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Specialities
Basic Swedish (Relaxation) Massage:
Stress reducing and relaxing, this traditional European massage focuses on your entire back, neck, limbs, hands, face, head and feet. It will renew your feeling of tranquility and revitalize your sense of well-being. It will restore balance and well-being and help your body move more freely. This technique involves long strokes and kneading by providing pure relaxation. This massage can soothe muscle tension and improve circulation.
Deep Tissue Massage:
This a technique focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue to release chronic muscle tension, using slow strokes and direct deep pressure. It is also effective at breaking up and eliminating scar tissue. Deep tissue massage usually focuses on specific areas and may cause some soreness during or right after the massage. However, if the massage is done correctly, you should feel better than ever within a day or two. Deep tissue feels good, and it is beneficial to your health. When muscles are stressed, they block the flow of oxygen and nutrients, leading to inflammation that builds up toxins in the muscle tissue. A deep tissue massage helps loosen muscle tissues, release toxins, and restores proper blood and oxygen circulation. It is important to drink plenty of water after a deep-tissue session to help flush the toxins out of the body that have been released.
Sports Massage:
No matter what kind of athlete you are, sports massage is an important part of your healthcare regimen. Sports massage prevents injuries and loss of mobility, helps heal and restore mobility to injured muscle tissue, and boosts performance. Physically, this type of massage flushes out toxins and waste products and helps oxygen and nutrients flow, helping tissues to recover more quickly. This means less recovery time.
Through injury or trauma, scar tissue builds up that can bind to healthy tissue. Unless broken down, it can cause pain or contribute to further injury. Your sports massage therapist will provide sport-specific therapies as well as information about avoiding injury and maximizing performance through stretching routines, home therapies, and improved body awareness.If you are training for an event, we will develop a treatment plan to ensure your body is ready on race day. If you receive regular sports massages while active, you can extend your sporting career.
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF):
Originally used as a rehabilitation therapy, PNF is very effective when it comes to improving flexibility, strength and range of motion in a damaged or stiff muscle. It is often used to treat lower back, neck and shoulder pain associated with porry posture.
PNF exercises are meant to re-educate clients on the safest and most natural ways to move their bodies. The theory behind PNF is that a person will often develop sloppy postures and habits when they move. These bad movements, when used repetitively over time, can put chronic strain on the muscles, causing soreness, stress and eventually leading to injury if not corrected. When PNF exercises are performed correctly, the client will eventually adapt them into their everyday movements, and their muscle spasms and pain will decrease greatly.
Thai Massage:
A style of bodywork with roots in Chinese and Indian medicine and developed in Thailand incorporating gentle stretching, passive yoga poses, palm and finger pressure, and gentle rocking to ease muscle soreness and increased flexibility.
Traditional Thai Massage is performed on a soft floor mat, and you remain dressed in loose, comfortable clothing (BYO.) This massage targets pressure points along the body's energy lines. Various yoga stretches are assisted by your practitioner. A highly effective way to increase range of motion, body alignment and overall physical and mental energy levels. This ancient massage technique is deep and balancing.
Myofascial Release:
Myofascia is referring to the tissue (fascia) around the muscles. Fascia tissue is most simply described as the saran wrap of the body and when that gets bound up it causes a lot of tension and lack of blood and nutrient flow. This type of therapy allows the fascia to ‘unwind’ itself. The gentle traction applied to the restricted fascia will travel to often far-reaching areas of the body, providing relief where is the tightest first. Imagine the fascia like a hammock; if you pull on one corner, it will affect other body organs through a release of tension in the whole fascia system. The intention is to allow the body’s inherent blueprint to return, thus eliminating pain, increasing range of motion and restoring the optimum performance of the body. Myofascia release can be very successful in treating problem areas that don’t seem to respond to other therapies.
Acupressure:
Acupressure has been used as a way to relax the mind and body, to increase blood circulation, soothe stress, muscle pain, headache, improve overall energy levels, and to help the body dispose of dangerous toxins. Acupressures origin is traced back over 5000 years to ancient Asia where it was used to treat a wide range of health conditions like muscle and joint injury, labor pain, fibromyalgia, and arthritis. It uses the same system and points as acupuncture, but a session is done with the hands rather than needles. Although this modality is a subtle technique it can have a profound effect ont he physical and emotional bodies. It is the practice of assisting with the flow of Chi (life force energy.)
Seated Chair Massage:
When your time is limited or you do not want to undress, seated massage is for you. The session is done with you sitting in a specially designed chair which allows the therapist to reach your back, shoulders and neck. Other areas of your body can also be worked depending on the length of session you reserved.
Hot Stone Massage:
This massage combines hot and cold stones used with traditional massage strokes to warm, work and invigorate the mind, body and spirit. Treatment can be targeted to isolate areas of injury or work on the circulatory system to assist the body in self healing.
Aromatherapy:
Essential oils are used during your massage for the added benefit of pain relief, anti-inflammatory response, relaxation, digestion improvement and anti-viral qualities. Along with the enjoyment of aromatic essences, there are unending benefits to aromatherapy. Our oils are pure concentrated extractions from different plants, fruits, flowers and many other natural resources.
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