All therapies are centered around The Mattes Method of Active Isolated Stretching (AIS).

ACTIVE ISOLATED STRETCHING (AIS)
AIS is a cost-effective system of injury prevention, performance enhancement, and mobility recovery. AIS is one of the methods of stretching most used by today's athletes. It's wide ranging applications include athletes and senior mobility impairment associated with the aging process.

Your first session will includes a comprehensive evaluation, a customized program with selective body work for your unique needs, an AIS book and a stretching rope. You will then be taught mobility-enhancing exercises to be performed at home (homework). Standard courses of treatment begin with a limited number of sessions with your practitioner, while the long-term goal is to provided you with education for self-therapy and maintenance. This includes infrequent check-in and fine-tuning sessions.


COMPLETE ATHLETIC MASSAGE
This session can be broken down into four parts all performed in sequence.

1.) Soft Tissue Release. Based on the work Stuart Taws' British Sport Massage (link) which not only locates and starts the release of problem area in the muscle, but starts the awakening of the neurological system.

2.) Active Isolated Stretching using the Mattes Method.

3.) A "humane approach" to Deep Tissue Massage combining the teachings of Rich Phaigh (Nike's original massage therapist) and athletic massage work of Stuart Taws.

4.) Followed by another set of AIS.


SOMATICS (Neuromuscular Reeducation)
"Somatics" is a self-help form of neuromuscular reeducation revolutionized by Dr. Thomas Hanna. My "somatics" teacher is Carol Welch of Grand Junction, Colorado. Carol was one of only 35 people chosen by Dr. Hanna to study directly under him. Carol's work, "BIOSOMATICS," is a tremendous system of self-release through movement of the joints. When learned and used in conjunction with the active self-help form of AIS one can perceive, consciously release and lengthen the tissue. I will teach you this system of self-release through movement of the joints.

"How can you possibly hope to control, that which you can't feel?" - Thomas Hanna