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This signature treatment integrates a blend of therapies featured on the menu below.
In my 20 years as a bodyworker, I have experienced firsthand the power of flowing, soothing touch combined with deeper integrating techniques to facilitate profound healing and increased vitality.
The advantages of a Body Rhyhtms sessions are extensive and profoundly impact the physical, mental and emotional body. By emphasizing body awareness and mindfulness and encouraging the release of tension, this transformative bodywork creates deep relaxation and integration, encouraging a feeling of wholeness and unity
Body Rhythms Signature Bodywork Blend as well as all touch therapies offered can offer numerous benefits to your body, mind and emotions, such as:
- Relax your nervous system, body and mind; alleviating anxiety and stress
- Relieves chronic muscle pain and tension: By addressing the deeper layers of muscle and fascia, divine deep tissue massage can help relieve chronic pain and tension and discomfort .
- Improves range of motion: flexibility and mobility and self-discovery
- Enhancing circulation and blood flow, help with detoxification
- Encouraging restful, restorative sleep
- Supporting emotional release
- Improving body awareness
- Promoting spiritual development
- Contribute to overall relaxation and well-being.
What truly distinguishes this style is its emphasis on integration and connection, Long, flowing strokes encourage a seamless experience from head to toe, as a moving meditation. Perched on the cliffs of the Pacific Ocean, Esalen massage was inspired and influenced by the rhythms of the waves. It was created as a skin to soul experience to calm your mind and soothe your entire being.
It offers the opportunity to return to your true nature, a calmer, more grounded space At the heart of the session is a sense of empowering you to regain a sense of harmony, reverence, and balance, and to awaken inner resources for healing.
This specialized blend of bodywork techniques offers a therapeutic massage experience that focuses on working the superficial muscles and then entering the body’s deeper soft tissue layers of muscle and connective tissue (fascia). It requires understanding of not only anatomy and technical skill, but the ability to be deeply present, to sense and understand when to engage deeper and when to balance with lighter touch.
Using firmer pressure and slower and more deliberate strokes, coupled with long flowing integrative strokes, your body begins to let go and free dense, hardened tissues, which may have become chronically painful due to a lack of fluid exchange and energy flow. Your whole body softens, melts and unwinds as it re-organizes and releases chronic tension patterns and blockages. The intention is to gently “coax” the body into it’s own healing process.
The sessions revitalize your entire body with blood, lymph and chi (life) energy, which facilitates healing. Our body requires this constant flow of chi energy to self-organize and heal any blockages to that flow that causes longer-term health problems like joint and soft tissue pain, movement restriction and circulatory issues.
Reflexology is a ancient therapy that has been used for centuries to promote healing and well- being. This holistic practice is rooted in the understanding that different areas of the feet (or hands and ears) correspond to specific organs and systems in the body. Using focused techniques and pressure applied to specific points on your feet, hands, or ears, creates deep relaxation, reduces stress, and supports the entire body’s natural healing processes.
As your tense or aching points are nurtured and released, you may experience different sensations throughout your body. While some areas may feel more sensitive than others, it is common to experience some tenderness or pain which may indicate blocks in the energy pathways or weak organs and isn’t due to the pressure of the touch.
This therapy is safe, non-invasive and can be deeply relaxing, while also reinvigorating. As your feet are relieved of painful points, blockages and patterns, you will leave feeling a regained sense of harmony and vitality.
How it works:
- Energy flow: reflexology stimulates the flow of energy (or “qi” in traditional Chinese medicine) through the body.
- Nerve pathways: applying pressure to specific points sends signals to the central nervous system, which in turn can help regulate the body’s functions.
Potential Benefits:
- Reduces Stress and anxiety
- Pain relief: can help alleviate pain, (ie head, neck, and back)
- Improved circulation: which can help deliver oxygen and nutrients to tissues and organs.
- Improved sleep quality
- Other potential benefits: reflexology can help with conditions like digestive problems, headaches, and menstrual pain.
Scalp massage is a technique that involves stimulating the scalp through a combination of methods to ease any tension and invite oxygenation.
“Marma” points are the specific energy points that are intersections of the body’s energy channels. These points contain vast amounts of life force energy, or Prana/chi.
Ayurveda recognizes 107 Marma points located throughout the body, with several primary points that are emphasized as most important. Marma Therapy involves gentle stimulation of the points through light touch, massage, and pressure. Once stimulated, the flow of energy can be unblocked and aligned so the energy flow can continue on its natural path. This can help increasing and balancing energetic flow and also provide additional support to the healing process, leading to overall health.
As Marma points are the seats of life, they contain all forms of subtle energy: the Doshas (Vata, Pitta, Kapha), Subtle Doshas (Prana, Ojas, Tejas), and Mental Doshas (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas). The energy flow of these centers can be manipulated to increase life force and wellbeing.
Benefits:
- Improved blood circulation: The massage stimulates blood flow to the scalp, which can deeply nourish your hair follicles and promote hair growth and thickening of hair.
- Lymphatic Drainage: Head massage may also help with lymphatic drainage, which is purported to move toxins and waste from cells.
- Reduced dandruff and scalp dryness: By exfoliating the scalp and removing buildup, scalp massage can help improve scalp conditions such as dandruff and dryness.
- Enhanced hair health: Increased blood flow and stimulation can promote healthier hair by providing it with essential nutrients.
- Other benefits: With a reduction in muscle tension and stress in the head, scalp, and face can reduce anxiety and depression as well as a noticeably improved mood.
- May also help slow your resting heart rate and lower your blood pressure, reducing the strain on the heart. Any improved circulation in the scalp is can also have some positive effects on the rest of the circulatory system, as well.
Hot stone therapy uses smooth, heated basalt to warm and soften your tissues and prepare them for therapeutic touch. The healing, grounding quality of the stones used will deeply soothe tense muscles and promote deep rejuvenation.
Benefits:
- Muscle Relaxation: The heat from the stones helps to relax tense muscles, and prepares them to receive other massage techniques.
- Improved Circulation/Life force Energy: The heat can help to increase blood flow/Chi, which can improve circulation and deliver oxygen and nutrients to the tissues.
- Pain Relief: The combination of heat and massage can help to relieve pain and tension in the muscles.
- Reduced Stress: The warmth and gentle pressure can help to calm the mind and promote relaxation, reducing stress and anxiety.
- Enhanced Flexibility: By relaxing and loosening muscles, hot stone massage can improve flexibility and range of motion.
Medical Conditions: Hot stone massage may not be suitable for everyone, especially those with certain medical conditions, such as diabetes, neuropathy, or circulatory disorders.
This unqiue and holistic approach to sports massage as it can be both deeply relaxing as well as invigorating, depending on your intention for the session. Each session is specifically tailored to your individual needs.
Active + Vital can help you prepare for an athletic event, or to help facilitate recovery after a particularly rigorous game or other workout.
It blends various techniques coupled with deep structural work to address specific muscle imbalances and unwind overworked or chronically bound up tissues. Muscles used in specific sports can be focused on to enhance your overall performance and quicker recovery and decrease pain. It can also improve your body’s overall range of motion and flexibility to support safe, dynamic and effective movement.
While often sought by elite and amateur athletes, sports massage can also be beneficial for anyone who regularly exercises or also has a physically demanding profession. Many who live very active lifestyles depend on massage as a significant part of their fitness and training regimen.
Many sports massage benefits include:
- Increased joint range of motion (ROM)
- Increased flexibility
- Decreased muscle tension and spasms
- Relaxes nerves
- Increased sense of well-being
- Decreased anxiety and improved mood
- Better sleep
- Increased blood flow
- Increased elimination of exercise waste products (lactic acid)
- Decreased chance of injury
- Reducing delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS).
- Benefits with active and passive recovery
What is Visionary Craniosacral Work?
Visionary Craniosacral Work is a style of energetic, hands-on therapy – a subtle form of bodywork that works with the deepest tissues in the body. The focus is on the 22 cranial bones, spine and sacrum; as well as the brain, cerebrospinal fluid, and surrounding membranes.
Quiet and relaxing, with light touch, craniosacral therapy addresses a rhythmic system at the core of our physiology – the pulse of energy that flows between our head and pelvic area. It’s as essential, measurable, and tangible as our breath and heart rate. This is a gentle, often deeply intuitive technique.
Craniosacral therapy engages your own body’s rhythms for healing, and can support your body to heal itself. It can help release restrictions in the dural membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, as well as areas where tissues are being held on different levels. The flow of cerebral spinal fluid is enhanced, allowing the central nervous system to extend to the rest of your being physically, emotionally and mentally.
This can support your digestive and immune systems, and increase your metabolic health. Your blood sugar, blood pressure, digestive tract, and mood all work better when your nervous system is nourished.
- Back Pain (chronic and acute), Sacral-Iliac issues, Scoliosis, Spinal Stenosis
- Car accident injuries, Whiplash, Concussions
- Central nervous system disorders, Nervous System Regulation
- Injury Recovery
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Dental, Facial trauma, Tinnitus, Sinus Problems, Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJD)
- Fibromyalgia
- Headaches/migraines, Tension, Stress Head Injuries
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma Recovery
- Insomnia
- Anxiety and Depression
- Muscular Tension
- Ligament & Tendon Issues
- Bone & Joint Pain
- Fascia / Connective Tissue Patterns
- Sinus Congestion
- Breathing Challenges
- Digestive Disturbances
- Menstrual Challenges
- Low Immunity
- Fluid Retention
- Poor Circulation
- Organ Imbalances
Scents can have a profound impact on our mood. Aromatherapy is a plant-based healing practice that uses natural plant extracts distilled into essential oils for therapeutic purposes to assist with healing and harmonizing of mind, body and spirit. Cultures around the world have been practicing this ancient form of healing for thousands of years to promote well-being. A variety of essential oils are known to have antimicrobial, antiviral, antifungal, and insecticidal properties.
Throughout your session, we will use specific scents and blends, uniquely tailored to your needs. As the scents travel from you nose to your brain, they influence your limbic system, which is tied to emotions, stress, memory, heart rate, blood pressure, and other bodily functions. It’s through this pathway that aromatherapy may assist with different issues and improve your sense of well-being.
Aromatherapy massage is used for a variety of different reasons, with many therapeutic restorative benefits to promote well being, such as:
Benefits:
- Stress reduction: Essential oils can have calming and soothing effects.
- Muscle relaxation: can help relieve muscle tension and pain and achy joints.
- Improved circulation: can promote blood flow and improve circulation.
- Restorative and balancing: increase energy and also improve sleep quality.
- Skin rejuvenation: can nourish and protect the skin.
- Boosting mood: can uplift spirits and promote optimism.
Water is Life. Wherever there’s water, there’s Life. It’s the ultimate blessing. It’s the thing that sustains us the most. Life isn’t possible without it. And yet most of us take water for granted.
One of the most effective remedies that has existed for thousands of years is the healing effect of water. Immersing yourself in naturally heated, mineral-rich waters—might be exactly what your overworked body and stressed mind needs. People have sought healing in thermal waters since ancient times. The Romans create elaborate bathing complexes around natural springs. Japanese rituals around water traditions date back centuries. Indigenous cultures worldwide revered these hot waters as sacred healing grounds.
What our ancestors understood instinctively, that regular soaking delivers profound benefits that address many modern ailments. From chronic pain to anxiety, these waters offer more than just relaxation—they provide therapeutic compounds your body craves.
Why hydrotherapy & amazing benefits:
- Deep Relief for Muscles Bathing in waters heated to around 100-104°F, your muscle tissues expand and blood vessels dilate. This increases circulation to tight, muscles reduces pressure on joints and muscle tension. Also, enhancing recovery after exercise, with faster healing from both acute exertion and chronic postural stress. Consistent temperature maintenance and mineral content work together to penetrate deeper muscle layers.
- Your Skin Absorbs Essential Minerals. Your skin isn’t just a barrier—it’s a pathway and your largest organ. Bathing in mineral-rich hot water, your skin soaks in beneficial compounds and essential nutrients your body needs for countless biological functions. Studies show magnesium absorption through skin can bypass digestive limitations that often prevent oral supplements from being fully utilized. This means a mag soak can deliver this muscle-relaxing, sleep-promoting mineral.
- Naturally Boosts Circulation The hydrotherapy effect creates —cardiovascular benefits without the exertion. As you soak, your heart works slightly harder to pump blood through dilated vessels near your skin surface. This improves circulation throughout your body, delivering oxygen and nutrients more efficiently to cells while removing metabolic waste products.
- Calming and balancing to your nervous system. This passive circulatory enhancement is particularly valuable for those with limited mobility or conditions that make traditional exercise challenging. Everyone benefits from improved microcirculation, which nourishes tissues that larger blood vessels don’t directly reach.
- Regulates and Rebalances Your Stress Hormones When your stress response hormones like cortisol, adrenaline etc are chronically elevated, it can affect every system in your body. Hot water therapy offers one of the most effective natural interventions for stress hormone regulation. It can significantly decrease cortisol levels while increasing feel-good neurotransmitters like serotonin. The consistent temperature and gentle pressure of the water send signals that trigger your parasympathetic nervous system—your body’s “rest and digest” mode. This helps your adrenal glands and mind recover from this constant state of sympathetic (“fight or flight”)
- Deeper Sleep The sleep-disrupting blue light from your devices can be taxing on your brain and nervous system. After soaking, your body begins cooling down—a process that mimics the natural temperature drop that triggers sleep onset. Bathing in warm water 1-2 hours before bedtime can significantly improve sleep quality and reduce the time it takes to fall asleep. Adding mineral content particularly magnesium, amplifies the sleep-enhancing effects. Magnesium is a natural relaxant that regulates GABA receptors in your brain—the same receptors targeted by many sleep medications, but without side effects. Quality sleep is a fundamental pillar of health that affects everything from cognitive function to immune response. If your sleep has suffered, this ancient therapy can help tremendously.
The importance of caring, nurturing touch, especially during this unique and sacred time in your life, cannot be understated. Massage during pregnancy can be essential as part of caring for yourself and your growing baby.
Your body adapts to so much change throughout your pregnancy, as new life is growing inside you. As your changing needs are met, you can provide a more nurturing and healthy environment for your baby,
Body Rhythms provides a personalized pregnancy massage flowing, rhythmic experience that naturally encourages deep relaxation . The combination of gentle strokes, integrated with with deeper bodywork techniques will melt away tension, replenish your energy, and unwind your whole body. Each session you experience is tailored just for you.
The intention of this beautiful bodywork is for you to feel nurtured, grounded present, with increased confidence throughout your entire journey of pregnancy, labor and motherhood.
It can offer significant benefits for your body as it changes, as well as your baby such as:
- Relieve pain in your muscles and weight bearing joints, relief from muscle cramps and spasms.
- Increase flexibility, making it easier for your body to adjust to a changing shape.
- Ease constipation, gas and heartburn as general relaxation stimulates intestinal movement.
- Can stimulate circulation and blood flow to your baby.
- Relieves headaches caused by tension, constipation, or buildup of metabolic waste products.
- Enhanced blood-flow and lymphatic circulation (which can reduce excess fluid retention and swelling) by gently pushing fluid into circulation where it can be eliminated. Also lowers pressure which help with varicose veins.
- Improve sleep quality.
- Massage therapy also has been proven to help hormone regulation during and after pregnancy, and decrease the release of stress hormones that cause tension, anxiety fatigue and increased pain. It can increase the release of endorphins, your body’s own natural tranquilizers.
- Integrates mind, body and spirit.
- Massage can help you prepare for the birthing process by practicing focus, breathing and relaxation techniques.
- Aids in your postpartum recovery.
Infant massage is a gentle and nurturing practice that can soothe your baby while also promoting tactile and emotional stimulation. The impact that loving touch has on babies and their fundamental development cannot be underestimated.
By cultivating mindfulness and presence, caregivers can create a serene environment that nurtures the infant’s physical and emotional well-being.
A few wonderful benefits to start massaging your little ones:
- Awakening Love = bonding. Giving soothing and comforting touch to your infant releases oxytocin (the love hormone in both you and them, awakening the ability to bond. It also lowers cortisol levels which increases immunity and supports your baby’s optimal physiological development. Through touch, caregivers and infants strengthen their emotional connection, fostering trust and security.
- Shaping the Brain Babies’ developing nervous systems are highly adaptive. Caring, loving touch is essential for your baby’s nervous system to organize and integrate information in a healthy way.
- Affirming Secure Attachment Mindful, loving touch is important at any age. Secure attachment’ is very important to mental and emotional health and an ability to have lasting healthy loving relationships. It is the experience children have of feeling loved by their caregivers and those caregivers being attuned to their cues and needs such as hugs, cuddles, smiles. These are all ways to positively influences baby’s brain development.
- Physical Development Massage promotes healthy physical development by stimulating circulation, improving muscle tones, and aiding digestion.
- Stress Reduction Just as in adults, massage helps reduce infant stress levels, leading to a more relaxed and content disposition, which can also help with colic.
- Improved Sleep Patterns
- Strengthens the Immune System
- Pain Relief Massage can relieve common discomforts like teething, gas buildup, or growing pains.
- Promotes Body Awareness Through massage, babies become more aware of their bodies, which can positively affect their sensory and motor development.
During these infant massage sessions, parents and caregivers learn how to touch, stretch, and communicate with their newborns or infants.
In these sessions, you will learn:
- Set the Atmosphere: Create a calming environment with soft lighting, soothing music, and comfortable temperature.
- Centre Yourself: Before beginning the massage, take a moment to ground yourself and set an intention of connection.
- Use Intuitive Touch: Allow your instincts to guide your hands by applying gentle, flowing strokes over baby’s body.
- Communicate: Pay attention to the baby’s cues and adjust your touch accordingly. This helps build trust and ensures the massage is enjoyable.
pricing:
60 min = $175
90 min = $250
120 min = $325
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This isn’t just a massage—it’s a holistic healing experience. Sherri’s techniques targeted and dissolved not only physical discomfort but layers of tension throughout my body. I left feeling lighter, freer, and more energized. Her skill and intuition are unparalleled, and I genuinely believe her work has medicinal benefits.
Josh T.Her touch is both gentle and powerful, as if she’s working in harmony with your energy to restore balance and alleviate tension. What sets her apart is her deep understanding of the body’s natural flow. She released pathways in my body’s I didn’t even know were blocked, leaving me with an incredible sense of relief and rejuvenation.
Javi M.Sherri = fabulous massage therapist, knowledgeable, skillful, the best of the best! After my first massage, I scheduled regular sessions with her. She goes above and beyond, and I felt the effect of her work many days after the massage. Thank you!
Olivia S.