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Each session is adjusted to your daily needs and long-term goals, based on overall health, functionality, recent injuries, medical treatments and procedures, pain and discomfort.
Clients with special needs are welcome: oncology patients and cancer survivors, pregnant and postpartum women, children, elderly and medically frail people, etc.
If you are under the care of a doctor, please bring a note of permission for massage. Ama is happy to communicate with her/him to ensure safe and effective massage sessions.
Massage Techniques:
All massage sessions are a mixture of modalities, usually including stretching, joint ranges of motion and energy work.
CIRCULATORY
Swedish
You will be on my massage table, undressed and draped by a sheet. With oil, long, relaxing strokes and kneading are used to soothe your tired and sore muscles, and to increase your blood circulation and toxin release.
Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD)
Specific, rhythmic, gentle strokes to detoxify and remove excess fluids from your body, decrease pain, relieve stress, support the immune system, speed healing, and minimize scarring. This modality is excellent in pre- and post surgical situations, promoting gentle and efficient healing of tissues.
ENERGETIC
Zen Shiatsu
Usually done on the floor (on a pad) with comfortable clothes on. Pressure points are stimulated along the chi (energy) meridians (pathways) of your body, to help rebalance your energy flow. Great for grounding and centering. Ama may use her feet and knees in addition to fingers and arms.
Reflexology
Using your feet as a map for your body, pressure points, smooth strokes, and joint movements support the functions of your body's organs, systems and structures. Oil may be used.
Energy Work
Focused intention, still holding, rocking and vibration calm and stimulate healing of your body and encourage clarity of mind and well-being of spirit. This work, done alone and in conjunction with other modalities, is subtle in action yet profound in effect.
Jin Shin
An energy-balancing technique using a series of particular pressure points.
SPECIAL NEEDS
Please discuss receiving bodywork with your doctor and bring a note of approval to your first session.
Oncology/Medical Massage
Adjustments are made to the above modalities to provide safe relief of symptoms and side effects from treatments, including work on scars to increase sensation, range of motion and increased body acceptance. The focus of this work is helping patients rest, relax, and rejuvenate through gentle yet deep support of organ functions, and to support immunity.
Pregnancy Massage
Adjustments are made to the above modalities to provide safe relief of pain and discomfort, and gentle support to the mother-to-be. Great for improving body awareness, image, and proprioception (sense of your body in space) and for bonding with your growing baby.
Abdominal Massage
Comfortably address abdominal and lower back pain, digestive and elimination problems, postural imbalances and support fertility efforts. This work will not cause pain, but will likely put you to sleep within a few minutes, as your body goes into deep healing.
Deep Tissue
Added to a massage where you need it most. The work moves slowly into your deeper layers of muscles to help release knots, tension, spasm and pain.
Repetitive Use Injury and Scar Massage
Using Muscle Release Technique (sm), Myofacial Release, Tender Point Release, MLD and other modalities, Ama focuses on relaxing and releasing over-used, shortened & tightened, and traumatized muscles and connective tissue. May include passive and active stretching along with stroking and holding.
Features:
Full session time. When you reserve a 1-hour massage, you get a full 60 minutes on the table. The session will be about 90 minutes door to door. For 90-minute massages plan on spending 2-hours. Add 10 minutes for set-up at outcall appointments.
Medicinal Oils for massages requiring lubrication. Ama uses oils, salves and liniments that are natural, preservative free and organic (whenever possible), and have innate healing properties. Why? Because the skin is one of the largest organ of our bodies and around 70% of what we put on our skin gets absorbed into our bloodstream.
Non-toxic and biodegradable laundry detergent, cleaning supplies and candles used
100% Flannel cotton sheets for massages on the padded table.
Soothing music, sound machine, or silence. Your choice.
Healthful Suggestions for stretches, diet and other lifestyle adjustments
Referrals to other practitioners that may be able to address your needs.
In-studio features
- A warm, non-toxic candle or sun-lit room
- Warm herbal tea or cool water
- Use of Far Infrared Sauna to warm you up before getting on the table
- Analgesic ointments as needed
- Heating pad upon request
- Aromatherapy upon request
Outcall features
Ama comes to your home, hotel, office, hospital or hospice*
You supply
- warm, open space
- pillows
- blankets
Ama brings
- her massage table* and table heating pad
- oil
- sheets and 1 pillow
- soothing music or sound machine upon request
*Travel fee is discounted without table
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Special Offers:
Gift Certificates Available*
Massage & Sauna Discounts*
3-tier sliding scale for massage services
10% off purchase of 5 sessions**
15% off purchase of 10 sessions**
Client Appreciation*
Free Massage
Buy & use 12 of any full price service in 1-year, get 1 free**
50% off a massage after two booked referrals. Refer your friends, colleagues and clients.
* Transferrable!
** Based on payment of full price (sliding scale level 1)
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