Massage
What is Massage Therapy? Massage Therapy is defined as the act of kneading the human body. Your body's fascia consists of connective tissues that surround all your vital organs, muscles and bones and has the sole responsibility of holding everything together.
That requires a lot of work; throw in some anxiety of a stressful day at the office, or a particularly grueling day in the garden and some chronic pain and your body just begs for a little attention. Massage therapy is just what you need. Listed below are just a few of the benefits that you or a loved one you know could use:
Physical Benefits of Massage:
- Strengthens the immune system
- Prevents disease
- Reduces blood pressure and stress
- Increases circulation
- Relieves pain and sickness
- Increases mobility and speeds the healing process for those
recovering from surgery or injury - Gain a sense of wholeness and balance within the body
- Aids people with paralysis (such as stroke victims)
- Eases women through their pregnancy
- Provides relief to those suffering from chronic back pain
"Effective bodywork is an act of intimacy and deep sharing of sensibilities, a communication, a communion, and ultimately the basis for a new sense of community... It is a personal exchange untainted by obligations and power struggles, and as such is an opportunity to see, and to feel, and to understand both ourselves and another in an entirely new way... As more individuals learn to enjoy more coherence-a more coherent, freer, saner society has the possibility of emerging-a possibility that simply will not exist until we reach a critical mass of people who understand the true nature of health, authentic knowledge, self, and relationship."
– Deanne Juhan, author of Job's Body
Find out more about our massage therapists:
Kiwani Allen, Karen Mitchell-Paradis, and Timothy Oaks.
