Description of  Alternative health Services

 SERVING THE YORK REGION AND SOUTH SIMCOE AREA

                                        (HATHA YOGA) Private or semi Private

  This yoga is not only suited for beginners but for mixed levels as well.  It is a one hour session that starts out with standing up breathing exercises, followed by a warm up sequence to help loosen and warm up the joints, followed by a yoga asana sequence, then a 20 or a ten minute total relaxation period.  No yoga session is the same.  This session will help to calm your mind, it will also help with stress, tone and strengthen your muscles and help with flexibility.

PRENATAL YOGA Private or Semi Private

This one hour session is all Hatha Yoga .  We start out with a 10 minute meditation that will help to calm your mind, followed by breathing exercises, followed by a warm up sequence to help loosen and warm up your joints, follow by yoga asanas that are appropriate for pregnancy and then a 15 minute total relaxation period.  This session will help to calm your mind, will help to releive stress, it will help to strengthen your body for pregnancy.




cREFLEXOLOGY                   

HISTORY OF REFLEXOLOGY

Reflexology is about four thousand years old and was practiced by the Egyptians and the Chinese and they had believed that by applying pressure to the feet it can bring an increase in the functioning of other parts of the body.   By stimulating the reflexes on the feet ,which would be a type of pressure massage, it would help to stimulate the organs of the body therefore helping them to heal.   Also by stimulating the reflexes it will allow the body to begin detoxing and eliminating poisons, which have been built up in the body.  

The benefits of reflexology are is that

• it can help you to relax
• it can help you with stress
• it   can help with sore muscle conditions
• it can help with some health problems like asthma, sleeping problems and more

                                                         SHIATSU

THE HISTORY OF SHIATSU

Shiatsu comes from the Japanese word Shi which means finger and atsu which means pressure and this alternative health practice dates back to the 6^th century BC.   Shiatsu is used to maintain good health.   What we do in Shiatsu is apply finger pressure to different points of the body so that it helps to awaken the natural healing powers of the body and helps to clear physical and emotional blockages.   Before we do any Shiatsu treatment on a person we must warm up the muscles like the back muscles leg muscles etc so that the body can start to open up to finger pressure.

THE BENEFITS OF SHIATSU ARE:

• Is that it can help to relieve stress and tensions
• It can help to strengthen mind, body and spirit
• I can help to relieve back pain
• It can help to remove physical stiffness and pain
• It can help to improve stamina
• It can help to improve circulation and toxic elimination
• It can help to calm the nervous system
• It can help to increase mobility and flexibility of limbs and joints and more

We offer a one half hour and a  one hour Shiatsu treatment.   Please wear loose comfortable clothing and do not eat for two hours before attending a Shiatsu treatment.   Also do not exercise vigorously before or right after a treatment.

SOME INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL COVER SHIATSU