Massage & Holistic Therapy
Get to know the newest addition to the Pilates Plus family!
Sarah Zender specializes in working one with one. This means that each session is created with and for you! By incorporating various massage and integrative techniques, each session is tailored for your specific goals of living and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Sara believes that education of body awareness is key and invites you to be a part of the process. Simple techniques are offered at the end of the session to take home with you to keep long lasting benefits of your sessions.
Body Awareness Education
Customized sessions to your goals
Take your yoga, pilates, or dance to the next level!
Stress Relief That Lasts
Massage Therapy's benefits are endless from increasing circulation, reducing pain, relieving depression, to promoting improved digestion and elimination. The best side effect: Massage Therapy feels good!
Tui Na translates from Chinese lieterall to "push-grab". Western society would recognize this ancient healing modality as a combination of deep tissue massage, trigger point therapy, passive and active stretching and fire cupping. Fire cupping is an ancient art use by most indigenous cultures using glass cups to create a vacuum on the skin to remove toxins or relieve tight muscles caused by a range of imbalances from the common cold to sciatica.
Experience Relaxation and Peace
A series of yoga postures, breathing exercises, and meditation are combined for the individual's goals to be used to maintain health. Yoga therapy is a specialized, individualized series for the client's specific goals.
Not flexible? There are currently over 84,000 yoga postures documented, whatever the body there is a posture for you! The goal of yoga is to remove the sources of suffering and pain so that happiness may flourish, this is accomplished through slowing the mind down and relaxing the body. The body is able to heal itself when it is in a state of relaxation, the faster the body can relax, the faster healing can take place.
Create Harmony and Balance
Reiki, Acupressure and Electro Magnetic Field Balancing are energy techniques that can be employed to effect the energetic body. These can be a more subtle yet profound aspect of healing the body. Experiences can range from deep relaxation and peace, seeing colors, hearing beautiful sounds, sensations of tingling, heat or cool to nothing at all, it is an experience that must be witnessed without expectation. The energetic body is the first line of defense sometimes referred to as the aura or personal space, if this is strong imbalance is less likely to penetrate the emotional or physical bodies.
Discover the Benefits of Essential Oils
Essential Oils can be used to balance both the physical and emotional bodies. Essential oils are literally the blood of plants where the healing properties are stored. Using the sense of smell to heal the body induces altered states of awareness due to the connection with the rhinencephalon(literally nose brain) part of the limbic system. The limbic system controls the regulation of the heart rate, respiration, hormone levels and emotions. Sights and sounds make us think, smell makes us feel. Both physical and social thriving depend on the sense of smell.
