Osteopathy is a holistic fully-body approach to healing which focuses on the structural alignment and integrity of the body to improve the body's musculoskeletal system and organ function. Osteopathy was founded by osteopathic physician, Andrew Taylor Still in the 19th century. He believed that the body is like a machine, which operates well when all of its parts are in a harmonic and balanced relationship.

Osteopathic practitioners will use various manual therapy techniques to affect all areas in the body, in order to find the root cause of pain or disease. It focuses on restoring proper fluid dynamics, such as blood flow, lymphatic drainage and nerve innervation through soft tissue and joint manipulations. The aim of treatment is to facilitate the body's natural self-healing and self-regulating capabilities.

Hands-On Treatment may involve:

• Gentle, rhythmic joint and spinal movements
• Soft tissue techniques: stretching muscles and joint capsules
• Muscle energy techniques: allowing muscles to work against resistance
• Visceral techniques: gentle movement of abdominal and pelvic areas

Benefits:

• improved circulation and lymphatic drainage
• reduced inflammation and tissue restriction
• improved mobility of spine and joints
• can be used to help poor posture
• can be used to treat common conditions like back pain, shoulder pain and neck pain with associated headaches and vertigo
• can be used to aid in digestive issues, fertility issues and pre/post-natal discomfort
• can be used to treat repetitive strain and sports injuries
• can be used to relieve symptoms of arthritis, tendonitis and common issues like sciatica
• can be used to prevent injury and support overall health and wellness

Often referred to as the “Classic Massage”. Swedish massage is the most popular and traditional of all the styles. It involves long, fluid, and rhythmic strokes that relieves yet relaxes all of that muscle tension at the same time. Communicate with your massage therapist to tailor the pressure to your liking!

Benefits:
- reduces muscle tension
- increases blood flow and lymphatic drainage
- helps with pain management
- rehabilitates injured muscles
- improves flexibility
- boosts the immune system
- reduces stress

Deep tissue massage uses slow, deep guided strokes and firm pressure designed to relieve tension reaching below the superficial muscles to the deeper layers. This massage style is often recommended for individuals who experience consistent/chronic pain and soreness in both large and small muscle groups. The body will naturally build up and tolerate more pressure through regular consistent treatments over time. Communicate with your massage therapist to tailor the pressure to your liking!

Benefits:
- reduces chronic pain
- reduces muscle tension targeting the deeper layers
- breaks up scar tissue and breaks down muscle adhesions and muscle “knots"
- improves flexibility
- lowers blood pressure and heart rate
- rehabilitates injured muscles
- reduces stress

Hot stone massage therapy is a therapeutic treatment that uses heated, smooth stones placed on specific points of the body to promote relaxation, alleviate muscle tension, and enhance overall well-being. The stones, typically made of basalt, a volcanic rock known for its heat retention, are warmed to a precise temperature and applied strategically to the body’s energy centres.

The warmth of the stones helps to increase blood flow, relax tight muscles, and reduce stress. The therapist may also use the stones as an extension of their hands to apply pressure in areas where muscle tension is most prevalent. This technique is particularly effective for individuals experiencing chronic pain, muscle stiffness, or high levels of stress.

Hot stone massage provides a deeply soothing and restorative experience, combining the therapeutic benefits of heat with the calming effects of traditional massage techniques. It is ideal for those seeking relief from physical discomfort and a chance to experience a heightened sense of relaxation and rejuvenation.

This modality is often used as part of a broader wellness routine or as a standalone treatment for stress management and relaxation.

Benefits:

relieves muscle tension and stiffness
promotes relaxation and stress relief
improves circulation
reduces pain and inflammation
enhances flexibility and range of motion
detoxifies the body
improves sleep quality
promotes mental clarity and focus
improves skin health
boosts immune function

Athletes/physically active individuals of all levels from beginner to advanced to professional use sports massage therapy to help reduce discomfort brought on by their activity. This style of massage helps recover from training and/or injuries and prevents further damage to muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Sports massage is both restorative and preventative. Communicate with your massage therapist to tailor the pressure to your liking!

Best suited for treatment of the following:
- iliotibial band (IT band) friction syndrome
- patellofemoral syndrome (knee tracking issues)
- plantar fasciitis
- medial epicondylitis ("golfers elbow")
- lateral epicondylitis ("tennis elbow")
- rotator cuff issues
- medial tibial stress syndrome ("shin splints")
- muscle strains
- ligament sprains

Benefits:
- breaks down restrictions and adhesions in the tissues
- reduces muscle tension
- improves tissue elasticity and flexibility for better range of motion
- helps remove lactic acid and metabolic waste lingering in the tissues
- encourages circulation of blood and lymph to promote tissue healing
- fewer, less intense muscle spasms
- promotes consistent faster recovery time

At no time does a body accomplish so much as it does during pregnancy! Growing a beautiful human being is an honour-but it also puts tremendous strain on the body. During pregnancy, fatigue, swollen joints and tissues, and sore muscles are common—prenatal massage works to give the body every advantage during each trimester. This treatment is performed in a side-lying body positioning with various pillows specifically positioned for support, pressure modifications, and other considerations to ensure the safety and comfort of baby and mother. Communicate with your massage therapist to tailor your treatment to your liking!

Benefits:
- improves circulation and reduces the swelling commonly experienced in the feet, legs, and hands during pregnancy
- eases back pain that is commonly experienced in the low back, hips, and relieves the tension around the Sciatic nerve
- eases shoulder and neck tension
- reduces stress
- improves quality of sleep

Note: come with a freshly washed/make-up free face, and be prepared to leave with warm oil poured and massaged into your hair/scalp.

This unique treatment involves the shoulders, neck, face, jaw, and scalp while lying on your back the entire duration.

Indie head massage is built off of an ancient practice that began in India over 500 years ago. It is based on the ancient Ayurvedic healing systems. Warm oil is dripped along the scalp and hairline, then combined with deep therapeutic massage to the muscles and connective tissues of the face, jaw, scalp, neck, and shoulders. The techniques used are a blend of invigorating and soothing at the same time designed to effectively relieve tension yet simultaneously ease you into a deeply relaxed state.

Included in this treatment is a blend of eucalyptus and lavender essential oils (we can also tailor this to your preferences) and a hot towel to conclude.

Benefits:
-relieves stress and promotes deep relaxation
-helps prevent headaches, migraines, sinusitis, insomnia
-relieves muscle tension, eye strain, jaw (TMJ) ache, fatigue, and mental tiredness
-increases blood circulation and oxygen supply to the brain
-promotes hair growth and nourishes the scalp and hair
-calms and revitalizes

This involves any of the massage styles with cupping therapy incorporated into the massage. Cupping is a type of alternative therapy that involves placing cups on the skin—stationary or gliding—to create suction (think a vacuum). This suction loosens adhesions, lifts up connective tissue, and draws blood stagnation to the body’s surface. Cupping can also be used as a mini-diagnostic tool of what is happening in the body we often otherwise wouldn’t be able to determine. For instance, the darker/more purple colouration of the marks (although they are not, often appearing as “bruises”) simply indicates there is more blood stagnation happening in that particular area. Stagnated blood is essentially useless to the body; creating more aches, discomfort, restrictions, and issues. Cupping breaks up the stagnation, allowing new fresh blood to freely circulate, which promotes the flow of energy in the body and facilitates healing. There are various colours with different meanings associated with cupping, and our massage therapists can use it as a road map to what your individual body is saying—freely ask and talk to your massage therapist more about this!

Benefits:
- helps relieve headaches and migraines
- aids immune system function problems
- lung congestion issues (history of pneumonia and/or bronchitis)
- relieves arthritis
- reduces back and neck pain
- aids healing areas of previous injuries

This involves any of the massage styles with Gua Sha incorporated into the massage. Gua Sha ("gwah shaw") comes from a Chinese word for scraping. It’s a traditional Chinese healing technique that involves scraping the skin with a specially designed stainless steel massage tool to treat musculoskeletal discomfort and issues. This technique purposely creates light markings on the skin, which may appear as purple or red “bruising” or tiny spots/rash bumps known as petechiae (a sign of breaking down old adhesions and new blood renewal). Communicate with your massage therapist to tailor the treatment to your liking!

Benefits:
- promotes blood circulation
- promotes lymphatic drainage and decongestion
- reduces muscle tension
- aids with migraines
- breaks down scar tissue and adhesions improving range of motion
- reduces stress

Note: not recommended for those with particularly sensitive skin/allergies.

The Aromatherapy Massage add-on involves any of the massage styles with an essential oil blend incorporated into the massage. Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils, which are plant-based derivatives from herbs, tree extracts, bark, and flowers that provide certain natural health benefits.

Essential Oils + Benefits:
Eucalyptus: this very opening, clearing, and stimulating oil is the ultimate refresher! Traditionally used in aromatherapy to help relieve joint and muscle pain associated with sprains, strains, and rheumatoid arthritis, as well as cough, cold, sinus symptoms, and headaches. This is the perfect blend to create a spa-like setting that encourages deep, soothing breaths.

Lavender: one of the most popular and versatile oils, it promotes relaxation and helps with anxiety, restlessness, depression, insomnia, fungal infections, allergies, eczema, nausea, and menstrual cramps.

Sandalwood: this rich, woodsy, spicy-sweet, soft oil is known to be very calming to the body's nerves, encouraging calm and symptomatic relief of headaches, colds, and coughs. Additionally, this oil is used as a nervine (or calmative) and antispasmodic for digestive discomfort.

Peppermint: this fresh, strong mint aroma has revitalizing, invigorating, and cooling benefits; helping problems like headaches, muscle aches, joint pain, treating coughs and colds, improving mental function, and reducing stress.

This involves any of the massage styles (exception of Prenatal) with Motion Medicine™ incorporated into the massage. Similar to a “tiger balm”, this add-on is particularly recommended in conjunction with the Deep Tissue and/or Sports Massage.

Motion Medicine™ is a topical analgesic cream used to ease pain and improve movement. It can be effective for joint and muscle pain, and is particularly helpful in aiding relief from muscle discomfort after deeper/more intense style massage.

Benefits:
- provides relief from pain
- relieves arthritis
- decreases joint and muscle stiffness
- aids with backaches
- reduces inflammation

This all-natural gentle mini face-lift treatment is designed to relieve tension in the muscles of the face. Through consistency, facial Gua Sha can help smooth fine lines and wrinkles, soften smile lines, firm face contour, improve appearance of neck, lift jowl area, and improve dark circles and puffiness around the eyes. Furthermore, it can help enhance the delivery of fresh oxygen and nutrients to various tissues in the face giving your skin a healthy glow!

In addition, facial Gua Sha can aid to reduce sinus congestion and relieve allergy symptoms.

Benefits:
- improves fine lines and wrinkles
- promotes blood circulation
- promotes lymphatic drainage
- relieves tension from muscles
- reduces dark circles & puffiness
- aids sinus drainage
- promotes relaxation

Add an additional 15 minutes of elevated massage to the end of your treatment (or automatically included in a 120 minute massage). Includes hot towels and customizing from our list of enthralling Saje essential oil blends that we often change up!

Pamper the Sole:
Hot towels first cleansing the feet followed by a luxurious cream infused with your chosen essential oil massaged into the calves and feet, finished with hot towels.

Hand It To Ya:
Hot towels first applied to the forearms and hands followed by a lavish cream infused with your chosen essential oil massaged into the forearms and hands, finished with hot towels.

In Over My Head:
A hot towel applied to the back. Once turned over, followed by your chosen essential oil blend infusion for a deeply relaxing scalp massage, finished with a hot towel wrapped around the shoulders and neck.