Pregnancy Massage - gentle and nurturing this massage focuses on the needs of the mother. Massage can relieve the discomforts associated with pregnancy. It increases the mother’s awareness to her areas of tension. Massage enhances the relaxation experience, relieves nausea, increases circulation, increases flow of nutrients to placenta, aids in postural realignment, gives relief to joint discomfort, relieves minor edema by aiding venous return, opens client for a deeper breath and supports learning deep breathing.

Postpartum Massage - helps bring the body into its pre-pregnancy alignment; flushes lactic acid out of the tissue relieving sore and achy muscles; assists breastfeeding, alleviating tightness, helps with some breastfeeding difficulties; aids in the process of the uterus returning to it’s normal size; releases shoulder, neck and arm tension from the birth process; helps the mother regain vital energy (chi) to help reduce fatigue; supports fluids balancing; and encourages pelvic and abdominal organs to return to pre-pregnant positions.

Hot Stone Massage - warms the tissues allowing for deeper contact and relaxation and can be used in conjunction with Swedish or Myofascial massage. Hot stones are wonderful in the postpartum period, but are not for pregnant moms.

Swedish Massage - promotes general relaxation, using long, gliding, flowing, rhythmic strokes, as well as, kneading, friction, and vibratory techniques.

Deep Tissue / Myofascial Massage - contacts the deeper layers of tissue. Focusing intention on individual muscles using specific, slow, deeper strokes to lengthen, spread and separate the muscle tissues. Myofascial work induces deep relaxation and reduces chronic pain and muscle tension assisting the body in reestablishing / learning patterns that create ease of movement.

Additional techniques  - trigger point, deep tissue sculpting, joint mobilizations, breath reeducation, and others.