What is my massage like?
For the past nine years of my career I have found many techniques that have molded and changed a long the way to create a bodywork experience unique and deeply therapeutic for the client on the table and what their goals are. From an old injury, deep stretching, head aches, frozen shoulder, post hip replacement pain or maybe just a "knot" or a handful... I work accordingly to the healing your body is asking for. My background is very strong in chiropractic care, and I am considered a deep tissue therapist by many and most of my clients. However, deep tissue to one therapist can mean something completely different to another. I also like to take credit in my technique that it is usually not the same and can change each session, depending on what serves your body best. So let me take a moment to really explain what my version of a deep therapeutic body session would be.
What is deep tissue like? Why is it painful? What is this pain really? Is there a purpose to the process? What tools do I use to create a therapeutic session?
Deep tissue is a way of slowly layer by layer melting the fascia and deep connective tissues around the muscles and the muscle itself. It helps to release and relieve injuries or chronic pains in the body. It stimulates blood flow, increases range of motion, releases deep tension...the benefits really go above and beyond if you are looking for a change within your body to happen. Most often I find people seeking my massage to create the change they need to do the active things they used to love doing, or to simply live their life with less tension in their body. For instance, someone who has had hip pain for so long they no longer can walk up sugar loaf mountain, or they have plantarfasciaitis so bad they no longer can run marathons or even someone who has chronic migraines and wants to stop relying on medication. Deep tissue is the therapy that I do to help those goals and issues.
The body works with pain in many layers, and it's important for me to work with you on pin pointing what type of pain it is you are feeling in your injury and the root of it. Was it from an old injury that has left trauma or even scar tissue? Is it from a movement you do repetitively at work that needs attention from over use? Or is it something that happened emotionally that you are holding deep within your body that is ready or needs to be released in order to move forward? The layers of pain and where they are located can lead to many paths for your healing sessions, and with massage comes body awareness and with body awareness brings change.
As for tools and trainings, I am certified in Swedish, Deep Tissue, Thai Compressions, Cupping, Hot Stone, Sports, Prenatal, and Chair massage. Most often I combine Swedish strokes with deep tissue and range of motion holds of Thai compressions along with using heat by salt stones or synergy stones while stretching if needed...and yes, that means a whole lot of elbows AND knees. With Thai compressions I actually use my whole body weight and use my arms, knees or feet to compress slowly with each breath you breath to release the area I am on. This does sometime require me walking on you. This technique is very profound to experience and brings huge relief to where you almost feel lighter. Basically I have found, the best way to make my massage work is a fusion of all of this together....and for the future, the fusion of whatever else that has in store too.
I find it important to always keep learning as a massage therapist, which is why I use a fusion of it all.
For more information on Thai Compressions, Cupping therapy, and salt and synergy stones including some photos follow over to the "Therapies Explained" page.
