Swedish massage is relaxing, soothing, and will leave you feeling like you’ve melted into the massage table. It’s applied with light to firm pressure using lotion or oil. Swedish massage is also used for warming up the tissues before using deeper techniques.
Personalized Massages
Customized to Fit Your Needs
Amenities
Your massage is customized to fit your needs with different modalities, as well as optional, complimentary aromatherapy, hot towel foot wrap, full table heating pad, blankets, pillows, and everything you need to melt into the comfortable massage table. You can also hydrate with complimentary Carlsbad Alkaline Water!
Comfortable Massage Table
Enjoy the comfortable, ADA compliant Earthlite Ellora™ electric lift massage table (made in the USA). It lowers to 17 inches, offering easy wheel chair transfer, as well as making it easy for everyone to get on and off the table! Earthlite’s proprietary Pro-Plush™ Deluxe 3-Layer 3 inch Cushioning System is comfortable too, especially with an extra layer of padding on top. You also have the option of turning on the full table sized heating pad for a warm and comfortable massage table you can melt into.
Hot Towel Foot Wrap
The hot towel foot wrap is a complimentary service with every massage. It’s especially nice for cold feet, but it feels great and is very relaxing too. The moist towel allows the heat to penetrate deeper into tired and sore feet, increases circulation, softens the skin by helping it absorb the lotion or oil, and allows for more comfortable and deeper pressure.
Aromatherapy
Essential oils have been used for thousands of years not only for their lovely scents, but also for their healing properties, in the home to help keep pests away, for mental and emotional wellness, and more! Young Living uses their proprietary Seed to Seal production process to produce pure, powerful essential oils. Diffusing essential oils during your massage is optional and complementary, but if you have any conditions such as epilepsy, hypertension, terminal illness, or are using prescription medication you should consult your physician first. Jessica will not use essential oils on women who are pregnant or breast feeding. You can choose from Lavender, Stress Away, Citrus Fresh, Eucalyptus Globulus, or Thieves.
Lavender
Lavender essential oil has a scent that’s a wonderful blend of fresh, floral, and clean. It can be calming, relaxing, and balancing, both physically and emotionally.
Stress Away
Stress Away™ essential oil blend can bring a feeling of peace and tranquility, promote relaxation, and may help relieve normal, everyday stress. Its unique combination of vanilla and lime gives Stress Away its unique and pleasant aroma. Stress Away also includes copaiba, lavender, cedarwood, and ocotea.
Citrus Fresh
Citrus Fresh™ essential oil blend combines lemon, grapefruit, orange, tangerine, mandarin, and spearmint to create a scent that’s invigorating and bright, with a hint of minty coolness. It can be uplifting, boost creativity, and support focus and alertness.
Eucalyptus Globulus
Eucalyptus Globulus is a eucalyptus oil from the large, aromatic eucalyptus trees of the Myrtaceae family. The tree’s leaves are steam distilled to produce the earthy, fresh oil that is known for its cleansing properties and stimulating scent. It is often applied topically because it may help soothe sore muscles or diffused aromatically to support a healthy respiratory system.
Thieves
Thieves® essential oil blend is a powerful combination of clove, lemon, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus radiata, and rosemary essential oils that fills any space with a rich, spicy aroma. Thieves is included in many Young Living home cleaning and personal care products because of its antibacterial and antiseptic properties, and when diffused it can help support healthy immune function.
Lotion/Oil
Choose either Biotone Advanced Therapy Massage Lotion or Biotone Herbal Select Body Therapy Massage Oil for your massage.
Biotone Advanced Therapy Massage Lotion
This unscented, hypoallergenic lotion is an excellent option for those looking for a clean-absorbing, non-greasy feeling. It’s also beneficial for your skin! Grapeseed and sesame oils have anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antioxidant properties, and grapeseed oil helps skin absorb the vitamin E in the sesame and apricot oils more efficiently. This lotion is also paraben-free and cruelty-free.
Ingredients: Purified Water, Coconut Oil Ester (octyl palmitate), Blend of Apricot Oil (Prunus Armeniaca), Sesame Oil (Sesamum Indicum) and Grapeseed Oil (Vitis Vinifera), Canola Oil (Brassica Napus), Emulsifying Wax NF, Glycerin, Grapeseed Extract (Vitis Vinifera), Carbomer, Germal, Dimethicone, TEA. Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate.
Herbal Select Body Therapy Massage Oil
If you prefer oil for your massage, this finely textured oil is velvety smooth, without leaving an unpleasant, oily residue. Active botanical extracts include Arnica to stimulate circulation and help relieve soreness and inflammation, Hawaiian White Ginger to relieve soreness, Bayberry to tone and cleanse, and Violet to calm. This oil is also paraben-free and cruelty-free.
Ingredients: Octyl Palmitate (coconut oil ester), Sunflower Oil (Helianthus Annuus), Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia Chinenis), Sesame Oil (Sesamum Indicum), Grapeseed Oil (Vitis Vinifera), Apricot Oil (Prunus Armeniaca), Pecan Oil (Carya Illinoenis), Aloe Oil (Aloe Barbadensis), Laureth-3, Sea Kelp (Macrocystis Pyriferae), Active Botanicals of Arnica (Arnica Montana), Hawaiian White Ginger (Hedycaium Coronarium), Bayberry (Myrica Cerifera), Violet (Viola Odorata), Vegetable Derived Emulsifying Wax, White Beeswax, Candillila Wax, Tribehenin Wax, Copernicia Prunifera Wax, Vitamin E (mixed tocopherol), Oleth 3 (vegetable derived water dispersant), Dimethicone, Essential Oils of Bergamot (Citrus Bergamia), Lavender (Lavandula Angustifolia), Nutmeg (Myristica Fragrans), Clary Sage (Salvia Sclarea), Fragrance.
Modalities (Massage Techniques)
Jessica typically blends massage modalities (techniques), customizing each massage to fit the needs and goals of each individual for better and longer lasting results. Many modalities overlap each other, such as sports muscle energy technique, trigger point and neuromuscular therapy, and deep tissue, which are all great techniques for everyone, not just athletes and people who play sports. Before your first appointment, you will fill out an intake form and discuss your needs and goals with Jessica, so she can recommend what will be most effective for you.
Swedish Massage
Deep Tissue
Deep tissue massage works deeper muscles and soft tissue without using aggressive intent. There are many ways to perform deep tissue massage, not all of which require strong pressure and client discomfort. Painful pressure is counterproductive, causing involuntary contraction of the muscles from the intensity of the pressure. Working no higher than a 7, or “hurts so good,” will prevent overworking the tissues while providing relief from tension and chronic pain in muscles, fascia, and soft tissues from sports, stress, over-exertion, some injuries and illnesses, repetitive strain, poor posture, and more. Deep tissue is often confused with sports massage, and can also help athletes with injury management and prevention.
Sports Muscle Energy Technique
Sports muscle energy technique (MET) uses stretching and muscular contraction combined with specific body positioning to ease muscular restriction of specific joints, help rebalance the body, and release tight muscles and connective tissues. This is an “active technique,” meaning you will do a lot of the work. You need to wear loose, comfortable clothing so you can stretch, move, and bend. For a more passive massage experience requiring less effort on your part, some of these techniques can be integrated into a deep tissue massage and still help relieve tension and chronic pain in muscles and fascia, injury management and prevention, and performance enhancement.
Trigger Point Therapy/Neuromuscular Therapy
Trigger point therapy uses strong, direct pressure and deep tissue techniques to release trigger points, which is often uncomfortable and “hurts so good,” but as the trigger point releases, the discomfort subsides. Trigger points are hyperirritable areas that can develop in muscles and/or fascia and cause tension, pain and discomfort, as well as referral pain and autonomic phenomena, such as burning and cold, to other seemingly unrelated parts of the body. These irritated tissues often cause the person to feel like their pain is coming from one area, when it’s actually coming from a trigger point in a completely different area. This is because sometimes trigger points only hurt when direct pressure is applied, while their referral patterns might hurt all the time. Swedish and less intense deep tissue techniques are used in combination to help warm up and soothe the tissues with trigger points.
Neuromuscular therapy (NMT) uses a combination of trigger point therapy, deep tissue techniques, and sports muscle energy technique to help release trigger points and the tight muscles and fascia associated with them.
Myofascial Release
Myofascial release is a gentle technique that uses sustained hands-on stretching into the areas of fascial restriction, and it cannot be done with lotion or oil. The skin rolling technique, for example, lifts the skin, releasing fascia that has bound the skin to the muscle underneath. Myofascial release allows the fascia to slowly unwind and release, improving soft tissue mobility, releasing tight muscles and trigger points, softening scar tissue, rebalancing the body, and improving range of motion.
Fascia is a specialized system of the body that appears like a spider’s web, very densely woven, covering and interpenetrating every muscle, bone, nerve, artery and vein, as well as all of our internal organs, including the heart, lungs, brain and spinal cord. It is actually one continuous, pliable structure that exists from head to toe without interruption, supporting every part of the body. Physical trauma, such as injuries and car accidents, poor posture and sustained muscle contraction, emotional trauma, scarring, or inflammation, cause fascia to lose its normal pliability. It becomes tight and restricted, which increases tension on other areas of the body too.
Cupping Therapy
Cupping therapy has been used around the world for thousands of years, and is most well known as part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, and Ayurveda healing therapies. It accomplishes what myofascial release, trigger point therapy, and deep tissue can accomplish by using negative pressure to lift the tissues, rather than compressing them. By creating suction and negative pressure, cupping therapy lifts and releases fascia, tight muscles, and trigger points, improves blood and lymphatic flow to the area, releases scar tissue and adhesions, and more. This will help with a variety of conditions, injuries, structural imbalance, and more. It also engages the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing a deep relaxation to move through the entire body. Light suction provides lymphatic drainage, and heavier application will release adhesions, scar tissue, and bound fascia, which can also reduce the appearance of wrinkles and the dimpling of cellulite.
The marks left by stationary cupping are not bruises. Bruising is caused by impact trauma breaking capillaries and fluids rushing to the area. Cupping therapy can be done with gliding or stationary techniques, and stationary cupping can achieve marks, which are stagnant fluids (toxins, blood, and lymph) dredged up from deeper tissues. The discoloration will fade in a couple of hours to a couple of weeks, depending on the person. As treatments accumulate and more stagnation is pulled up and drained, there will be less discoloration with each treatment, if any, showing cupping helps to purge unwanted toxins from the body. Please visit the International Cupping Therapy Association’s website for more information, history, and FAQs.
Pre- And Perinatal Massage
Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy gives pregnant and postpartum women the opportunity to relax, feel better, and support their baby through therapeutic bodywork. Safe, nurturing, therapeutic touch can be an incredibly beneficial part of modern maternity health care. During this time of transition and change, a massage therapist can provide support and use massage techniques to help with stress reduction and relaxation, support improved physiological functioning, reduce musculoskeletal strain and pain, rebalance the body’s structure as it shifts and changes during and after pregnancy, and recovering after birth.
Himalayan Salt Hot Stone Massage (+$15)
Himalayan salt stones can be used to perform deep tissue massage with medium to deep pressure, or you can choose the “Restore” massage, which follows a specific sequence to balance meridians, promote deep relaxation, and restore the body, mind, and spirit. Like a traditional hot stone massage, Himalayan Salt Hot Stone Massage uses the heat from the warm stones to relax and release the muscles and connective tissues. It also increases blood flow and circulation, flushing toxins from the tissues, and is very relaxing.
Unlike a traditional hot stone massage, you also get extra benefits from the hand carved Himalayan Salt Stones. The skin is gently exfoliated and nourished as it absorbs minerals from the Himalayan Salt into the body to replenish, detoxify, relax, and more. Himalayan salt grounds and balances the body’s electromagnetic field, central nervous system and meridians too. Clients report feeling VERY relaxed afterwards, and they sleep great! You can upgrade your massage to a Himalayan Salt Hot Stone Massage for just $15!