The
benefits of therapeutic massage are widely recognized. Regular massage
improves your health and well being by helping you release muscle tension, improve circulation, and reduce the effects of stress. Before your massage, I
will consult with you so that you can decide the therapy which will address your specific needs.
A
gentle to firm, soothing massage using long strokes, kneading and friction
techniques on muscles. Improves your blood circulation and helps relieve
muscle tension. You will feel relaxed and energized.
Incorporates
specific techniques to effectively relieve all layers of muscle affected
by chronic pain and tension build up. Great for people who want the
benefits of a Swedish massage, combined with a firm hand to work chronic
knots.
There is little doubt that we
are beings of energy. That is why you often hear people say things
like, "I’m feeling so drained today." Or when someone praises you for something well-done, think about the surge of energy you felt from that experience.
Or think about a time when you didn’t do something or go somewhere because
it just didn’t ‘feel’ right.Those are
all energetic experiences. Polarity work is an energy balancing
massage--Gentle touch intended to recharge and cleanse your body and
spirit.. This
technique incorporates verbal reflections and feedback.
A type of deep massage developed by Gary Salinger of the Healing
Arts Institute in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Muscles have memory.
That is why people, over time, develop patterns of walking, standing, sitting,
running, and basically every movement we do. With all the thinking
that the brain has to do every second of every day, we do not often take
much time to notice our own patterns of movement. Body insight works at a deeper level within the muscle,
to reset the length of that muscle. This is accomplished through movement done by the client and by the therapist.
Specific
movements designed to reduce injuries, alleviate inflammation, and warm up
muscles before and after training or events. Helps to prevent, or
accelerate recovery from, sports related injuries.
As part of my training, I was shown how to see deviations in posture. What this technique
does is examines
an individual’s patterns of movement, and brings
them to the attention of that person. (Often, simply having an awareness
of your posture can cause you to work to change it.) What I do to supplement
that awareness is to work certain muscle groups so that these postural deviations can be corrected.
No one will
disagree with the simple fact that oxygen is absolutely crucial to our
survival. And in fact, the more good, clean oxygen that we get, the
better we think, process food, run, walk, and do all the movements and
actions of our everyday life. When our breathing becomes more shallow,
we inhibit every one of our daily tasks from being performed as well as
they should be. This technique works to help people recognize their own
breathing patterns and work to breathe more effectively.
Because surgery is
invasive, people will often mentally neglect and even reject the
part of the body which was operated on. What this generally means
is that people will not touch or even take much notice of the part of the
body where they had the operation. What then happens is that the part of the
body which was operated on will not be moved much or worked with, and thick scar tissue
can develop. This type
of massage aims at working to break down the scar tissue, because scar
tissue can restrict movement and can also create unnecessary pain.
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Hydrotherapy
is something which most Americans already do in some form. When you
have a sore muscle, you will get out the heating pad. When you have
sore joints, you may get out an ice bag. Sometimes,
muscles become so tight that they are "as hard as a rock." When a therapist ices a muscle, it can
cause the muscle to become numb, allowing a therapist to work into a muscle
without causing a client pain. Similarly, heat can bring
blood and nutrients into an area, causing a muscle to open up. Also,
sometimes it just feels good on a hot day to have an ice
pack to cool you down, or on a cold day to have a heating pack/pad to warm
you up.
I believe that we all
have the power to heal from any dis-ease that we encounter. I know that I have been given gifts to help
healing within myself, as well as to help others learn how to heal themselves.
My goal is to work with you to
develop rapport and healing, and to have you go away from a session feeling
relaxed, refreshed, and ready to have the most positive impact you can in the
world.
So within my sessions, I try
to use the different forms of healing and relaxation that I know. If you
would like to ask me any questions about anything I've listed above, or any
other questions relating to massage, please email
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