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Active Isolated Stretching
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Massage Techniques
Active Isolated Stretching
AIS uses a variety of stretching techniques that are muscle- and joint-specific and are appropriate for anyone, from athletes to clients with muscular degenerative diseases.
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Chair Massage
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Chair massage is fast becoming a widespread and much-desired health benefit progressive corporations provide to their employees. Regular chair massage is a simple and cost-effective way to show your staff that you care about their health and recognize the need for reducing stress in the workplace. The benefits are not just for employees, however; in scientific studies, employees who received a 15- to 30-minute chair massage performed tasks twice as quickly with half the number of mistakes.
Our corporate chair massage is conducted at your workplace by a certified or registered massage therapist. The sessions last 15 to 30 minutes and the recipient remains fully clothed. In just a short session, the therapist can address the most common areas of stress and tension: neck, shoulders, back, arms, wrists, and hands. Talk with us about how we can help you boost morale and productivity in your office with chair massage.
We also provide chair massage at health fairs, sporting events, parties, and more—we’ve even provided chair massage at a wedding reception!
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Couples Massage
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Couples massage can either be done at our office location or in the convenience of your own home. Two of our therapists will work with you and your partner in separate rooms or in the same room. This is a great gift for special occasions such as Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, birthdays, or just to share some relaxing time together.
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Hot Stone Massage
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Warm, smooth stones are placed on the body and held in the practitioner’s hands while doing the massage. While the pressure used in a hot stone massage is fairly light, the warmth of the stones penetrates the tissues to promote deep relaxation of tense muscles and calm the mind and body.
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Lymphatic Drainage
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Designed to detoxify the body, stimulate the immune system and provide deep relaxation. LDT is effective in reducing the symptoms of edema, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fybromyalgia; it also aids in pre- and post-surgery healing and can alleviate insomnia and depression. In LDT, the pressure is rhythmic and gentle.
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Massage for People with Cancer
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Massage for people with cancer is a specialized modality that has the potential to reduce pain, nausea, and fatigue, and provides a safe place for emotional and physical healing.
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NeuroMuscular Therapy (NMT) for Cervical Spine and Cranium
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A focused form of therapy designed to alleviate headaches, TMJ syndrome, teeth clenching and neck pain.
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Parental Massage
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Gentle massage nurtures mother and baby by relaxing both, enhancing sleep, and increasing nutrient flow. It can also aid common discomforts of pregnancy, such as low back pain and swelling. Post-natal massage can help restore the body and relieve the common shoulder and back tension that results from carrying and nursing an infant. We offer prenatal massage in the second and third trimesters only.
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Reiki
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Reiki, which means Universal Life Force, is an energy healing system that is thousands of years old. The client remains clothed during the session and the practitioner places his or her hands gently on different parts of the body to facilitate energy flow through the chakras and create a calmness and harmony to allow the body and mind to come together and accelerate physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
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Sports Massage
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Sports massage can be a useful part of training for professional or weekend athletes. It uses a wide variety of techniques including assisted stretching and cross-fiber friction to address the specific needs of individual athletes. Before an event massage can help warm tissues to help protect against injury and improve performance. After a sporting event, the aim of massage is to rid the muscles of metabolic wastes such as lactic acid, as well as to restore circulation to overexerted tissues. For an injured athlete, the goal is to use massage to reduce swelling, hasten healing, and prevent the formation of scar tissue.
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Swedish/Deep Tissue
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Massage is always approached with the intent of sinking from superficial tissue into deeper layers of tissue. Swedish massage addresses the more superficial layers and softens and warms the tissue so that the therapist can sink into the deeper layers and use deep tissue massage techniques.
Swedish massage is characterized by gentle strokes including long gliding strokes, kneading, tapping, stretching, rocking, and still touch to warm the muscle tissue and joints for more focused work. Once the tissue is warmed, the therapist may use deep tissue massage techniques such as compression and cross-fiber friction to address areas of chronic tightness, tension, and pain.
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Thai Massage on the Table
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Thai massage on the Table is an adaptation of traditional Thai massage, which is typically practiced on a mat on the floor. The client remains fully clothed and on the massage table during the session. The practitioner guides the client through a series of yoga-like stretching movements, range of motion, and rhythmic compressions along the sen lines of the body to help the client achieve relaxation, better flexibility, and release energy blockage.
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