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These FAQs and glossary cover key terminology to help you understand the foundational concepts, modalities, and vocabulary used to describe the flow and use of this internal and external life force.
FAQs
What Should I Expect for a Bodywork Session?
Each session begins with a communication piece and unfolds from the client’s intention. The practitioner follows the energy and addresses presenting issues. Potential may extend beyond traditional bodywork into a blend of movement, communication, meditation, sounding, essential oils, and more. The practitioner's intention is to hold space, tune in, listen deeply, and support the client’s healing process. Christy’s work is woven with presence, intuition, and skilled touch that's guided to support clients recovering from physical injury, emotional distress, anxiety, PTSD, and nervous system dysregulation. Sessions are offered as outcalls. Beyond 10 miles travel fee applies.
How Should I Prepare for a Session?
I am an outcall therapist. This means I will meet you in your home. For each session I will bring a massage table and all associated supplies, cream or oils. You can expect me to arrive 15 minutes early to set up my table for our session to begin on time. I will ask to be shown to the appropriate space for working. The best space at least 10x10ft, is private and free of distraction.
Glossary
Reflexology
Reflexology is a complementary therapy applying pressure to specific "reflex" points on the feet, hands, or ears, which practitioners believe correspond to organs and energy pathways (qi) in the body. It is primarily used to reduce stress, manage pain, and promote relaxation.
Reiki
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that promotes healing by channeling "life force energy" through a practitioner's hands, either lightly touching or hovering over the body. It is designed to treat the whole person—body, mind, and spirit.
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep Tissue is a therapeutic technique focusing on realigning deeper layers of muscles and connective tissue, using slow, firm pressure to break down adhesions, tension, and scar tissue.
Polarity Therapy
Polarity therapy is a holistic, energy-based healthcare system aimed at restoring balanced energy flow throughout the body to improve health and well-being. It combines gentle touch, bodywork, diet, exercise, and verbal counseling, often used to reduce stress, pain, and anxiety.
Tuning Forks
Tuning forks for healing are acoustic instruments used in sound therapy to reduce stress, alleviate pain, and balance energy through vibrations.
Swedish Massage
Swedish massage uses five core techniques to improve circulation, ease muscle tension, and promote relaxation. They follow a structured flow to warm up tissues, work deeper into muscles, and finish with calming motions, commonly targeting the back, shoulders, and limbs.
CranioSacral Therapy
CranioSacral therapy is a gentle, non-invasive, healing modality that focuses on the wave-like rhythmic pulse that goes through the entire body. This therapy stems from osteopathy, an approach that emphasizes the role of the musculoskeletal system in health and disease.
Silicon Cupping
Silicon Cupping is a form of alternative therapy using flexible silicone cups to create negative pressure (suction) on the skin, enhancing blood circulation, reducing muscle tension, and assisting with myofascial release.
Spinal Ice Bath
Targets back pain, reduces spinal inflammation, and aids in recovery. It is used to constrict blood vessels (vasoconstriction), which reduces swelling and nerve irritation along the spine.
Myofascial Release
Myofascial Release is a safe, effective, hands-on therapy technique that involves applying gentle, sustained pressure to restrictions in the fascia—the connective tissue surrounding muscles and organs—to alleviate pain, increase range of motion, and restore mobility.