Our Services
Sometimes it is hard to know what type of massage or bodywork is right for
you. We are here to help. Below you will
find a list of the services we offer, a short description of each and a list
of certified professionals who are trained in them.
Swedish Massage
When most people go to a spa to get a relaxing, therapeutic
massage, a Swedish style massage is usually what they are looking for.
Massage therapists use oil or lotion and long, gliding strokes to help relax
muscles and release tension. Professional draping techniques are always used
and only the areas of the body being worked on are exposed. Our therapists
ensure that clients are safe and comfortable at all times.
Benefits of Swedish massage include:
- Overall relaxation of muscles
- Relief of tension and knots in muscles
- Assists in reducing emotional and physical stress
- Increases oxygen flow to muscles and tissue
- Shortens recovery time from muscular strain by flushing muscles of lactic
acid and other metabolic waste
- Increases circulation without increasing the load on your heart
- Assists in stretching ligaments and tendons keeping them supple and pliable.
- Stimulates the nervous, endocrine and lymphatic systems
Therapists who offer Swedish massage:
Stephanie Lee
Stacey Cook
Diane Evans
Chai Narin
Irma Stalder
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage focuses on realigning deeper layers of muscles and connective
tissue. It can be helpful if you suffer from chronic issues such as neck and
shoulder tension, low back pain or other long-term problems. Many therapists
integrate deep tissue techniques into their sessions based on a clients needs.
Your therapist may use elbows, fingertips or other tools and use slow deliberate
strokes to get into the muscle slowly and effectively. Talk to your therapist
about your problem areas and find out if deep tissue is right for you.
Benefits of deep tissue massage include:
- Helps to reduce pain
- Assists in improving mobility, range of motion and ease of movement
- Reduces muscle tension and spasm
- Helps to reduce scar tissue and aids in healing
- Promotes blood and lymph circulation
Therapists who offer Deep Tissue massage:
Stephanie Lee
Stacey Cook
Diane Evans
Chai Narin
Irma Stalder
Pregnancy Massage
Pregnancy massage, also known as prenatal massage, has wonderful benefits
for both mother and child. For Mom, it helps to reduce stress, decrease swelling,
relieve aches and pains, and reduce anxiety and depression. For baby, it helps
to increase the flow of blood and nutrients from the mother and, reducing Mom's
stress reduces baby's stress too. Massage therapists trained in prenatal massage
learn proper positioning, draping, and precautions.
Benefits of pregnancy massage include:
- Increased relaxation and decreased insomnia
- Stress relief on weight-bearing
joints, such as ankles, lower back and pelvis
- Neck and back pain relief caused by muscle imbalance and weakness
- Assistance
in maintaining proper posture
- Reduced swelling in hands and feet
- Lessened sciatic pain
- Helps to decrease leg cramps
- Headache and sinus congestion relief
Therapists who offer pregnancy massage:
Stephanie Lee
Stacey Cook
Diane Evans
Chai Narin
Irma Stalder
Sports Massage
Many athletes use massage to prepare for an event, help to recover after an
event and to reduce recovery time after an injury. A pre-event massage
is brief and invigorating, usually lasting 15-20 minutes. It is given within
an hour before the sporting event, through the clothes to warm up the muscles.
Post-Event Massage is calming and relaxing and is used to ease muscle pain
and soreness and to inflammation and should last about 15- to 20-minutes. Post-event
massage encourages the return of blood and oxygen to tense areas, and flushes
out metabolic waste products (lactic acid) that have built up during strenuous
muscle use. Massage is also used to help reduce recovery time after an injury
by increasing blood flow, reducing adhesions and lengthening muscles.
Benefits of sports massage include:
- Increases blood flow to muscles, tendons and ligaments helping to keep
them flexible and in good condition
- Helps to prevent injuries and loss of mobility in joints
- Assists in the body to repair injured
muscle tissue by decreasing scar tissue and bringing blood and nutrients
to injured areas
- Can help to boost performance
- Can help to extend the overall life of your sporting career
Therapists who offer sports massage:
Stephanie Lee
Stacey Cook
Diane Evans
Chai Narin
Irma Stalder
Thai Massage
Thai massage entails using passive stretching and gentle pressure along the
body’s energy lines to increase flexibility, relieve muscle and joint
tension and balance the body’s energy systems. It usually takes place
on a futon mat on the floor with the client fully clothed. It is both deeply
relaxing and energizing.
Benefits of Thai massage include:
- Helps to detoxify the body and boost immune system
- Increases blood circulation and can help to
lower blood pressure
- Increases muscle relaxation, flexibility in your
muscles and increases mobility
- Can help to improve breathing
- Improves posture and balance an helps corrects body alignments
and dissolves energy blockages
- Can help to decrease arthritis pain
- Helps to tone the body, strengthen joints and
fight diseases, including chronic joint problems
Therapists who offer Thai Massage:
Chai Narin
Trigger Point Therapy
Trigger point therapy entails applying pressure to tender muscle tissue to
relieve pain and dysfunction in other parts of the body. It can help to eliminate
pain and re-educate muscles into pain-free habits. Benefits include reduced
swelling and stiffness of muscles, increased range of motion, and improvement
in circulation, flexibility and coordination. Your therapist can integrate
trigger point therapy into your massage session.
Trigger point therapy can be beneficial in treating:
- Arthritis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Chronic pain
- Headaches
- Menstrual cramps and PMS
- Muscle spasms
- Postoperative pain
- Sciatica
- Temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ)
- Tendinitis
- Whiplash injuries
Therapists who offer trigger point therapy:
Stephanie Lee
Stacey Cook
Diane Evans
Chai Narin
Irma Stalder
Watsu
Watsu is aquatic bodywork which takes place in a body temperature swimming
pool. The water's weightless support and soft resistance allows your muscles
and spine to release, and permits new mobility and alignment. Watsu is nurturing
with tranquil movements, stretches, and massage. Great for pregnant women,
and those seeking an extra gentle form of bodywork.
Benefits of Watsu include:
- Diminished muscular tension
- Increased range of motion
- Reduction of pain
- Augmented peripheral circulation
- Fuller respiration
- Improved posture
- Normalization of muscle tone
- Reduced stress and anxiety
- Increased body awareness
- Release of emotional stress
- Improved disposition and reduced fatigue
Therapists who offer Watsu:
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