What to Expect

Before Massage:

  • Welcome!
  • Please take your shoes off and put on our comfortable slippers provided for you
  • Check in with our staff at the desk (if someone is not there at the moment, please proceed to next step)
  • Enjoy complimentary snacks and drinks
  • We recommend using restroom (down the hall on your left) before settling in
  • Have a seat, relax, and wait for your therapist to greet you

During Massage:

  • Please inform your therapist of any medical history, current ailments, and sessions goals
  • Therapist will step out, disrobe to your comfort level and get comfortable on the table
  • Please do not hesitate to communicate with your therapist with anything you feel
  • Relax and breathe
  • Our bodies store pain whether we are aware or not. You may experience an emotional release from holding patterns in your muscle tissue. Don’t fight it, go with it and let it go. Breathing and communicating with your therapist is crucial to this healthy release
  • When session is complete, therapist will leave room for you to dress and gather your belongings

After Massage:

  • Your therapist will meet you outside treatment room with water and to discuss how you feel
  • Continue to drink more water and help yourself to more snacks
  • Book your next massage with our staff member at the desk
  • Leave feeling with a strong sense of bliss, relief and relaxation

After you leave Local Revival:

  • Drink lots of water
  • Continue to relax, giving your muscles time to recuperate
  • Do not engage in strenuous activity, risk of injury
Swedish Massage
Deep Tissue Massage
Thai Yoga Massage
Mindful Expressionism
Sport Massage
Active Isolated Stretching
Neuromuscular Therapy
Trigger Point Therapy
Myofascial Release
Cancer / Oncology Massage
Pre-Natal Massage
Cupping
Gua Sha
Swedish Massage

Swedish Massage is a very relaxing and therapeutic style of bodywork. It combines oils or lotion with an array of strokes such as rolling, kneading, and percussion to help the body improve its circulation. The benefits of this type of bodywork are wide-ranging and include relief from aches and pains, decreased stress levels in the body, enhanced mental clarity, improved appearance, greater flexibility, and overall well-being.

Deep Tissue Massage

Deep Tissue Massage is a form of bodywork that aims to relieve tension in the deeper layers of tissue in the body. Deep Tissue Massage is a highly effective method for releasing chronic stress areas due to misalignment, repetitive motions, and past lingering injuries. Due to the nature of the deep tissue work, it is crucial to have open communication during the session to ensure that you remain comfortable. Keep in mind that soreness is common after the treatment. Although it is much less likely, you may also experience feeling light headed or nausea from the toxins being released through your system. Do not be alarmed. Please make sure that you drink plenty of water, to aid with the flushing and removal of toxins during the session.

Thai Yoga Massage

Thai Yoga Massage is an ancient healing art with origins in Ayurvedic Medicine, Yoga Buddhism. What began as a method of facilitating deeper meditation practices, has evolved into a healing tradition with a spiritual message of compassion, patience, and awareness. It has developed into a unique and magical combination of gentle rocking, deep stretching, rhythmic
compression, soft-tissue manipulation, energy balancing, and acupressure. **Not all therapists are trained in this modality, please call to book this appointment with the right therapist

Mindful Expressionism

Mindful Expressionism is the advanced work that Jill Berkana has been developing for the last 22 years. The technical and manipulative aspect of the work includes a blend of Structural and/or Normalization of Soft Tissue Techniques, NMT and Trigger Point, and traditional Asian style bodywork…all delivered in a beautiful fluid, non-static package of creative and artistic flow. Music, dance, yoga and martial arts are utilized as the foundation of the movement practice. The most important ingredients of the practice of Mindful Expressionism are total mindfulness, and the courage to connect, and create what is needed for the client at any given moment. Practitioners must have acquired a great deal of bodywork skill through practice, knowledge of the human sciences, and proven self-awareness. As the practitioner, we let go of any agenda within a bodywork session, and allow the moment and the relationship between the client and the practitioner determine how the treatment unfolds. There is a concentrated practice of NON-THINKING, and simply allowing. **Not all therapists are trained in this modality, please call to book this appointment with the right therapist.

Sport Massage

Sports Massage is a type of massage designed for highly active people who engage in athletics. Engaging in sports is harsh on the body and can often lead to injuries in both the short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping to prevent injury, reduce pains and swelling in the body, relax the mind, increase flexibility, and dramatically improve recovery rates. Sports Massage is also highly effective in aiding the rapid recovery of an athlete from an injury by encouraging greater kinesthetic awareness and in turn promoting the body’s natural immune function.  It does this by using massage techniques to stretch the fascia and release the bonds that exist between the fascia, muscles and bones.

Active Isolated Stretching

Developed by Aaron Mattes, Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) is a dynamic system for improving your flexibility and overall well-being. As you probably already know, stretching your muscles not only reduces your chance of injury, but also strengthens your tendons and improves your circulation. This modality, and other stretching techniques, is often combined with our sports massage sessions.

Neuromuscular Therapy

Neuromuscular Therapy is a system of massage techniques that were developed in the 1930’s by Dr. Stanley Lief in England. It uses a holistic approach towards healing, emphasizing and stimulating the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Neuromuscular Therapy also enhances the function of joints and muscles, and accelerates the overall healing process by facilitating the release of endorphins. **Not all therapists are trained in this modality, please call to book this appointment with the right therapist.

Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger Point Therapy is a style of bodywork that focuses on stimulating and releasing “trigger points” in your body. Trigger points are tender areas of tension similar to acupressure points, except they occur in the belly of the muscle rather than along the energy pathways of the body. These “knots” are built up throughout a person’s life as a result from physical, mental, and/or emotional stress. During a session, focused pressure is applied through a variety of techniques in order to release your trigger points. This process can be quite painful at times, yet the effects are lasting and profoundly transformative.

Myofascial Release

Myofascial Release is a form of soft tissue therapy intended to eliminate pain, increase range of motion and rebalance the entire body. It does this by using massage techniques to stretch the fascia and release and bonds that exist between the fascia, muscles and bones. Fascia is the connective tissue that connects and covers all muscles, organs, and skeletal structures of the body. Direct myofascial release is sometimes known as deep tissue work. Indirect release applies light pressure and gently stretches fascia, allowing for increase in blood circulation and pain relief. There are many different styles of Myofascial Release, so be sure to communicate with your bodyworker in terms of what you are looking for.

Cancer / Oncology Massage

Oncology massage is a special type of massage developed specifically for cancer patients. Cancer patients have unique needs which must be addressed to ensure that a massage is beneficial to their health. Our bodyworkers focus their attention on creating a gentle, nurturing environment for you to communicate freely and relax into.

Pre-Natal Massage

Receiving a massage while pregnant can be a truly wonderful experience for both mother and baby. The massage is received while the client is laying on their back and sides with many pillows supporting their body and the baby. Bodyworkers do their best to make sure you are as comfortable as you can be and encourage you to relax as they address any pre-natal discomfort you are experiencing.

Cupping
Gua Sha

A traditional Chinese medical treatment in which the skin is scraped to produce light bruising. Practitioners believe gua sha releases unhealthy elements from injured areas and stimulates blood flow and healing.