Massage Therapy

The ther­a­peu­tic ben­e­fits of mas­sage con­tin­ue to be researched and studied.
Recent research has shown the effec­tive­ness of massage
for the fol­low­ing conditions:

• Relieves Mus­cle Tension	• Relieves Stress and Anxiety
• Relax­es Muscles	• Reduces Blood Pressure
• Reduces Mus­cle Spasms	• Improves Blood Circulation
• Pro­vides Greater Flexibility	• Strength­ens the Immune System
• Improves Posture	• Pro­motes Bet­ter Sleep

Your Personal Plan

On your first vis­it your mas­sage ther­a­pist will ask gen­er­al health ques­tions and review any refer­ring practitioner’s rec­om­men­da­tions. Your ther­a­pist will assess your prob­lem areas to deter­mine the best approach to help you. The appro­pri­ate fre­quen­cy, dura­tion, and num­ber of mas­sage ses­sions will depend on your prob­lem, its sever­i­ty and how long you have had it, as well as your gen­er­al health.

A Lifetime of Great Health

Ther­a­peu­tic mas­sage is a gen­tle ther­a­py that calms the ner­vous sys­tem and increas­es cir­cu­la­tion, cre­at­ing a cas­cade of ben­e­fi­cial effects. With its abil­i­ty to relieve pain, speed heal­ing, and increase your ener­gy, mas­sage ther­a­py can be a life­time ally in main­tain­ing your health.

Self — Care Techniques

Your mas­sage ther­a­pist can be an excel­lent resource for dis­cov­er­ing addi­tion­al ways to release ten­sion or help heal injuries out­side of your mas­sage ses­sions. Your mas­sage ther­a­pist might share breath­ing tech­niques or gen­tle exer­cis­es to increase flex­i­bil­i­ty and sup­port more effi­cient move­ments. You may also learn to relieve ten­sion by con­tract­ing and releas­ing mus­cles, press­ing trig­ger points, or using ice and heat.

“Wis­dom is to the mind what health is to the body”
Fran­cois De La Rochefoucauld

Massage

Q: What is a massage?
A: Mas­sage is a term describ­ing a vari­ety of tech­niques that stim­u­late and soothe the soft tis­sues of the body for ther­a­peu­tic purposes

Q: How does mas­sage work?
A: Mas­sage works by knead­ing and stroking mus­cles to relax them and uses fric­tion to stim­u­late soft tis­sues. This can increase blood and lymph cir­cu­la­tion while break­ing up adhe­sions between mus­cle fibers.

Q: Why is mas­sage used?
A: Mas­sage is use­ful in many con­di­tions in which relax­ation, the reduc­tion of swelling, and mus­cle mobi­liza­tion is desired. Mas­sage can be used for many con­di­tions includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to; pain, headaches, fibromyal­gia, anx­i­ety, and depression.

Q: How will it feel?
A: Mas­sage ther­a­py on healthy tis­sue should feel won­der­ful. The nor­mal response is to slow down, breathe deeply, and relax. If you are sen­si­tive to touch, your mas­sage ther­a­pist will use gen­tle but firm pres­sure to calm your ner­vous sys­tem, grad­u­al­ly prepar­ing you for deep­er touch. The say­ing “no pain, no gain” is not true for mas­sage ther­a­py and body­work. The most effec­tive mas­sage works with the body’s nat­ur­al respons­es not against them. Work­ing in the area of an injury or chron­ic pain may at first cause some dis­com­fort, which usu­al­ly lessens in the first few min­utes. Always tell your ther­a­pist if the pres­sure feels too deep. He or she can mod­i­fy the approach to min­i­mize pain, and will work care­ful­ly with your com­fort level.

Q: What should I do dur­ing my massage?
A: Make your­self com­fort­able, close your eyes, and relax. You may be asked to breath deeply through­out the ses­sion, espe­cial­ly when tense areas are being targeted.

Q: How long is a session?
A: An hour is a com­mon ses­sion length. This gives time for a deeply relax­ing full-body mas­sage or more in-depth work on a par­tic­u­lar area. A half hour can be an excel­lent intro­duc­tion to body­work, with time for a spe­cif­ic area such as back, neck, and shoul­ders. An hour and a half is usu­al­ly enough time to address the whole body with spe­cial atten­tion to prob­lem areas and a two hour ses­sion is won­der­ful too.

Q: Are there med­ical con­di­tions that pre­vent me from get­ting a massage?
A: Yes, if you are cur­rent­ly under a doctor’s care, it is strong­ly advised that you get approval from him/her pri­or to mak­ing an appoint­ment. It is impor­tant that you inform the mas­sage ther­a­pist of any health con­di­tions or med­ica­tions before get­ting a massage.

Q: What should I expect after a massage?
A: Mas­sage and body­work can be pro­found­ly relax­ing, affect­ing all your body’s sys­tems. Give your­self a moment to reori­ent before slow­ly get­ting up. Fol­low­ing a ses­sion, many peo­ple expe­ri­ence free­dom from aches and pains that have built up over months or years. After an ini­tial peri­od of feel­ing relaxed, peo­ple often expe­ri­ence an increase in ener­gy that can last sev­er­al days. In the days fol­low­ing a mas­sage ther­a­py ses­sion, notice changes such as pain relief, increased mobil­i­ty and reduced stress.

Additional Services

Hot Stone Mas­sage, Side by Side Mas­sage, Rain­drop Ther­a­py, Pre Natal Mas­sage, Cup­ping Mas­sage, Reflex­ol­o­gy, CBD Oil Infused Mas­sage, Thai Mas­sage, and Pos­i­tive Ener­gy Therapy.

Raindrop Therapy

Q: What is rain­drop therapy?

A: A pow­er­ful, non-eva­sive tech­nique that has been used for cen­turies to reju­ve­nate the body and mind. This tech­nique uses 7 sin­gle oils; thyme, basil, pep­per­mint, oregano, win­ter­green, cypress, mar­jo­ram and 2 oil blends; val­or and aro­ma siez to help bring bal­ance and har­mo­ny to the body-phys­i­cal­ly, men­tal­ly, and emo­tion­al­ly.  The pow­er of these essen­tial oils pro­motes heal­ing from within.

All of the oils used dur­ing rain­drop ther­a­py syn­er­gis­ti­cal­ly com­bine to simultaneously:

• Kill viral and bac­te­r­i­al pathogens
• Reduce inflam­ma­tion
• Sup­port the immune system
• Ease res­pi­ra­to­ry discomfort
• Relax stressed muscles
• Curb diges­tive upset
• Relieve body and joint discomfort
• Bal­ance energy
• Restore calm

Cupping Therapy

Q: What is cup­ping therapy?

A: Cup­ping ther­a­py is the method of using suc­tion pump cups or glass fire cups to cre­ate local­ized pres­sure by a vac­u­um. The vac­u­um inside the cups caus­es blood to form in the area and helps facil­i­tate healing.The suc­tion from the cups can pen­e­trate deep into the tis­sues caus­ing a release of tox­ins. Cup­ping can trig­ger the lym­phat­ic sys­tem, encour­age blood flow, and loosen muscles.

Q: Why is cup­ping ther­a­py used?

A: Cup­ping is used to relieve back and neck pain, stiff mus­cles, anx­i­ety, fatigue, migraines, and cel­lulite. It can also clear con­ges­tion from a cold and help con­trol asthma.Cupping is much like the inverse of mas­sage; instead of apply­ing down­ward pres­sure to mus­cles it uses pres­sure to pull the mus­cles upward.

Thai Massage

Q: What is Thai massage?

A: Thai mas­sage is believed to have been devel­oped in India more than 2,500 years ago.

It made its way to Thai­land, where the Ayurvedic tech­niques and prin­ci­ples grad­u­al­ly became influ­enced by tra­di­tion­al Chi­nese medicine.

For cen­turies, Thai mas­sage was per­formed by monks as one com­po­nent of Thai medicine.

Q: What does Thai mas­sage feel like?

A: Thai mas­sage is more ener­giz­ing and rig­or­ous than more clas­sic forms of mas­sage but also relaxing.

Dur­ing your Thai mas­sage, the body­work­er uses his or her hands, knees, legs, and feet to move you into a series of stretch­es. Mus­cle com­pres­sion, joint mobi­liza­tion, and acu­pres­sure are also used dur­ing treatment.

Q: What should I expect dur­ing my visit?

A: Thai mas­sage is usu­al­ly done on a padded mat on the floor or table.  You are usu­al­ly asked to wear com­fort­able, loose cloth­ing to the mas­sage. 60, 90, 120 minute ses­sions are available.

Q: What are the ben­e­fits of Thai massage?

A: Many peo­ple find that Thai mas­sage has the fol­low­ing benefits:

• Relax­es
• Reduces Stress
• Improves Cir­cu­la­tion
• Increas­es Energy
• Increas­es Flexibility
• Improves Range of Motion
• Cen­ters the Mind and Body

Positive Energy Therapy

Ener­gy Ther­a­py aims to increase the individual’s sense of well-being and over­all com­fort. Prac­ti­tion­ers con­scious­ly use their hands in a heart-cen­tered and inten­tion­al way to sup­port and facil­i­tate phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, men­tal, and spir­i­tu­al health. Ener­gy ther­a­py is found to decrease pain, increase relax­ation, pro­mote wound heal­ing, and strength­en the immune sys­tem. It can bal­ance and align all lev­els of the emo­tion­al, phys­i­cal, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al bodies.

This is a sub­tle ther­a­py. You will lie, ful­ly clothed, on a mas­sage table, while your prac­ti­tion­er holds her hands either a few inch­es away from your body, or rests her hands light­ly on your body.  For a typ­i­cal ses­sion, she will work from your head to your feet, adjust­ing the ener­gies through­out your whole body.

Some­times, when a ses­sion releas­es ten­sion in one area, your body may shift so that you feel a new ache or pain.  This typ­i­cal­ly hap­pens when you have been hold­ing ten­sion with­out being aware of it; once the more obvi­ous pain is released, you become aware of the things that had been below your aware­ness. It may also hap­pen when the hold­ing pat­tern your body has assumed is released with the pri­ma­ry pain, and your mus­cles need to adapt to your new, more nat­ur­al, posture.

Because we hold both phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al ten­sion in our bod­ies, you may expe­ri­ence strong emo­tions dur­ing your ses­sion.  This is nor­mal.  Sim­ply tell your ther­a­pist what you’re feel­ing, and she will adapt the ses­sion to allow you to feel it, and to release the strong emo­tion.  A strong emo­tion­al release is often fol­lowed by a phys­i­cal mus­cu­lar ten­sion release, and you will feel relaxed and at ease, instead of drained.

This ses­sion leaves you with a won­der­ful feel­ing of relax­ation and peace. The changes you expe­ri­ence are only begin­ning dur­ing the ses­sion, and things may keep mov­ing and shift­ing sub­tly for the next 24 hours.