Registered Massage Therapy - Guided Imagery Meditation Massage
Think you don’t know how to meditate? Think again… Experienced meditator that wants to take it to the next level?
Experience a guided mediation within a massage treatment and experience the easiest and most natural way to slip into trance and harness the intuition and deep relaxation that flow from alpha and theta brainwaves.
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Angela Da Silva
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A somatic emotional release massage is a specialized mind-body treatment based on the principle that the body physically stores the energy of past trauma, unexpressed emotions, and chronic stress.
What to Expect:
Gentle, Sustained Touch: Therapists use very precise, light, and non-invasive pressure—incorporating Muscle Testing and Myofascial Release—to sense physical boundaries and holding patterns in your tissues.
Active Communication: You remain conscious and collaborative throughout the session. The practitioner might ask you what physical sensations you notice or gently prompt you to breathe into areas of “bracing” or tension.
Spontaneous Release: As deep physical blockages yield, your nervous system may physically release the bound up stress. This often presents as sudden yawning, subtle shaking, temperature shifts, crying, or a sudden wave of deep emotional peace.
Unlike traditional physical massages that focus strictly on muscle fibers, a somatic release session targets the central nervous system and deep fascia networks to safely surface and discharge that pent-up physiological energy.
Integrating muscle testing completely changes the dynamic of a session. It transforms a standard or somatic massage from an intuitive, “feel-based” treatment into an objective, interactive neurological assessment. Muscle testing is typically used in one of two distinct ways: actively with muscle strength testing and passively with muscle length testing.
Active Bio-Mechanical Testing (Neuromuscular Reset): The therapist places a specific limb in a precise angle and asks you to match their pressure (e.g., “push against my hand”). Instead of measuring pure raw strength, they are testing the neurological responsiveness of the muscle—checking to see if the brain is successfully communicating with that muscle or if the nerve pathway is firing improperly due to the level of internal stress caused by a “yes/no” questions.
Passive Bio-Energetic / Somatic Testing (Kinesiology): Practitioners use subtle resistance (length) testing as an biofeedback loop with the autonomic nervous system. The goal is to identify hidden underlying emotional stressors, or stored emotional blockages by noticing which muscle groups abruptly lose structural integrity when specific physical or emotional triggers are introduced.
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Angela Da Silva
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A therapeutic and healing hypnosis massage is a unique combination of massage therapy and a hypnosis treatment aimed at providing physical relaxation, mental calmness, and emotional well-being.
Let your therapist relax and still your body first. The mind will naturally follow and be in a receptive trance-like meditative state. Using guided imagery within your massage treatment, Angela will guide you into hypnosis so that information in the subconscious can be accessed.
Hypnosis is a trance-like state of focused attention, deep relaxation, and heightened suggestibility. It is a deep meditative state with a purpose. During hypnosis, a person’s brainwaves slow down, attention is intensely focused on a specific idea, memory, or sensation while distractions are blocked out. This altered state of consciousness allows individuals to access the subconscious and the information stored within it. In a hypnotic state, the mind becomes open to suggestions and can be guided into deep self exploration.
In a therapeutic context, hypnosis has traditionally been used to help people manage pain, reduce stress and anxiety, overcome phobias, improve sleep, and address various behavioral issues such as smoking cessation and weight loss. In reality, the information provided by the subconscious can potentially help any condition one is dealing with. While it is not a magic bullet or pill, it allows one to explore their own unconscious so as to examine and better understand the root of the cause. Becoming conscious of limiting beliefs and automatic subconscious programs is often the first step in changing unwanted or self-sabotaging behavior.
Many patients find it extremely helpful to access repressed memories and unprocessed emotions as they explore the root(s) of their issues. This allows processing, release and reframing of limiting/old beliefs and unconscious patterns of behavior that no longer serve us. You have to REVEAL IT to HEAL IT!
This holistic approach integrates the benefits of therapeutic massage with the power of guided imagery and hypnosis, creating a deeply immersive and transformative experience for the patient.
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