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Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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“Brighten your day with a little Daylight” |
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
New location for local healer
By Lara Kirkner
Mammoth Times Staff Writer
 Massage enthusiasts rejoice, local healer Daylight Kirwan, who left Snowcreek Athletic Club last summer, is still practicing in town. She's located inside American Beauty Hair Salon now.MAMMOTH TIMES PHOTO/LARA KIRKNER
“I wasn't going to wait for a white knight,” says former SAC Massage Therapist Daylight Kirwan. “We heard the news on July 2 and I began making calls and looking around on July 3.”
By the time it became clear in November that the Club would not be shutting its doors, Daylight had already relocated and hasn't looked back.
“I would have been at SAC until my dying day,” Daylight says. “I am so thankful to them for giving me eight years of experience, and Linda was very good to me. I do miss the people, but now I have my own business, Daylight's Healing Touch, located inside American Beauty Hair Salon above the Body Shop Gym, and I have no regrets.”
Her new business location includes a waiting room, a personal shower for clients to wash off after treatments such as salt scrubs and mud wraps, as well as another inner room where treatments take place.
The spacious inner room has a window with beautiful views of the trees, lavender and soundproof walls, and such a feeling of calm and relaxation that as I sat inside on the table and spoke with Daylight I felt the stress leave my body and really just wanted to lie down and take a nap.
“The window is so great,” Daylight exclaims, “when I have clients in for evening treatments oftentimes you can see the moon above the trees. The room is also very ambient and has a good energy.”
When the local community heard that she was moving locations last year, Daylight received many phone calls from people who wanted her to come work for them, but she found her niche when Lisa Peterson, owner of American Beauty, gave her a call.
“The room had been empty for a while and Lisa was looking for the right person. I'm so happy that I was that person,” Daylight says.
Not only is Daylight's presence at American Beauty good for her business, it's good for the salon's business, too.
“People like the idea of one-stop shopping,” Daylight says. “They can come in and have their hair and nails done on the same day they book a massage.”
She also joked that now that she is getting pedicures at American Beauty, her clients get to look at colorful pedicured feet while she works. Who knows, it could enhance the experience.
Daylight offers all of the same services she was offering at Snowcreek, including massage, headache relief, hot stone, salt scrubs and mud wraps, and cranio-sacral treatments. Her specialty is neck and shoulder relief, but she claims her favorite type of treatment to give is whatever the client needs most.
“My favorite work is healing,” she says. “Whatever does real work for people is what I like to do. I like to fix people's problems even if that means they don't have to come back and see me again because they feel so good.”
Most of Daylight's clients have followed her to the new location, but she has also been overwhelmed by new clients.
“I've realized there is a whole other part of the community that wasn't at Snowcreek,” she says, “and the girls at American Beauty have been really good at talking me up and bringing me new clients.”
The petite woman, who learned her trade in the wine country north of San Francisco, claims the strength behind her powerful hands comes from several things, including strong legs, the low table, ergonomics, gravity and bio-mechanics, as well as developing more and more strength over time.
“So much love of what I am doing, however, is the real power,” Daylight says. “It's a deeper level,” adds the woman who feels she was born in order to brighten people's lives, hence the name.
“What I really want to express in this whole transition is how thankful I am to everyone,” she concludes.
Daylight is also offering meditation instruction and therapy classes at her home in Crowley, free of charge. Call her at (760) 935-4448 for more information on the classes or to book an appointment.
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