Jessica’s healing work will blow you away. People often describe a feeling of lightness after her sessions. She bases her work on the philosophy that the human body, mind, spirit complex wants to be in a state of balance. Her work will unlock your body’s natural capacity for healing.
She can base an entire session on any one of the following modalities or integrate them into an intuitive session suited to your needs.
Integrative Massage
Jessica’s massage technique is born from a fusion of everything that she knows about the human body, from her childhood as an athlete, healing her own injuries to the years of studies of both the physical and energetic systems of the body. From her background with qigong and meditation, she drops into a place of stillness to deeply listen to what your body is asking for. The result is a healing session that is different every time, infused with dynamic movements that fuse opposites, general and specific, movement and stillness, lightness and depth in a playful dance with your body. You will leave her treatment room feeling more fully at home in yourself, balanced, and relaxed, more present, and free of aches and pains.
Shiatsu
Shiatsu bridges the gap between bodywork and energy work. Based in Traditional Chinese Medicine, just like acupuncture, Shiatsu is an Asian bodywork modality that utilizes acupressure along the meridian lines, or lines of energy flow in the body, to clear congestion and invigorate depleted areas. Balancing the meridians unleashes your body’s innate power to heal itself from any number of issues, be they physical, mental, emotional, or even spiritual.
Traditionally performed on a padded floor mat, you remain fully clothed, which allows for the use of joint mobilization, range-of-motion, and big stretches. You should wear loose, comfortable clothes that allow for movement and stretching.
This modality provides an experience of the interconnectedness of the entire body and is a great substitute for deep tissue work. It is particularly useful for increasing mobility and flexibility, for calming an anxious mind, and for bringing everything back into balance.
Cranial Sacral
Cranial Sacral is often erroneously considered an energy modality, misunderstood as such because there is not a lot of gross (large-scale) physical sensation associated with it. Everyone can expect to feel waves of deep relaxation and a sense of calm and peace during the treatment that will permeate daily life, and even sleep, until normal stresses override its effects. And to those sensitive to subtler sensations, this light-touch modality will provide the opportunity to surf the energetic currents of the body until they harmonize into a smooth ebb and flow.
Cranial Sacral is particularly useful for treating headaches, TMJ, and whiplash.
For the scientifically-minded, read on to learn about the physiological basis of the work.
The Central Nervous System in the human body is comprised of the brain and the spinal cord, which is housed within a membrane called the dura mater. Within this closed system, the Cranial Sacral system, flows the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), secreted and pumped by the pituitary gland in the center of the brain. When this liquid flows freely, a person experiences health and vitality. The bones of the cranium are meant to flex with the ebbing and flowing of this fluid, kind of like the wings of a butterfly.
But through ongoing stress, postural misalignments or traumatic experiences, the dura mater can become pinched, like the rubber of a balloon, impinging the flow of the CSF, that vital fluid which ensures health and vitality.
Within a Cranial Sacral treatment, these impingements are gently encouraged to unwind, allowing the rhythms of the CSF and cranial bones to return to harmonic movement, bringing the body out of a state of activation (fight-or-flight) and into a state of relaxation (rest and digest).
Polarity Therapy
Polarity Therapy is a technique to balance the body’s biomagnetic fields. Utilizing the poles of the water molecule, which make up 60% of the human body, the flow of positive and negative molecules can be regulated, bringing about a greater state of ease and relaxation. The theory is that the flow and balance of energy in the human body is the foundation of good health.
Polarity therapy can be done through clothes or a sheet and involves light touch at various places on the body.
Lymph Massage
Most people are familiar with the lymph system because when they get sick, the lymph nodes in their neck become swollen and painful. But did you know that the Lymph system courses through your entire body? It moves cellular metabolic waste products for filtering by your internal organs. It is related to your immediate health, keeping muscles and tissues of your body healthy, as well as the overall state of your health.
Getting this system of your body treated will help you realize deep levels of relaxation, will help you heal more quickly, and keep you healthy over the long-term.
Chakra Balancing
Chakras are spinning vortices of energy that correspond to nerve plexuses in the human body. Different traditions find differing numbers of chakras, but all agree on a foundational seven, each of which corresponds to different physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual functions. When the chakras are out of balance, a person may experience a general feeling of unease, anxiety, cloudy thinking or the inability to communicate.
A hands-off modality, balancing the chakras can bring you into a feeling of relaxation and greater ease in the body. The level of physical sensation a client experiences is directly correlated to their energetic sensitivity.
Aura Cleansing
The human body is surrounded by energy fields called auras. They are the energetic layers that touch and communicate with the world around us. Your aura can become cloudy due to negative thinking or invaded from some external influence (think energetic pathogens).
Aura cleansing is a hands-off modality designed to rid your aura of negative influences, returning you to a state of physical ease, mental clarity, emotional relaxation, and spiritual peace.