Using slow, gliding strokes and gentle kneading, Swedish massage encourages your whole system to soften and unwind as you parasympathetic nervous system activates, inviting deep rest and release. It promotes relaxation, increases circulation, and helps oxygenate the muscles. This style of massage is ideal if you’re seeking relaxation, relief from stress-related muscle tension, or a way to reconnect with your body in a calm, supportive setting. A whole body massage with some focused time on specific areas would require a 90 minute massage.

Scar tissue is an amazing glue creating stability and structure, it is so good at these offerings that it can cause a decrease range of motion and muscle flexibility around the effected muscle layers. Whether from surgery or an injury it can be beneficial to support your healing with continuous massage within the first two years (after the first four weeks of healing) to decrease the growing tension patterning, though it can be beneficial at anytime to have work done around a scar of any age if you are feeling tension and decreased range of motion because of it. This therapy can be incorporated into a therapeutic massage.

This relaxing, gentle, and supportive massage will be tailored to any phase of pregnancy. Massage can help to improve circulation, lower blood pressure, support over all well being, as well as to help relieve backaches, leg pain, and other discomforts that arise in the pregnant body. This is a space and time to give your body rest and allow someone else to help support you. n