Our Mas
sage Therapists are also Pilates Instructors and GYROTONIC trainers.
Experience the difference of having a Movement Specialist as your therapist.
We understand your body, muscular imbalances, injuries, compensation patterns and movement in an entirely deeper way.
Types of Sessions Available
THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE (60 or 90 mins) The Best for a Specific Targeted Treatment - OR - General Full Body Massage
Our Therapists are certified as Integrated Medical Massage Therapists specializing in injury and medical rehabilitation. As such, we assist each individual in regaining soft tissue and structural health and function, reduce stress, and promote mind-body awareness, rejuvenation, and revitalization. We do this with techniques from the following disciplines: Swedish massage, myofascial release, neuromuscular massage, lymphatic drainage, CranioSacral, Somatic Therapies, Reiki, and Chi Kung Healing. We work with all forms of stress and injury from whiplashes and work injuries, to chronic muscle soreness from posture or work related movements. We also believe in the simple power of touch. In our touch deprived society, many times the simple act of receiving a relaxing massage can do more than all of the fancy techniques in the world.
Allow your therapist to draw upon his or her unique training to design a session that meets your specific needs from relaxation and rejuvenation to pain relief and increased functional movement.
Book your Massage online or phone/email the studio.
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ONSEN STRUCTURAL MANUAL THERAPY (60 or 90 mins) The Best Choice for Chronic Pain Relief (that lasts)!
Onsen is a Japanese word meaning at rest or at peace. It is
a state of mind, but can also be a state of body. Developer Richard Phaigh
translated it to mean balance, particularly length and strength balance in soft
tissue, to form the basis of this new protocol.
Onsen Manual Therapy includes three key components - muscle energy technique, post-isometric relaxation, and transverse friction massage.
Muscle Energy Technique is a means of manually assessing
imbalances and distortions in the skeletal system and correcting them, via the
soft tissue, using a tiny amount of the patient's own energy (force) applied in
a specific direction. Extremely gentle, MET provides dramatic and lasting
improvements in flexibility, muscle tension and comfort.
Post-isometric relaxation works with the natural laws of the body. When a muscle has been actively contracted, the nervous system responds with an appropriate level of relaxation when the muscle relaxes.
Transverse friction massage works to break up scar tissue and adhesions that may have formed during an injury or repetitive use injury. Frictions help restore elasticity and increase blood flow to the area being worked. This helps to remove waste products, toxins, and bring in fresh nutrients, blood and oxygen to an area promoting healing.
This is Steve's specialty. Book a session today - you may
just be amazed at how different your body feels and moves afterward.
~ 90 minute sessions are recommend for new clients, initial sessions, as well as complex "issues in the tissues."
~ 60 minute sessions are best for follow up care or for specific needs (e.g., taping, shoulder treatment).
Book your Massage online or phone/email the studio.
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LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE (60 mins) The Best Choice for an Acute Condition!
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) was developed by the Danish physiotherapist Dr. Emil Vodder in the 1930s; today there are five recognized schools. MLD involves light, rhythmical massage that aids the body in collecting and moving lymphatic fluid, which plays a key role in delivering nutrients, antibodies and other immune constituents to the tissue cells of the body and removing debris such as toxins, cell waste and dead particles which are then cleansed by clusters of lymph nodes. MLD also works on the nervous system, lowering blood pressure, reducing stress and improving sleep patterns.
The tissue fluid, or prelymph, can become static due to toxic or mucus overload, a blocked lymph passageway as a result of surgery or injury, or certain congenital problems. This leads to the puffy appearance of certain parts of the body, a slow healing process, and problems such as allergies, headaches, sinusitis, low energy and frequent infections.
A condition for which MLD has proved to be particularly effective is edema (water retention) and, in its more serious form, lymphoedema - severe swelling of a limb or body part - which can lead in turn to cellulitis.
Schedule a session to speed your healing, or to experience the relaxing effects of MLD. Sessions also include an educational component so you can continue to care for your lymphatic system at home.
Laura is one of a handful of Lymphatic Therapists in Hawaii. If you've been injured or have
been treated for lymphodema, you owe it to yourself to book a session. Limited
availability so book early.
Book your Massage online or phone/email the studio.
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HAWAIIAN LOMI LOMI (60 mins) For that Feeling of Aloha and Deep Relaxation!
The ancient art of Hawaiian Lomi Lomi has been practiced for
hundreds of years. The gift of healing was passed down to the
"chosen one" who spent their life practicing the healing arts. Lomi
Lomi practitioners are taught to use thumbs, hands, forearms, elbows, rhythm
and breath to massage. Lomi Lomi feels like a loving touch that instills
feelings of well-being. Many clients say that they feel like the
practitioner is dancing Hula on their body. Lomi Lomi also focuses on removing
energetic blockages from the body so that energy (or mana) can flow freely,
releasing tension, stress, and discomfort.
So, what is the difference between Lomi
Lomi and any other massage? That is a difficult question to answer.
Lomi Lomi feels like many different techniques put into one flowing
system. It has a rhythm and flow that is soothing and feels complete. It
is an intuitive system, since Hawaiians didn't have anatomy books ... only
their intuition.
The only way to truly know Hawaiian Lomi Lomi is to experience it. And
when you experience your first Lomi Lomi massage, you will describe the feeling
as ALOHA. That is what Lomi Lomi is all about...LOVE and ALOHA.
This is Laura's specialty. According to Fodor's Big Island of Hawaii, 2nd Edition, "Although best paired with a yoga or Pilates session, Laura
Crittendon’s lomi lomi is tough to beat." (Fodor's Big Island of Hawaii, 2nd
Edition, p 173) ~ Mahalo for the review! - L
Book your Massage online or phone/email the studio. You'll be amazed at how relaxed you feel afterward.
HARMONIC (VIBRATIONAL) MEDICINE (60 mins) The Best for Deep Relaxation!
Utilizing specifically calibrated tuning forks, energy points and meridians are gently manipulated to enhance balance and healing. Similar to acupuncture but without the needles. A deeply relaxing experience. Can be combined with a Therapeutic Massage session. (Laura only, limited availability.)
GYROTONIC® Kona | Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i
808.329.0005 | possibilities@gyrotonickona.com
NEW LOCATION: as of February 1, 2010 we are in our beautiful
NEW Keauhou location!
Contact us for Directions to our Fabulous New Studio
(Formerly at "Pottery Terrace")