Massage and Body work
Massage and Bodywork Therapy offers a harmonious blend for achieving optimum wellness. If your goal is to reduce stress and feel pampered, then a Relaxation Massage is what you want to book for your appointment. If your goal is to move more comfortably to reduce restrictions of your fascia in specific areas your body, receive help with various aches and pains or to recover more fully from an injury then booking a Massage and Bodywork Therapy session is the appointment for you. Massage and Bodywork Therapy sessions incorporate muscle energy techniques to utilize your own muscle power to manipulate and change the tension and stretch within your muscles in order to increase range of motion, lengthen of musculature and improve joint functions, isometric exercises to gently correct imbalances within your musculoskeletal system through light contraction of specific, targets muscles and
Myofascial trigger point release of these small, hypersensitive spots often called “knots” within a tight band of muscle that, when pressed, also often but not always refer pain to another part of the body. The above techniques are blended throughout the Massage and Bodywork Therapy session to target specific areas of the body where you are experiencing discomfort, pain, and/or constrictions of movement.
Massage and Bodywork Therapy is highly specific and requires active participation a and communication at times. It can feel intense but is also incredibly easy on the body.
This work tends to be slow and deliberate to unwind your body’s connective tissue restrictions with pressure ranging from light to moderately deep though never painful.
This will all depend on what your body needs that day.
With Bonnie Barrow