What if an hour focused on your body could make a difference to your entire week?
By calming the nervous system and supporting the lymphatic system through skilled touch, your body and mind can deeply relax, allowing your muscles to soften, your immune system to experience a boost, and to feel more ease in your days.
And by receiving compassionate touch from a therapist who actively listens to your concerns, you can feel supported and comforted in your stress, anxiety, depression, and physical pain.
If you are looking for pain relief and stress reduction achieved with intentional, thoughtful, and effective touch, you have arrived at the right place.
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
– Walt Whitman
Techniques and Styles Offered
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Therapeutic Massage
Therapeutic massage sessions are tailored to the client’s individual concerns and goals, usually addressing acute and/or chronic aches and pain. A combination of modalities are used to address the client’s issues. Sessions help to calm the nervous system, relieve muscle pain and tension, increase mobility and flexibility, manage stress, and quiet the mind.
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Swedish Massage
Also known as relaxation massage, Swedish massage helps to decrease anxiety, increase focus, ease muscle tension, and manage stress. Strokes are long and flowing and encourage a calming of the nervous system. It is a great way to turn off the “fight or flight” mode. Swedish massage is perfect for restoring calm and balance to your body and mind.
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Oncology Massage
Oncology massage sessions provide gentle work with a focus on relaxation. Adjustments create a safe session for individuals newly diagnosed, in treatment, or in remission. Studies suggest it helps manage the stress of chemo, radiation, and surgery and provides relief from side effects including insomnia, nausea, fatigue, neuropathy, muscle aches, and more.
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Hospice Massage
Hospice massage provides gentle, appropriate and safe hands-on sessions for those in transition. It improves the client’s quality of life by increasing overall relaxation. It can help decrease anxiety, agitation, pain and joint stiffness, which many hospice clients experience. The sessions are designed for the client at home or in facility.
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Manual Lymphatic Drainage
MLD uses slow, light, rhythmic, specialized strokes to help the body increase lymphatic circulation and decrease excess fluid and swelling. It is very gentle yet can be quite powerful. MLD has been found to improve symptoms of lymphedema, post-op surgical swelling, lyme disease, arthritis, migraines, and fibromyalgia.
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Reiki
Traditional Usui Reiki is an ancient, gentle, hands-on healing art that helps you feel better and heal better. It can be used to facilitate deep relaxation, relieve pain, and promote healing and personal growth. It stimulates the body’s innate healing resources, encouraging a return to wellness. It is a very gentle modality that can have powerful effects.
Session Rates
All session rates are based upon session time and not the type or style of massage or bodywork. The types and styles are integrated into the session based on the client’s needs and preferences.
45 minutes $75 | 60 minutes $90
90 minutes $120 | 120 minutes $150
Tips not accepted
Mobile massage (homebound, hospice and VTHG clients & their caregivers only): contact for details
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Acton, Ashburnham, Ashby, Ayer, Bolton, Clinton, Concord, Devens, Fitchburg, Groton, Harvard, Lancaster, Littleton, Leominster, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Shirley, Sterling, Townsend, Westford, Westminster. Towns outside of service area may incur additional fees depending on distance. Mobile massage available to homebound, hospice, and VTHG clients and caregivers only. Contact me for details and to schedule.
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Adjusted Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Cancer Support Center sliding scale applied- contact me for details and to schedule
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That's right... no gratuities are accepted. Why? I consider the session I've provided to be a part of your health and wellness care.