Given Erin’s background, she is acutely aware of the potential for strength, ease of movement and flexibility in each of us that often isn't fully realized.
Massage & Movement, A Complementary Relationship:
As a former professional dancer, Erin knows bodies are made to move. When lack of flexibility – whether from injury or habit – leads to a mechanical imbalance, the condition most often can be alleviated through a combination of massage and stretching, with you, as a client, gaining awareness in how to use your body more efficiently and healthfully.
Different bodies move differently, and for each body what’s normal depends on such factors as body type, physical needs and level of activity. As we go about our daily activities, we feel good when we move efficiently. When we don’t – because of stress, injury or habit – our poor body mechanics tend to increase our discomfort.
Massage offers both short and long-term benefits. It alleviates immediate pain and discomfort and also can produce long-lasting change by releasing adhesions in scar tissue and by helping you to better understand how movement and discomfort are related.
Discomfort in one part of the body, for example, is often caused by unnoticed tension in another. Through massage and stretching, you can break habitual patterns. Once the body is “reset to neutral” in this way, you can use it more easily and longer without fatigue.
Whether you are a first-time client or someone Erin has worked with for years, she will help you to find the source of movement restrictions, to relieve discomfort and to gain insight into your body mechanics and establish better patterns of movement.
Conditions Erin Has Treated:
Therapeutic massage is indicated for relief of pain and for an array of conditions that can include: headaches, sleep apnea, TMJ, muscle aches and strains, fibromyalgia, fatigue, scar tissue, circulatory problems, restricted mobility following a break or sprain, diabetes and pregnancy.