Deep therapy targeting muscles, ligaments and tendons. Benefits include:
Reduced pain
Increased range of motion
Breaks up scar tissue
Reduced muscle hypertonicity, tension, and spasm
Integrative Reflexology
The potential for blending Integrative Reflexology techniques with bodywork is a unique combination that increases the release of tight muscle and fascia. I will begin with the stimulation of specific reflex points and areas, then move to the associated muscle or part of the body. You will then feel how easily your tissue lets go!
Reflexology is intended to reduce generalized stress and help the body achieve a state of deep relaxation and harmony. Other benefits include improved circulation, immune function, skin tone, concentration and memory.
During the session, gentle pressure is applied to specific reflex points in the feet, thus stimulating the more than 7,200 nerve ending there. Benefits include:
Improved digestion
Improved circulation
Relaxation
Pain Relief
Reduced muscle tension
Medi-Cupping Therapy
Medi-Cupping Therapy is effective at healing and releasing toxins and inflammation from deep joint tissue. The suctioning power of the cups reaches into the soft tissue and works to pull those toxins towards the surface where the lymphatic system and the skin can draw them out of the body. This helps release scar tissue as well, even in old injuries. Benefits include:
Deep tissue and structural issues - old injuries and chronic movement patters
Arthritis, Tendonitis, Bursitis
Scarring - old, new, keloid, post-surgery
Loose skin and old deposits from weight loss
Lymphoedema - general and post-surgery
Fibromyalgia
Sports - injuries and post-event conditions
Diabetes
Cellulite
Vascular issues - spider veins and varicosities
COPD
Parkinson's Disease
IBS
Acid Reflux
Swedish
Gentle full body massage technique that focuses on increasing circulation and promoting relaxation.
Reduced fatigue, stress, depression, and anxiety
Relief of muscular tension, stiffness, and pain -helps with fibromyalgia, arthritis, and even chronic tension headaches
Improved respiritory function
Alleviates PMS and menopausal symptoms
Increased activity of your immune system
Pregnancy
Focusing on the special needs of the mother-to-be. While providing emotional support and nurturing touches, it provides relaxation by relieving stress on joints, eases neck and back pain, and helps to keep good posture. Some other benefits include:
Helps relieve nausea
Increased circulation
Increased flow of nutrients to placenta
Reduced fatigue
Prepares muscles used during childbirth
Reduced swelling
Joint Mobilization
Decreases pain, stimulates the production of synovial fluid (joint lubrication)
Increases mobilization
Reduces tension for sports related injuries
Arthritic joint support
Fibromyalgia
The compression of muscle fibers (muscle tension), nerve tissue and blood vessels develops strain, which always leads to the development of inflammation. This inflammation creates the pain associated with Fibromyalgia. Massage techniques targeted to relive this tension will support the process in easing inflammation.
Benefits Include:
reduce pain
improve health status
improve quality of life
decrease anxiety
decrease depression
decrease stiffness
decrease fatigue
increase sleep hours
increase quality of sleep
improve quality of sleep over time
reduce tender points
decrease urinary CRF-LI (a biochemical marker of stress-related symptoms)
decrease use of analgesics
decrease cortisol levels
Stress Management
"Stress is a part of life, and massage therapists are frequently called in as first line of defense against it. I have learned the difference between daily life stressors and chronic stress, what chronic stress does to our bodies and health, and ways to prevent and cope with it. I can help keep my clients' stress issues from infiltrating their own lives."
Headaches
"Headaches are the number 1 reason for employee absence in the United States. I have learned why this is so and can discuss possible prevention and treatment options. Every type of headache is as unique as the symptoms that go with it; I will be able to identify the different types of headaches and their characteristics. There are strategies for prevention, as well as treatment options that can be applied to all of my clients!"
I would love to talk with you about these added services...