Treatments Available
Having taken a massage diploma I have qualified to offer a variety of massage treatments, allowing you to choose what is the best type of massage to suit your needs. Each technique is described in more detail below. Please feel free to contact me if you would like more information, to discuss your reasons for wanting a massage or to confirm your choice when you book an appointment:
Therapeutic massage
Deep Tissue Massage
Sports Massage
Reiki Massage
When you have chosen your treatment click on the book in page to make your appointment.
Therapeutic Massage
The principle of this treatment is that it is constructed around the needs of the client. It can be very helpful with anxiety disorders, stress, depression and panic attacks to work with a course of massage treatments. Sometimes, as can be the case with certain types of depression, it is helpful to feel uplifted and invigorated after your treatment. In a different scenario a deep relaxation may be what is required. The masseur works with different strokes at different speeds and depths of pressure to skillfully work with the nervous system to create the desired outcome. There are many psychological benefits:
Help you to manage thoughts and emotions in depression and anxiety
Calm and soothe the mind
Release and relax muscle tension through soothing the nervous system
Help you to manage thoughts and emotions in depression and anxiety
physiologically:
Restore homeostasis (balance) to the body
Induce a feeling of deep relaxation in the body
Improve lymphatic drainage - removing toxins and impurities
Stimulate the immune system
Improve circulation oxygenation and nutrition at the site of massage
Boost, lower or balance the levels of hormones and chemicals in the body
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage works into the deeper layers of muscle tissue. Using slow strokes and deep finger pressure It aims to release chronic tension patterns in the body; either following or going across the fibres of the muscles, tendons and fascia.
Deep pressure, slower strokes and friction across the grain the grain of the muscles help release the muscles tension. Deep tissue massage helps to break up and eliminate scar tissue. Deep tissue massage usually focuses on more specific areas and may cause some soreness during or right after the massage. However, if the massage is done correctly you should feel better than ever within a day or two.
Sports Massage
Strong, frequent sustained physical exercise will take its toll on the soft tissues and joints of the active person.The sports massage is a therapy to help cleanse, nourish and repair the worked muscles and joints. Injuries can occur due to over exertion and/or overuse, a massage can help prevent and repair them.
This treatment is not just for the sports person, people in physically demanding jobs or those with occupational, emotional and postural stress can find this type of massage very helpful.
Sports massage tends to be deeper and more intense. It is based on the various elements of Swedish massage and often incorporates a combination of other techniques involving stretching, compression, friction, toning, and wringing. I can offer advice to help bring about optimum performance and to provide injury-free training and minimize pre and post event injuries.
Maintain, Prepare, Rehabilitate
Sports massage style can vary. Each sport will target specific muscle groups and stress particular joints. My knowledge of anatomy from my massage training and my twenty years plus of yoga can help you to maintain or improve range of motion and muscle flexibility.
A pre event massage can create the optimum states of mind and body with which to compete. Knowing that you are ready to go physically and with appropriate levels of concentration and relaxation can be very helpful.
Post event massage can help address any strains, sprains, spasms and metabolic build up and offers an efficient warm down.
Reiki Massage
In a reiki massage I can combine the therapeutic energy of a reiki treatment with the enhanced physical relaxation of a full body massage. Reiki can be very helpful in addressing pain and discomfort and can be channeled to that area in the course of this treatment. Sometimes direct pressure by massage is not appropriate, for example, if there is a wound or inflammation is present. Here Reiki can be used to enhance repair. Always a thorough assessment of the health of the client is undertaken before a treatment to make sure massage is safe and appropriate.
Reiki treatments can work with the Chakra energy system and in my massage training I learned acupressure energy meridians and pressure points. The nature of the treatment will be discussed openly with the client who will be asked to sign a written consent before we begin. In the treatment I will explain what I am working on and what should result.
A reiki massage should be deeply relaxing. The reiki energy will move to where it is most needed. Sometimes we have blockages in the energy pathways or the energy movement becomes sluggish. A reiki treatment can help restore the healthy flow of energy throughout the body.
I always try to explain the energy systems in a modern way. Often it can be very confusing and people will think you are daft believing in such stuff. This can often be down to the language in which descriptions of reiki are couched. It is the same with meditation, the paranormal, shamanism and psychic practices. In the modern world we have lost touch with the aspects of mind and body that our forebears were aware of. Certain cultures still value them to this day. In the West it is different.
All I can suggest with these type of therapies is try it and see. Then you can find your own language to express what reiki does and what it brings to you.
Energy work is part of our homeostasis. We have lots of medicines for illnesses from cough syrup and paracetamol to chemotherapy and insulin, yet we do not address those things that are not easily explained or that science cannot quantify. Reiki falls into that bracket.
This massage can work with the major Chakra. Chakra are energy vortices. There are seven major chakra that begin at the base of the pelvis and end at the crown of the head. Each chakra distributes and controls the flow of energy in a particular zone of the body. The chakras it is believed also empower our emotions. So if an emotion is troublesome channeling reiki to the chakras can help to bring our emotions back into balance.
Sometimes chakras close, naturally resulting in some form of ill health. When each major chakra can be opened and the flow of energy through the energy channels restored we can begin to return to health.
As you can read it all sounds a bit far out. It is language after all. Just words. Try it and see. Reiki can never cause you harm. It is our life force. It can only do good.
So chakra balancing is a possibility in a reiki massage. There is always time given at the end of a treatment to discuss how you are feeling. Sometimes reiki can create an immediate resolution, sometimes it takes a few days for things to register. I can always be contacted to offer advice and support after any treatment.
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