Simply a healthy way to escape and reduce mental or physical stress and promote relaxation. This treatment seeks to stabilize your body, mind and spirit connection through muscle kneading, rocking and gentle connecting strokes.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, blocked chi is the reason for illness. These sessions are intended to open up your energy meridians and promote greater wellness via acupressure points, stretches and massage. Deeply relaxing and can be intensely healing.

Uncomfortable? Moody? Needing understanding? I’m a mother of three who had three problematic pregnancies and know that massage therapy can be of great help! If you have any complications, please be sure to check with your doctor prior to our session. Benefits of massage therapy during pregnancy are as follows:

• Reduces stress and promotes relaxation through emotional support and physical nurturing
• Reduces edema and high blood pressure, relieves varicose veins, and increases blood and lymph circulation
• Facilitates hormonal, respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary, and other prenatal physiological processes
• Reduces musculoskeletal pain and strain
• Contributes to developing the kinesthetic awareness, flexibility, and preparation necessary for active birthing
• Contributes to shorter, less painful labor and reduces labor complications, medications, and interventions
• Improves infant well-being
• Fosters nurturing maternal touch
• Facilitates postpartum recovery, including structural and abdominal restoration, healing from Cesarean birth, and relief of muscle strain of childcare activities

Did you know that 40% of job turnover is due to stress? A kind, as well as, economical way to address this issue is to provide chair or table massage at your office. The intention would be for your employees to have the opportunity to de-stress and increase their alertness (which increases productivity) with a short 10-15 minute session. Corporations such as Motorola and Advocate Healthcare regularly promote and offer massage at their workplace--it is an excellent investment in your employees.

LaStone® is a multifaceted technique designed to benefit the client and therapist at once. The therapeutic potential of this treatment goes beyond measure. The physiological benefits of alternating hot and cold to the body have long been scientifically and medically proven. The stones are the medium and the hot and cold temperatures are the message. This "vascular gymnastics" of the circulatory system assists the body in self-healing. LaStone® Therapy administers this principle with unerring elegance; producing sedative and reenergizing responses to the body. This form of bodywork involves the use of heated and cooled stones; Geo-Thermo-Therapy (SM), applied to the body in various ways to bring about relief to stiff and sore muscles; resulting in alleviation of chronic and acute problems that many of us deal with on a daily basis.

Mindful guidance in the art of massage for promoting greater harmony & chi in your union. Enough said. Set aside 90 minutes to 2 hours for equal time on the table and to learn the basics to practice safe and beneficial massage therapy on each other.