Services

  | Manual Therapy | Painless Acupressure | Posture and Gait | Cupping and Guasha | Hypnotherapy | 
| ​Chinese Nutrition | Facial Acupuncture |

Manual Therapy

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Cups on the upper back for upper back pain.
​The techniques that I do are all gentle yet work very deeply in the body as they are meant to engage the deepest of the layers of connective tissue, the fascia, as well as the deep muscles, the ones that initiate movements, as well as the larger muscles that we are used to seeing. The names of the techniques in my toolset include tuina, yin tuina, So Tai, gentle myofascial release consisting of stretches and following your body’s movement, craniosacral therapy which is also gentle stretches and holds but with feeling a rhythm of the cranial system, lymph drainage therapy which enhances fluid movement and maps it’s direction, and more…

Needle-free and Painless Acupuncture and Acupressure

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Cups on the upper back for upper back pain.
Acupuncture point stimulation is done with a silver tool called a teishin,  or with finger tips. Neither penetrate through the skin. The teishin is a lighter stimulation and works on the points more energetically than the gentle pressure of the fingers. 

Posture and Gait Analysis

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Cups on the upper back for upper back pain.
I analyze your standing posture and your walk. Then I discuss with you how your posture and walk can be affecting your pains and vice versa. 

Cupping Therapy and Gua Sha

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Cups on the upper back for upper back pain.
Cupping uses suction to stimulate the an area or they are moved providing a type of skin rolling massage. This technique as well as one called Gua Sha which is scraping of the skin causes painless discolorations as the fluids that are trapped in the tissue are drawn to the surface to be reabsorbed over a greater surface area. This helps eliminate pain and stiffness.

Hypnotherapy, Guided Visualizations, and Qi Gong

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Cups on the upper back for upper back pain.
People are amazing, you are amazing, you heal, you breathe, you think, you learn, you guide. My mission is to get you to do these around healing yourself. This with nutrition is your homework to guide your immune system to your health. 
Patients ask what makes the styles of bodywork that I do different than massage.

The sponge metaphor
​Firstly, a great massage is awesome! We are all feeling good and feel pleasantly relaxed, I dont know about you, but I drool, and I feel good like a rung out sponge afterwards. Yet after a short period of time we notice that the same stressors activate the same postures and it is time for another massage. So we can feel gently rung out again. Perfect!

Now if a massage is gently wringing us out like a sponge. My goal is simple, I want to change the characteristics of the sponge,like its absorbancy, (how you deal with stress on mental level), and it's structure like its cell size (Physically getting you to release adhesions and to be able to move better.)

​They both work hand in hand together.