Services

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 post-partum women, children, elderly and medically frail people, etc.

If you are under the care of a doctor, Ama can communicate with her/him to ensure safe and effective massage sessions.

Massage Modalities:
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.

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.

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.

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, Trigger Point Release, MLD and other modalities, Ama focuses on relaxing and releasing over-used, shortened and tightened muscles and connective tissue. May include passive and active stretching along with stroking and holding.

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Far Infrared Sauna:

Please bring 2-3 towels with you for your sauna sessions.

INDICATIONS:

• Detoxifies: Removes Heavy Metals & Fat-stored Toxins

• Increases Cardiovascular Conditioning: As the body heats up, it cools itself by sending blood from the internal organs to the extremities and skin, thus increasing heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate.

• Stimulates Immune System: Temporary increase of body temperature, boosts production of infection-fighting white blood cells and killer-T cells.

• Improves Circulation

• Relieves Pain: Dilates blood vessels which increases blood circulation to injured areas, speeding up the healing process and relieving pain.

• Weight & Cellulite Reduction: Toxins can play a significant role in preventing us from losing (and gaining) weight. A session burns as many as 600 calories, and is quite effective at dealing with cellulite when combined with massage therapy and nutrition.

• Stress Reduction: Triggers the production of endorphins, the “feel good” hormones.

• 2 to 3 times more effective than traditional saunas. Heat penetrates skin 1.5 - 2 inches.

• Hypoallergenic: All poplar construction.

RECOMMENDED by thousands of doctors nationwide, the Far Infrared Sauna is a critical step in restoring good health to those who suffer from allergies, acne, brain fog, fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, rheumatoid arthritis, anxiety and depression, pain, headaches, anxiety, mood swings, stress, frequent colds and flu, cold hands and feet, over-weight, cellulite, heavy metal poisoning (including mercury), multiple chemical sensitivities, and hundreds of other symptoms, as well as for those who want to detox prior to conception (for prospective parents) and pre and post chemotherapy.

Far infrared is a section of the NATURAL BAND OF LIGHT that is not visible to the human eye, but can be felt as heat. Unlike the high heat produced in traditional saunas, far infrared heat is able to penetrate the body to a depth of 1.5 to 2 inches. This stimulates the body’s cellular detoxification process more effectively and is easier to breathe than a traditional sauna.

The body is incapable of metabolizing and excreting all toxins it is exposed to. It often stores toxins in fat to protect the body (lipophilic toxins). Our body’s tissues normally produce infrared energy, which is used by the body for a number of healing processes. By delivering penetrating warmth to the body, the far infrared sauna increases the body’s own far infrared energy levels, encouraging slight rise in body temperature that boosts natural detoxification systems.

The Thermal Life® sauna duplicates these healthy far infrared frequencies. The tissues selectively absorb these rays as the water in the cell reacts in a process called ”resonant absorption.” This occurs when the frequency of the far infrared matches the frequency of the water in the cell causing toxins to be dropped off into the bloodstream and excreted in sweat, feces, and urine.

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

Hemophiliacs and pregnant or nursing women should not use the sauna. People with advanced symptomatic heart disease, unstable angina, or severe adrenal suppression should only use the sauna under close medical supervision.

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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.

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

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 the largest organ of our bodies and most of what we put on our skin gets absorbed into our bloodstream.

Referrals to other practitioners that may be able to address your needs.

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