Massage and Bodywork
These are the different types of Massage and Bodywork options that we currently offer here at Body Mind Spirit Alignment. From relaxation to deep tissue, pregnancy to customizable therapeutic, we specialize in many different expressions of massage and bodywork.
Relaxation Massage
Enjoy a soothing and deeply nurturing full-body massage given with a healing and attuned touch to gently alleviate physical tensions and mental stress carried in your body, improve the circulation of fluids and energy, and help calm, refresh and reenergize your body and mind.
* A combination of Swedish massage and Soul Alignment.
Deep Tissue Massage
Experience a therapeutic full-body massage provided with a deep yet slow and non-invasive touch that allows tensions and resistances in your tissues to be released from the inside out, so as to be most effective while still being enjoyable and allowing your body and mind to integrate the work more quickly and profoundly, creating longer-lasting results.
* May also include Myofascial Release and Neuromuscular Therapy.
Circulatory Massage
A classic full-body massage that enhances proper blood flow, provides relaxation to the different muscles of your body, and helps relieve stress, thus improving your overall health.
Craniosacral Therapy
The craniosacral system is composed of the bones (cranium, spine and sacrum), sutures, ligaments and cartilage, membranes and fluid that surround and protect the central nervous system, which itself consists of the brain and spinal cord from where all the nerves in the body come from. Craniosacral therapy is a system of very light and gentle touch designed to free it from restrictions, and balance and enhance its functioning. This is a whole-body approach that helps restore your craniosacral rhythm, support your nervous system, relieve pain and release physical, mental and emotional stress and tension, and enhance your ability to heal and best function.
Pregnancy Massage
This treatment is for women in their second and third trimester. It is customized to gently alleviate discomforts you may feel in your body, while being deeply nurturing and replenishing for you and your baby so you can both best enjoy this most precious time or your life.
Note: Lymphatic Drainage can also be a good choice for pregnant woman who experience discomfort due to swelling.
Be advised: Massage is contraindicated for pregnant women in their first trimester.
Abdominal Massage & Visceral Manipulation
Safe and gentle massage and soul alignment helping to:
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Release tensions in the abdominal wall, diaphragm and core muscles, and address low back pain.
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Flush out the lymph nodes and detoxify, and increase the circulation of blood and nutrients in the belly.
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Release adhesions in the abdomen. This may alleviate discomfort, long-term bloating, cramping and chronic pain; support the functions of the digestive tract (digestion, assimilation and elimination), reproductive and urinary system; and balance hormones as needed.
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Better access the energetic core (i.e., the center of clear conscience and intuition) and its internal healing abilities, improve abdominal breathing and facilitate the flow of oxygen and energy throughout the entire body.
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Moreover, as 90% of muscular problems have visceral components related to it, it may also help address other dysfunctions throughout the body.
Note: This treatment is done at your body’s inherent pace and core’s ability to unfold and pain medication should not be used for the duration of this treatment.
Contraindications: Infections – both contagious and non-contagious, recent operations and acute injuries.
Lymphatic Drainage
This treatment works through a very light and nurturing skin-deep pressure that is proven to promote 8 to 10 times or more, faster lymph circulation. It drains excess fluids (also known as water retention or edema) which helps strengthen your health by flushing out toxins and supporting your immune system in fighting foreign invaders, like bacterial and viral infections. As a result, it noticeably reduces swelling and inflammation, which improves physical ease and wellbeing; it promotes faster recovery time from operations and injuries; it reduces acne breakouts, cellulite and stretch marks, restoring healthy skin… and overall rejuvenates your body.
Be advised Note: This treatment is contraindicated for people with systemic infection.
Neuromuscular Therapy
This therapeutic treatment specifically focuses on finding and releasing embedded trigger points associated with acute and/or chronic pains, tensions, and/or numbness wherever it is experienced in your body, whether they may be caused by accidents (for instance, whiplash), injuries, falls, surgeries, misuse of the body, repetition of movements and/or traumas and stresses of all kinds and no matter how recent or long ago these events may have occurred.
* Includes Deep Tissue Massage and may also include Myofascial Release
Reflexology (Foot Massage)
Reflexology works with the reflex zones of your feet relating to the different areas of your body in its entirety - i.e., not only externally in the skeletomuscular and neuromuscular system, but also in the internal organs and glands.
It works mechanically by massaging these reflex zones and very effectively releasing accumulated stress and tensions in the related area of your body, thus promoting greater flow of circulation and energy, which in turn helps improve your overall health and wellbeing.
Note: Reflexology is highly beneficial and recommended, either as an addition to another treatment or as a stand-alone treatment as part of a powerful health maintenance routine.
Myofascial Release
This therapeutic treatment restores suppleness and fluidity in your soft tissues surrounding and encompassing your skin, muscles, tendons, bones, and ligaments. It works at unwinding and decompressing tensions throughout your body, and finding and releasing their related adhesions that may be resulting from traumas and stresses of all kinds (accidents, injuries, falls, misuse of your body, repetition of movements, surgeries, infections, inflammation, etc.)
Depending on their causes, adhesions can form as thin or thick bands or sheets of inelastic scar tissue inside the body binding two surfaces together. If not addressed, their pulls on other areas of your body, in any given direction and at any depth, will overtime increasingly develop more adhesions in compensatory patterns causing more webs restrictions and potentially creating more tension and pain.
While this work is effective for relieving pain, it also produces long-term corrective and restorative benefits, improving flexibility, range of motion, posture, balance and mobility, which in turn will help prevent future injuries and/or better recover from them. It also creates a healthier environment allowing for better circulation of fluids and energy, thus supporting your body’s self-healing abilities.
Face and Scalp Massage
Depending on your preference(s), this customized treatment may help target one or several of the following goals.
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Clear, detox and rejuvenate your skin.
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Firm, sculpt and re-contour your face.
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Release tension and soften your overall countenance.
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Alleviate pressure in the head, eyes, jaw and neck; as needed, help address migraine and tension headaches; and improve mental clarity.
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Relieve stress, experience overall relaxation, and increase wellness.
* May include Lymphatic Drainage, Gua Cha, Swedish Massage, Myofacial Release, Neuromuscular Therapy, Acupressure, Craniosacral therapy, Face Reflexology and Energy Healing.
Note: Several sessions may be needed and maintenance routine may be taught and encouraged to practice at home at your preference and discretion.
Customized Therapeutic Massage
If you have any specific conditions in your body needing to be addressed and are not sure which treatment to choose, this is the treatment for you to book! While every modality in this menu of services is administered in a way to best meet your overall expectations, and best address your more specific goal(s) for the session, this treatment is primordially result-oriented. Combining different modalities as needed, it will be customized to target your priorities and give you the most immediate reliefs from any specific conditions in your physical body needing to be addressed.
Note: Your feedback will be required as the session unfolds in order to better know and understand how your body is responding.
Be advised: Other areas of the body may contribute to the issue and follow-up treatments may be needed to bring the work full-circle.
* This session may combine technics such as Circulatory and/or Deep Tissue Massage, Neuromuscular Therapy, Myofascial Release, Structural Integration, Craniosacral Therapy, Structural and Postural Analysis, Energy Healing and exceptionally, Lymphatic Drainage.