Think of us as a library – we like it when you use your quiet voice. To respect other clients in the building and to maintain our atmosphere of quietude, we ask that you lower your voice, turn off your phone ringer, close our doors gently, and enjoy contributing to a peaceful environment for all for the duration of your visit.

This is a self care method that assists in managing chronic pain while leaving you feeling calm and relaxed. This method can be done on the floor with a mat, on a massage table, in a chair or on your own bed. In the treatment room you will be on the massage table and guided through movements.

Somatic exercise is gentle exercise focused on retraining the brain to better sense and control muscles, to boost mobility and reduce pain. Over time due to physical trauma, repetitive movements, or stress, your muscles can become stuck in a contracted or partially contracted state.

This is Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA).  You have forgotten how to move and sense your muscles. Your brain doesn’t even know you forgot!! A Hanna Somatic Exercise instructor will guide you through very slow, focused and conscious movements, reminding your nervous system how to release chronic muscle contraction. These movements are effective at relieving chronic aches and disabilities, such as:

* Headaches

* Painful joints and muscles

* Neck, shoulder and back pain

* Sciatica

* Hip, knee and foot pain

* Repetitive use injuries

* Poor posture

* Accident traumas and whiplash

* Breathing problems

* Frozen shoulder syndrome

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Otherwise known as “Champissage”, this service works on the physical and mental levels. This service is performed fully clothed and seated comfortably in a chair. Areas of focus are the back, shoulders, upper arms, neck, head and face as these areas are most vulnerable to stress and tension. Hair oil is optional at the end of the service.

Physical benefits include: Improved circulation, breakdown of fibrous adhesions, improved lymph circulation and promotion of hair growth.

Mental benefits include: a sense of calmness, peace & tranquility, lessening of anxiety, clearer thinking and less mental tiredness, edginess & depression.

Your Reflexology sessions will last anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. You’ll be taken into a treatment room, you won’t need to undress at all, you’ll be asked a few questions to get you comfortable and then your treatment will start. You’ll have your feet cleansed with lovely warm towels and examined to ensure there are no contraindications. You’ll then have Reflexology techniques used on your feet and you may be asked for consent for the reflexologist to perform some techniques on your lower legs and thigh over your clothes. If you have any questions or concerns please address them directly to your reflexologist.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a gentle non-invasive, hands-on session for the whole body. Performed on a massage table, the client is fully clothed and the practitioner touch is light and still. The session focus is to support the inherent health of the whole being, especially the nervous system (NS). The NS dictates all of the body’s functioning, constantly sending and receiving information.

BCST practitioners understand how an optimally functioning healthy nervous system performs. We are trained for years on how to use acute perception skills to perceive subtle physiological changes. We also are aware of the energetic map that underlies one‘s basic health and symptomology. We believe that health is never lost no matter what the ailment. We use our ability to identify the parts of the nervous system that are not functioning optimally and our awareness of the “always available health” in the body to assist the system in bringing itself back into balance. This supports greater ease and helps the body decrease symptoms.

source: www.craniosacraltherapy.org

Manual Osteopathic Therapy uses hands-on skills for investigation and treatment of body dysfunctions. The whole body is examined and mechanical disruptions are treated whether symptoms exist or not. Simply put, let’s say you have right shoulder pain – expect the Manual Osteopathic Therapist to examine the joint and soft tissue around the shoulder and also:

• Assess the pelvis, because if imbalanced will drop your shoulder and create a strain;
• Check the spinal column, because inflamed nerves can send pain to the shoulder;
• Palpate the liver and gall bladder, because dysfunction in those organs radiate pain to the right shoulder;
• Assess the fluid dynamics in and out of the shoulder, because congestion is linked with pain.

Imbalances found are gently treated with techniques that engage the dysfunctional tissue until function is normalized. Joints are mobilized by muscle-resisted techniques, soft-tissue is restored to healthier states. Fluids are released from congested areas and gently flushed in the direction of drainage. Changes are often felt immediately or shortly after the treatment.

-Information sourced from the Manual Osteopathic College of Canada