Using a variety of techniques, this massage utilizes a selection of soothing oils. It increases circulation and relaxes tight, tense muscles, utilizing the effleurage, petrissage, and tapotement strokes common to Swedish massage. You may the specify the amount of pressure appropriate for you. This treatment, refined from several thousand years of practice, uses firm finger pressure along meridian lines in the body to balance energy and release blocked energy channels.
Acupressure utilizes the diagnostic concepts of traditional Chinese medicine.
Yet there is a third and equally important rhythm known as the craniosacral rhythm that results from the movement of cerebrospinal fluid with and around the craniosacral system. Cranio refers to the cranium, or head, and sacral refers to the base of the spine and tailbone. Restrictions that result from injury, inflexibility of the joints of the spine and cranium, or from dysfunctions in other parts of the body, can all cause abnormal motion in the craniosacral system. The abnormal motion leads to stresses in the cranial mechanism which can contribute to dysfunction and poor health. An imbalance in the craniosacral system can adversely affect the development and function of the brain and spinal cord which can result in sensory, motor and intellectual dysfunction.