Deep Tissue Work

Firm pressure is used to release tension and adhesions deeply held in muscle and fascia (connective tissue). Contact may be applied by slow movement or held to give the tissue time to let go of its restricting spasm. Slow relaxing breaths often help the releasing process.

Trigger Point Therapy

A trigger point is a tight area within muscle or fascial tissue that causes pain in other locations in the body. Both the location that is causing the radiated pain (the Trigger Point) and the location that is reacting painfully are treated. Just enough pressure is applied to each of these points and held until both are released. This may be applied either one point at a time or simultaneously. During the session the person receiving the treatment will need to identify the location of the re-acting tissue as well as doing deeply relaxing breathing.

CranioSacral Therapy

Every day your body endures stresses and strains that it must work to compensate for. These efforts often cause the body’s tissues to tighten and distort the craniosacral system. These distortions can then cause tension to form around the brain and spinal cord resulting in barriers to the healthy performance of the central nervous system, and potentially every other system it interacts with.

Using a light touch evaluations are made of the ease of motion and rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid pulsing around the brain and spinal cord. Soft-touch techniques are then used to release these restrictions in the craniosacral system. This allows the body to self correct restoring healthy motion and rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid improving the whole body’s health.

Total Body Balancing

TBB uses long levers (arms, legs, head/neck or torso) and rhythmic movement to release tension in the muscles, fascia, joint capsules and ligaments to improve circulation, nervous system, and energy flow. This helps to normalize sympathetic and parasympathetic neurological activity, quieting the body’s efforts to hold excessive tissue and postural tension.

Myofascial Release

“Myofascia” refers to fascia(connective tissue) that holds muscle fibers together and to the bones they move.
In response to trauma, overuse injury, inflammation, and/or surgical procedures our bodies can develop restrictions in our fascia. These fascial restrictions cause pain and impaired movement.
By applying slow moving contact to the restricted fascia the tissue is helped to settle back into its healthy relaxed length. This alleviates pain and allows improved mobility.

Positional Release

When the body experiences trauma or chronic overuse injury, it remembers its postural position and tension pattern at the time of injury. Afterward it will defend itself by trying to stay in that position with excessive held tissue tension and restricted movement. By arranging the body passively in the chronically held position, it doesn’t need tissue tension to stay in that position. This can quiet down the sympathetic nervous system’s efforts to maintain defended position. This results in improved mobility and pain relief and relaxation.

Visceral Manipulation

This is a gentle manual therapy that aids your body’s ability to release restrictions that cause pain and dysfunction in and around the internal organs. The therapist feels for altered or decreased natural motion within the viscera, as well as associated tensions throughout the body and then applies VM techniques to re-establish the body’s ability to restore itself to health. The treatment is a gentle compression, mobilization and elongation of the soft visceral tissues.