WHY MASSAGE THERAPY?
Massage is more than just about feeling good. It’s a powerful tool for health maintenance. Studies have shown that massage is helpful for:
- Treating sports injuries
- Anxiety and stress relief
- Digestive disorders
- Soft tissue strains and injuries
- Optimizing muscle function to improve performance
- Improving posture
- Treating headaches
- Reducing insomnia related to stress
- Treating repetitive strain
- Relaxation
MASSAGE THERAPY STYLES
Signature Massage
Enjoy a specialized massage that showcases the unique and highly refined skills of each practitioner. Our team of massage therapists have a wide array of tools and techniques that elevate traditional bodywork. We invite you to explore the different modalities and experience something truly distinct.
SANDRA GARFINKEL, LMT
Licensed Massage Therapist
Swedish Massage
Swedish massage combines various hands-on techniques including gliding, kneading, and cross-fiber friction to break up muscle knots, called adhesions. Swedish massage can be slow and gentle, or vigorous and bracing, depending on what the client and therapist are looking to achieve.
Deep Tissue Massage
An integrative massage modality that uses various techniques such as Swedish massage, Myofascial Release, trigger point therapy and sustained deep pressure to relieve severe tension in the muscles and fascia.
Combination Massage
Combination Massage is a the combination of Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage and enables health and healing, including a state of relaxation and well-being.
30 Minute Massage
Our 30 Minute Massage combines various hands-on techniques including gliding, kneading, and cross-fiber friction to break up muscle knots, called adhesions. This 30 minute massage can be slow and gentle, or vigorous and bracing, depending on what the client and therapist are looking to achieve.
By Donation Chair Massage
Stressed and pressed for time?? Our By Donation Chair Massage should do the trick. Done in 15 minute intervals with a focus on head, neck, shoulders, and back. A suggested donation of $20, but it really is BY DONATION (pay what you can!)
Reflexology
Reflexology is a centuries-old healing art that reduces stress and improves well-being.
In each foot there are over 7,000 nerve endings – called reflexes – which correspond to every organ and system in the body. By applying a compression technique to specific energy points, it helps the body relieve tension and stress. The deep relaxation serves to balance and engage the body’s self-healing powers.
Prenatal Massage
Even men know how great massage feels when you’re pregnant. Though not recommended during the first trimester, massage therapy during the rest of your pregnancy can be simply amazing for relieving aches and pains, general stress, and keeping you light on your toes (while you carry around a watermelon inside your body). Treat yourself! And your family!
Hot Stone Massage
The addition of smooth, hot stones to your massage therapy treatment brings your treatment to a whole new level. Dissolving into the warm pressure of a stone laying in one area or experiencing the smooth glides or deep pressure of a hot stone can, quite simply, take you to another dimension. Therapists are careful to check temperature and pressure as they work and are able to craft a hot stone massage to your particular liking.
*Ask us about our CBD massage upgrade!
Cannabidiol, or CBD for short, is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid, a chemical compound found in the hemp plant. These compounds are key players in normal immune and central nervous system
functioning. CBD has many benefits, most notably, CBD is known for its pain relieving,
anti-inflammatory, anti-anxiety and neuroprotective properties. CBD is applied transdermally in the form of an infused balm.
Lymphatic Drainage Massage
Most people are familiar with the body’s blood vessels which carry blood to and from the tissues. But few understand there is another equally vital system of vessels that remove cell waste, excess fluid, Proteins, viruses and bacteria. This is the lymph system, which picks up fluid and waste products from the spaces between the cells and then filter and cleans them. When the Lymph System is backed up or blocked after trauma or surgery we can feel sluggish, puffy, swollen, tired which leaves us more susceptible to colds and infections.
Lymphatic Drainage Massage (LDM) is a specific type of bodywork that is rhythmic in motion and light in pressure. This helps the body’s lymph system to work better, which in turn supports the body’s immune system. This work is very relaxing, slow and repetitive. It works deeply with the autonomic nervous system to calm both the body and mind.
Mind Body Alignment
Andrew Cort, DC, works from head to toe and beyond. Throughout each session, in addition to working with musculoskeletal balancing to help relieve irritating pressure on nerves. Dr. Cort devotes much his attention to deep relaxation, energy balancing, mind-heart-body balancing, and the nearly-magical effects of gentle, heart-felt, human touch.
Sessions may include tools from:
- Applied Kinesiology,
- Nutrition,
- Muscle release work and massage,
- Reflexology,
- Visceral Manipulation,
- Full Spine Alignment,
- Infrared Light Therapy,
- Cranio Sacral balancing,
- Guided Visualization
Sessions always end with a focus on your heart, letting positive, happy and loving memories and emotions soak into the cells of your body.
love heals
PRACTITIONERS
