DIVINE TOUCH Massage & Bodywork

This type of massage relaxes your body and mind, inviting your body's natural mechanisms to de-stress itself. The massage consists of smooth, gliding, relaxing strokes that stimulate circulation and the parasympathetic nervous system, activating the body’s R and D mode which in turn reduces muscle tension, improves sleep, lowers blood pressure, makes joints more flexible, and reduces pain.

This type of therapy releases muscles that may be perpetually contracted, causing myofascial pain.  Dealing directly with the trigger point, massage is the safest, natural, and most effective form of pain therapy. The therapist will apply pressure and massage the trigger point which flushes the tissue and helps the trigger point’s contracted sarcomeres to release.

Myofascial Release is a very effective  technique that releases myofascial restrictions, which in turn eliminate pain and restore motion to constricted tissues. 

Fascia is a tissue that covers and interpenetrates every muscle, bone, nerve, artery, and vein.  Additionally, it covers all of our internal organs including the heart, lungs, brain, and spinal cord. It is actually one structure that exists from head to foot without interruption.

For this treatment, the therapist will not use lotion or will use very little depending on area being worked. The stroke is a combination of compression and dragging across the skin, pulling underlying tissues and freeing them of constriction.

Deep tissue therapy is a combination of  myofascial release, myofascial unwinding, myofascial stretching, and deep trigger point release. This method of relasing tissue corrects structural imbalances that cause chronic pain and injury to bodily structures.

The Therapist will develop a strategy for applying deep tissue massage techniques that are structurally based. This will result in significant long-term changes, normalizing structural function, correcting distortion patterns. and evening out synergistic muscle groups. This restores balance to the body which in turn decreases chronic pain and prevents futher injury in the body's structure. 

Facilitated stretching is active-assisted stretching, which uses active motion and isometric work to improve flexibility and enhances motor learning. This form of therapy improves range of motion, increases strength, reduces overuse injuries, and enhances performance.

Our Therapist will provide you with stretching routines that you can do at home or at the office to help you maintain a properly balanced muscle group that can prevent soft tissue dysfunction and pain.

Whether you are an athlete, desk jockey, or couch potato, stretching should be a part of your daily routine to help improve flexibility, strength, and coordination while treating and preventing injuries.

This is a  hands-on technique/approach to the evaluation and functional treatment of soft tissue injuries. Every muscle in the body is surrounded by a smooth fascial sheath, every muscular fascicule and fibril are surrounded by fascia that can exert pressures of over 2,000 pounds per square inch. When an area is injured, whether it's muscle, connective tissue, fascia, tendon or some combination of these elements (as most injuries are), the body handles this inflammatory response of the tissues to trauma the only way it knows how, through a hyperplasia of the affected tissue followed by a fibrous healing, the laying down of a less elastic, second grade, poorly vascularized scar tissue to protect the involved areas. Adhesions occur wherever damage and inflammation have occurred and they limit both strength and range of motion. Once there is fibrous healing, these adhesions pull us out of a three dimensional orientation with gravity. As a muscle tendon begins to stretch and encounters an adhesion, the muscle contracts to prevent any further stretching and to protect the area involved. The result is that the muscles involved are not as strong and the range of motion is limited in the involved joint. Adhesions can affect areas that are quite small, sometimes just a few muscle fibers, and other times there can be a number of areas like that scattered throughout a muscle group.

The Therapist will engage the inhibitory feedback signals and stretch the affected area, then work each involved joint through the fullest possible range of motion during each session after the Neuromuscular work.

Facial massage has various advantageous attributes; it can help relieve stress, migraine headaches, premenstrual syndrome, sinus congestion, clinching of the jaw, and TMJD (temporal mandibular joint dysfunction).

The therapist will use various strokes and techniques around the head, neck, and face.

Lymphatic drainage is a therapeutic method that uses very light massage-like manipulations to stimulate lymph movement. Lymph is the plasma-like fluid that maintains the body's fluid balance and removes bacteria. Combined with other techniques of complete decongestive physiotherapy, it is used to treat lymphedema, swelling in the limbs caused by lymph accumulation.

The Therapist will use a systematic approach that involes very light touching and stroking, with pressure that is no more than the weight of a nickle. The strokes will flow from the extremities to lymph nodes and back into the blood stream to be filtered out but the body's natural system of filtration.

This is a form of bodywork geared toward active people and is used to help prevent injuries, to prepare the body for athletic activity, and maintain it in optimal condition. Also it is meant to help athletes recover from workouts and injuries. Sports massage has three basic forms: pre-event massage, post-event massage, and maintenance massage.

The therapist will use various techniques depending on the level of activity and the body's needs.

Couples massage is an excellent opportunity for couples to share the massage experience. The massages are performed at the same time, in the same room, on seperate tables that are close to each other. In general, this helps bring both people into a relaxed state so they can spend the rest of the day on the same physical and mental plane. Addionally, an emotional release may occur during the treatment. An emotional release means that any anger, pain or resentment about something in the past or present might be brought to light and present itself during or after the massage; this can be beneficial for couples with problems, giving rise to an opportunity to heal.

Divine Touch Massage & Bodywork would like to pamper you in your office by providing fully clothed chair massage for your employees. We are flexible and dependable, and willing to accommodate your demanding schedule.

What is a chair massage?

A chair massage is a 15 minute massage that focuses on the high tension areas of the neck, back, shoulders, arms & hands. It is performed on an ergonomically designed portable massage chair.

What is this going to cost?

The employees pay $1.00 per 1 min of treatment, or the employer can opt to pay a flat rate of $60.00 an hour (two hour minimum). Most employees have no issue paying out of pocket for this service. We accept cash, checks, and most credit and debit cards. (There are no contracts; you can terminate our service at anytime for any reason)

How often will you come to our workplace?

Once a week will provide employees with basic maintenance, twice a week is ideal but,not necessary; this will be up to the employers’ discretion. We can come to you as often as you like, just call and schedule for availability.