About Our Massage & Healing Therapies

If you have received massages previously or are you are preparing to experience your first massage, it is important that you aware of the different types of massage that are available.

With some massages the recipient remains fully dressed. Others call for the recipient to disrobe partially or fully. There are some massages that are performed with deep penetrating strokes, while others may use little or almost no pressure at all. 

Having an understanding of these differences will make your massage experience that much more pleasurable and allow you to get the results you need.

Below you will find some descriptions of the types of massages that we offer:

• Swedish Body Massage
  The techniques used in Swedish massage are gentle and rhythmic in nature. There are five basic strokes, all flowing towards the heart. These are used to manipulate the soft tissues of the body. With Swedish Body Massage therapists will typically use a combination of kneading, rolling, vibrating, rhythmic tapping movements. This is usually accompanied by applying oil to reduce skin friction. Swedish massage can shorten the time it takes to recover from muscular strain by expelling lactic acid, uric acid and other metabolic wastes from the skin tissue. This process also speeds the venous return of un-oxygenated blood and toxins from the extremities.
   
• Reflexology Therapy
  Reflexology is based on the belief that ones feet and hands are maps or mirrors of the body. By putting pressure on and massaging specific areas of the feet or hands, the reflexologist may relieve pain or tension in corresponding areas of the clients body.
   
• Indian Head Massage
  Indian head massage is based on the ayurvedic system of healing which has been practiced in India for over a thousand years. It provides Indian families with relaxation and healing on a daily basis, as well as playing a part in rituals such as weddings and births, not to mention everyday events like a trip to the barber.
   
• Lymphatic Drainage Massage
  A therapeutic massage where the therapist uses a gentle “pumping technique” that drains away pockets of water retention and toxins that are trapped in the body. Many consider Lymph Drainage to be an anti-aging treatment.
   
• Reiki Healing
  The word “Reiki” (ray-key) means Universal Life Force Energy. Reiki is a Japanese healing art whereby the practitioner places his or her hands upon the person to be healed and acts as a conduit, channelling the healing energy of the universe into the recipient to restore balance and harmony. During a Reiki session the client may remain clothed as the energy passes directly through ones clothing. As emotional problems often manifest themselves in physical ailments, and physical trauma often brings about intense emotional responses, Reiki simultaneously brings about both physical and mental balance and harmony.
   
• Deep Tissue / Sports Massage
  Deep, focused massage strokes utilizing all or some combination of compression, drainage, friction, vibration, and tapotement are used in sports or deep tissue massage.
   
• Aromatherapy
  Aromatherapy means “treatment using scents”. Aromatherapists use therapeutic oil extracts from plants, flowers, trees, fruits, bark, grasses and seeds. There are approximately 150 essential oils, each having its own distinct therapeutic, psychological, and physiological properties. When inhaled, they work on the brain and nervous system through stimulation of the olfactory nerves. As we breath the scents, our brain releases chemicals that communicate with our nervous system to produce a calculated result such as relaxation, digestion, invigoration, or pain relief. Many of these oils have antiseptic properties; some are antiviral, anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, antidepressant and expectorant.
   
• Energy Healing Therapy
  How would you like to dramatically reduce your stress and anxiety, feel more peaceful and relaxed, gain perceptual clarity, feel greater joy and confidence, increase your energy, improve your physical health, and awaken you to your holiness? You can do all this by removing imbalances in your human energy field and aura. These energy blocks manifest themselves as stress and anxiety. Removing the blocks restores the natural energy flow resulting in feelings of peace and harmony.
   
• Facials
  A facial is a beauty treatment for your face. Facials use everything from oils, creams, gels and serums to electric currents, oxygen jets and massage to give you cleaner, healthier, brighter skin.