Massage Techniques

Chair Massage

Chair massage, or on-site massage, this technique involves the use of a specially designed massage chair in which the client sits comfortably. Seated massage includes bodywork and techniques, such as shiatsu and Swedish massage, On-site massage can be done almost anywhere, including professional offices, work places and sporting events. Treatments usually last from 10 to 30 minutes, relieve stress and improve productivity. For businesses, this is a unique option for creating incentives, rewarding outstanding performers, improving morale and establishing a more favorable work environment.

Thai Yoga Massage

Thai Yoga Massage is a compassionate healing approach to wellness that fuses different techniques including: meditation, reflexology, acupressure, passive stretching, and aromatherapy. This "lazy man’s yoga" is therapeutic for opening and transforming the body, mind, and spirit into a place of relation and peace. It works in the spaces between the bones and tendons, working the energy lines, the nervous system, the fascia, and connective tissue.

Thai massage benefits include: lengthening muscles through progressive, assisted stretching, increase the joint’s range of motion, bolster immune system health and function, improve circulation, balance flow of energy in the body, relax muscle tension, balance the nervous system, promote the sinuses, skin, respiratory system, and heart, and aids in detoxifying the body.

Hot Stones

Hot Stone Therapy utilizes the benefits of thermotherapy. Hot stones are gently placed on energy or ‘chakra’ points during the treatment and are used on the body during the massage to provide deep muscular stress relief. Heated stone treatment goes beyond the physical and allows you to enter a deeper sense of relaxation, health and well being. The penetrating heat from the stones relaxes muscles, allowing trigger points to dissolve and fade with minimum effort. Some of the benefits include relief of chronic pain, relaxation and stress reduction, detoxification of the body, and relief of neck and back pain.

Deep Tissue

Deep tissue massage focuses on realigning deeper layers of muscles and connective tissue. It helps with chronic muscular pain and injury rehabilitation and reduces inflammation-related pain caused by arthritis and tendinitis, it also helps stiff necks, low back tightness, and sore shoulders. It is generally integrated with other massage techniques.

Prenatal

Prenatally specific techniques can reduce pregnancy discomforts and concerns and enhance the physiological and emotional well-being of both mother and fetus, also easing pain and anxiety. Relief from muscle cramps, spasms, and myofascial pain, especially in the lower back, neck, hips, and legs. It increases blood and lymph circulation, which can reduce swelling, reduces stress on weight-bearing joints, improves outcome of labor and eases labor pain, enhances the pliability of skin and underlying tissues, provides support for the new mother with physical and emotional strains of mothering.

Infant

Infant massage is successful, not only in the critical weight gain of premature infants, but also in creating a strong bond between parent and infant and exposing a young child to the benefits and pleasures of touch. Infant massage teaches your baby about relaxation and how to relax their muscles during stressful situations, relief from pain with colic and muscle growth, stimulating circulation and their digestive systems, and interaction with parents.

Swedish Massage

Swedish massage is a vigorous system of treatment designed to energize the body by stimulating circulation in the superficial layers of the muscles. Five basic strokes, all flowing toward the heart, are used to manipulate the soft tissues of the body. Swedish is used to improve circulation, relieve muscle pain and tension, dissolution of scar tissue adhesions, increase flexibility and induce relaxation by using a combination of kneading, rolling, vibration, percussive, and tapping movements.