Each massage session is uniquely personalized using techniques and pressure appropriate to your needs and preferences, so that you can let go of the tensions of your day, and your body, mind, and spirit can relax into a place of comfort and ease. 

      Whatever type of massage you choose, you will get a peaceful room, candles, and soothing music.  If you find heat relaxing, your massage may include cozy blankets, a heated massage table, a heating pad, and some hot stones.

     Your massage will probably include many "styles" of massage all mixed together, depending on what we want to accomplish in each area.  I will almost certainly draw on Swedish and deep tissue in every massage.  Other styles might crop up too: sports, neuromuscular, Reiki, trigger point, orthopedic assessment, assisted stretching, rocking, etc. I'm more concerned with using whatever tools I have to accomplish your goals than with what we call the work.  If a particular style is important to you, please discuss it with me. 

     Before your massage, I will ask you to fill out a brief health history and together we will determine what areas you would like to have focused on — those may be areas that hold tension or discomfort for you, something you particularly like, or a combination. 

     I will then leave the room and ask that you undress to whatever level you are comfortable with: for some people, this is naked; for others, underwear; for others, almost fully-clothed. You will then get under a sheet and I will knock on the door before entering. 

     Together we will spend a few minutes determining what massage pressure feels best to your body and then you will be free to drift into a relaxed state, knowing that at anytime you are welcome to request a change in pressure or area, more heat or air-conditioning, a blanket or extra pillow, etc.  As the massage progresses, each area that we have decided to work with will get individually undraped, massaged, and then re-draped, so that you feel warm and secure.