Touch, Massage and Bodywork

 Touch therapy, massage and bodywork  enhances non-verbal communication, conveys caring support, and accomplishes a wide variety of therapeutic outcomes, ranging from stress reduction, pain relief and injury rehabilitation to increasing health and vitality

Check in with your body.  How comfortable are you right now?  Is your body trying to communicate to you, but you have not had the time to listen?

 We know the world first through our bodies, through our senses, especially touch. Bodywork disciplines incorporate structured touch  to address the whole person and their current state of body ease. Bodywork  can have a transformative effect on your life.

 We move through life and our bodies are the recipient of our relationships with everyday situations. We  create “habitat zones”  throughout our body as we move through life.  We also absorb traumas, physical, mental or emotional.  Both lead to body armoring,  desensitization, restriction of movement and in extreme situations, pain.

Pain: We have a comprehensive menu of  bodywork services  exclusively to address pain wherever it occurs.

  Almost everyone recognizes that massage is the number one vehicle for  experiencing relaxation and revitalization from the visages of stress in our lives.

We usually “handle “  daily stresses by a number of coping mechanisms. However, when our body alerts us to its discomfort we recognize that we had been so over-stimulated  as to be numb, even amnesiac to our own body’s response to those stresses.

We awaken to our desensitization and find that massage is a healing therapy uniquely suited for releasing those tensions.

Bodywork is effective, because it helps not only to release muscle tensions but because it  reestablishes  internal communication by overcoming  the disconnection from our body and our feelings. Internal communication is called “proprioception”  The benefits are not only the temporary relief of  muscular tensions but  also  we are better able to communicate with others as well.  The path of increased internal self awareness has impressive benefits. The more you open  your body,  the more you open to life outside yourself as well.

 Stress Relief:  We offer  bodywork therapies that are specifically formulated to address your  individual stress load.  We have a number of signature treatments for those events in our lives that are either planned, like the joys of weddings , pregnancy and recovery after child-birth,  or those that are unplanned like , divorce, separation , loss of a  job or  grief  from the loss of a loved one.

Our body carries with it our biography.  All the blessings , insults and ills as we travel through life are recorded in our body’s structure and its movement patterns. All of our thoughts and feelings are simultaneously physical sensations and played out in the territory of the body. Trauma from a sports or other physical accident is manifested in our body’s tissues.

Bodywork is a healing modality that can address the results  of our response and adaptation to the environment we live in presently or have lived through in the past.

 Muscles , the organ of the skin and connective structures as well as our vital  internal organ systems produce holding patterns, remembering a particular event or series of incidents in a pattern of tension.  

This can be in response to a traumatic injury, illness or abuses, or to how we meet and greet the world and  how we habitually respond to the situations we encounter. Anger , fear, joy and other emotional and mental “attitudes”  all create such holding patterns that restrict the rhythms and flows in our bodies.

If we keep repeating a particular pattern of movement or muscular contraction it will soon become an unconscious reflexive habit. That is, we are no longer aware of what we are doing

 Body Armoring: Our bodywork services include a number of  therapies to help release restrictions and “body armoring” ( a defense mechanism)  that lead to prevention of the recurrence of those restrictions and pains in life. Our  Special signature services like Connective Tissue Matrix therapy and  the  Opening the Inner Senses help you to feel greater physical vitality, and the awareness your natural vital processes. These services profoundly reduce fatigue , and increase the capacity for movement. Once physical restrictions are eliminated, psychological ones follow with release.  As awareness increases and relaxation deepens, balance, coordination, and respiration become more full , even and deep,  and even learning skills can improve. Touch allows you to expand not contract.

 The bodywork services available  address your concerns with  a particular pathology and with your desires of how health and well being can flourish when given suitable attention and nourishment.

 Louis Pasteur the father of germ theory once said that, “the germ is nothing, the soil is everything”.  Befriend your body and discover its wisdom, become your own expert by coming to know your body and how it responds to the influences in your life.