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Types of Massage and Bodywork



Therapeutic Massage is an ancient holistic remedy with profound health and fitness benefits for both your body and your mind in today's world. Massage therapy includes deep tissue and injury rehabilitation as well as relaxing and nurturing styles. (More than twenty different types ...)

• St. John's method of Neuromuscular Massage Therapy
• Russian Medical and Sport Massage
• Reflexology
• Shiatsu
• Lymphatic Drainage Therapy
• Therapeutic Healing Touch and Energy Work
• Swedish Relaxing Massage
• Hawaiian Massage
• Thai Bodywork
• Tuina Chinese Traditional Massage
• Visceral Manipulation
• Cranio-Sacral Therapy
• Hot Stone Massage
• Crystal Healing
• Aromatherapy Stress Reduction
• Reiki and QiGong

Ashley and Lydia are teaching different types of massage, including
stress reduction and injury rehabilitation, assisting in recovery from crisis and accidents.
Our classes are fun, educational, give great HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE and provide continuing education units (ceu-s) for massage therapists.

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STRESS  REDUCTION  MASSAGE

  Using a variety of  streamlined massage techniques
for each unique person, we have found that patients who receive this type of
clearing work, have a variety of psychological positive spin-offs.  They:
know exactly what they want out of life
can distinguish authentic desires
from delusive goals
quickly eliminate internal and external obstacles
tap into their own intuitive/creative power and use it
get out of their own
way and allow the Universe to work for them.
At the end of the massage you will receive a verbal affirmation that you will feel as upliftment and help seal the results of your massage.

ACCIDENT-CRISIS MASSAGE

  The therapist accesses the accident you have been
through and addresses tissues which have been assaulted, using the following
approaches:
Mobilization therapy for pelvic stabilization, to relieve pressure on
nerves;
Trigger point therapy-strategically applied pressure to
pain-sensitive points in the body;
Swedish or deep tissue massage to ease
muscle tension; and
NMT (Neuromuscular massage therapy)  that entails
excellently precise pressure to release the insertions and origins of muscles,
often missed by therapists.
Lymphatic drainage therapy to detoxify the
tissues, giving new life.
Also, the patient may, if applicable, be guided
visually through the accident (1-2 min.) to access patterns of the accident
impingement caught in the psyche.  We have seen people play-out accident
patterns in their life, and in a sense draw accidents to themselves. This is
eliminated.
Addendum:  Case notes written on the behalf of the Massage Patient to the
insurance company are written to the full expression of the muscle conditions. 
The massage therapist is a liaison between client and company.  We encourage the
patient to have full participation with life by testing out the massage results
through a full exercise routine at the appropriate time before settling the
case.

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