After New Jersey’s non-essential businesses were forced to shut down back in March, the bāsalt Studio put a lot of thought into it’s decision to re-open on… Read more “The Last Session on 8th Street…”

An atrocity occurred recently. Unless you were privy to a series of Executive Orders, signed by New Jersey’s Governor Murphy, that were meant to address and outline… Read more “The (pär-lər) Controversy”

Uncertain times have a tendency to curl one into the proverbial fetal position. One starts to crave the comfort of the familiar–doesn’t normally seek out more mystery… Read more “The Only Constant…”

Compassionate massage therapists and bodyworkers forced to examine their personal and professionial framework have encountered an emotionally charged ethical dilemma filled with more than one paradox.  I… Read more “The Work.”

“NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana, produced images of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, previously known as 2019-nCoV) on its scanning and transmission electron microscopes on Tuesday,… Read more “Are You Concerned?”

Recently, bāsalt, along with all massage and bodywork establishments in New Jersey, has had to re-think how we book our clients’ sessions in a way that adheres… Read more “It’s a process…”

On March 9, 2020, a public health emergency and a state of emergency were declared by NJ Governor Murphy to combat the well-established fact–a novel and fast-spreading… Read more “And….here we are.”

According to Governor Murphy’s Executive Order 154 that allowed massage therapy establishments to re-open effective June 22, 2020 at 6:00 a.m., all that needs to be done… Read more ““Is bāsalt open?””

The Earth has spoken. For some, she is speaking in tongues. May is upon us. The Beltane has just passed. I think of my own mother. I… Read more “Expectant Earth Mothers”

It’s interesting what we will consider a skill in our wheelhouse when we can’t afford to hire someone else to do it for us. The sign above… Read more “Sign-Making 101”