Our Massage Services
Advanced massage techniques, such as sports massage, deep tissue massage, cross-fiber friction, PNF stretches, neuromuscular therapy, trigger point therapy and muscle stripping techniques, are just some of the massage techniques we use. We also offer all the traditional massage services, such as pregnancy massage, Swedish massage and couples massage. You may also want to add hot stones, reiki or aromatherapy to any massage session. You can be sure that all massage work is performed by a certified massage therapist, with a minimum of 700 hours of massage training and at least 3 years of clinical massage experience. To learn more about these massage techniques and other massage services that we provide, read more below. Thank you for your interest in our massage facility.
Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)
NMT is a corrective soft tissue treatment for muscular dysfunction and chronic pain. Its objective is to balance the nervous and muscular system and align the body with specific stretches to increase range of motion. It is delivered by implementing various massage releasing techniques and stretches. Its main purpose is to break through dysfunctions in motor/nerve connections. The client is active during this massage since we are trying to reprogram the brain and tissue connection.
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Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)
PNF is a more advanced form of flexibility training that involves both the stretching and contraction of the muscle group being targeted. PNF stretching was originally developed as a form of rehabilitation. It is highly effective. It is also excellent for targeting specific muscle groups, and as well as increasing flexibility, and range of movement. it also improves muscular strength.
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Cross-Fiber Friction
This is an advanced massage technique that is designed to breakdown scar tissue and adhesions. Its objective is to attempt to realign the collagen fibers (connective tissues) to improve ROM (range of motion). This massage can be painful at times by design. Your therapist will attempt to break up scar tissue and misaligned connective tissue from past or present injuries. This type of massage is recommended for individuals who have had regular massage work or chronic conditions.
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Muscle Stripping
This is another advanced technique that is designed to flush your muscles of metabolic waste and lactic acid. It is delivered by gliding strokes that are use to apply pressure along with the fibers of your muscle tissue to elongate, strip and flush your muscles. This type of massage is recommended for individuals who have had regular massage work and is used in conjunction with cross-fiber massage techniques.
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Trigger Point Therapy
Trigger point therapy is our pain-relief technique to alleviate muscle spasms and cramping. Your therapist will locate and deactivate “trigger points”, which are often tender areas of the body. These are usually where muscles have been damaged or acquired a re-occurring spasm or “knot” that is painful when aggravated. The delivery on the massage technique is to press on and release accumulated areas of the body that are in spasm inducing new blood flow into the affected area. The spasms are partly maintained by nervous system feedback (pain-spasm-pain) cycle. Spasms also physically reduce blood flow to the trigger point area (ischemia), reducing oxygen supplied to the tissues and increasing the spasm, thus further complicating the problem.
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| 30 minute trigger point massage ($45) |
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| 60 minute trigger point massage ($90) |
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| 75 minute trigger point massage ($105) |
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| 90 minute trigger point massage ($130) |
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Deep Tissue Massage
This is a clinical deep tissue massage and, at times, can be painful. It is very important when receiving a deep tissue massage that you communicate with your therapist. This is the key to a good deep tissue massage. It is delivered by utilizing slow direct strokes which are used to eliminate muscle spasms and loosen up connective tissues. It works the different layers of muscle and connective tissues to alleviate chronic aches and pains. This type of massage is traditionally for someone who gets bodywork on a regular basis. Drink plenty of water a day before your deep tissue massage to minimize any bruising effects.
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| 30 minute deep tissue massage ($45) |
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| 60 minute deep tissue massage ($90) |
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| 75 minute deep tissue massage ($105) |
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| 90 minute deep tissue massage ($130) |
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Swedish Massage
This is your traditional basic “Spa” massage. It is delivered by utilizing long flowing soothing strokes that are used to relax, loosen and energize fatigued muscles, remove toxins that build up in your body and increases circulation. Its primary function is to relax the mind and body, if you have never had a massage before. This is where you should start. It is recommended to start with a basic massage in the beginning and then move on to more advance techniques after your body becomes ready for it.
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| 30 minute swedish massage ($45) |
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| 60 minute swedish massage ($90) |
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| 75 minute swedish massage ($105) |
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| 90 minute swedish massage ($130) |
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Sports Massage
This is a sport specific massage that takes into consideration your activity, conditioning, age, and your goals to improve your performance on the field. It is used as a pre-event warm-up or post-event to help in recovery and rehabilitation of your exhausted muscles. It is delivered by utilizing stretches and various massage techniques as an aide in improving sport specific performance. This type of massage is used for individuals who play regular sports at the professional, college or high school level. Weekend warriors too!
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| 30 minute sports massage ($45) |
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| 60 minute sports massage ($90) |
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| 75 minute sports massage ($105) |
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| 90 minute sports massage ($130) |
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Warm Stone Massage
This is a unique massage technique that combines warm stones with your massage session. The combination feels amazing! The stones are used to warm up the muscle tissues to provide a deeper relaxation. They are used as an extension of your massage therapist hands as well as placed at various points of the body. This massage is a perfect gift-giving treat and especially nice during the winter months. We recommend this massage for individuals who have very tight muscles and are extremely stressed. Warm Stone Massage is great at promoting better sleep. Try it and you will see.
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| 60 minute warm stone massage ($110) |
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| 75 minute warm stone massage ($120) |
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Reflexology
A traditional foot and hand massage designed to help identify blockage of energy also known as “chi” in the body. The aim of reflexology is to correct the three negative factors involved in the disease process: inflammation, congestion and tension. Reflexology improves the body’s circulation and to assist the body in speeding up the elimination of waste products, so that toxins do not have a chance to build up to harmful levels in the kidneys, liver or bowel. Reflexology can help to control the perception of pain by stimulating the release of endorphins - the body’s natural painkillers from the pituitary gland.
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| 20 minute reflexology massage ($30) |
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Couples Massage Sunday Special
Come in this Sunday for a Sunday Brunch. Every other Sunday we offer a 75-minute massage for you and your love one along with fresh fruits, bagels, orange juice, yogurt and coffee. We also take special requests.
What better way to say “I love you” then with 75 minutes of pure bliss combined with a light Sunday brunch, all this for only $225.00. You will have the choice between a female and a male therapist. Located 1 block away from Santana Row and Valley Fair, get a wonderful massage... then go shopping!!
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| 75 minute couples massage ($225) |
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Raindrop Therapy
This technique was developed by Dr. Gary Young, N.D. and a Lakota medicine man almost two decades ago.
Raindrop Therapy uses a sequence of nine highly anti-microbial essential oils. They are dropped like rain from a height of about 6 inches onto the spine and then lightly massaged in, using various hand to body techniques. This stimulates energy impulses and disperses the oils along the nervous system throughout the entire body.
We all carry viruses and bacteria which deplete our immune system. Everyone can benefit from Raindrop Therapy because the spinal column contains nerves that feed the entire body. Wonderfully soothing, nurturing and relaxing, Raindrop Therapy can work its benefits in the body for days, weeks or even months. Essential oils are concentrated liquids distilled from all parts of the plant. When inhaled or applied topically to the body, certain essential oils have the following properties:
Anti-bacterial, Anti-fungal, Anti-viral, Anti-inflammatory
Antiseptic
Aid in air purification
Reduce appetite and aid in weight loss
Aid healing by increasing oxygen in the body
Natural chelators
Sleep aid
Balances hormones
Heals burns
Enhances circulation and immune system
In this way, the body can be brought into balance and the energy centers can be cleared and re-aligned. It will also help to reduce spinal inflammation, kill viruses that hibernate along the spinal column, and help to straighten any spinal curvatures (all bodies respond differently. This is NOT going to replace your Chiropractor but rather gently help create natural shifts). Viruses and bacteria that lie dormant along the spine resulting in inflammation and deformity cause many types of spinal misalignments.
Although a session lasts about 45 minutes to an hour, the oils will continue to work in the body for a week or more following the treatment.
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| 75 minute rain drop therapy ($135) |
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Pregnancy Massage
Pregnancy massage can be done throughout your full term. Your comfort will always be considered when receiving your massage. A specially designed pregnancy pillow can be utilized if you choose to lay on your stomach.
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| 60 minute pregnancy massage ($100) |
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Professional Stretching Services
A tight muscle is like a light bulb that stays on even when you switch it off. It‘s “on” continuously, contracted even when you rest. A weak or faulty working muscle is like a flickering light. It never works properly when asked to.
We will often advise you to set up a series of stretches, packages of 4, 8 or 12 sessions. These stretching sessions will allow for you and us to achieve maximum results. You can always stretch on your own and we do encourage that. The difference between doing it is that at home when you stretch you have to do the work yourself. With our professional massage therapist we do the work, thus allowing for you to get a deeper stretch more complete stretching session.
We will take into effect your desired goals and physical activities, to enhance performance and flexibility. Often these sessions will be schedule separately from your massage sessions. Again we only design these sessions as an extra gain for optimal results. We at RPM Therapy aim to achieve a harmony between you and your body.
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Packages rates are as follows (each session lasts aprox 20-25 minutes)
| single stretch session ($30) |
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| package of 4 ($108) |
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| package of 8 ($204) |
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| package of 12 ($288) |
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Cupping
Cupping is a technique that is especially useful in the treatment of problems of local qi, or blood stagnation in the channels, and is usually can be performed with or without other therapies.
The cups that are used are generally of rounded glass construction. The cups are warmed via a burning cottonball, held for a very short period of time inside the cup. The cup is then quickly placed over the selected area.
Due to the flame, all of the oxygen in the cup has been removed and when placed open side down, a vacuum is created, which anchors the cup to the skin and pulls the skin upward on the inside of the glass. This causes blood to rush up and open up restricted areas.
The resulting pressure encourages the flow of qi and blood in the area beneath the cup, and the local stagnation begins to clear.
It is imperative that this method only be performed by licensed practitioners, and even when performed correctly, can result in marking (non permanent) and bruises. This treatment can last up to 15 minutes.
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Biofeedback
Bio is from the Greek prefix meaning life and feedback is a term for receiving information on current behavior. In the sense of human biofeedback it is a way to make us aware of the physiological and emotional status of our body. For instance, a thermometer is a form of biofeedback indicating your body temperature. Biofeedback can be used to influence or modify future behavior. It is a painless, non-drug therapy.
Biofeedback in reference to the Quantum Biofeedback EPFX machine is that it does an energetic analysis of the human body. Our bodies produce electricity and by measuring these electrical responses we can learn about what our body knows via the unconscious mind. By scanning and measuring these bodily electrical responses the EPFX gathers bio-energetic data about a person’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness. It can then send electro-magnetic pulses back to the body to harmonize and balance out the body’s stresses and imbalances, which helps create balance of mind, body and spirit.
Our unconscious mind knows everything that is going on within your body even though your conscious mind does not. Biofeedback opens the door to the unconscious because self-healing does not come from the verbal conscious mind.
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Body Balance Foot Detox
The typical 35 minute session is with your feet immersed in water where positive and negative ions are emitted by the machine. These ions enter the body and begin to re-energize, balance, and neutralize acid wastes, which aids the body in excreting excess toxins. This internal cleansing happens not only during the session but for some time after the session.
Here are some of the benefits:
What a typical foot detox session with Symmetry of Life includes:
Foot massage to open all reflexology points
Foot detox - 35 minutes
Hydrogen peroxide after bath for cleansing and oxygenating the body
Trace mineral supplement to replace any possible lost minerals
SPECIAL: 30 minute, $30 specific therapy session! Limited Time.
For further pricing details visit Robin Grant’s website.
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Corporate Chair Massage
Corporate chair massage can impact your workplace more ways than you think. It will help keep your employees healthy as well as happy. Massage also has been shown to reduce blood pressure, relieve arthritis, improve joint and muscle aches especially in painful areas of the neck and back, and even increase immunity to colds and flu! In addition, massage can play a very important role is preventing and treating the pain and numbness associated with excessive keyboard and mouse use.
Here are some facts:
Up to 90% of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress-related complaints.
Stress accounts for $26 billion in medical and disability payments and $95 billion in lost productivity per year.
Over 50% of lost work days are stress related which keeps about 1 million people per day from attending work.
Stress-related employee turnover, absenteeism and waning morale all affect the bottom line. Job stress and related problems cost companies an estimated $200 billion or more annually, based on information from the American Institute of Stress and the American Psychological Association.
Chair massage is a service that addresses the neck, shoulders, upper back, lower back, arms, and hands, which are the body’s most stressed areas. Done at your worksite with the client sitting on a specially designed portable massage chair, the “coffee break” massage takes 15 to 20 minutes. It‘s done fully clothed with no sheets or oils used, which makes it very easy to return to work more energized and relaxed. We also do health fairs, usually at no cost to you, as long as we get to promote our services to your staff. Just email us for more information at corporate@rpm-therapy.com.
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Meridian Balancing with EFT -
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Physical Exam (off site)
by Lori Metroka, Physical Therapist at Replenishing Soul in Los Gatos
Headaches, structural mal-alignments, disc-herniations, postural instabilities and chronic pain are just a few examples of the aliments that Replenishing Soul’s Physical Therapy program can correct. A customized, comprehensive evaluation of each individual prior to formal treatment will not only ensure correction of the problem, but that maximum results are achieved. Replenishing Soul’s customized approach will help to eliminate the problem, not disguise it. Shorts and t-shirt (plus a sports bra for women) will need to be worn for evaluations.
WHY WE RECOMMEND A PHYSICAL THERAPY EXAM
Lori will evaluate you physically checking for abnormal firing patterns in your muscles as well and to check functionality. Your initial physical therapy visit will consist of a thorough and comprehensive physical and health history evaluation. Based upon the findings of the evaluation, an individualized treatment plan will be designed to eliminate pain, increase strength and prevent re-injury. All techniques are manual, hands on and consist of education so that you know and understand what you need to do, or not do, to prevent re-injury. Subsequent visits may be needed depending on the severity of the dysfunction.
We at RPM Therapy use her evaluations and recommendations as a kind of a ”road map“ in our treatment plans, you can rest assure that we will make available to you every possible tool, to take your health back.
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| 60-90 minute physical therapy exam ($125) |
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Event Massages (off site)
House parties, bridal or baby showers, bachelorette parties, etc.
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