Types of Massage

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• Relaxation Massage
• Sports Massage
• Clinical Deep Tissue
• Cranial Sacral Therapy

Relaxation Massage
A smooth, flowing style that promotes general relaxation, improves circulation and range of movement, and relieves muscular tension.

Sports Massage
We're living longer, healthier, more active lives. Regular cardiovascular and weight-bearing exercise is an essential component of this new lifestyle. Yet your body needs to recover from the stresses caused by exercise; sports massage is a vital part of your training program.

Benefits of Sports Massage

• Increased Circulation, thereby enabling greater nutrient flow to muscles and faster flushing of metabolic by-products of physical activity.
• Muscular Relaxation counteracts the repetitive contraction undergone during exercise and restores muscle to its normal resting length.
• Greater Flexibility by releasing painful trigger points, breaking up muscular adhesions and realigning injured muscle fibers to form strong, mobile scar tissue. More elastic connective tissue translates to greater range of motion and more power.
• Reduced Pain elevates your mood and frees up mental energy.
• Decreased Recovery Time by speeding removal of metabolites, accelerating tissue repair, lengthening of tight muscles, and improved emotional balance.
• Injury Prevention. We educate you about your body, helping you identify soft-tissue problems, the patterns that may have led to them, and strategies for future prevention.

Clinical Deep Tissue
Deep tissue massage is work targeted at the deeper structures in the body. It can include stretching, release of trigger points, myofascial release and reduction of deeply held muscular tensions.

Release of active trigger points can bring relief to a wide variety of problems from migrane headaches to pain in wrists and forearms and sciatia just to name a few.

Cranial Sacral Therapy
A very gentle form of body work, Cranial Sacral Therapy works by releasing restrictions in the body’s craniosacral system - comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. In a typical CST session, the client is clothed and relaxing on the massage table under a blanket. The therapist uses a variety of gentle holds along the entire body, focusing especially on the cranium and sacral areas. Clients report a range of experiences from being very relaxed to feeling old, deeply held restrictions let go. Using techniques taught by the Upledger Institute, Cranial Sacral Therapy effectively treats a variety of health problems including:

• Migraine Headaches
• Chronic Neck and Back Pain
• Motor-Coordination Impairments
• Colic
• Autism
• Central Nervous System Disorders
• Orthopedic Problems
• Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
• Scoliosis
• Learning Disabilities
• Chronic Fatigue
• Emotional Difficulties
• Stress and Tension-Related Problems
• Fibromyalgia and other Connective-Tissue Disorders
• Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome (TMJ)
• Neurovascular or Immune Disorders
• Post-Surgical Dysfunction