There is no “standard massage” at Deep Peace Bodyworks.  I always customize your massage based on what you request, your health history, and what I find in your tissue once I get started.  Some clients want a relaxing full-body massage, some want extra attention to one or several areas, and some want very focused work on particular sore muscles, knots, or old injuries.  I am grateful for this variety in my practice.  I look forward to finding out just what sort of massage you want, and collaborating with you to provide a deeply satisfying massage experience.

I am trained and experienced in a variety of modalities of massage.  Your customized massage is likely to include several of these:

Swedish Massage, a full-body massage which relaxes and rejuvenates through relatively light gliding and kneading strokes, and friction, vibration, percussion, and passive stretching.

Holistic Massage, which integrates body, mind and spirit through presence, intention, connection, and long, slow, flowing strokes.  Holistic massage involves intuition more than technique, and spontaneity more than agenda.

Deep Tissue Massage, which is slower, deeper, and more focused than Swedish massage.  It provides the benefits of massage to muscles that are less-readily accessible, such as those under the shoulder blade, and to the deeper parts of large muscles.

Sports Massage, which speeds up post-event recovery and reduces delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) after intense training or competition.

Trigger Point Therapy, which reduces or eliminates small areas of over-stress within individual muscles.  Left untreated, these trigger points can cause dysfunction over a wide area.

Cross-Fiber Frictioning, which restores muscles, tendons, and ligaments that have been compromised by tearing or over-stretching.

Massage has many benefits:

Physiological benefits, in the areas worked on

• Relaxes tight muscles.
• Lengthens tendons, which improves flexibility.
• Reduces swelling.
• Warms the skin.
• Provides short-term pain relief by crowding out pain impulses.
• Releases myofascial tension.
• Breaks down adhesions in old injuries.

Systemic benefits, throughout the whole body

• Improves circulation, which enhances energy level, nutrient supply, and healing of minor wounds and infections.
• Moves metabolic wastes from the cells into the lymph system.

Psychological benefits

• Promotes an overall sense of well-being.
• Satisfies skin hunger.

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