My Services

Swedish Massage (Back to Top)


Swedish Massage is a very relaxing and therapeutic style of bodywork. It combines oils or lotion with an array of strokes such as rolling, kneading, and percussion to help the body improve its circulation. The benefits of this type of bodywork are wide-ranging and include relief from aches and pains, decreased stress levels in the body, enhanced mental clarity, improved appearance, and greater flexibility.



Sports Massage (Back to Top)


Sports Massage is a type of massage designed for highly active people who engage in athletics. Engaging in sports is harsh on the body and can often lead to injuries in both the short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping to prevent injury, reduce pains and swelling in the body, relax the mind, increase flexibility, and dramatically improve recovery rates. Sports Massage is also highly effective in aiding the rapid recovery of an athlete from an injury by encouraging greater kinesthetic awareness and in turn promoting the body’s natural immune function.



Pregnancy/Pospartum Massage (Back to Top)


Pregnancy Massage is a form of bodywork designed specifically for pregnant women. Pregnancy is a time in which a woman’s body endures tremendous stress due to dramatic physical, mental, and emotional changes. Using various techniques specifically for the new mother, Pregnancy Massage helps alleviate discomforts experienced throughout the pregnancy. The benefits are profound. Throughout pregnancy, massage helps to provide emotional support and a calming atmosphere where a mom and baby can deepen their connection. It helps to reduce joint pain due to extra weight and postural imbalance, reduce muscle pain through the neck shoulders and back, improve breathing and relaxation, calms the nervous system, and provides relief from uncomfortable digestive issues. It also increases blood and lymph circulation which brings nutrients to all parts of the mother's body including the placenta, reduces swelling and cramping in legs, and educates a mom on how to improve her posture and exercise.
Massage is also helpful in preparation for labor and helps to develop sensory awareness that is necessary in allowing for an easier birthing process. It may help to reduce labor pain and discomfort and the need for medications and episiotomies.

Pospartum Massage is essential in helping women recover fully from her pregnancy and labor. It promotes the restoration of abdominal muscles and helps to educate the mother on specific abdominal exercises that will aid in reducing diastasis recti (a condition where the band of connective tissue between the two halves of the rectus abdominus spreads excessively during pregnancy). Postpartum massage also aids in maintaining proper posture, relieves neck shoulder and back pain due to nursing, and reduces stress levels that are a result of the new responsibilities of motherhood.



Deep Tissue Massage (Back to Top)


Deep Tissue Massage is a form of bodywork that aims to relieve tension in the deeper layers of tissue in the body. I use various techniques with my hands, knuckles, and elbows and apply focused pressure on “problem areas” or “trigger points” in the body. Deep Tissue Massage is a highly effective method for releasing chronic stress areas due to misalignment, repetitive motions, and past lingering injuries. Due to the nature of the deep tissue work, open communication during the session is crucial to make sure you don’t get too uncomfortable. Keep in mind that soreness is pretty common after the treatment, and that plenty of water should be ingested to aid with the flushing and removal of toxins that will have been released from the deep tissue during the session.



Reflexology (Back to Top)


Reflexology is a type of bodywork that focuses on applying pressure to the specific nerve zones in your feet. Unlike other foot massages that intend to mostly relieve tension in the feet themselves, reflexology is a far more in-depth science that aims to harmonize your entire body. According to reflexology, every part of the human body is mapped into the feet. Treatments have been found to be highly effective for conditions such as allergies, headaches, and depression. Reflexology can be integrated into a Swedish or Deep Tissue massage or focused on solely for an entire session.
$45/Half Hour



Trigger Point Therapy (Back to Top)


Trigger Point Therapy is a gentle style of bodywork that focuses on stimulating and releasing “trigger points” in your body. Trigger points are tender areas of pain and tension that occur in the belly of the muscle tissue. They build up throughout a person’s life due to physical, mental, and/or emotional stress. During a session, a variety of techniques are used, including applied focused pressure and joint positioning, in order to release your trigger points. The effects of this process are lasting and profoundly transformative. Trigger Point Therapy can be integrated into massages of different modalities.



Stone Therapy (Back to Top)


HotStone Therapy is a type of bodywork that uses deep penetrating heat and/or alternating cold from specialized stones. The physiological benefits of alternating hot and cold to the body have long been scientifically and medically proven.Stone Therapy delivers a profound expansion and contraction inside your circulatory system, improving the function of your lymphatic and immune systems, and enhancing your body’s self-healing mechanisms. This style of bodywork takes you into deep states of relaxation, releasing stress and anxiety, detoxifying the body, and balancing your nervous system.
$125/Hour and a Half



Corporate Chair Massage (Back to Top)


Corporate Chair Massage is a great way for employees/staff to take a break from their hectic work schedule and relax during the middle of their day! Fifteen to thirty-minute chair massage sessions are performed in the office setting. Employees/staff are able to sign up for their session ahead of time. Having massage in the work place helps to decrease stress levels and boost moral and the feeling of appreciation and value which increases productivity.
$15/Fifteen Minute Session, $30/Thirty Minute Session



Ear Coning (Back to Top)


Ear Coning uses an ear candle, a long hollow
tube tapered to a hand-finished tip,
that fits comfortably into the outer ear canal.

The large end of the candle is lit and the smoke
created spirals down through the ear canal. The
warmth of the smoke gently dislodges foreign
debris, softens old ear wax and helps evaporate
excess moisture.

Ear Candles are believed to help relieve earache
pain, provide relief from pressure in the sinuses
and allow the ear to naturally push out the old ear
wax.

$45/Half Hour Session



Cupping (Back to Top)


Cupping is a powerful, manual technique for breaking up localized congestion and is used to:
· Drain excess fluids and toxins
· Loosen adhesions
· Lift connective tissue
· Enhance circulation in stagnant musculature and fascia
· Stimulate the peripheral nervous system

It refers to an ancient Chinese practice in which a cup is applied to the skin and the pressure in the cup is reduced (by using change in heat or by suctioning out air), so that the skin and superficial muscle layer is drawn into and held in the cup.  In some cases, the cup may be moved while the suction of skin is active, causing a regional pulling of the skin and muscle (the technique is called gliding cupping). Generally, the cup is left in place for about 10 minutes (typical range is 5–15 minutes).  The skin becomes reddened due to the congestion of blood flow.  The cup is removed by pressing the skin along side it to allow some outside air to leak into it, thus equalizing the pressure and releasing it.  Some bruising along the site of the rim of the cup is expected.

Today, cupping is used to increase circulation for:
· Tightened or painful muscles
· Sprains or strains
· Pinched nerves
· Lung congestion
· Menstrual irregularities
· Inflamed breasts
· Lactation dysfunction
· Gastrointestinal disorders
· Cough
· Asthma

Click Here for an informative article on Cupping from the Institute For Integrative Healthcare Studies.

$45/Half Hour
Add to any treatment for $30
FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY: ADD TO ANY MASSAGE FOR ONLY $15!
-OR- Purchase a Half Hour Session for only $30!



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Apprentice Pilates Instruction (Back to Top)


I am now an Apprentice Pilates Instructor and will be a certified Instructor through Balanced Body University by June of 2009!
What is Pilates?

  • An exercise system developed by Joseph Pilates in the early part of the 20th century
  • Strengthens muscles, especially the core
  • Increases flexibility and improves balance/coordination
  • Decreases stress and increases overall health
  • Performed with attention to the breath to keep awareness on what movement is being made, improve the flow of oxygen and improve the capacity of the lungs
  • Focuses on proper form and movement patterns in order to learn how to move better through every day life
$45/Hour Session