Massage & Bodywork Therapy in Ventura County

Deep Tissue and Sports Massage

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Ashiatsu & Thai Massage

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Neuromuscular Re-Education and Myofascial Techniques

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Active Release Technique

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Facilitated Stretching

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Graston Technique and IASTM

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Trigger Point Therapy

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Vacuum Cupping and Traditional Fire Cupping

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TENS and EMS Stimulation Therapy

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Massage Gun Percussion Therapy

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Ultrasound Therapy

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Deep Tissue and Sports Massage • Ashiatsu & Thai Massage • Neuromuscular Re-Education and Myofascial Techniques • Active Release Technique • Facilitated Stretching • Graston Technique and IASTM • Trigger Point Therapy • Vacuum Cupping and Traditional Fire Cupping • TENS and EMS Stimulation Therapy • Massage Gun Percussion Therapy • Ultrasound Therapy •

Experience personalized massage and bodywork therapy, designed to restore mobility, reduce pain, and enhance overall well-being.

I offer a more dynamic type of treatment, and my main practice revolves around physical therapy, or clinical application of massage. I call it, “Beyond Swedish”!

In addition to working with customers at my office in Ventura, I bring my expertise directly to you with convenient mobile and outcall options, corporate chair massage for employee wellness, and partnerships with local gyms and businesses to elevate their offerings. Let’s work together to create a customized plan that meets your unique needs—contact me today for more information or a quote!

Thai and Ashiatsu Massage

Thai Massage is one of my favorite modalities to implement. Otherwise known as Thai yoga therapy, it is the most well known Oriental Bodywork practice alongside Japanese Shiatsu. In Thailand, it is a medical discipline, and part of a traditional medical degree program. At the same time, it is an informal art practiced throughout all levels of society. In that sense, it is a regular aspect of care and maintenance, much like exercise and personal hygiene. It is also considered to be energy work, as much as it is structural bodywork.

A Thai Massage session incorporates acupressure and yoga-like assisted stretching, body walking, and deep tissue manipulation techniques. In its traditional form, it is performed using no lotion, and is done on a mat. Or it can be offered in a more Western adapted fashion, on the massage table, and even combined with other modalities and techniques. However it is delivered, it is among the more active bodywork modalities.

Vaccum Cupping

Vaccum Cupping is an ancient form of alternative medicine, where vacuum inside the cups creates suction (negative pressure), to stretch underlying tissue and increase the local blood flow, facilitating flushing metabolic waste products, and ease myofascial tension. Besides this mechanical effect, cupping is a form of autohemotherapy: rupturing of capillaries under suction, it activates the physiological cascade, that brings about the anti-inflamatory, antioxidant, and neuromodulatory (restoring nervous system function) effects, that can account for many of this therapy’s local and systemic health benefits. Vacuum cupping therapy may not be a cure-all, but it has sure proven to work on many levels and systems of the organism, for thousands of years!

Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM)

Active Release Technique is a soft tissue method that has been around for more than 30 years, and combines manipulations with movement, and focuses on removing the myofascial adhesions and scar tissue, that form as a result of repetitive use, or an injury. ART utilizes principles of friction and tension to ‘shear’ adhesions away from muscles, fascia, nerves, tendons and ligaments, and thus help relieve pain and restore function.

Dynamic Contraction Technique (DCT)

Dynamic Contraction Technique™ (DCT) is an innovative approach to physical therapy that combines resistance stretching and strength training for transformative results. Unlike traditional methods, DCT targets the root causes of muscle tension and weakness, restoring balance to the body and improving movement efficiency.

This groundbreaking technique strengthens underused muscles while releasing excess tension, reducing chronic pain, and enhancing flexibility and joint alignment. Using principles like biotensegrity, reciprocal inhibition, reciprocal inhibition, and neuromuscular re-education, DCT offers a stretching experience that feels like working the muscle "from the inside."

Trusted by physical therapy patients, professional athletes, and active individuals, DCT is a game-changer for anyone seeking optimal performance and recovery.

Active Release Technique

IASTM is a technique that uses a precision tool, to locate and treat myofascial restrictions that manifest in dysfunction and pain. The technique itself is a modern evolution from Traditional Chinese Medicine called Gua Sha, which, however, was not used to treat musculoskeletal conditions directly but was traditionally applied along meridians to move the bad chi (energy) out through the skin. Like with vacuum cupping, the introduction of controlled microtrauma causes the stimulation of a local inflammatory response, which initiates re-absorption of excessive scar tissue and facilitates a cascade of healing activities resulting in remodeling of affected soft tissue structures.

Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy

Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy is designed to alleviate the source of pain, local and referred, through cycles of isolated pressure and release on the “muscle knots”, or hyperirritable local areas of tightness in soft tissue, known as trigger points. They form due to repetitive mechanical stress and imbalance, overuse, direct injury, and even de-conditioning and tensing from emotional stress.

There is increasing awareness that in their active state, they often play a role in the pain symptoms of patients with conditions ranging from frozen shoulder syndrome, plantar fasciitis, low back pain, to fibromyalgia and  tension headaches. Apart from more acute pain and neurological symptoms incurred by their active state, whether active or latent, they are also the cause of stiffness and decreased range of motion, muscle weakness, and distorted muscle movement patterns.

Eastern Philosophy & Western Techniques

You may have more affinity for the Eastern philosophy of freed energy flow through the meridians, enhanced by healing bodywork practice, allowing the body to heal itself naturally. Or you may gravitate towards a more conventional Western view of bodywork as manual techniques for relaxing muscles and loosening the connective tissue, to increase flexibility and range of motion. No matter how you look at it, simply put, massage therapy is an effective treatment for reducing stress, pain and muscle tension, and helps balance your organism – on all levels – physical, emotional, energetic.

Is this approach right for you?

If you’re looking for:

• Enhanced athletic performance

• Corrective bodywork and soft tissue injury treatment

• Pain management

• Body maintenance or post-workout/sports recovery

• Counteraction to all the sitting you do

• Stress reduction and better sleep

• Improved posture, range of motion, and flexibility

If you are open to experiencing the benefit of new techniques and modalities…

If you are willing to work as a team, and learn self-help techniques, to fast-forward our progress…

Then I will do my part and diligently work towards maintaining and restoring your body to its highest functioning state.

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