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We all have the ability to heal ourselves; a good therapist helps you realize your own power. All good massages have one thing in common. A connection between the therapist and client. Only a therapist who knows where the client is holding tension can work with him or her to release and let go of the pain.

Intuitive Massage

After seven years of practicing massage, fitness training, meditation, and hypnosis, I have developed a unique approach that I call Intuitive Massage.

The Approach

This approach uses many of techniques with which you may already be familiar: Trigger Point Therapy, Myofacial Release, and basic Swedish techniques combined with a special focus on making a connection with my clients.

As a practitioner of Dzogchen (a Tibetan meditation technique) I connect energetically with each client to create an environment in which you can heal yourself.

Combining Imagery and Hypnosis

As a Licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist, I have found that the use of hypnotic imagery and relaxation techniques can be very powerful tools to help clients let go of stress and become active participants in healing their bodies. When appropriate, and with the permission of the client, these techniques can take bodywork to a new level of body/mind therapy.

As we go through the day, our thoughts and emotions often produce actual physiological effects. When we recall a stressful situation our heart beats faster, the breath quickens and the body releases hormones.

The physiological effects of this stress response create muscular tension. Psychological stress is in a very real sense the product of the mind. It is the accumulation of thoughts and emotions which constantly fill our minds. Since the mind is the source of the problem, it seems logical that the same mind which creates muscular tension can also release it.

This is exactly what we do with imagery and hypnosis. The mind, through suggestion, creates a vision of healthy relaxed tissue. When we add this to the incredible power of massage and bodywork techniques amazing things can happen.

I have had clients come to me in severe pain, and leave pain free. Many clients who live with a neck or back ache are able to release the tension for the first time in their lives.

Aging Isn't the Problem

Unless we work to maintain our strength and range of motion we lose muscle mass and flexibility after age 25. This chronic loss creates muscular and structural imbalances which are responsible for many of the aches and pains we experience as we age.

Fortunately, many of the by-products of aging can be corrected with a sensible program (10-15 minutes a day) to reverse the loss of muscle and restore range of motion.