Massage therapy has many more benefits than you may realize. What exactly are the benefits of receiving a massage or bodywork treatments? Useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can:

• Alleviate self-image and body issues.
• Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
• Improve the condition of the body’s largest organ—the skin.
• Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body’s natural defense system.
• Lessen depression and anxiety.
• Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller.
• Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
• Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
• Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
• Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
• Reduce post surgery adhesions and swelling.
• Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
• Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays.
• Relieve migraine pain.

If you think that massage can only affect the physical body, think again!

Bodywork/massage work on many deeper layers than just the physical to encourage the body's innate self healing mechanism. In a bodywork session there are different energy levels that can be affected. The physical body feels, and is positively affected by the touch it receives. The body is always searching for a state of balance or homeostasis. The physical body holds within its tissues a cellular memory of old patterns and emotional traumas. During a bodywork session, the emotional/spiritual bodies breathe, allowing more space for new energy levels to be reached, as a result trauma and old patterns can be released. With the use of different massage modalities and specialized energy work, an individual can release the old emotional and mental bruises as well and rebalance allowing a new pattern to emerge through which healing can occur body mind and spirit.