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What can bodywork do for me?

    If you have never received bodywork before, you are missing out on an incredible method of healing, maintenance and relaxation!

    Many people think of massage, for example, as a luxury afforded only to the wealthy for the purpose of relaxation.  Massage is much much more than for just relaxation.

 

    Massage has many healing factors including helping your nervous system to take you from a state of heightened alert to a state of low alert and total relaxation, releasing tightness in your muscular and connective tissues, lowering anxiety, and lowering blood pressure just to name a few.  If you visit the Healing. Maintenance. Relaxation page, you will find a more in-depth list of the benefits of all of the bodywork we offer, including massage.

 

Following is a short description of the bodywork types that we currently offer.  For more detailed information, click on the label on the left of the descriptions.

 

 

Table Massage
  • Swedish Massage
  • Deep Tissue Massage
  • Using hands, forearms, and elbows, the therapist applies gentle to moderate pressure to the body to release adhesions in muscles and connective tissue
  • Increases parasympathetic response of the body
  • Reduces anxiety
  • Reduces occurrences of headaches and migraines
  • Helps reduce depression

  • Work performed using oil, lotion or cream

  • Work performed on a massage table using draping to cover body parts not being treated.

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Reiki
  • Using their hands, the Reiki Practitioner lays their hands over certain parts of the body to allow the Universal healing energy to enter the body and create balance.
  • Removes disruptions in energy flow to create balance
  • Closes holes in the energy field which cause energy to leak out
  • Supports and stimulates the organs, nerves and body systems
  • Removes energy disruptions & returns the energy pathways to their natural state
  • Heal negative thoughts & feelings that created the block
  • Work performed fully clothed on a massage table

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Seated Massage
  • A combination of Swedish and Deep Tissue techniques

  • The therapist applies gentle to moderate pressure to the body to release adhesions in muscles and connective tissue
  • Reduces anxiety during stressful working situations
  • Reduces anxiety at work
  • Lowers blood pressure
  • Work performed using no oil, lotion or cream
  • Work performed fully clothed on a massage chair

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Myofascial Release
  • Using hands, the therapist applies light pressure to the body to release adhesions in connective tissue allowing the body to move more freely
  • Assists in correcting postural imbalances
  • Increases parasympathetic response of the body
  • Assists in the body's own healing processes after injury
  • Work performed using little or no oil, lotion or cream
  • Work performed on a massage table using draping to cover body parts not being treated

     

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Integrative Reflexology
  • Using thumbs, knuckles, and hands pressure is deliberately placed on the feet (and occasionally hands and/or ears) to stimulate major glands, organs and the spine
  • Assists in stimulating meridians and related acupressure points to help facilitate healing
  • Helps you to become more in tune with your feet
  • Is not used to diagnose medical problems
  • Work performed using oil, lotion or cream
  • Increases parasympathetic response of the body
  • Feels like an incredible foot massage (and who doesn't love that?!)
  • It is believed that perhaps only 25% of discomforts of the foot are due to local injuries to the foot, problems with shoes or other causes

     

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Lymph Drainage Therapy
  • Using hands, the therapist applies very light pressure to the body to stimulate the fluid circulation of the body
  • The passage of lymph in the lymph nodes stimulates the immune system
  • Assists in clearing toxins from the body
  • Increases parasympathetic response of the body
  • Reduces pain by alleviating tissue fluid stagnation
  • Assists in reducing muscle spasms

     

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Ear Candling
  • Hollow candles made of beeswax and mixed with paraffin are placed just inside the ear canal and lit to create a vacuum to gently clean the ear of obstructions including built up wax or other environmental debris
  • Clear ear canals help with balance, hearing, sinuses and many disorders
  • Totally painless treatment
  • Assists in the alleviation of swimmer's ear, sinus infections, sore throats, allergies, etc.

     

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