Mother Earth Massage offers therapeutic massage

for pain and stress reduction during pregnancy –  prenatal and after pregnancy – postnatal.  I also offer many energy techniques.

Specializing in Digestion, Fertility and Painless Menstruation,  Prenatal and Postnatal massage with a creative combination of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® and Carole Osbornee’s Prenatal and Perinatal Massage.

Mother Earth Massage also offers Kansa Wand Massage, Infant Massage Classes and Ananda Energy Healing, Craniosacral, Tuning Fork Therapy, Sound Bowl Meditation.

Additionally, I offer Gong Meditations, Kirtan, and Yoga Classes for Pregnancy, Body Alignment, Mood Management and Energy building and balancing Kundalini Yoga. More information can be found at Happy Harmony Yoga.

Massage therapy is not just a feel-good luxury item. There are many health benefits of massage therapy, with the biggest benefit as a natural method to reduce stress, which is now the underlying cause of 80-85% of all illnesses. Stress is estimated to cost U.S. businesses $200-$300 billion a year due to stress-related productivity costs. Imagine the cost to your own family and your health. Massage techniques reverse the negative effects of stress, repair damaged muscle tissue, and remove pain and stiffness throughout your body.

Some businesses who invested in their employees provide massage for their employees through gift certificates or insurance that pays for massage.  They then reap the benefits for employee retention and fewer sick and mental health days.

I believe the body/mind connection is an amazing gift. The body is able to correct almost all things wrong with it given a bit of extra help.  Many times, when receiving a massage, we think we know where the problem is, only to have a masseuse point out a place that our mind was completely unaware of.  I feel it is my job to find these imbalances, allowing the body/mind connection to focus on those problems and correct them.

I believe massage does not need to be painful to be effective.  During massage, I use Reiki and Prayer.  I believe my job is to help you with your body/mind connection to release the newly found problems as well as the known problems.  Together, we will work with a pain scale from one to ten, with seven being at the pleasure/pain point.  Our aim is to never go above a seven.  Instead, together, we will use energy and visualization to work through the process of letting go of the imbalances and knotty tissue, without the next day and second day pain that uninformed deep tissue massage may produce.

Through massage, I strive to help the body recognize where it needs to do its work instead of trying to force my will upon it.