Bodywork
My approach is to combine everything in my tool-belt to provide what a body needs at that time. Each session is individualized to work with each client’s needs, based on my belief in the importance of approaching a body as a whole being in the present moment, rather than ascribing to the pre-determined format of a particular discipline. My work blends massage, visceral manipulation, myofascial release, Shiatsu and Evolutionary CranioSacral Therapy.
Pregnancy
Massage therapy can be an added support during child-bearing years. This period can be one of dramatic structural, physiological, psychological, spiritual and social change. Massage can provide a variety of benefits during this time of change and challenges, including decreased back pain, fewer complications in labor, decreased stress hormone levels, increased & better quality of sleep, accelerated healing after delivery, support of lymphatic circulation.
Canine
Petting animals is great, but massage therapy for animals goes beyond petting. It is an intention-filled form of therapy for muscles that are not being used regularly or are being overly used. Benefits to animals are very similar to those experienced in humans, including stimulating the lymphatic system, opening blood vessels to circulate blood and increase oxygen to muscles, removing toxins from tissues. For animals that have experienced abuse, trauma or other causes of aggressiveness or nervousness, massage can increase trust and ease transitions from shelters to homes.
Mission
To provide an opportunity for people and animals to access their evolving physical body and spirit.
Mammal Bodywork draws from a variety of massage and energy therapies to provide an opportunity for people and animals to access their evolving physical body and spirit.