Massage is an ancient healing art with its earliest roots in medicine. Today, massage is a key element in one's overall strategy for good health and well-being. A way of connecting one’s body, mind and soul. A way of dealing with chronic pain; a pain management tool. Massage fills a basic need for appropriate touch, in a society that moves so fast we are sometimes afraid to slow down or feel.
Benefits of massage are many including:
- Stimulates the circulation of blood and lymph fluids
- Fuels the muscles with fresh oxygen and nutrients
- Flushes away waste products
- Releases physical tension and soothes the nerves
- Increases the ability to think clearly
- Helps relieve tension headaches and sore backs
- Helps improve athletic performances and prevent injuries
- Helps to relieve insomnia and fatigue
- Helps to reduce muscle soreness and increase flexibility
Uses long, firm strokes to improve blood circulation and relax muscles.
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
uses pressure points, pulling and massaging the soles of the feet and the hands. This treatment causes relaxation, restfulness and renewed energy.
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
This massage concentrates on specific areas of imbalance, pain and stress. The touch varies from place to place as I work with the body to bring back a sense of wholeness.
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
is designed to help integrate the body into a whole, using slow, deep work in areas of tension and a lighter touch to pull the whole body together.
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
This treatment is done with concern in mind for the woman and the child in the womb. It is a combination of massage, pressure, passive movement and essential oils. This treatment is relaxing. It helps to release tension and fatigue while easing muscular and joint pain caused by postural changes and weight gained during pregnancy. The impact of massage therapy on preventing or minimizing many of the common discomforts is profound. Regular massage can make the difference between a comfortable, low-stress pregnancy, or one defined by miserable aches and pains.
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
More benefits of massage during pregnancy:
- Being massaged during pregnancy reduces obstetric and postnatal complications. During childbirth, women who were massaged felt less pain and spent less time in labor.
- Massage has a direct influence on the ambiotic environment and therefore the development of the fetus.
- Specific essential oils can help alleviate morning sickness. Other essential oils help prevent and/or minimize stretch marks.
- There are several essential oils to help with ailments that make pregnancy not so pleasant, such as, constipation, hemorrhoids, flatulence, indigestion and nausea.
- Stress has been linked to retarded fetal development, and highter risks of heart disease and diabetes in later life.
- Women who used relaxation techniques, such as massage therapy to lower blood pressure, fostered a healthier in-utero environment and calmer babies.
- Massage reduces pain, relaxes expectant mothers and can hasten delivery.
- Women are less depressed with a partner massaging them during labor, experience less labor pain, and have lower stress and anxiety levels. The touch of the partner has been shown to have a more therapeutic value than that of a nurse midwife.
Shiatsu is an ancient Japanese therapy performed by using pressure on specific points along the meridians of the body. It helps alleviate stress, and induce a feeling of well-being. It can also be used to help treat specific problems
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
Reflexology uses pressure, pulling and massaging the sole of the foot. This treatment causes restfulness, relaxation and renewed energy
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
A short deep massage to relieve tension in the neck, face and scalp muscles. This massage releases tension and creates a sense of invigoration, vitality and restored strength.
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
Uses subtle movement of the fluid in the cranium to balance left/right, up/down.
In children this treatment has shown results in the treatment of hyperactivity, autism and dyslexia. The treatment brings an inner calm balancing the two sides of the brain.
In adults it has been shown to have excellent results in such areas of recurring headaches, backache, and depression.
In both adults and children this treatment strengthens and balances the nervous system, the immune system and the hormonal system.
one hour 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
Infants benefit from touch therapy in many ways, including enhanced growth and development.
Massage helps children overcome emotional trauma and improve their condition in diseases such as asthma and diabetes.
Touch is important to all of us. Its value in health, development, and healing should encourage all of us to make touch an important part of our daily lives.
Touch and massage improved the nighttime sleep behavior of infants and toddlers, as well as increased their daytime alertness and wakefulness. Touch helps calm & relax as "mind clutter" subsides, increasing body awareness.
- Helps children feel a sense of warmth and security
- Helps infants' to regulate their own response to stress
- Aids in infants mental development in the first six months of life
- Stimulates and strengthens respiration, circulation and gastrointestinal functions
Fathers:
Massage potentially benefits all infants and those close to them. Massage therapy can serve in facilitating father-infant bonding. Babies gained more weight and enjoyed a better relationship with their fathers. Fathers tended to have better self-esteem as a result of feeling more involved with their babies. Infants greeted their fathers with more eye contact, smiling, vocalizing, reaching and orienting responses.
Siblings:
Young children may enjoy a care giving role, while discovering a way to demonstrate affection for the infant. There are specific essential oils to be used for colic, fussy babies, wrinklied newborns and other common newborn ailments
20-35 minutes $ 80.00
Pre- and Post-Natal Massage Training
For the couple that wants to go through pregnancy together, this training is for you. You can learn how to ease back and leg cramps in the pregnant woman, how to massage the tummy so the child will have a knowledge of who you are. Soon to be mom, you can learn how to relax and therefore help your child to relax. As time passes and you feel the need to touch, learn how to massage and help relax your partner as the physical needs change. Learn which oils to use in the three stages of labor, when to use them and when to use breathwork.
40-50 minutes $110.00
Learn how to give a massage to the special person in your life, without needing a massage yourself afterwards. Correct stance, proper use of body and intention. Use essestial oils with confidence to enhance the mood you are creating.
50-65 minutes $110.00
Grandparents who massaged babies had lower levels of stress hormones (urinary epinephrine and norepinephrive and salivary cortisol) significantly improved health, less depression, improved lifestyles and made fewer trips to the doctor’s office.
Attentive touch helps dementia patients. Nursing home residents with dementia slept better and were less disorented after receiving focused touching or stroking of hands, arms, shoulder, upper back, feet and legs. Massage done fully clothed with patients permission. The improved sleep patterns can have a profoundly positive impact on the entire nursing home community.
After working with patients for 4 weeks it was easier to dress and move patient with improved co-operation from the patient.
30 minutes $80.00Massage offers both a time for solace and inner thought, as well as a chance to attend solely to the body and spirit, bringing one's body and mind in contact with each other.
Don’t under-estimate the very basic need for comfort and support which can be so important in your hormone-ravaged body.
Internet based survey found a direct correlation between stress and menopausal symptoms, the greater the stress—the greater the symptoms.
Tools for treating the symptoms of Menopause:
- Massage -- With special attention being paid to the abdomen and lower back.
- Relaxation techniques -- To alleviate stress
- Aromatherapy -- Massage and treatments with clary sage
- Accupressure -- To re-balance hormonal systems with Shiatsu and lymphatic drainage.
- Reflexology --As a natural alternative to synthetic hormones
one hour $ 110.00// 30-40 minutes $ 80.00
In only 15 minutes:
- Think more clearly
- Increase productivity
- Relieve headaches
- Reduce stress
Slouching at a desk for prolonged periods often results in lower back pain. Repetitive motion injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, are common among office workers. A 15 to 20 minute “stress-buster” massage relieves tension in neck, back and shoulder muscles, reducing irritability and increasing productivity.
Convenience
Seated massage is performed in the worksplace. Your employees will be seated upright on the special massage chair and will remain fully clothed. No oils are used, so there is no need for them to be concerned about stain on clothing. The session generally lasts from 15 to 20 minutes. The chair is lightweight and portable, enabling it to be set up in virtually any office or break room.
Benefits
Studies by the Touch Research Institute in Florida show that the benefits of seated massage have quick results. Immediately after massage sessions, the subjects experienced a change in brain waves in the direction of heightened alertness and better performance on math problems (completed in less time with fewer errors).
At the end of a five week study period, subjects reported reduced job stress and elevated moods. This was in addition to the ususal benefits of massage, relief of muscular tension, revitalized energy and a stronger immune system.
The study’s findings are significant in that the International Labour Organization stated in its 1993 World Labour Report that job stress costs the U.S. economy $200 billion annually through diminished productivity, compensation claims, absenteeism, health insurance and direct expenses.
Techniques Used:
Seated massage, utilizing acupressure and Swedish massage to relieve tension. Though beginning at a slower pace, the work moves a little faster as the practitioner proceeds. The session ends with quick, revitalizing strokes in order to bring the client back into the real world of work.
$1.75 per minute, a minimum of 2 hour contract
Children, Adolescent, Teen-ADD/ADHD
Massage can be used to alleviate many childhood and adolescent ailments, as well as the stresses associated with growing up. Careful sensitive massage can help ease the transition from childhood to adulthood tremendously. Helping adolescents understand the connection between stress and what they feel in their bodies will help them now and as adults. Including regular massage in treatment has been found to have the following benefits:
Asthma
Children aged 4 to 8 years, children’s pulmonary function improved, the frequency of the attacks also decreased.
Atopic Dermatitis
Significantly improved in terms of the redness, lichenification, excoriation and pruritus of their lesions. Also, less anxiety better affects and activity than they did at baseline.
Juvenile Diabetes
Significantly reduced anxiety and depression immediately after massage, had normal blood glucose levels after 1 month of daily 15 minute massages and significantly improved compliance with their insulin regimen.
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
Significantly less anxiety and stress after each massage and less pain after 1 month of daily 15 minute massages.
Post-Traumatic Stress in Children
Levels of anxiety and their stress hormones were significantly reduced.
Cystic Fibrosis
Massage therapy reduces anxiety levels, improves mood and can improve breathing function among children suffering from cystic fibrosis.
Child Psychiatric Patients
After 30 days of daily massage anxiety level significantly reduced, observer-reported ratings for state, affect, vocalization, activity and cooperation.
ADD/ADHD
ADD affects 3 – 6% of all youth. It is more often found in boys. In this study, hyperactivity was reduced. Massage is an important tool in the management of ADHD along with other therapies or when other therapies don't work or have negative side effects. This study was supported by the NIMH.
Distorted Body Image
A study done in 1994 found that adolescent girls hospitalized for bulimia had less distorted body images after being massaged twice weekly for 5 weeks.
It is important in this time of extreme stress that our children get appropriate touch, to be in touch with themselves and better able to communicate with others what they feel.
40-55 minutes $ 110.00
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