Moon Maiden Massage

Massage... the natural antidote

"The healing journey you are about to embark on is not a burden or a chore but a blessing. It will be your greatest adventure inward to discover and create a new healthy lifestyle"

It is imperative for our bodies to "feel good" to lead to a balanced life and essential for optimal health. How we feel has a direct result on how our body is being built for tomorrow. We all have the ability to heal ourselves. WE get a brand new body every seven years. That's right, every single cell in your body today, will not be there in 7 years. Diet, exercise, work and play as well as social relationships all play an important role in our physical and mental wellbeing.
Let Moon Maiden Massage help you build a healthier, and happier body for your tomorrow.

The stress response
The body responds to stressors with what is called the "flight or fight" or "stress response". It is a primitive adaptation designed to help us either confront or flee from a real physical danger. Our physiological mechanism is triggered when a person is presented with a real or imagined threat to their wellbeing. During the stress respose, the endocrine and autonomic nervous systems activate a series of bodily changes including faster heart rate, faster and shallower breathing, increased perspiration, greater muscular tension, elevated body temperature, more coagulants in the blood, dialated pupils, constriction of philomotor muscle (goose bumps), rerouting of blood away from internal organs, slows digestion, dry mouth, and overall increase in boy metabolism.

Signs of too much stress
Signs that your optimal level of stress has been exceded include chronic muscle tension (especially in the neck and back), short temper, anxiety, excessive worry, insomnia, chronic fatigue, general nervousness, felling "burned out" or "stressed out". People that experience too much stess are frequently more clumsy and forgetful than usual, and may be involved in more accidents. The physical component of distress is revealed in figures of speech like "carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders" and "pain in my neck". Chronic health problems associated with a prolonged stress response include tension headache, backache, ulcers, colitis, blood sugar irregularities, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Chronic stress has been proven to impair the immune system~our first defense agent.

~ How Therapeutic massage Helps You ~
Therapeutic massage helps restore balance, and bring the body back to normal by triggering the relaxation response. Massage also relieves many of the mental and physical problems prolonged by stress.

"To Relax, Rejuvinate, and to Heal"

Relaxation response

The relaxation response is literally the flipside or the stress response. Bringing the body back to normal function. The endocrine and autonomic nervous systems activate bodily changes resulting in a "sigh of relief" ~ slower heart rate, deeper breathing, more relaxed muscles, and a better internal circulation and digestion.

Physical Relief

Chronic stress often leaves a chronic muscular tension, trigger points, and poor circulation. These problems respond well to tractional massage techniques, deep tissue massage, and other forms of therapeutic bodywork.

Mental Relief

Massage can be thought of as a one hour vacation from stress ~ a get away from the life and its challenges. During a massage you create a peaceful space and give yourself permission to relax. Recent research has confirmed that massage reduces anxiety and increases feelings of well being.

Healthy Pleasure

Massage is a sensory pleasurable experience, therapeutic massage contributes to healthier immune system functioning and general well-being.