Bodywork + Movement
Hands-on techniques paired with targeted exercise to align your body, relieve pain, and improve movement, supporting your overall health and well-being.
What are the Benefits?
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Body Awareness
Improved awareness of your body, your movement and how you feel day-to-day.
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Movement Education
You will learn how to properly use your body in the modern world while sitting, standing, driving, etc.
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Ease of Movement
Helping re-teach the body to move with less restriction, helping you feel better moving through life.
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Less Pain
Helping you get back to doing what you love, with less debilitating pain.
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Improved Posture
Improved alignment of the body often leaves one feeling taller and moving more efficiently.
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Calm Nervous System
Leave a session feeling relaxed, rejuvenated and ready to take on the day with a level head
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Better Breathing
Your posture and breathing go hand in hand... Bodywork & Movement helps you optimize both how you move and how you breathe
More than a massage, it’s a crash course in better body movement.
The Offerings
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The perfect introduction to bodywork & movement therapy. This includes one 90-minute session consisting of posture & movement assessment, treatment, and movement education.
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Perfect for someone wanting to experience the benefit of multiple sessions, without committing to a 10 series. This includes three sessions addressing the whole body.
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Perfect for someone looking to get the full bodywork and movement experience. This includes ten sessions, each building on the next to systematically organize the body and create lasting change.
Hands on healthcare from a practitioner who cares.
How it works
Release
Hands-on manual therapy techniques help create safety and adaptability in your nervous system, allowing for release of old patterns of tension and stiffness.
Rebalance
Through therapeutic touch and gentle movement, this approach awakens your body awareness and teaches you balanced, new ways to move
Re - educate
Each session includes guided exercises to reinforce changes and “movement homework” to help you harness your body's natural healing abilities in your daily life.
Frequently asked questions
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Unlike traditional massage, Nick's approach uses a combination of deep bodywork and specific movements from you, the client. It's not just a therapy that is "done to you," It's an educational process, with the goal of teaching your body to move and to operate in a new way.
It is done in a series of sessions, each building on the next. Nick acknowledges that change takes time, and that a problem in one area means the rest of the body has compensated for it (You can't "fix" the problem without addressing the whole body)
Nick does not not “fix you.” Many practitioners are “fix-it” practitioners who see a problem area and go digging away at it. Instead of treating individual symptoms, Nicks goal is to help make the STRUCTURE of your entire system more aligned, so that you can FUNCTION more optimally.
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It is generally relaxing & rejuvenating to receive. While certain areas of the body may have more sensation, depending upon chronic holding patterns & injuries, the experience should not be painful and should leave you feeling energized and grounded. Some describe it as "Bodywork with a side of personal training."
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Anyone and everyone can benefit from bodywork and movement therapy! We all have some forms of postural dysfunctions, whether that be from repetitive strain in sports, sitting in the same positions for hours on end, or just the way we live our lives day to day. Utilizing manual therapy techniques in conjunction with movement education can help to get you out of those long-standing patterns that may be causing you pain, discomfort or predisposing you to injury.
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Each session starts with 10-15 minutes of interview and posture/movement assessments.
After assessments, a typical session consists of 60-75 minutes of hands-on bodywork and movement. During the session, you will be asked to stand, to make movements, and walk. Work is mostly done on a table but may also be done seated and standing.
Draping (a sheet covering your body) is not used, because you will be moving on and off the table throughout the session. Please dress to your comfort level. Most clients wear either running shorts, compression shorts or underwear on the bottom and for women, a bra or sports bra on top. For men, if wearing underwear, please do not wear baggy boxers... boxer briefs or briefs are better suited for movement/bodywork.
The pressure of the work ranges from very light to very deep depending on your needs. Techniques also are adapted for each client.
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Please come to your session showered & clean, without any creams/lotions on your skin, and wearing NO perfumes/fragrances.
Regarding clothing, please dress to your comfort level.
Most clients wear either running shorts, exercise shorts or compression shorts (biker shorts) on the bottom and for women, a sports bra or tank top on top. Pro Tip: Dress as if you were going to the gym or to a physical therapy appointment, you will be moving on and off the table throughout the session.
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This is another incredible thing about this approach compared to many other hands-on modalities... the changes actually last!
Rather than just aiming to "relax the body" or "fix your ache or pain," this approach is all about re-education through touch and movement. We and aim to teach your brain and body to move and to operate in a new way, making you an agent in your own healing.
This means that the real changes occur days to weeks after the session, when you begin using your body in new and better ways. This creates deep permanent change because you are now acting different in your daily life, solidifying change in the body.
