Visceral Manipulation addresses symptoms that occur not only in the abdominal cavity, but throughout the whole body. Symptoms can range from musculoskeletal/structural to nervous, urinary, respiratory and of course digestive problems. Nearly everything we do affects the internal organs from diet to exercise (or lack of exercise), pollution, posture, pregnancy, surgeries and medications. All of these things affect the harmony the organs need to move freely and work properly.
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http://www.barralinstitute.com/about/vm.php
Lymphatic Drainage affects the whole body and the immune system. The Lymph system is key to overall health and can help with fibromyalgia, insomnia, depression, anxiety just to name a few. Lymph nodes work on two basic principles, breath and muscle contractions. When we are sick, sit at a desk all day or for whatever reason, we don’t get a full breadth – one that inflates the chest and abdomen, or get good muscle contractions, our lymph system is not able to remove all the waste our bodies produce at the cellular levels. This waste does not disappear, instead it settles into out muscles, joints and organs causing these systems not to function properly. This is not noticeable at first, but over time it builds so allergies get worse, you get sick more often, wounds don’t heal as quickly, etc…
Deep Tissue massage includes some trigger point, myofascial release and a modality called Tui-na, which incorporates some acupressure points along with removing stuck muscles from each other. Most Deep Tissue work is based on removing adhesions within the fascia, which surrounds all our bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments. Fascia is deep as well as superficial and the best was to explain it is if you ever had a loose thread in some fabric and pulled on the thread and you get the fabric to bunch up in all sorts of ways. Well when you get adhesions within the fascia it does the same thing excepts it not flat like a piece of fabric.
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word representing universal life energy, the energy which is all around us. It is derived from rei, meaning “free passage” or “transcendental spirit” and ki, meaning “vital life force energy” or “universal life energy” So Reiki involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient to enhance the body’s natural ability to heal itself on four level, the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
Cost – in my studio (outcalls are doubled)
- 60 Minute Deep Tissue - $50
- 90 Minute Deep Tissue - $75
- Visceral Session (30 – 60 minutes) - $60
- Lymphatic Detox - $60/hour
- Reiki - $60/hour