House Policies

• Welcome!
• Please use a quiet “library voice” in and near the house.
• Leave your worries behind you!
• Please turn your cell phone’s ringer off or to vibrate only.
• Smile!
• Please do not smoke anywhere on the property.
• Relax!
• Please tell your friends what you liked about your time here.
• Breathe deeply!
• Please tell us about what you didn’t like about your time here.
• Hurry back, y’all!

Nancy

Meet Your Therapist, Nancy

Nancy Goodpasture Castro was born in Illinois, raised in Mexico City and the suburbs of Chicago, and moved to West Virginia in 1974. She attended the Pittsburgh School of Massage Therapy and has been a Professional WV Licensed Massage Therapist since July 1998. She also spent one month in 2002 studying massage at the Esalen Institute in California, and a year and a half studying Oriental medicine. She specializes in Swedish massage and deep-tissue neuromuscular therapy.

Nancy organized and established a state-wide group of professional massage therapists, has established professional massage on a volunteer basis at the Clarksburg VA Hospital, taught massage classes, and is active in public speaking and other volunteer massage services. Beyond the world of massage, she is an artist, musician, and writer, and also enjoys working with dogs. Nancy also supports several groups locally, such as organ donation, blood donation, Food Pantry, Habitat for Humanity, Big Brothers Big Sisters, HOPE Task Force on Domestic Violence, and Fairmont Chamber Music Society. She encourages you to do the same and follow your heart to the places you can best serve your community.

Fees

Half hour $30

One full hour $50
One and a half hours $70
Yes, two full hours $85

THREE full hours! $120

Gift certificates are available, too!

Contact Us

Telephone

Nancy: 304/366-1686

E-mail

SerenityNancy@gmail.com

Mailing Address
Serenity Studios: House of Massage
Rt. 4, Box 93

682 East Grafton Road
Fairmont, WV 26554

Office Location

I-79 Exit 137

1.2 miles east (toward Grafton) on Rt. 310 (E. Grafton Rd.)

slow down after steel-blue house on the right

pass Shady Lane on your left

pass next (white) house on right near the road

turn right down driveway immediately after that house

between fire locator #13-EG-118 and 120

come down gravel driveway behind larger white house

to smaller white house set back from road

look for signs and white stars on porch railing

steps up to front door on porch

Don't knock, just come on in!

"Seeking Serenity" from Daily OM

If you have little time to devote to your own needs today, your mind and body may begin to retain tension as the day wears on. As a result of the fatigue you feel, you may move through the various spheres of your life disconnectedly and find that you have difficulties concentrating, solving problems, and moving from task to task. This can be a sign that you are overdoing it at work or at home and need to slow down. Since your short- and long-term agendas are likely full, you may have to add relaxation to your established schedule. Once you dedicate a portion of your time to seeing to your well-being today, your energy and enthusiasm will no doubt return.

When we resurrect the practice of regularly taking time to nurture ourselves, we ensure that our individual needs are always met and that our lives are infused with balance. Society can demand so much from us, leaving us with little time to relax and renew between bouts of activity. In making periods of rejuvenation a regular part of our schedules, we struggle against the modern tendency to put the self last. We can then rejuvenate our mental and physical energy when we need to without feeling guilty for overlooking other vital duties. Since we recognize the importance of well-being, we can make the quest to attain serenity a priority in our lives. The time you spend seeing to your own inner- and outer-world needs today will energize you and enable you to relax.