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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.
An Japanese style of
bodywork, Shiatsu is based upon the same ancient Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM) concepts as is Acupuncture, but uses hand and
finger pressure rather than needles, heat or electricity to access the
energetic flow of Qi in the body.
TCM teaches that a person is a complex interaction of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy and that when that energy (Qi) is out of balance, stagnant or too strong, dis-ease can take hold and manifest in illness, pain, anger, disharmony on all levels. The intent of Shiatsu is to help the client achieve the proper quality and flow of Qi that is best for them in order to allow optimum levels of harmony and syncronisity between all aspects of that person. Shiatsu leaves the client with a heightened sense of well being and lightness which will increase over a few days as the work matures in the body. A full body treatment, the work is done through the clothes and without any oils or massage creams.
Shiatsu is especially good for people who are new to body work, do not care for traditional massage work (i.e. does not like to get undressed or care for the use of oils), or for those whom traditional massage or therapies have not provided any relief.
TCM teaches that a person is a complex interaction of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy and that when that energy (Qi) is out of balance, stagnant or too strong, dis-ease can take hold and manifest in illness, pain, anger, disharmony on all levels. The intent of Shiatsu is to help the client achieve the proper quality and flow of Qi that is best for them in order to allow optimum levels of harmony and syncronisity between all aspects of that person. Shiatsu leaves the client with a heightened sense of well being and lightness which will increase over a few days as the work matures in the body. A full body treatment, the work is done through the clothes and without any oils or massage creams.
Shiatsu is especially good for people who are new to body work, do not care for traditional massage work (i.e. does not like to get undressed or care for the use of oils), or for those whom traditional massage or therapies have not provided any relief.
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.