MASSAGE AND MODALITIES

A session at Healing Forest Massage offers a combination of massage styles and additional healing modalities. I cater each treatment to a client’s preferences, goals, readiness, and needs. The massage styles, tools, and technologies we can incorporate include:

Sports Massage

Sports massage takes aim at the stress and tension that builds up in the soft muscle tissues of the body as a result of exercise. Its benefits include increased endurance, improved performance, flexibility and a greater range of motion. It can reduce the chance of injury and support faster recovery.

Deep Tissue

This style of massage uses firm pressure and long, slow strokes to reach deep layers of muscle and fascia. I use my thumbs, palms, elbows, knees and feet to give broad, deep pressure.

Thai Massage

In this full body treatment, I often use my knees and feet to create deeper pressure and cover large surface areas and multiple muscle groups simultaneously. The focus is on the most well-used muscles such as the upper traps, the glutes, and hamstrings. We move together in a deeply relaxing yogic practice that relieves tension and promotes flexibility and range-of-motion.

Swedish

This traditional style promotes relaxation, blending long strokes with both deep circular and passive joint movements. It is the most purely relaxing of all the techniques I offer.

Abdominal

This gentle practice reduces tension and releases stored emotions and blocks. It relaxes abdominal muscles, increases respiration, and supports healthy digestion. 

Cupping

This ancient therapy uses suction cups to increase circulation and reduce pain. It loosens muscles that feel especially “tight” by softening the fascia around them. Note that this technique may cause bruising that may last up to two weeks after treatment. 

Lifewave Patches

The Lifewave phototherapy patches elevate and activate your body’s own stem cells by reflecting the infrared light we naturally emit back into the body. They can be used to rapidly reduce pain, ease inflammation, support recovery and promote relaxation.

Healy

The Healy Bioresonance device measures the frequencies of the energy wavelengths we emit from our cells and then uses micro current stimulation to bring these frequencies into a balanced and healthy range. It can be used to target physical ailments like chronic pain and migraines, but is also effective in managing depression, anxiety, and mental distress.

Bemer

This performance-enhancing device sends a low intensity pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) into the body in order to safely stimulate and temporarily increase blood flow to healthy muscles. Benefits include oxygenation, increased strength, conditioning and recovery, a boost in vitality, energy and endurance, and stress reduction and relaxation.

With these tools, healing may focus on relieving physical dis-ease, on freeing the body from pain, and as we journey upwards to health and wholeness, we also may use the techniques of Healing Forest Massage to remove the stress, trauma, emotional blocks, and subconscious beliefs that limit our potential. If you are curious about any of these massage styles or additional healing modalities, please ask.

Cancellation Policy

All massages canceled within 24 hours are subject to a 50% service charge.