Connection Workshop

Depression and Anxiety is a common issue that many in our society struggle with. The body’s way to handle stress is to create adrenaline and cortisol inducing a “fight-or-flight” response. The short-term effects of these hormones are harmless but long-term can be devastating and destructive. The body does not heal when it is stuck in a “fight-or-flight” response. The body needs to enter a relaxed state to heal fully and properly. Regular massage helps reduce the amount of cortisol in the body while increasing the production of serotonin. This improves your mood and increases your ability to cope and handle stress.

Digestive Disorders often occur as a result of excess stress as well. The body needs to be in a relaxed state to digest food. This is critical to healing the body. If proper digestion doesn’t occur, proper assimilation of food also doesn’t occur. Tissues and joints will break down over time if they do not have the nutrition they need to repair themselves leading to degeneration and injury. Massage promotes digestion and increases metabolism.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic musculoskeletal condition that causes tightening in the skeletal muscles and connective tissue. This condition affects women more than men and its cause is often unknown. Pain is experienced when muscles and connective tissue are tight. Getting on a regular massage regimen greatly reduces the effects of fibromyalgia by loosening muscles and breaking up adhesions in the connective tissues.

Fertility Massage promotes fertility particularly in women who receive abdominal massage. Studies show that massages promote regular menstrual cycles and balances hormones, improves ovarian function, egg quality, and natural ovulation. Massage can help with pain caused by endometriosis. Other benefits of massage therapy are the breaking up of scar tissue caused by Caesarean sections and abdominal surgery.

Scar tissue is denser than normal tissue. Manual manipulation of scar tissue can decrease thickness of the scar tissue as well as sensitivity. Oftentimes after injury or surgery, scar tissue will become very stiff and inflexible. Massage will increase circulation through the scar tissue and increase the flexibility of the scar tissue. Massage is critical to add to your Postoperative Care for the reduction of scar tissue and to regain flexibility in the tissues and joints post-surgery.