Massage

• Swedish Massage
  Since each client’s needs are different, we discern what kind of work to use in response to what we feel is happening in your body’s soft tissues. For example, we may apply gentle, even pressure until a tight muscle begins to release. Rocking the body in tune with your own body’s rhythm facilitates this release. We pay particular attention to your cranium and any distortion there may be there. Using gentle CranioSacral and Neuromuscular techniques, we help the cranium come back into proper balance releasing the nervous system and allowing it to function more freely. We use a light lotion when doing certain Neuromuscular and Swedish massage techniques.
• Deep Tissue Massage
  This therapeutic massage focuses on the muscles associated with specific physical activities. These techniques can be used pre or post event and after injury or trauma to an area of the body. A combination of circulatory, neuromuscular, deep tissue, deep transverse friction and trigger point therapy provides pain relief, maintains an optimal range of motion, and helps to keep fluids moving properly to reduce swelling. This therapeutic bodywork helps keep the athlete at top performance.
• Sports Massage
  Massage therapists can specialize in over 80 different types of massage, called modalities. Swedish massage, deep tissue massage, reflexology, acupressure, sports massage, and neuromuscular massage are just a few of the many approaches to massage therapy. Most massage
• Prenatal Massage
  During pregnancy and following the birth of a child, the mother’s body needs special care. Special massage therapy can help you adjust to the changes that occur in your body during pregnancy and relieve some of the discomfort that you may experience, such as low back pain and edema. Pillows, sideline position, and angled prone position are used to keep the client comfortable. The relaxing effects of massage therapy are very useful in preparation for labor and delivery.
• Medical Massage
  This Traditional Chinese Medical massage is focused on unblocking and restoring proper energy and blood (QI) flow to the meridians, strengthening the organs, tissues, and immune systems. The use of various hand techniques and pressure make this work very effective in relieving muscle pain, trauma, low energy problems and many other common ailments.
• Full Body Massage
  As the massage begins, it is your time to simply relax and breathe gently. A full body massage typically includes the back, buttocks, legs, feet, arms, hands, abdomen, head, neck and face. We normally start at the head and neck and work our way down towards your feet. Most of our work is done with you lying on your back as we use your body weight to facilitate our work. When each area is worked on the towel is pulled back and then replaced. If there are areas of your body that you are not comfortable with having massaged, for any reason, mention this to the therapist. You do not need to explain or justify your reasons.
• Reflexology Massage
• Craniosacral Massage
  After surgery, when it is medically possible, gentle massage can help to restore lymph flow, reduce swelling and encourage body functions. Re-establishing the CranioSacral rhythm in the tissues is important to this healing process.
• Shiatsu Massage
  Shiatsu technique refers to the use of fingers and palm of one’s hand to apply pressure to particular sections on the surface of the body for the purpose of correcting the imbalances of the body, and for maintaining and promoting health. It is also a method contributing to the healing of specific illnesses.
• Neuromuscular Therapy
  NeuroSomatic Therapy is a development of Paul St. John’s NeuroMuscular Therapy. NeuroSomatic Therapy is a structurally integrative approach to pain relief. The method is based on finding improper structural and biomechanical patterns in the patient’s body. In order to find these improper patterns, Paul St. John developed a way to analyze and chart dysfunctional postural patterns. Once these patterns are analyzed a comprehensive program is designed to guide the client through the five stages of rehabilitation...

Haircut and Styling

• Highlights
  Imagine an adhesion around the lungs. It would create a modified axis that demands abnormal accommodations from nearby body structures. For example, the adhesion could alter rib motion, which could then create imbalanced forces on the vertebral column and, with time, possibly develop a dysfunctional relationship with other structures. This scenario highlights just one of hundreds of possible ramifications of a small dysfunction—magnified by thousands of repetitions each day.

Chiropractic Services

• Manipulation Therapy
  Barral’s research and clinical work with the viscera led to his development of a form of manual therapy that focuses on the internal organs, their environment, and their potential influence on many structural and physiological dysfunctions. The term he coined for this therapy was Visceral Manipulation. Visceral Manipulation relies on the palpation of normal and abnormal forces within the body. By using specific techniques, therapists can evaluate how abnormal forces interplay, overlap and affect the normal body forces at work. The goal is to help the body’s normal forces remove abnormal effects, whatever their sources. Those effects can be global, encompassing many areas of bodily function.
• Myofascial Therapy
  I have studied the work of Racabado, Travell’s spray and stretch, CranioSacral Therapy, Myofascial Release, electrical stimulation and many other modalities. All of these modalities have made me successful when treating patients, but the St. John Method of Neuromuscular Therapy was the missing piece to the puzzle. St John NMT is the best modality that I studied in the past five years for treating soft tissue pain. All healthcare professionals that are working with people in pain should have the caliber of training that the St. John NMT Seminars provide.
• Acupressure
  Acupressure is a traditional Chinese medicine technique based on the same ideas as acupuncture. Acupressure involves placing physical pressure by finger, hand, elbow, or with the aid of various devices on different acupuncture points on the surface of the body.
• Acupuncture
  Microcurrent Point Stimulation (MPS), formerly known as Electro Therapeutic Point Stimulation (EPTS) therapy uses a small hand-held device to apply concentrated low-frequency microcurrent stimulation to acupuncture points, motor/trigger points and contracted motor bands. The device has an enhanced point finder that makes it easy to use to treat chronic and acute soft tissue pain. This combination of modern electrotherapy technology and ancient philosophies can provide synergistic therapeutic results to those who suffer.