Types of Services

Massage:

• Swedish Massage: Traditional form of bodywork designed to facilitate circulation, reduce tension, and improve muscle tone.
• Orthopedic Massage: To address specific physical issues and injuries resulting from falls, car accidents, sports injuries, stress, repetitive motion injuries, work related dysfunctions, etc.
• Sports Massage: Pre-Event: To enhance circulation and reduce excess muscle and mental tension prior to competition.
• Post-event: To reduce muscle spasms and metabolic build-up, enhance the body's own recovery process, and reduce the risk of injury.
• Energy Medicine: Work with the subtle energies of the body, harmoniously balancing the energy systems to optimize vitality and clarity, resulting in greater health and wellness.
• Pre-Natal and Postpartum: To support the mom through the pregnancy and recovery from delivery.
• Integrative: Very gentle massage that incorporates a lot of movement designed to assist the client in releasing trauma stored in the body.

Techniques:

• Postural Analysis: Assessments and techniques designed to assist the client in obtaining and maintaining correct posture for relief of back pain, shoulder pain and breathing abnormalities.
• Myofascial Release: A form of bodywork that is manipulative in nature and seeks to rebalance the body by releasing tension in the fascia. Long, stretching strokes are utilized to release muscular tension.
• Trigger Point Therapy: Concentrated finger pressure to "trigger points" (painful irritated areas in muscles) to break cycles of spasm and pain.
• Reflexology: Focus on the hands and feet and their relationship to the whole of the body.
• Craniosacral: A technique for finding and correcting cerebral and spinal imbalances or blockages that may cause sensory, motor or intellectual dysfunction.
• Lymphatic Drainage: A very gentle technique designed to facilitate the movement of lymph throughout the body. Very effective in reducing swelling due to injury and to settle the nervous system.