Services
Pre-Natal Massage:
Prenatal massage is a great way to relieve the stresses that result from the rapid and profound physical as well as mental changes that occur during pregnancy. Prenatal massage is designed to relieve aches in the back, neck, hips, legs and weight bearing joints. It will also provide support for Mothers-to-be. Postpartum massage helps restore the body to pre-pregnancy conditions and helps nurture the new Mom. I am a trained Pre-Natal Massage Therapist.
Deep Tissue Massage:
Deep Tissue Massage is a massage technique that focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue. It aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and deep pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the fiber's of the muscles, tendons and fascia.
Deep tissue massage is used to release chronic muscle tension through slower strokes and more direct deep pressure or friction applied across the grain of the muscles not with the grain. Deep tissue massage helps to break up and eliminate scar tissue. Deep tissue massage usually focuses on more specific areas and may cause some tenderness during or right after the massage. However, if the massage is done correctly you should feel better than ever within a day or two.
Hot Stone Massage:
Hot Stone Massage Therapy combines heat and massage to create a relaxing, gentle yet effective treatment. This form of massage is quickly becoming one of the most popular services in spas and salons all around the world.
The original hot stone massage incorporated heated basalt river stones and marble stones cooled to facilitate the most amazing, profoundly relaxing massage treatment available. The physiological benefits to the body have long been scientifically and medically proven. The stones are used as tools to provide deep penetrating heat at specific locations on the body which brings relief to stiff and sore muscles. This allows for a soothing, meditative state of quietude, calm and balance.
Therapeutic Massage:
The basis of massage is touch. There is increasing medical evidence showing the value of touch. Touch is so natural that without it, people can become depressed and irritable. Massage therapy is based on the fact that the soft tissues, muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia, respond to touch. Most pain is soft tissue in origin. Trigger points, sensitive points in muscles which radiate or refer pain to various parts of the body can mimic many conditions. Muscles not only move our joints, they stabilize them and they provide armor for the internal organs. These functions cause more pain than most people realize. Massage is one of the easiest ways of attaining and maintaining good health. It is a healing instinct, natural in all humans, to rub an aching shoulder or stroke a furrowed brow. Even the simplest form of massage can have a tremendously comforting effect.
