About Me

My approach to bodywork is to help the client become more aware of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual "self" through touch. The style of bodywork I practice incorporates CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY, DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE, MYOFASCIAL RELEASE along with breath, energy and intuitive work. I create a healing space-- a space where you will feel safe, become present with your breath and your body and begin to deeply relax. Through awareness, touch and movement, I will assist your transition from tension and pain toward balance and fluidity allowing you to become "one peace" again.

Massage therapy is relaxing, and it certainly feels good. Massage increases blood supply, oxygen, and nutrition to muscles, tissue, joints, and the vital organs, and improves circulation. This helps muscles to recover more quickly from exertion and fatigue, and helps to relieve the pain associated with muscle tension, fractures, sprains, sciatica, and stiff joints.

Massage therapy aids in the relief of muscle spasms and cramping, promotes a greater range of motion in joints and keeps ligaments and tendons supple. It lowers blood pressure and heart rate and reduces stress, anxiety, and depression. A massage is often recommended as part of a regular program for stress management.

CranioSacral Therapy, developed by Dr. John Upledger, is a gentle hands-on therapy that helps your body release restrictions and blockages that interrupt its ability to repair and balance itself and to maintain healthy function. Our bodies know how to be healthy and in balance but daily stresses, injuries, disease and emotional trauma can all accumulate and overwhelm that ability. Over time this decreases your resources and your body becomes less able to deal with stress as it occurs. CranioSacral Therapy assists the body in releasing those accumulated traumas so that the body’s ability to repair and balance itself is restored.

Your CranioSacral system is made up of the bones of your head and sacrum, and the membranes which attach to those bones and surround your brain and spinal cord. The membrane system creates a water tight boundary which forms the inner lining of your skull and then travels the length of your spine, attaching to the 2nd and 3rd cervical vertebrae and your sacrum and coccyx. It contains the CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF), which bathes, protects and brings nutrients to and waste products away from your Central Nervous System. The membrane also surrounds each individual nerve as it exits the spinal cord. Tightness or restrictions in this membrane system can have immediate impact on the functioning of your Central Nervous System and the overall health of your body.

Another important component to your general health and well being is your body’s fascial system. Fascia is connective tissue, underneath the skin, that connects every part of the body. It forms the ligaments that protect your joints and support your organs. It surrounds each individual muscle fiber and group where they attach to your skeletal system and also forms the outer covering of your bones. If we keep in mind that this system is all one piece, we can see just how connected we are, from top to bottom and inside to outside. The Dural membrane system which surrounds the Brain and Spinal Cord is also part of the fascial system. Restrictions of fascia anywhere in the body can therefore have a direct effect on the Central Nervous System

The CranioSacral system is a physiological system just like your respiratory and circulatory systems. Like those systems, it produces a rhythm that can be felt anywhere on the body. The rhythm is produced by an increase and decrease in fluid volume of CSF within the membrane system. Using light touch, therapists are able to palpate the rhythm, feel for restrictions in the fascia and assist the body in releasing them. Due to the connectedness of fascia, the root cause of symptoms may be coming from anywhere in the body. An old ankle injury could be causing an imbalance in the pelvis, leading to low back pain or headaches. Adhesions from past surgery could pull your shoulder or neck out of balance

Emotions can also have an impact on the body’s ability to process or resolve trauma. We all recognize emotions as a much needed part of life and our natural ability to express ourselves gives us flexibility in our decisions and relationships. Sometimes we choose not to express ourselves. There might be a concern for our own safety, or an emotion may be so overwhelming that we can barely feel it, so expressing it is impossible at the time. In that situation we may choose to hold on to the emotion or feeling until the right time presents itself. Over time, much like a build up of physical restrictions, a build up of emotions can manifest as physical or emotional limitations. Chronic headaches, TMJ Dysfunction and depression are some of the more common complaints that may have an emotional cause. A CranioSacral Therapist treats the person as a whole and works with the body’s ability to repair itself on all levels.

CranioSacral Therapy works with your body’s own ability to repair injury, release both physical and emotional trauma and maintain optimum health. By addressing the root causes of dysfunction, it offers more than just symptomatic relief. Because CranioSacral Therapy works directly with the Central Nervous System, it can benefit many conditions. It has been very effective in helping:

    All types of chronic pain
    Stress related conditions
    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
    Back and Neck pain
    Headaches and Migraines
    Depression/Anxiety
    Myofascial pain/Chronic fatigue
    TMJ Dysfunction
    Immune System deficiency
    Vertigo

We each have our own innate ability to heal ourselves. I empower my clients to take charge of their own health and well-being and feel blessed to be a facilitator in that process. I am warm, compassionate, nurturing, and centered.