What is Massage Therapy?

Massage Therapy is manipulation of the muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, and fascia to provide pain reduction, tissue relaxation, and healing. It is a useful option for healthcare for all ages, providing a therapeutic response and alleviating discomforts arising from muscular overuse, occupational stresses, and many types of chronic pain syndromes.

The benefits of Massage Therapy are physical, mental, and emotional.

Physical benefits include:

increased joint range of motion, increased tissue pliability and flexibility, decreased levels of acute and chronic pain, and increased circulation.

Emotional benefits include:

Increased relaxation and limited stress.

Psychological benefits include:

Reduced depression and anxiety, and improved concentration.

Massage Therapy also has a healing effect through the human touch that it involves. Several research studies have shown this. However, more work needs to do to fully explain how it all works. Although it is still not entirely explainable, it can experience.

Massage Therapy is a safe and efficient treatment for many conditions including:

• Back Pain
• Stiff shoulders/neck
• Whiplash/Car Accidents
• Post-injury rehabilitation
• Post-surgical rehabilitation
• Headaches
• Sprains/strains
• Arthritis
• Pre & Post-Natal Discomforts
• Insomnia
• Stress
• Anxiety and Panic Disorders
• Why Get a Massage?

Life can be stressful, and our bodies often tell us a lot about what is going on. However, many of us choose to ignore the signs of a potential condition arising. Massage can help prevent and cure muscle and ligament pain, along with myofascial pain. Aside from the physical benefits, it can help decrease stress, calm our emotions, focus our energy, and maintain a healthy level of energy. Physical and mental aspects of our well being are intimately related. Massage therapy is a wonderful way to ensure that we remain in the best health possible both physically and mentally. Massage therapy can also help boost our immune system and prevents colds.

Stop suffering from pain. We can help you experience healing of your physical ailments as your mind releases stress and worry. Enjoy a sense of well being and health as you move freely without pain, improve your posture, and go through each day with more energy.

Types of Massages Offered

Therapeutic Massage

Therapeutic massage seeks to obtain a therapeutic benefit. While therapeutic massage is often relaxing, the end goal of the session or series of meetings is not relaxation.

Therapeutic goals can vary considerably between massage therapists and clients. In some cases, a health professional recommends massage. For example, someone attending physiotherapy for an injury might have a regular therapeutic massage to loosen muscles, improve muscle tone, and increase their flexibility. Likewise, therapeutic massage can be used to supplement wound care, cancer care, and a variety of other treatments.

People can use therapeutic massage as a standalone treatment. Some people, such as athletes, laborers or stressed out even office workers, receive regular therapeutic massage to keep themselves in good physical condition.

People of all ages can benefit from therapeutic massage when it performed by a competent and fully qualified remedial massage therapist. Massage is also suitable for people with disabilities, expecting mothers, and individuals in treatment for medical conditions, although some special precautions may need to be taken to protect the health of the client.

Basic therapeutic massage techniques derived from a variety of massage styles. Your massage therapist will tailor your massage techniques depending on your needs.

• Fee: 60 minutes … $110

Sports Massage Therapy

The application of specific massage techniques to an athlete with the purpose of enhancing the athlete’s preparation for, or recovery from, the physical demands of training or competition.

Sports Massage. Applied through specific pre-event, inter-event, post-event, and restorative/training massage techniques.

Our Members are professionally trained to treat athletes from grassroots to Olympic and professional levels.

We specialize in specific techniques for pre-event, inter event, post event, and restorative/training massage.

Skillfully applied sports massage can increase performance, decrease the potential for injury and assist the athletes “mental prep.”

• Fee: 60 minutes … $110

Myofascial Release

A form of soft tissue manipulation to decrease pain and restriction of motion, which involves relaxing contracted muscles, increasing circulation and lymphatic drainage, and stimulating the stretch reflex of muscles and overlying fascia.

People with pain from overuse, trauma, infectious agents, or inactivity, often respond well to this type of therapy. Myofascial release helps decrease the thickening of connective tissue and the resultant irritation and reflexive muscle tension.

Direct myofascial release (or deep tissue work) method works through engaging the myofascial tissue restrictive barrier; the tissue is loaded with a constant force until mass release occurs. Indirect release, on the other hand, involves a gentle stretch, with only a few grams of pressure, which allows the fascia to ‘unwind’ itself. The dysfunctional tissues are guided along the path of least resistance until free movement achieved.

• Fee: 60 minutes … $100

Hot Stone Massage

Wonderfully relaxing, de-stressing and soothing, and relieving of tight muscles. It involves the use of black basalt stones which warmed in hot water. It combines Swedish Massage and Shiatsu while the stones are placed on your body to offer deep, penetrating heat. This increases circulation decreases stress and relaxes the muscles.

• 30 minutes … $70
• 60 minutes … $120
• 90 minutes … $160

Deep Tissue Massage

Relieves tension in muscles and the connective tissue and is often recommended for individuals who experience consistent pain, are involved in a heavy physical activity (such as athletes), and people who have sustained a physical injury. The session is quite intense and requires lots of focus by the practitioner.

• 30 minutes … $60
• 60 minutes … $110
• 90 minutes …$160

Ashiatzu Oriental Bar Therapy

What is Ashiatsu Bar Therapy?

Ashiatsu means “foot pressure” in Japanese. Barefoot massage also has many other names depending on its country of origin. A fusion of several traditional forms of barefoot massage adapted to North American standards has been created and continues to evolve.

Ashiatsu is a type of massage therapy in which the practitioner balances themselves using parallel bars mounted above the table and massages the patient with her feet.

Strokes are compressive, broad, consistent and flowing; giving the sensation of being massaged by huge hands. Using the feet enables the therapist to deliver varying therapeutic levels of pressure, leaving tissues feeling invigorated, yet deeply relaxed. Excellent for deep tissue work.

Ashiatsu may have the following benefits:

• Stress reduction & relaxation – likely the most relaxing massage you’ll ever experience, while still being incredibly therapeutic
• Reducing tension & contracture of muscles & releasing knots – minimizes damage to healthy tissue which helps to reduce soreness that often follows a deep tissue massage
• Alleviating pain in both acute & chronic conditions – able to access problem areas & achieve releases that are harder to address with hands
• Improving circulation of blood & lymph – you’ll leave feeling invigorated & rejuvenated while relaxed at the same time
• Increasing overall health and well-being – Ashiatsu benefits mental health just as much as the physical body- leave feeling like you’ve just done a great yoga class or gone to the spa

Fees

• 60 minutes … $120
• 90 minutes … $160

Thai Massage

Thai Massage is an ancient, healing therapy with a 2000-year lineage. Performed on a large floor mat while the client wears comfortable, stretchy clothes. No oils or lotions used. Our skilled practitioners move in tandem with the patient to apply passive or dynamic yoga style stretching and compression implemented in a meditative rocking motion. This healing modality was born in Thailand and is flourishing here in the west. These ancient, healing techniques enhance mindful breathing which encourages relaxation.

This therapeutic style of massage performed in a passive, dynamic or active application on a comfortable floor mat or massage table.

Fees:

• 60 minutes … $120
• 90 minutes …$160

Essential Oils Aromatherapy Massage

A blend of using massage techniques, with a combination of essential oils, that have specifically selected for a condition. It makes use of some different parts of a plant, flower, tree as well as fruit, by extracting the natural fragrance and making use of the oil extracted for a health problem.

Fees:

• 60 minutes … $100
• 90 minutes …$150

Prenatal Massage

Massage therapy specifically tailored for the expectant mother who needs to position for maximal comfort and safety. This massage also helps to reduce stress, decrease swelling in all extremities and relieve muscle and joint pain.

Fees:

• 30 minutes … $60
• 60 minutes … $100
• 90 minutes … $130

Infant Massage

Massage for infants involving rubbing stimulation to enhance physical and cognitive development, which helps infants gain weight, decrease irritability, and crying and improve sleep. Instruction to parents is also available by our experienced massage therapists.

Fees:

• 30 minutes … $60

All prices with GST included.