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This page is designed to help you decide which approach would suit you best.
 
More details about the benefits and application of each speciality are offered here. 
 
 
 
 
Please scroll down to view all options.

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Symphony    Swedish Esalan
 
This synthesis is appealing for those who enjoy a lighter touch and who
want to relax, recharge and let go of the day to day business of their lives.
 
The qualities of touch used invite your muscles to let go without the use of strong pressure. Gentle stretching helps to loosen up the joints and improve their range of motion.
 
Benefits:
  • Muscle relaxation.
  • Stress relief.
  • Improved circulation.
  • Increased range of motion.
  • Improved blood pressure.
 
 
Chi Enhancer        Muscle Meridian Massage
 
This synthesis is designed for those who want to lighten their load!  
Pressure is light, medium or firm determined depending on your comfort level.
Excellent for the relief of spasms and twinges in the muscles.
 
Acupressure points are held and unwound at the epicenter of  tension in muscles and muscle groups. As the loaded points are discovered, they are held with related distal points to expediate and facilitate their release. The release is integrated through the muscle tissue with fascial release and massage techniques.
 
Benefits: 
  • Release of new and old stress and tension .
  • Relief from spasms.
  • A stonger flow of chi is established throughout your body.
  • Creative energy is freed up due to  release of stress, tension and stuck chi.
  • Clearer perceptability.
  • More focus.
  • Body fluidity and ease of motion.
  • Increased body mind awareness. 
  • Improved circulation.
  • Resets fight or flight response.

 

Sole Quencher      Reflexology
 
Reflexology is for those who love to have their feet worked on. 
It is a great introduction for those who have never received touch therapy before.
Elderly and children really appreciate this approach.
Wonderful, post surgery as a way to help restore vitality with out having to go
near an unhealed scar or injury site.
The pressure ranges from light to deep determined by you personal needs.
 
During a reflexology session special compression finger pressure techniques are applied in a consistant rythmic motion to reflex points on your feet that mirror your organs, glands and body tissues. Specific attention is placed on working out congestion and breaking up calcium deposits that have built up on the the nerve endings or in the capillaries. The herbs and essencial oils in the foot bath are chosen to suit your needs.
 
There is a hot stone addition, which includes the use of the stones during the session to work out congestion. with little stones placed between you toes. Warm rocks are placed on and around your for further comfort.
 
Benefits:
  • Increased blood, lymph, oxygen and chi flow to the glands and organs.
  • Improves hormonal balance.
  • Relief of ailments.
  • Improved vitality and energy.
  • Relaxation

 

 
 
 
 
Evenflow      Deep Bodywork
 
This synthesis is designed for those who enjoy a deep tissue massage.
 
The work is strong however never forced. Time is taken for your body tissues to open up. Breathing techniques are used so that you are able to receive more pressure and release tension at deeper layers of the muscles. Modalities are used to release muscle and connective tissue that has been tense for a long time.Direct pressure and crossfiber techniques are integrated into deeper massage strokes.
 
Benefits:
  • Release of old,chronic or acute patterns of tension.
  • Releaseof muscular armoring.
  • Deep muscle release.
  • Pain relief.
  • Improved circulation.
  • Postural alignment.
  • Restored vitality.
 
 
Hot Stone Zone     Hot Stone Therapy
 
This synthesis for anyone in the mood for a special treat!
The depth of pressure is determined by your personal needs.
 
River rocks and other stones are heated in water to a temperature which is comfortable for your body. You receive a therapeutic full body massage with the stones being used as extentions in the hands or as tools for more specific work when desired. Long soothing efflerage style strokes are combined with holds and more specific work. After stones have been use for a specific purpose they are then placed on and around your body so you continue to benefit from their radiating heat. For example under your knees or your feet, eitherside of you spine or between your toes or on your body. There is wonderful feeling of weightlessnes when they ae removed.The sizes and shapes are all specially chosen to facilitate working different muscle groups.
 
Benefits:
  • Increase of lymph flow and circulation.
  • Calming of the central nervous system.
  • Stress and tension relief.
  • Assistists in detoxification.
  • Connects you to the grounding energy of the earth.
 
 
Attune     Fascial Strain Release
 
This synthesis uses very light pressure, with a profoudly deep touch.
 
This approach is helpful for those who experience
Tenderness and soreness to the touch.
Sensitivity in superficial layers deeper layers of the bodies tissues.
A gereral feeling of achiness and spazm.
A desire to release from deep within their bodymind.
 
This is a very profound and subtle approach to the body. Imbalances are acessed and attunment to the craniosacral pulse is established. Holds and unwinding of the fascial tissues are integrated into therapeutic masssage strokes and traditional Craniosacral holds and movements.
 
Benefits:
  • Relief of soreness and pain in the tissues.
  • More suppleness in the tissues.
  • A softening and spreading of the tissues.
  • More even expansoin and contraction of the craniosacral pulse.
  • Relief of headachs and joint soreness.
 
 
Zensation         Jin Shin Do Acupressure
 
 
            This approach is helpful for those who
            Want to release chronic bodymind tension
            Experience muscular spazms and muscle sorness
            Want to balance their chi.
            Are in touch with their chi, or would like to be.
            Who want sink into an alpha state and become witness
            their balanceing process. 
 

The over all energetic balance of your body is ascessed through pulse reading and palpating specific acupressure points. With this knowledge your acupressure points are held in special patterns designed to relieve pain encourage more balanced chi flow and harmony in you meridians.  This body mind acupressure also addresses and gently encourages the releases of old tramas and memories stored as muscle armoring.

 
Benefits:
 
  • Increased energy.
  • More harmonious and balanced chi.
  • Releif from PMS syndrome.
  • Improved Hormonal balance.
  • Spazm relief.
 
 
 
Sync Intuit          Energywork on and off your body
 
 
For those who want to acheive more balance and harmony with the natural elements.
For those with a sensitivity to the natural rythms around and within.
For those who want to shift stuck energy blocks.
For those seeking guidence from within.
 
This synthesis is a journey within and works with balanceing your chakras and subtle energies.Work is done to release energy blocks in your electrio magnetic field or aura. Imbalances in the fascia are replicated in the energy body. Sometimes depending on the nature of the origin of the imbalance the release is more accessble off the body rather than with direct contact with the tissues.The blockage may be of a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual nature. The vibrational frequencies of the mineral and plant kingdoms assist in establishing harmony and nuetralizing energy imbalances.
 
Benefits:
  • Personal empowerment.
  • Inner growth.
  • Attunment to the world of nature.
  • More lightness of being.
 
 

None of  these bodywork sessions are designed
to treat or cure any disease, or replace medical
treatment. Please bring permission from your
doctor when appriopriate.