Massage therapy involves using different pressures, movements, and techniques to manipulate muscles and other soft tissues in the body. Integrating goals that include: slowing your nervous system, releasing stress and tension, providing relief of symptoms, healing injuries, and supporting wellness.

Healing modalities come in all shapes and sizes, and just as the uniqueness of every person, a session will be adapted and personalized based on your goals, preferences, and indications. Utilizing many techniques together or focusing on one at a time.

Thai Massage

Thai massage is a traditional therapy combining acupressure and assisted yoga postures, using no oils or lotions and the recipient wears loose, comfortable clothing and lies on a mat or firm mattress on the floor during treatment. The body is compressed, pulled, stretched and rocked. Like other forms of massage, it is designed to be of particular benefit to a number of conditions and discomforts.  For Thai massage, those include: pain in muscles and joints such as sciatica, lower back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, or heel pain; poor posture; joint stiffness; and carpal tunnel syndrome, as well as a variety of other conditions that benefit from stretching and relaxing techniques.

Cranial-Sacral Therapy

Cranial-Sacral therapy relieves compression and stress in the bones of the head, sacrum, and spinal column using gentle pressure. It focuses on relaxing the central nervous system to allow the release of tension both in body and mind, and to create a safe space to unwind emotions.

Myofascial Release

Myofascial release therapy is designed to release restrictions such a trigger points, muscle tightness, and dysfunctions in soft tissue that may cause pain and limit motion in all parts of the body. The main tissue that it focuses on is the fascia. Fascia is a fine tissue that surrounds all structures in the body including muscles, nerves, vessels, and bones.

Postural Re-Education

Postural re-education involves a series of active gentle movements and postures aimed at realigning joints, stretching shortened muscles, and enhancing the contraction of antagonist muscles, thus avoiding postural asymmetry. These therapeutic postures imply an active involvement of the recipient.

Deep Tissue Massage

Deep tissue massage is a massage technique that’s mainly used to treat musculoskeletal issues, such as strains and sports injuries. It involves applying sustained deep pressure to target the inner layers of your muscles and connective tissues. This helps to break up scar tissue that forms following an injury and reduce tension in muscle and tissue.

Trigger Point Therapy

A trigger point is a small, tight area in a band of muscle fibers and fascia, which restricts blood flow to the area and causes pain. Also known as contraction knots. Massage works to release a trigger point by pushing fresh blood in and flushing waste material out. This helps relieve pain by bringing more oxygen into the area and encouraging the muscles to release.

Cupping

Cupping therapy is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which a therapist puts special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create suction. People get it for many purposes, including to help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, relaxation and well-being. The recipient should be aware that temporary bruising may be present after treatment.

Reflexology

Reflexology involves applying pressure to the feet and hands to promote healing. These areas, which are full of nerve bundles, can be stimulated or “reflexed” to send a nervous response to the brain and other parts of the body. Reflexology maps of the feet, hands, and ears show which areas correspond to other body areas. It can be used to address a variety of ailments including the management of chronic pain.

TMJ Release

Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome, also known as jaw joint dysfunction, is a painful condition that affects the joints of the jaw and the surrounding muscles. TMJ is characterized by limited and painful movement of the jaw. The joint may click when opened and shut. Common causes of TMJ syndrome include stress, which results in clenching of the jaw and tooth grinding (bruxism), congenital misalignment of the teeth or jaw, or extensive dental work. Advanced massage techniques for clients with TMJ syndrome involve working on the muscles and soft tissues of the neck, shoulders, jaw and head. This will include work inside the mouth which can be extremely beneficial to release soft tissue restrictions.

Visceral Massage

The viscera are the internal organs of the body, such as the liver, kidneys, digestive tract, heart, and lungs. Sometimes restrictions can form in the fascial tissue that surrounds and supports all internal organs. This can lead to dysfunction in the organ, which leads to referred pain patterns and other symptoms elsewhere in the body. Visceral massage is a gentle manual therapy where the therapist feels for altered motion within the organs and uses myofascial techniques to release these restrictions and restores natural balance in the body.