Joyful Body Massage

+ Joyful Body Signature Massage

I meet you where you’re at when you arrive. How are you? Does anything hurt or feel stiff? How do you want to feel when you get off the massage table? Do you have an energetic intention for your time today?

A combination of all my techniques. Grounded and loving. My hands are sensitive, and kind. My intuition is wise.

+ Deep Tissue Massage

Deep tissue massage involves applying firm pressure and slow strokes to reach deeper layers of muscle and fascia.

If you have chronic aches and pain or contracted areas such as a stiff neck and upper back, low back pain, leg muscle tightness, or sore shoulders and hips, deep tissue massage can provide lasting relief.

+ Relaxation Massage

Let yourself be nurtured. De-stress, calm and relax the body and the mind.

Soothing long strokes, craniosacral holds, maybe some reflexology and aromatherapy. Massage causes your brain to release the feel-good hormones oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin, while reducing stress hormones, such as cortisol.

+ Sports Massage

Living in the Kootenays and working at the legendary Baldface Lodge and Mountain Trek Fitness Retreat & Health Spa, most of my professional massage career has been devoted to sports massage.

Therapeutic sports massage focuses on treating soft tissue aches, pain and injuries that are associated with recreational activities - improving performance and recovery, preventing injury and delayed onset muscle soreness.

So whether you hit the slopes or the trails - land on my massage table to stay in top form!

+ Reflexology

Reflexology is the art of applying pressure to specific areas of the feet that relate to your body’s energetic pathways or meridians. Stimulating the meridians helps improve the flow of ‘qi’ or energy in your body, leading to better health and mental wellbeing.

Having your feet massaged in this way also feels really good, and can be very relaxing and revitalizing for your whole being!

+ Rolfing 10 Sessions

Named after its founder, Dr. Ida P. Rolf, Rolfing® Structural Integration is a form of bodywork that reorganizes the connective tissues, called fascia, that permeate the entire body.

Rolfing Structural Integration works on this web-like complex of connective tissues to release, realign and balance the whole body, thus enhancing postural efficiency and your freedom of movement.

+ Somatic Integration & Healing

Emotions and memories are held in the body. In safe relational space, with loving presence, we attune to what is present in your body and psyche.

I support you in gentle and deep unwinding. With curiosity and kindness we attend to what is and allow emotions that arise to be felt and metabolized, and fragments of traumatic energies to be released.

This allows the nervous system to rest in a more regulated state, improving your health & vitality and increasing your sense of aliveness and presence.

+ Pregnancy Massage

Becoming the vessel for new life is a sacred and transformational time in a woman’s life! There can be aches and pains as our body changes and grows, as well as questions and uncertainties as we grow our hearts and minds to meet this profound life change.

It is my great joy to nurture and care for a woman during this time in her life! I can help soothe aching feet, a sore back or a stiff neck in a safe and gentle way, all the while communicating deep reverence for mama and baby and the miracle of creation.