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EXPERIENCE & APPROACH
I bring 40+ years of experience to my therapeutic massage/bodywork practice and am fascinated by the new insights and techniques I am researching. One unique aspect of my work is the embodied education piece. I lead my clients through their bodies as I employ the manual techniques — to engage their nervous and cellular systems in the process. Using embodied anatomical images (from my research and ongoing study with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen for almost 40 years), I am helping clients focus on breath, sensation, and weight as they imagine and feel an internal sense of their anatomy. With this approach, clients feel that the work goes deeper and is long-lasting. I adapt to who my client is to make them comfortable. I have worked with people with various backgrounds and conditions, including teens and children. I incorporate 4 decades of knowledge and experience in dance, yoga, expressive arts, and healing arts into my bodywork sessions.
TECHNIQUES
Swedish massage
Deep tissue
Sports massage
Car accidents (Whiplash, Back Injury, etc.) May be paid by insurance: Inquiry
Craniosacral Therapy
Trigger Point
Abdominal Massage
Prenatal Massage
Supported stretching
Emotional process (trauma) bodywork
Energy/Chakra work
EFT Tapping Health & Body Coaching
TRAINING
My certification with Toshiko Phipps, who was on the Japanese Olympic Ski team and then the massage therapist for it in the 1960's, at the Nippon Shiatsu Daigaku included Western and Eastern sports massage techniques, trigger points, Shiatsu, and vibrational work. I have also studied Body-Mind Centering® with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Sara White, and others since 1987. In 1993, I was certified in Bodywork by the Nippon Shiatsu Daigaku and nationally certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB). In addition, I have training in emotional, coaching, and somatic therapeutic techniques including: EFT (Tapping), Co-Counseling, Inner Bonding®, Generative Leadership/Ontological Coaching, and more. Please see Biography.
BENEFITS
Integrative Bodywork facilitates structural and neuromuscular re-patterning, relaxation, and overall healing. I have effectively worked with a variety of conditions, in conjunction with a client's medical professionals. If you have a specific injury, chronic pain, or alignment challenge, I address your specific needs and health goals. This work nourishes the body. Injuries, low energy, imbalances, and uncenteredness are transformed. Body mechanics, exercise, functional movement, and alignment can be addressed.
Receiving is itself a set of skills — practices of feeling sensation, slowing of the breath, and releasing to gravity. These skills, and the processes that emerge from them, contribute to neurological and physiological awakening in the tissue in conjunction with what I am doing. We each become co-creators of your healing. You find greater alignment, radiance, tone, relaxation, depth, aliveness, and transformation!
If you need to cancel or reschedule, please do so with 2 or more days notice. The full session price is charged for cancellations made with less than 24 hours notice for weekday sessions and with less than 48 hours for weekend sessions.