How to prepare?

The simplest and easiest way to warm up tissues is to take a shower before your treatment. Clean skin will benefit from the creams being applied, warm water will help the muscles relax, or cold water may help with inflammation. If you’re feeling high levels of stress or anxiety, a somatic practice that you can try is to lightly hum. Humming stimulates and activates the vagus nerve that runs through both the larynx and pharynx in your throat. Breathe, and give it a try.

Personal Hygiene

Please refrain from using heavily scented body products. No perfume or colognes.

What do I wear?

You may undress to your comfort level. You will always be appropriately draped with a sheet. Feel free to discuss this more with your therapist at your session.

Silent Treatments

Talking keeps the brain waves from moving into “theta” which is the beginning state of when the parasympathetic response begins to do what it does, controls the body’s ability to relax. Silent sessions are encouraged.

How often should I receive bodywork?

Monthly may work well with the combination of at-home exercise to help maintain overall wellness. Receiving regular massage isn’t just luxury; sometimes, it is a necessity. You may need more frequent massages to help relieve specific painful symptoms or reduce stress and anxiety. Bi-weekly or every three weeks is normal for those who integrate regular bodywork and massage into their routine. This is a form of self-care that will help decrease stressors, and also a form to help with pain management. It is not often, but there are times when someone comes in weekly until problem area is resolved and feeling better. I also like to give the reminder that, you can go an entire year without coming in, and I’ll still be happy to see you again!

Light, Medium, or Firm Pressure?

Pressure is subjective and can vary from therapist, modality, or simply with where you are mentally or physically at the moment. Please feel free to discuss preference before starting treatment, or during the session. Open communication is always encouraged.

Tipping

A gratuity is supposed to be an expression of gratitude. Please do not feel obligated or stressed to tip. It is appreciated but never expected.

What is Somatic Experiencing?

SE is a body-oriented therapy that helps people heal from trauma by:

-Focusing on physical sensations
SE helps people become aware of their physical sensations and release tension and stress. 

-Working through physical and emotional pain
SE helps people work through pain caused by trauma by developing a connection with their body. 

-Providing lasting relief
SE can provide lasting relief that goes beyond symptom management.

What is Table Thai Yoga Massage?

Table Thai yoga is a modern-day evolution and fusion of Traditional Thai bodywork, massage and yoga. These blended healing practices harmonize breath, movement and intention to provide stress, tension and pain relief by incorporating mindful stretching into the treatment.

What is Intra-oral Massage and what can be expected during a treatment?

An Intra-oral Massage treatment is a comprehensive therapeutic technique designed to alleviate pain and tension in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). The treatment requires the therapist to wear gloves to access the muscles inside the mouth as well as the outside facial muscles, treating jaw pain and/or any symptoms related to TMJ dysfunction.

What is Restore Your Core®?

Restore Your Core® is a movement-based program created to help retrain muscles to be functional, reflexive, responsive and supportive from a whole-body approach. Restore Your Core® helps to uncover movement compensation patterns and helps to create new patterns of strength, mobility, length and support.

Do you offer Prenatal Massage?

At the moment, prenatal massage is offered only to existing clients.

How about Postpartum appointments?

Absolutely. You can start receiving postpartum massage as soon as you are ready.

Requesting an appointment online

All appointments require approval. You will be notified when the request for an appointment is approved and you are booked via email.

Cancellation Policy

We require a 24 hour notice for cancellations. Appointments cancelled less than 24 hours in advance may be charged 50% of the appointment price. No-show appointments will be charged the full-service amount to the credit card used to hold and reserve the appointment. We have the right to refuse service if you fail to show up to an appointment without any notice and try to rebook again.

Respect Massage

When choosing a practice displaying the Respect Massage logo, you can have confidence in the safety and professionalism you will experience as a client. Massage therapists that are members of Respect Massage hold themselves to the highest standards of an ethical, boundary-driven practice. We have a zero-tolerance policy for solicitations of any kind.

Our Commitment

We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Arrowleaf Bodywork is woman-owned and operated. This is a safe space for all bodies. LGBTQ safe. Kindness and respect live here.

Is there disabled access?

We do apologize for the inconvenience, the office studio is located upstairs inside Mountain Time Wellness. Unfortunately we do not have an elevator.