After you park and are greeted at the door, you will be led to the massage table. Specific questions regarding your daily life will be asked to assess your body’s current condition. This will enable a special massage catered directly to your needs and goals for the treatment. With all the privacy and comfort needed for your level of modesty, you then disrobe and lay between the sheets on a heated massage table. The room is warm and conducive to relaxation with essential oils being diffused along with soft tranquil music being played. You will be brought to the attention of your breath to still the mind and ready the body for the receipt of therapy.
In this whole body experience, range of motion, traction and stretching are used to enhance joint functioning, releasing the pressure on pinched nerves and compressed vertebrae. Intuitively guided hands find and release areas of tension and stress. Specific muscles may need momentary focus, but experience has led this professional to treat entire muscle groups rather than cause more tension from isolated trigger point therapy. Long and fluid head to toe motions continuously pass over the problematic areas, causing the tense muscles to let go from their origin, through the muscle belly, and all the way to the insertion points. This comprehensive approach to massage therapy provides time and space for amplification of the healing process- resulting in significantly reduced inflammation.
Likely the most powerful part of this therapeutic massage is the Craniosacral therapy. This technique is used to relieve pain and tension from the head, all the way down the spine and to the tailbone. Specific points of skull are gently pressed and held to harmonize the natural rhythms of the cerebrospinal fluid, which continuously flows up and down the spine and around the brain. Typically this causes a light sleep and the body can be visually observed to jerk and wiggle on the table as it unwinds. The unwinding is very therapeutic alone, but also serves as an astute assessment tool, as the visual observation of unwinding is highly indicative to places throughout the body that need specific attention following this part of the massage.
The psychological effects of therapeutic massage are widely known to be calming and to invoke peace. The oils being diffused, soft music, and comfortable environment gives the mind a chance to let go and exist in the moment. Attention is called to the breath, thoughts disappear, the blood pressure and heart rate lessen, and anxiety and fear dissipate. Massage causes serotonin and endorphins to be released into the bloodstream, elevating moods and promoting happiness.
Finally, in addition to the physiological and physical benefits, a profound energetic component compliments this treatment. As a Reiki master, reflexologist, and one who understands dermatomes, reflex zones and meridians- this is truly the aspect that causes people to feel amazing. There is not a time allotment for this part of the therapy- it is just something magical that transpires throughout the duration of the massage.