Over 30 practitioners offer
Professional Health and Healing Services
at Common Ground Wellness Center:

• Acupressure:

  Acupressure practitioners use their hands to release “blockages” of energy flow through the meridians (lines of energy through the body). These major meridians are associated with a specific body organ. Acupressure can also help to release old emotional blocks in the body, which are also known to interrupt the flow of energy in the body.

• Acupuncture:

  A health modality that uses needles to modify or clear out blockages or restrictions in the body's energy system, acupuncture helps to restore a healthy energy flow in the body. Acupuncture stimulates certain points called acupuncture points, which are derived from meridians in the body associated with a specific body organ.

• Aromatherapy:

  Uses essential oils from plants to heal, alleviate pain, and regulate mood. Essential oils are highly concentrated plant extracts derived from leaves, barks, roots, seed resins, and flowers. Several essential oils may be combined during a session. 

• Biofeedback Training:

  Teaches how to consciously change and control the body's vital functions that are normally unconscious, such as breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure, through information provided by electronic devices.

Electrodes, which look like stickers with wires attached to them, are placed on the client's skin. The client is then instructed to use relaxation, meditation, or visualization to bring about the desired response, whether it is muscle relaxation, lowered heart rate, or lower temperature. The biofeedback device reports progress by a change in the speed of beeps or flashes, or pitch or quality of the tone.

 

The results of biofeedback are measured in the following ways:skin temperature, electrical conductivity of the skin (called the galvanic skin response), muscle tension, with an electromyograph (EMG), heart rate, with an electrocardiograph (ECG), brain-wave activity, with an electroencephalograph (EEG)

• Chakra Balancing:

  Chakra balancing is based on the ancient Indian belief in a series of seven chakras, or energy centers. Various approaches may be used to "balance" the chakras. Chakra balancing is believed to promote health by maximizing the flow of energy in the body, much as a tune-up enables a car to operate at peak efficiency.




• Counseling:

  Personal counseling is a chance to talk over issues that are important to you with an objective person who has professional training in helping people work through current situations and learn about dealing with similar situations in the future. All information shared in a counseling session will be kept confidential.

• Craniosacral Massage:

  A non-intrusive gentle manipulation of the skull and spinal system. There is a rhythmical motion in the cranio-sacral system created by the rise and fall of cerebrospinal fluid. This causes a corresponding movement of the cranial bones; restriction of the rhythmical motion may contribute to illness.

• Deep Tissue Massage:

  This therapy is slow as to allow the therapist to sink into the muscles and is usually more area specific or is mixed with other styles of massage. This therapy uses techniques to restore the connective tissue to its natural state. Deep tissue massage can restore flexibility and functionality to the muscles and remove pain.




• Energy Work:

  Energy work is re-balancing the "human energy field" that exists around each of us, most commonly known as the aura. Energetic wounds show up in our lives as physical ailments, mental illness, and emotional distress, and are communications from our energetic and physical bodies that alert us to what needs attention. Energy work allows us the perspective of looking at ourselves as physical, mental, spiritual and energetic beings, offering us the opportunity to realize our completeness.

  
  * These Common Ground Wellness Center Practitioners offer Energy Work:
  
  Adele Cressy

• Esalen:

  Esalen Massage has become known as the art of “conscious touch”. It uses full, gentle stretching over the entire length of the body and combines this with different massage and bodywork techniques, so that any physical or energetic blockages the client has can be released, leaving them feeling more relaxed, energized and free of pain.

• Hakomi:

  A body centered approach to therapy using mindfulness to work with body sensations, emotions, and thoughts to become aware of and understand one’s core beliefs.

• Hot stone massage:

  A specialty massage that uses smooth, heated stones. They are often basalt, a black volcanic rock that absorbs and retains heat well. It is a deeply soothing, relaxing form of massage. The heat helps release tight muscles.



• Lomi Lomi Massage:

  This form of massage originated in Hawaii and the Polynesian Islands and is said to mimic the rhythms of the ocean. The practitioner uses palms, forearms, fingers, knuckles, elbows, and sometimes knees and feet for a deep and therapeutic massage. 

• Lymphatic Massage:

  A gentle and wonderful way to promote balance of the body's internal chemistry, purify and regenerate tissues, normalize functions of organs and promote immune system function.

• Myofacial Release:

  Is a bodywork modality that gently releases restrictions in the connective tissue layer. This tissue layer, which connects every muscle, tendon, ligament, bone, and organ in our bodies, can store memories of physical trauma. Releasing these restrictions produces a healing effect upon the body tissues allowing us to discharge recurring emotional as well as physical pain while restoring motion, improving circulation and nervous system transmission.

• Pregnancy Massage:

  Massage therapy in pregnancy can include specific light and deep pressure massage, myofascial techniques, circulatory work, acupressure, reflexology, and other techniques.

• Raindrop Therapy:

  This combines massage with pure, chemically complex, and therapeutic grade essential oils that are dropped along the spine. These oils have antimicrobial, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and pain relieving properties.

• Reiki:

  A complete system of holistic healing and personal development, Reiki balances the energy field on a spiritual, mental, emotional and physical plane. Reiki therapy assists in resolving problems, achieving goals, developing higher consciousness and fulfilling your spiritual purpose. 

• Sport Massage:

  Massage for the athletes and those with sports injuries. Various techniques including stretching and instruction for at-home care to promote wellness maintain good health and prevent injuries. Eliminates muscle spasms before they cause major problems by applying direct pressure to the stress point.
  

  
  

• Sound Therapy:

  Sound healing is the use of tuning forks with acupuncture points. The tuning forks use varying frequencies to stimulate acupuncture points, relaxing the body and calming the mind and spirit.
  

  
  

• Swedish Massage:

  The most common form of massage, Swedish relaxes muscles and eases aches and pains. Long connective strokes create a very relaxing and gentle massage. 

• Tuina Massage:

  A Chinese therapeutic massage working acupressure points and meridians with medium and deep pressure to align the physical body with the mind and to restore a sense of wholeness and balance to the emotions and spirit.

• Vocal Vitality:

  This is an organic approach to improving your speaking and singing voice based on the principles behind naturalistic medicine (e.g., ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine), and timeless shamanic techniques.
  

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