Massage and Bodywork

Deep Tissue Massage is a massage technique that focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue.  Deep doesn’t necessarily mean “hard”. With the proper technique, muscles deep in the body can be reached with the minimum amount of pressure.  It aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and deep pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the fibers of the muscles, tendons and fascia. Often the movements are directed across the grain of the muscle (cross-fiber) using the fingers, thumbs or elbows. This is applied with greater pressure and at the deeper layers of muscle than Swedish massage.