“Experience Wholeness Through Touch”

We are magnificent beings. Through massage and bodywork we can begin to traverse and explore the landscape that we inhabit, living our life in and through our beautiful bodies more deeply. The therapy I provide nurtures the body, facilitates healing, and addresses a client's individual needs, which can range from deepened relaxation to working with acute and chronic pain issues. With my 13 years of training, education and experience with the modalities listed below, I provide a combination of techniques to intutively communicate healing to the body. Clients can also request any of the modalities to incorporate into our     session. 

Circulatory/Swedish: Usually a full body experience, oil or lotion is applied directly on the skin using long flowing and kneading strokes towards the heart. Effects can be very relaxing and soothing or have a more invigorating and enlivening feeling. 

Sensory Re-Patterning: Rocking, cradling, gentle wave-like motions, and passive joint movement awakens the nervous system creating a dream like space through which sensation is experienced, holding patterns of movement are released and trust and nurturing are cultivated. This style can be performed with the client fully clothed.

Deep Tissue Sculpting: Focused pressure using hands, fingers, elbows, etc., is slowly applied to specific areas of tension to soften and release chronically contracted muscle tissue. Communication around pressure and depth are kept at all times making sure intense sensations are ones of melting and lengthening, not pain.

Neuromuscular Therapy:This modality specifically addresses chronic pain issues using trigger point and cross-fiber muscular techniques. Referral points are located and held with pressure to facilitate change, dissipation and breaking of the pain cycle.

Traditional Thai Massage: Performed on a mat on the floor or on a massage table, this modality uses palm-pressing, stretching and joint movement to open and balance the body's flow of energy as well as promote relaxation, stress and tension relief. Deep abdominal work is often included as a part of a full body session..

Pre & Perinatal Massage: A nurturing experience for mother and baby, massage therapy provides comfort, support, and relief throughout the pregnancy, beginning in the 1st trimester and continuing through into the actual birth and on into the postpartum period.

Tui Na: This Traditional Chinese Medical massage focuses on unblocking and restoring proper blood and energy (chi) flow to the meridians and muscles, thereby strengthening the organs, tissues, and immune system. The use of various hand techniques and pressure makes this work very effective in relieving muscle pain, trauma, chronic fatigue and many other common ailments.

Relational Somatics: Emphasis in session is on relationship between me and my client and techniques, among others, focus on stretching and opening the connective tissue of the body. Clients seek to be fully engaged in creating change in their life and facing the internal conflicts and pain that may be affecting their wellbeing. Through bodywork, story telling, communication, journaling, artwork, movement expression, and breath exercises, we will explore the internal landscape that is the source of all experience. 

Somato-Emotional Integration: With awareness and sensitivity to emotional processing, I encourage my client to allow their body to "come alive" and to "speak" to them. Imagery and movement become the body’s language and we learn to listen to and to interpret the body’s signals and messages. Using intuition, creativity, and verbal cues, I blend passive joint movement with deep tissue sculpting to both melt chronic or acute tension and to inspire movement and flow in the body.

Structural Organization: Focusing on expansional balance in gravity, core is found through observing how the body is organized in space. Applying deep pressure that holds the body in alignment, the client is asked to actively participate with movement, which re-educates muscle tissue, effecting our sense of grounding and posture.