Intuitive bodywork

Service Description

This is my favorite approach to bodywork because I can adjust all my knowledge and techniques to your individual needs at a given moment. Alive and everchanging, your body has particular symptoms that need to be addressed at a given time. Sometimes it's about ease and flow, restoring fluidity and motion in some tissues, sometimes it's working deep into muscle knots, sometimes it's about gentle and relaxing strokes. I think anyone benefits more from a full-body massage, in which all the important areas of the body receive care and attention. In my opinion, working only on a small area of the body for tension release doesn't take into account the fascial tensegrity of the body and the way tension might loosen up in one area only to tighten somewhere else. Therefore, I'd rather work on the body as a whole system, assessing and adjusting the manual therapy according to each unique tension pattern. My multi-disciplinary training is of great use for any client of mine that wants to understand how their bodies store daily, repetitive movements or how important life events have been inscribed in the tissues. What happens in a session: We have a short conversation and assessment in the beginning during which I map out your therapeutic needs and the symptoms you deal with at the moment. You fill in a short form that represents my guideline for the session in regards of areas that need care, intensity of touch you want, specific therapeutic accessories to include and other environmental requirements I should take into account (music, scent, ambient etc). We proceed to a short opening ceremony that is meant to focus us both on the therapeutic aspects of the session, attuning to each other and to your body, easing the mind into a receptive state of sharp yet relaxed proprioception. According to our agreed plan, I proceed working on your tissues, receiving real-time feedback from you and sharing my intuitive insights while in connection to your body. The session ends with a short meditation of return to full active consciousness, a closing assessment of the therapy and a intuitive message of good bye. This service can take place at a massage therapy location I am partnered with, or at the residence of the client (for an extra fee). Invoice and payment will be discussed after booking and agreeing on a location.