Massage therapy is an essential part of a comprehensive wellness plan, crucial for maintaining vitality throughout your life. As we age, our bodies reflect the impact of postural deviations, emotions, injuries, and stress patterns accumulated over time. My practice combines multiple modalities to provide more than just a one-time relaxation experience. Together, we’ll develop a personalized plan to address your body’s needs and equip you with lifelong tools for continued wellness.
Our journey begins with a thorough intake and evaluation of your body, focusing on limitations in range of motion and postural deviations. We’ll create a care plan tailored to your goals, using each session to address your specific concerns and understand the root causes of discomfort. Pain is often a symptom of an underlying issue, not the cause itself. By targeting the source, we can work towards long-term relief and prevention.
If we uncover emotional holding patterns, we can incorporate energetic clearing and specific movements to release blocked energies. My program is inclusive, catering to everyone from children and infants to athletes, artists, the elderly, and office workers. I pride myself on offering a family-friendly practice where you can bring your infant or pet, ensuring a comfortable and accommodating environment for all.
I have had the privilege of working with a diverse array of clients, including:
If you have a condition I am unfamiliar with, I am committed to collaborating with your physicians and physical therapists to ensure a thorough understanding of your needs and to maximize your healing process.
Which Session Length is Right for You?
Session lengths can be intimidating. I keep my prices reasonable so that this work is accessible to anyone who needs it. It's tempting to treat massage as a stress relief rarity, or lifeline when things are bad, but that's like trying to tape a hole in a boat. As such, each session incorporates various modalities to personalize the massage experience. Session lengths are:
* This is an additional service. $100/ Reiki healing session or $50 when incorporated into massage
Reiki is a Japanese form of energy work that cleanses and balances the energy system in the body. As a result, the body's natural self-healing mechanisms strengthen, helping to establish optimum health. During a session, I work directly with your energy field to remove blockages, detoxify your system, and restore your vital life force energy. Reiki utilizes the energy force between us and all things. The benefits of Reiki range from the release of habitual mental/emotional stress to alleviating chronic pain
Energy work is based on the belief that everyone has a "life force", and that the body needs to sustain its balance for optimum health. Anytime you experience emotional or physical illness, it indicates that your life force has become unbalanced. I work directly with your energy field to restore balance and flow to your entire system. And once your energy field has been restored to full health, your body will follow.
As a non-invasive modality, it is safe to use on all, including infants and animals. Reiki and energy work utilize Universal energy and can be done in person, or remotely anywhere in the world with the same results.
Swedish Massage
Swedish Massage is a very relaxing and therapeutic style of bodywork. It combines oils or lotion with an array of strokes such as rolling, kneading, and percussion to help the body improve its circulation. The benefits of this type of bodywork are wide-ranging and include relief from aches and pains, decreased stress levels in the body, enhanced mental clarity, improved appearance, and greater flexibility.
Sports Massage is a type of massage designed for highly active people who engage in athletics. Engaging in sports is harsh on the body and can often lead to injuries in both the short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping to prevent injury, reduce pains and swelling in the body, relax the mind, increase flexibility, and dramatically improve recovery rates. Sports Massage is also highly effective in aiding the rapid recovery of an athlete from an injury by encouraging greater kinesthetic awareness and in turn promoting the body's natural immune function.
Deep Tissue Massage is a form of bodywork that aims to relieve tension in the deeper layers of tissue in the body. Deep Tissue Massage is a highly effective method for releasing chronic stress areas due to misalignment, repetitive motions, and past lingering injuries. Due to the nature of the deep tissue work, open communication during the session is crucial to make sure you don't get too uncomfortable. Keep in mind that soreness is pretty common after the treatment, and that plenty of water should be ingested to aid with the flushing and removal of toxins that will have been released from the deep tissue during the session.
Myofascial release is a form of soft tissue therapy intended to eliminate pain, increase range of motion, and rebalance the entire body. It does this by using massage techniques to stretch the fascia and release the bonds that exist between the fascia, muscles and bones. Fascia is the connective tissue that connects and covers all muscles, organs, and skeletal structures of the body. Direct myofascial release is sometimes known as deep tissue work. Indirect release applies light pressure and gently stretches the fascia; this allows for increased blood circulation and relief from pain.
Pregnancy Massage is a style of bodywork designed specifically for pregnant women. Pregnancy is a time when a woman's body endures tremendous stress due to dramatic physical and emotional changes. Using various techniques specially developed for the expecting mother, Pregnancy Massage helps release the pain and discomfort experienced throughout pregnancy. The benefits are profound, including emotional support, the relief of joint pain due to extra weight and postural imbalance, and improved breathing and relaxation.
Hot Stone Therapy is a style of massage where heated stones are placed at specific sites on your body to deepen relaxation and promote circulation in your muscles. Muscles that are heated with these stones release tension and stress much more deeply and quickly than with a traditional massage. The overall experience is very relaxing, nurturing, and rejuvenating.
Trigger Point Therapy is a style of bodywork that focuses on stimulating and releasing "trigger points" in your body. Trigger points are tender areas of tension similar to acupressure points, except they occur in the belly of the muscle rather than along the energy pathways of the body. These "knots" are built up throughout a person's life due to physical, mental, and/or emotional stress. During a session, focused pressure is applied through a variety of techniques order to release your trigger points. This process can be quite painful at times, yet the effects are lasting and profoundly transformative.
Assisted stretching is a team effort between the therapist and client. Incorporated into a massage session, energy healing session, or sports session, assisted stretching utilizes passive and active movements to encourage release of tight muscles and fascial chains through breathing exercises and activating antagonist muscle groups. As muscle is held in a contracted state throughout the day, it looses blood flow. Assisted stretching allows the client to regain blood flow, and slowly increase range of motion without solely relying on gravity or personal strength, and allows for muscles to stay relaxed when the stretch is completed to prevent immediate refiring of muscle fibers that were just relaxed. The stretching process may also release emotion held in the soma, which when released can leave a client feeling physically more loose, and emotionally lighter.
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