am a generous person. In this business we work very long hours, there is very much stress, it’s very demanding and very competitive.
If taking a break for 20mins once a week makes you feel better and makes you work better, why not?!

6)What does good health mean to you?
-When you are young you think you are indestructible. You drink, you don’t sleep, you eat bad… When you get older and your body doesn’t react the same, it means it’s time to take care of it.
I am diabetic and I have no other choice but to lead a healthy life. For my disease, the only way to stay healthy is eating properly and exercising.
Health to me means staying alive longer. We only have 1 body, better love it.

7)Why do you love Barcelona?

-Because it’s small and walkable and even if you drive, you don’t have much traffic.
Having the sea in front of us is amazing for me, coming from Mexico City, it’s a great luxury.
The weather is perfect and you can have your our activities and way of live, not like big cities, where the city itself pulls you into a rhythm you don’t necessarily like.
Basically, Barcelona has QUALITY of LIFE.

8)What future projects do you have in mind with ‘The Lift’ ‘  and how can people find you?
-We want to start getting into other businesses like TV production, events and other sort of projects which can be interesting to make as well as give us money.
www.thelift.tv

9)In Mexico they beilive alot in spirits, saints and celebrating the dead etc, did you grow up spiritually?
-It’s true that Mexicans have a certain kind of spirituality in their veins. But not always well directed or with real studies, it’s more instinctual or passed on generation to generation.
My great grandmother was quite special, she always had premonitions and could know when things would happen, then my mom studied (and keeps studying) psychology and many other alternative things regarding the mind and spirit, and it is from her that I have learnt more academic stuff.
Although we all believe in spirits (good and bad) and life beyond death!

10) One of my heroes is Frida Kahlo, as a mexican, how has she influenced your life?

-When I was a teenager and I had the capacity to understand her worked, it really shocked me. I felt that she had transmitted her pain so well, but I always felt bad for her tormented life.
Now, as an adult, I think she must have been the coolest woman of her time.

Thank you Ana Laura!

When I lived in New York in the late 80′s and used to work as a schampooer in a hair salon in East Village called ‘RIAH’.  I used to schampoo people’s hair but also always give people a head massage and that was my first contact with massage and part of my interest in massage. In my therapeutic massage, head massage is an important part of it and most people love it when I massage their scalp and head so I thought I’d brief you a little bit about what head massage is, how it helps you and where it comes from….

For Centuries, head massage has played an essential part in Ayurvedic medicine, widely practised throughout India and some parts of Asia. In India it is still a regular aspect of daily life, and head massage is frequently practised on the street corners. However, this ancient art is also highly practical and relevant to the Western world.

Head massage combines energy-based pressure-point techniques with more traditional massage strokes such as rubbing and stroking, thus working on the body’s energy system as well as its physical structure. In addition to fucusing on the head, it also targets the upper back, shoulders and neck area – significant places in the body where we store tension.

Head massage is particularly helful for relieving tension commonly found in the upper back, shoulders and neck area.

It’s such a great release with head massage! Enjoy!

Love and light

xNunu

I am excited to announce to you my new venture working with a wonderful nutritionist Mary Meloy and excellent personal fitness trainer Daniel Benites – we’re launching a new program called ‘The Complete Healthy You’ which is offered at a special discounted price.

Mary, Nunu and Daniel

Weight Management and Nutrition

Personal Fitness

Therapeutic Massage

Benefits to You:

• To eat and live like a confident and healthy person while releasing your ideal weight

• To enjoy exercise, tone up, renew your energy while losing weight at the same time

• To feel relaxed, de-stressed, detoxified and relieve your pain

More information

So I am starting this year’s blog post with linking you to an article written about me for my BWN women’s group which was published today and it tells you a little bit about my history and story!

Enjoy!

Love Nunu

Nunu and her Vital Touch

Just for today do not worry

Just for today do not anger

Honour your parents, teacher and elders

Earn a living honestly

Show gratitude to everything

Woman Reflecting

Have a super beautiful, peacefull, joyful, restful X-mas!!

Nunu

Normal Price 120eu, Special price for this X-mas 100eu if you buy before end of Dec! 

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Football lessons for kids Barcelona

Hope you are all doing well at this hectic time coming up to X-mas, I just spoke to my dear friend Linda in San Fransisco, I always find speaking to her makes me feel inspirered, she’s got a calm voice and I always feel I learn things from her. She’s wise, positive and beautiful. You should always try and surround yourself with people that are good for you, people like Linda. There is a balanced exchange.

I started of this morning with going to my inspirering contemporary dance class, felt so good to start the day moving my body, it felt like I lubricated all my joints and my body felt warm and ready for the day. The rest of the day has been an admin/catching up with stuff before X-mas kind of day, feels good to tick of tasks on my list and hopefully start 2012 with lots of fresh ideas/tasks/challenges. Are you clearing your head/your lists?

I have also been cooking a pot of vegetables and beans/a winter health pot – tasted yummy, lots of ginger, chilli and garlic, all good for detoxification and immune system.  Am now drinking ayurvedic herbal tea whilst writing to you, will soon go to bed and read a book, love these cosy winter evenings, in hybernation, listening to tango, jazz, flamenco or indian music, I’m in a meditative lull, happy.

Burning in my oil burner is:

chamomile(roman)- calming

rosemary – decongestant

frankincense – antidepressive

My tip of this week is working your hand!

When you feel anxious, press the solar plexus reflex in the centre of your hand. It encourages good deep breathing and also helps to calm feelings of panic and nervousness.

The solar plexus reflex is right in the centre of the hand, so it is easy to find. Working on a hand point is also much easier to do wherever you are, than working on your foot. To work the solar plexus point, press firmly(but not painfully) and then rotate your thumb in an anticlockwise direction. As you press breathe deeply and relax your shoulders. It’s an excellent point to work before an interview, exam, big meeting or journey – or when you are doing anything that makes you feel nervous.

Now I’m going off to read my book and enter into dream land – good night!

Love Nunu

Relax!

Love Nunu