Offering a wide range of hands-on modalities for pain relief, health and performance.
SERVICES
Structural Intrgration - ROLF Method
Connective Tissue Therapy
Craniosacral Work
Thai Massage
Sports Massage for High Level Performance
Massage is highly effective for optimal performance in competitive sport.
One of the most important things for an athlete or recreational enthusiast is the recovery phase. Allowing the muscles to adequately recover and repair is almost as important as ripping them down and working out rigorously to prepare for an event.
A Sports Massage therapist working on muscle fibers will increase circulatory function and reduce soreness as well as dramatically improve recovery times; this will improve athletic performance over time. Another benefit for getting hands-on bodywork is to reduce nervous tension and pre-event stress.
Massage is proven to reduce stress and the less stress in the body, the less cortisol. Cortisol is the stress hormone and the more of it that is there, the more likely you are to retain fluids, hold on to adipose (fat) tissue and perform less than your ability.
Chronic stress is also knotted up in the muscle fibers and fascia of the body- patterns that take much needed energy from the metabolism and lock it away in fibrotic tangles. A deep tissue therapist can help you untie these energy vampires and provide the athlete with healthier tissue to perform at a higher level.
Deep Tissue Therapy
Deep Tissue therapy is a form of massage technique that addresses what are known as “triggerpoints.” Triggerpoints are elaborated upon in the field of neuromuscular therapy and are thought of as the culprits of referred pain problems.
Referred pain is when the source of the pain is not hurting, but a peripheral point (triggerpoint) is acting up and only seems to be the cause. Deep Tissue Massage is effective for hunting down these shadowy unknowns to relieve the symptoms and increase awareness and vitality in the body.
One of the interesting things that happens during a treatment with an experienced practitioner is that one becomes aware of knots and triggerpoints that they were previously unaware of. It is a welcome relief to receive energy back that was tied up in a stress pattern that you did not even know was there!
Working out a point of tension promotes vitality and creates a ground for increased health, better movement and even clarity of mind and thought.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy works with a phenomenon called “Primary Respiration,” the original matrix of nourishment that we were surrounded by as a baby in our mother’s womb.
Long before we had taken our first breath of air, our body was receiving oxygen and metabolic ignition from a complex, slow-tempo fluid exchange both inside the embryo and through the umbilical cord. Our nerves are the only cells in the body that we have throughout our entire life and when our nervous system develops before our birth, its functionality is imprinted with the experience of being in an aquatic environment.
The latest research is that we are 92% water so our original respiration rate, that of slow fluid exchange, never leaves our nervous system because it is the job of the nerves to transmit charges, exchange information and receive imprinting. The problem in our fast-paced, manic age of information is that our sensitive nerves get wound up so tight that our nerves rarely get an opportunity to relax into their original imprinted experience of slow, still movement and gradual metabolic/ fluid breathing.
When a craniosacral therapist works with primary respiration, the patient/client experiences deep states of relaxation as the nerves re-stabilize and are reminded of their generating, healing and growth capacities that are extremely powerful inside the womb. The self-regulating mechanisms of the body, mind and spirit have a chance to “boot up” and health is optimized in these gentle experiences.
The practitioner creates a therapeutic relationship with the client over time so that the client will be educated to self-regulate and maintain their increased ability to experience vitality, stillness and peace.
Cranial Osteopathy – Energy Medicine from New Renaissance
Cranial Osteopathy is becoming more popular as it continues to stay on the cutting edge of complementary medicine.
Also thought of as “energy medicine,” gentle cranial manipulations affecting the nervous system are validated again and again by those who have received the work as a profoundly effective way to reduce stress and thereby increase efficacy in many areas of life.
Cranial therapy works to soothe nerves and stimulate deeply relaxing experiences by addressing the fluidity in the body and the self-regulatory mechanism of the central nervous system. When the body and nervous system are “uptight” it creates a fertile ground for less than optimal health that can manifest in symptoms such as anxiety, depression, headaches and nervous tension.
The cranial concept aligns the nervous system with its original imprinting of health and vitality by releasing restrictions, renegotiating mild to severe trauma and generating coherence in the fluid motions within the central and peripheral nervous system. When the body is facilitated by a skilled practitioner to remember its original imprinting of relaxed health, profound changes happen in all aspects of life.
Thai Massage in Auckland
Traditional Thai Massage has some similarities to Japanese Shiatsu in that both are performed with the recipient fully clothed on a padded mat on the floor.
The practitioner of Thai yoga bodywork applies gentle joint mobilizations, rhythmic rocking, stretching and pressure point treatment to induce a deeply soothing effect on the client. Like Acupressure, a Traditional Thai treatment addresses the meridians- the energy lines that correspond to organ systems as mapped out and regulated in acupuncture.
As obstructions to these organ systems are cleared, vitality and mobility in the body is increased, stress is reduced and a fertile ground for health is created. In contemporary society most people are severely compromised in their ability to move creatively in their bodies so it is highly transformative to have someone mobilize your joints for you while you relax and surrender!
The body is designed to move and loves to relax as joints are bathed in synovial fluid, cerebrospinal fluid flows and blood is free to circulate beyond the limited patterns of what they are used to. A person leaving a treatment feels clear of chronic stress patterns and the mind is more spacious to accomplish what needs to get done in a relaxed and easeful way!
New Renaissance Energy Healing
Energy healing or energy medicine is often thought of as quackery or new age nonsense.
The latest research, however, proves that there is some truth amidst many of these claims and that styles such as Reiki, Polarity Therapy, and Jin Shin Jitsu have a soothing effect on the nerves and can provide a much-needed stress relief in a contemporary life filled with surges of adrenaline and never-ending lists of things to do.
Many people have sought alternative healing methods after getting very little result with mainstream medicine by itself and have found being attended to by a healer who puts compassion in action was what their dis-ease had been longing for in the first place.
It is stunning how many illnesses have a psychosomatic component, i.e. psychological/spiritual aspect and the demand for faith healers, angel blessings and any number of spiritual readings, bodywork and massage has steadily increased over the years as compassionate care and attention seems to be less and less available in hospitals.
It might be true that someone waving a crystal at you and chanting some foreign language is not your cup of tea, but modern medicine proves with a very real and measureable result: the placebo effect works. If you believe it will happen, it is more likely to happen.
Perhaps the efficacy of Energy healing will always be mysterious and hard to prove quantitatively, but there is something ancient that can happen when the right healer places their hands on you while you open to the mystery and trust.
Service Categories
Craniosacral Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage, Swedish Relaxation Massage, Thai Massage
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