Kate has extensive experience and customizes each session to the needs of her client on that particular day. Your job is to communicate your needs and her job is to figure out what will work best to help you achieve your goals. Sessions tend to be a combination of the techniques listed below and you won’t believe how much we can get done in an hour!
Therapeutic & Wellness Massage
Calming, relaxing massage focused on promoting healthy breathing, releasing stored tension in the muscles, improving the circulation and range of motion and ultimately, over time, eliminating the body's "habit" of storing and manifesting stress as physical tension. This can also include effective rehabilitative therapy to help ease specific conditions such as chronic pain, sports injuries, tendinitis, TMJ syndrome, headaches, fibromyalgia, tennis/golf elbow, shin splints, musicians' injuries, and much more…
Belly Massage
Gentle massage of the abdomen does a world of good for your digestion, low back pain, menstrual cycle and cramps, elimination and much, much more. This work can be included in any session and once you have it, you won’t want a session without it.
Lymphatic Drainage
Manual lymphatic drainage dramatically reduces inflammation and swelling either locally or systemically while also bolstering your body's immune system. As the therapist moves the lymph, which is located just below the skin, the session is extremely relaxing and helps to clean out the whole lymphatic system which is your body's "recycling" system. This work is great for pre and post-surgery to help speed up recovery time and it's also the best therapy for an acute injury when other more direct techniques may not be appropriate. At the end of the massage you'll feel squeaky clean and highly refreshed. There's nothing quite like it.
Zero Balancing
Zero Balancing is a session all unto itself and it a sort of acupressure to the bones and it's received through clothing. Did you know that all of the muscles in the body attach to bones? Well they do! And when a "ZBer" applies gentle pressure to the bones all of the muscles and other structures that connect to them relax and ease.
It’s full-body, comprehensive, and very comfortable to receive – at the end of the session you'll feel calm, “worked on,” mentally sharp, and more at ease with the emotional and physical challenges that may come your way. When you receive a Zero Balancing your bones are attended to from head-to-toe and the benefit to the rest of your body, especially your nervous system, is a quieted mind, less musculoskeletal tension and pain, reduced anxiety and more joy.
This work has been around for more than 30 years and Kate is happy to be the first Certified Zero Balancer in Seattle and in the process of training others to do the work as well! |