Services/Modalities
| Clinical Massage | Stone Therapy Thai Massage |
Clinical Massage
Our skilled therapists integrate Swedish massage with other specific techniques to create an individualized treatment. Clients may request light, moderate or deep pressure. Each session is organized around your needs and goals for maximum relaxation and therapeutic results.
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Spa Treatments
Allow one and a half to two hours for this treatment which begins with an invigorating exfoliation to remove dead skin cells using native desert botanicals such as blue corn or mesquite meal. This process promotes blood circulation and cleans pores allowing better absorption of the natural ingredients used in the body wrap. Once the mesquite honey cream is applied the client is then wrapped to create warmth and allow the cream to absorb into the skin. While wrapped, the client enjoys a facial fomentation with warm towels soaked in lavender water and a foot massage. After the wrap is gently removed the treatment is concluded with a relaxing massage.
Shiatsu
Shiatsu is a Japanese form of massage which incorporates stretches and applied finger pressure along energy meridians throughout the body.
This stimulates and balances the flow of energy to reduce stress and increase awareness of the mind, body, spirit connection. Shiatsu is done on a futon on the floor, without the use of oils or lotion and clients remain clothed.
Prenatal
Prenatal massage:
A satisfied recipient (along with Mom) of pre-natal massage at The Right Touch
- reduces stress and encourages relaxation that is also felt by your baby
- relieves pain in legs, feet, pelvis and lower back
- increases suppleness, mobility and flexibility, preparing your body for labor and delivery
- improves digestion and promotes better sleepAnother satisfied recipient of prenatal massage at The Right Touch
- encourages the growth of your baby by improving blood and lymph circulation
- pampers the mother-to-be, and nurtures the new life that grows inside of you
- after your baby is born, massage will ease the sore muscles that occur from holding your baby
Just a reminder: It is always a good idea to check in with your obstetrician before receiving any form of alternative therapy during pregnancy.
Chair Massage
This is a rejuvenating style of bodywork using a specially designed chair. The treatment uses no oil or lotion and allows clients to remain clothed.
Chair massage is easy, convenient, and adaptable to most workplaces. Treatments are available in our office or on-site at your location.
Hot & Cold Stone Therapy
Hot Stone
Hot stone massage can help a client enter a deep level of relaxation. The treatment time can be between an hour and fifteen minutes to an hour and a half.
The heat of the stones held in the therapists hands during the treatment penetrates into the muscle layers allowing the tissue to relax and lengthen. The therapist can then use the stones with long, gliding strokes as well as sustained pressure to release points of tension. Not only are the stones used as a tool to work out tension but they are also placed on strategic areas of the body for grounding, balancing energy, and keeping the body warm during the treatment. The clients comfort level to temperature is carefully monitored.
Cold Stone
Our Cold Stones are made from hand-crafted marble by one of Tucson’s local sculptors. Cold Stone treatments reduce inflammation and swelling. As vasoconstriction occurs the body blood is flushed through the area thus helping move waste out of tissues. Its analgesic effect also helps reduce pain in specific areas.
Combining Hot and Cold stones in a treatment can create a healthy vascular workout resulting in homeostasis, tonification and deep core relaxation.
Thai Massage
Thai massage traces its roots to India dating back for thousands of years. A Thai massage treatment bears resemblances to acupressure, yoga and shiatsu. Thai massage technique involves direct pressure on the muscles over most of the body combined with stretching to stimulate, energize and increase range of motion.
Thai technique focuses most particularly on the ten most important energy lines of the body, known as sen sib, or life energy.
Sen Sib lines
The therapist applies pressure using thumbs, fingers, heels of the hands, elbows, arms, knees and feet to release blockages and balance the energy along these specified pathways in the client’s body. Additionally Thai technique utilizes slow, rhythmic compressions and stretches along the body’s energy lines. Therapists gently position the body into yoga-like poses in order to more deeply open joints and facilitate limbering.
An important principle of Thai massage is the continuous flow of sequential movements. Thai massage is specific as to the steps performed and their order. Unlike Swedish massage, which can be shortened to any time length, Thai massage is performed in one-and-a-half and two hour increments.
Thai massage is traditionally performed on a floor mat or futon and the client remains fully clothed throughout the treatment. Loose, free-flowing clothing that allows a full range of movement should be worn.
Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral therapy centers on restrictions in the flow of cerebral and spinal fluid. Through the use of light touch the therapist use gentle techniques to to balance the flow of the fluid that bathes the protected portions of the CNS (Central Nervous System). The fascia throughout the body can also be a focus of this work. Gentle but powerful, craniosacral therapy enhances relaxation, balance in the nervous system, and is helpful to neck and back problems, jaw issues and TMJ, post-dental work issues, headache, pain, anxiety and depression are also common problems treated with CS therapy.
Reiki
Reiki treatments draw upon the ancient Tibetan Buddhist teachings rediscovered in mid-19th Century Japan. This practice draws on the ubiquitous life force energy of the universe through the practitioner’s placement of her hands on the reciever over the major chakras and organs of the body in a series of 10 to 20 positions that are held for a few minutes at each energy center of the receiver. The series of positions helps the receiver reactivate his or her own energetic flow to, through and from these areas of the body to restore energetic balance. The practitioner does not use his or her own energy but rather helps clients use and direct their own energy and draw upon Reiki or life energy.
Reiki is a type of body work that does not involve the physical manipulation of soft tissues of the body but rather uses light touch of varying pressures to restore balance in the receiver. Reiki as such is not massage but an energetic body work that uses Asian understanding of energetic flow and centers similar to the energetic aspects of Asian massage modalities such as Thai massage or Shiatsu treatments that combine massage and energy work.