Soma® Structural Integration and massage therapy FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT & RELIEF
EXCEPTIONAL MASSAGE THERAPY FOR EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS
My methods leverage classic myofascial (MFR), Swedish, deep tissue techniques plus cutting-edge integrative techniques to bring the whole body—including the nervous system—back into balance.
Imagine being pain-free, more vigorous, more resilient than ever.
Once activated, core structural and energetic pathways restore inner wellsprings of powerful, clean source energy so you can move forward with what’s really important.
Explore what else sets my practice apart from other massage therapy.
October 2024: Accepting new clients with Aetna or Kaiser massage benefits. Details at Policies & FAQs.
“olivia HAS deep awareness of how to help a body let go of its efforting. I have energy to respond well to life!”
— Tressa
PAIN CALLS US TO RECOMMIT TO OURSELVES
Choose from exceptionally gentle, ultra-effective massage therapies treating:
Chronic stress
Chronic tension
Chronic pain
Idiopathic pain
Overwhelm
Low energy and exhaustion
Unresolved injury
Really, any arduous healing journey
Unlike conventional massage, holistic massage therapy restores the connective tissues to health, and can promises profound, long-lasting benefits. Resolves back pain, neck and shoulder pain, knee pain, headaches, TMJ, carpal tunnel, plantar fasciitis, tennis elbow . . . and more.
This is highly skilled, clinically relevant, outcome-focused massage therapy suitable for anyone interested in taking an intelligent approach to their pain and who want to return to their full life.
“Olivia is a rare gem. She lives and breathes creativity, intelligence, integrity and kind, empowered living...”
— Milah
A FOCUS ON FASCIA TO NATURALLY HEAL & MANAGE PAIN
The concept is simple: a body that works efficiently within the field of gravity does not experience excessive strain or stress in any one area. Forces distribute themselves evenly through a balanced structure. And, within this dynamic balance, by its every movement, the optimized body can and does bring healing to itself.
Efficiency means mechanical and energetic advantage.
The mechanical and energetic layers of the body are one and the same: the fascial, or connective tissue, layer.
It weaves in and amongst every cell, gives us recognizable form and structure, secures all of our physiological systems together into a dynamic, infinitely complex functional unit.
It pulls on muscles & bones to move us around.
It relays communiqués to and from our nervous system; it can gift us with a sense of security and ease, or torment us with stress and tension.
Fascia is powerful. Once smoothed, toned and restored to full function with intelligent massage therapy, it is powerfully healing.
Fascia optimized, the nervous system shifts smoothly from sympathetic (fight or flight) back to parasympathetic (rest and digest). The right muscles do the right work at the right time–-in balanced sequence, never too much or too little. The joints move freely within their healthy range of motion. The bones support fully. Our ultra-efficient core musculature engages and responds with lightning-fast speed, keeping us present in every moment of our life.
In other words, when the fascia is healthy again, we can feel it.We feel joyful, awakened, relaxed … at home in our bodies, ourselves.
Fascia isn’t yet fully understood, but, as it is literally everywhere in the body, it’s logical that a focus on fascia makes for the best kind for massage therapy.
Still curious about fascia? Read my article about fascia from the IASI Journal.
“OLIVIA never fails to help stabilize and ground me to the good Earth.”
— Laurel
WHICH KIND OF MASSAGE THERAPY IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
I can offer both Soma® Structural Integration and holistic treatment massage to my clients.
Which one is right for you?
Both
treat LBP MBP Shoulders rotator cuff ROM carpal tunnel repetitive motion strain neck pain stress and anxiety knee pain foot pain sciatica and piriformis pelvic floor pain and spasm TMJ headaches
restore balance and alignment to body and mind
relieve chronic pain & injury
activate natural, easy-flowing energy
are gentle and profoundly effective at the same time
stabilize and strengthen the body’s core connective tissues
Holistic treatment massage therapy sessions last 60 or 90 minutes • may be billed to insurance • may be all that’s needed to treat acute pain, shorter-term pain, and pain resulting from recent overwork or overuse
Soma® Structural Integration sessions last 120 minutes • cannot be billed to insurance • include deep bodywork, breathwork, and movement education • effectively treat acute pain as well as chronic pain, chronic stress, anxiety, chronic muscle pain and tension, old injuries, reduced range of motion, other unresolved pain, as well as idiopathic pain (pain that your medical provider can’t identify the source of, like fibromyalgia)
I can help you figure out the best treatment for you in a free consultation.
“my whole body felt like ONE nice deep breath.”
— Kai
SOMA® STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION
SOMA® SETS THE GOLD-STANDARD IN THE WORLD OF MASSAGE therapy
Soma® smooths and strengthens the fascia, sets your body in line with gravity, and optimizes movement patterns, effectively restoring a living sense of vitality, ease, and grace.
Soma® works powerfully & gently at the same time, because it works over a time-tested series of sessions that work in harmony with the inherent physiological, neuromuscular and structural systems.
IF MASSAGE HELPS YOU FEEL BETTER … SOMA ENSURES YOU DON’T START FEELING BAD IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Soma® is a once-in-a-lifetime awakening to the body, empowering clients with all the awareness and practical tools they need to clear pain, tension and restriction all by themselves.
It will help • Heal persistent pain + old injuries • Restore vital movement patterns • Create deep awareness of the body and body states • Respond to stress proactively • Avoid pharmaceutical or surgical solutions to pain • Activate natural creative energy
New freedom means new choices. New choices mean new chances, new paths taken … a fresh sense of personal integrity and meaning in life.
Soma® clients feel stronger and more resilient, inside and out.
FLOWING WITH NATURAL ENERGY, WE FINALLY RELAX. IN THAT MOMENT, JOY TAKES US BY THE HAND.
Breathe more fully. Move from a grounded place, and with grace. Learn to express yourself (and why that’s important for your health). Practice mindfulness. Come to trust + love yourself exactly as you are. Embody a fuller sense of your own agency and individuality.
Soma® takes a whole-body, whole-person approach. By the end of the journey, you will be empowered to live as yourself, doing what you want to do.
TRANSFORMING AT MIDLIFE = YES
Good, bad, and ugly—midlife arrives like lightning from the blue. A laughable trope only until it finds you, the classic midlife crisis creates twists and surprises worthy of Dynasty.
Soma®—symbolically and actually—gets to the core of what makes you YOU, the ever-elusive mystery of the self as it emerges past your programming + limited beliefs.
You can emerge more beautiful than ever before—the kind of beauty which begets more beauty: the beauty of truth to inspire the next generation.
SUPPORTING YOUR PERSONAL GROWTH JOURNEY = YES
On a personal growth or healing journey? Pursuing therapy, coaching?
Reality is that there are many layers to that process. Timeworn thoughts & emotions have to shift to allow growth.
Soma® helps establish new physiological and neural pathways, reconditioning your nervous system so that it can help, instead of hinder, your progress. It brings into balance the left (critical and limiting) and right (creative and enlivening) hemispheres of the brain.
Your work on yourself works even better!
SUPPORT FOR LIFE CHANGES, PHASES + STAGES = YES, yes and yes
Foundations, shaken.
Plans, imploded … Kingdome-style.
It happens to everyone, yet the struggles to understand, to heal, to land solidly on our feet again feels lonely.
Life doesn’t stop its merry-go-round. Family, work, community, business pull at us, while our personal values urge us on into our unwritten future.
Soma® is sanctuary for the soul, where we can feel balance as a reality again.
ACTIVATING THE INNER LIFE = YES
Dear Fellow Seekers,
Though faint at first, the voice of the natural inner self can be attuned to and the connection developed until, at last, it’s the only thing that matters.
Intelligent, integrative bodywork, Soma® increases wisdom + intuition, inborn intelligence.
Give yourself permission to receive the peace + beauty of a rich inner life. Self-knowledge + self-acceptance lifts your spirit so you can lift those of others.
“OLIVIA HAS ADDED SO MUCH to my life. i have the tools i need to continue to feel great.”
—Brian