Our ServicesSometimes it is hard to know what type of massage or bodywork is right for you. We are here to help. Below you will find a list of the services we offer, a short description of each and a list of certified professionals who are trained in them. Massage TherapySwedish MassageWhen most people go to a spa to get a relaxing, therapeutic massage, a Swedish style massage is usually what they are looking for. Massage therapists use oil or lotion and long, gliding strokes to help relax muscles and release tension. Professional draping techniques are always used and only the areas of the body being worked on are exposed. Our therapists ensure that clients are safe and comfortable at all times. Benefits of Swedish massage include:
Therapists who offer Swedish Massage
Deep Tissue MassageDeep tissue massage focuses on realigning deeper layers of muscles and connective tissue. It can be helpful if you suffer from chronic issues such as neck and shoulder tension, low back pain or other long-term problems. Many therapists integrate deep tissue techniques into their sessions based on a clients needs. Your therapist may use elbows, fingertips or other tools and use slow deliberate strokes to get into the muscle slowly and effectively. Talk to your therapist about your problem areas and find out if deep tissue is right for you. Benefits of deep tissue massage include:
Pre-Natal (Pregnancy) MassagePre-natal massage, also known as pregnancy massage, has wonderful benefits for both mother and child. For Mom, it helps to reduce stress, decrease swelling, relieve aches and pains, and reduce anxiety and depression. For baby, it helps to increase the flow of blood and nutrients from the mother and, reducing Mom's stress reduces baby's stress too. Massage therapists trained in prenatal massage learn proper positioning, draping, and precautions. Benefits of pre-natal massage include:
Therapists who offer Pre-Natal Massage Sports MassageMany athletes use massage to prepare for an event, help to recover after an event and to reduce recovery time after an injury. A pre-event massage is brief and invigorating, usually lasting 15-20 minutes. It is given within an hour before the sporting event, through the clothes to warm up the muscles. Post-Event Massage is calming and relaxing and is used to ease muscle pain and soreness and to inflammation and should last about 15- to 20-minutes. Post-event massage encourages the return of blood and oxygen to tense areas, and flushes out metabolic waste products (lactic acid) that have built up during strenuous muscle use. Massage is also used to help reduce recovery time after an injury by increasing blood flow, reducing adhesions and lengthening muscles. Benefits of sports massage include:
Therapists who offer Sports Massage Shiatsu MassageShiatsu is a unique style of massage that is based in Japanese tradition and traditional Chinese medicine. Unlike Swedish massage, Shiatsu is traditionally done with the client fully dressed on a mat on the floor. The shiatsu practitioner uses palms, fingers, thumbs, knuckles, elbows, knees and feet, to work along the body’s meridians or energy channels. Gentle stretches and movement are often incorporated into the sessions as well. Benefits of Shiatsu include:
Therapists who offer Shiatsu Thai MassageThai massage entails using passive stretching and gentle pressure along the body’s energy lines to increase flexibility, relieve muscle and joint tension and balance the body’s energy systems. It usually takes place on a futon mat on the floor with the client fully clothed. It is both deeply relaxing and energizing. Benefits of Thai massage include:
Therapists who offer Thai Massage Trigger Point TherapyTrigger point therapy entails applying pressure to tender muscle tissue to relieve pain and dysfunction in other parts of the body. It can help to eliminate pain and re-educate muscles into pain-free habits. Benefits include reduced swelling and stiffness of muscles, increased range of motion, and improvement in circulation, flexibility and coordination. Your therapist can integrate trigger point therapy into your massage session. Trigger point therapy can be beneficial in treating:
Therapists who offer Trigger Point Therapy
Other TherapiesCraniosacral TherapyCraniosacral work is a respectful holistic healing practice that uses extremely light finger pressure to optimize a movement pattern within the body, known as the "cranial wave." Craniosacral work differs from other modalities by the lightness of touch and by the long, attentive duration of each contact. Focus and gentleness are the foundations of healing with craniosacral therapy. Reiki is a type of energy healing that uses a very light touch and heals at all levels, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Healing energy is channeled by the practitioner and goes to the areas in the body that need it. Reiki has no negative side effects and is a completely safe and natural way of healing. Craniosacral therapy can be beneficial for treating:
Therapists who offer Craniosacral Therapy Manual Lymph DrainageManual Lymph Drainage (MLD) originated in Europe during the 1930s. It was first used on patients as an effective way to detoxify (ridding of waste) the body. Today, MLD is still used as a way to improve the inner workings of the lymphatic system. The massage is applied gently in the direction of lymph flow in order to unblock any obstructed lymph vessels, and allow lymph flow to transport waste from the body freely. It is especially helpful for after surgery swelling , sports injury swelling or chronic cold sinus clearing. MLD massage is performed by a certified MLD massage therapist, who applies a light form of circular massage to their client’s skin. MLD massages must be applied to bare skin, and no massage oils or lotions can be used in order for the treatment to be effective. MLD massage is applied in gentle strokes towards the heart. This technique will lightly stretch the walls of the lymph vessels and encourage lymph drainage. The benefits of manual lymph drainage include:
Therapists who offer Manual Lymph Drainage
ReflexologyReflexology is the physical act of applying pressure to the feet and hand with specific thumb, finger and hand techniques without the use of oil or lotion. it is based on a system of zones and reflex areas that reflect an image of the body on the feet and hands with a premise that such work effects a physical change to the body. In a reflexology chart the body is reflected on the feet or hands. It serves as a map for technique application to target health goals. The left foot and hand reflect the left side of the body and the right foot and hand the right side. The spine reflex area runs down the insides of the feet and hands with reflex areas for the arm and shoulder reflected toward the outside of the foot or hand. The toes and fingers mirror the head and neck as well as the parts of the body they encase. The ball of the foot mirrors the chest and upper back in addition the heart and lungs. Halfway down the foot at the base of the long bones of the foot is represented the waistline of the body. the parts of the body above the waistline are mirrored above this line and those below sare represented below it. Internal organs lying above the body's waistline are reflected by reflex areas above this line while those below the waistline are mirrored below this line. The benefits of reflexology include:
Therapists who offer Reflexology Zero BalancingZero Balancing (ZB) is a hands-on bodywork system designed to align your energy body with your physical structure. Simple yet powerful, it focuses on your whole person, even when addressing specific needs. Considered at the leading edge of body/mind therapies, ZB moves beyond Western scientific approaches to body structure by incorporating Eastern concepts of energy and healing What this does is enable a practitioner to work simultaneously with your structural and energy bodies to bring balance. Zero Balancing process generally takes between 30 and 40 minutes and is performed with you fully clothed. Sessions begin with you in a seated position, moving from there to a comfortable reclining position on your back. Using touch, the ZB practitioner evaluates your energy fields and energy flow in these two positions and balances the structures as needed. He or she may focus on body, mind, spirit, or all three, depending on where the fields are disturbed or the energy is blocked. Throughout the Zero Balancing session, attention is given to the skeleton in particular because it contains the deepest and strongest currents. The benefits of zero balancing include:
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Massage TherapySwedish MassageDeep Tissue MassagePregnancy MassageSports MassageShiatsuThai MassageTrigger Point TherapyOther TherapiesCranioSacral TherapyManual Lymph DrainageReflexologyZero Balancing |
