Integrated Therapy sessions combine the use of several different modes of treatment to individually tailor a session or program for each client.

Key Benefits of this approach...

Modalities used within an Integrated Remedial Therapy Session:

Remedial Massage. The familiar forms of tissue manipulation recognised as remedial massage.  e.g. light or hard stroking; compression, which includes kneading, squeezing, and friction and percussion.

Positional Release
 Positional Release is a therapy pioneered by American Osteopath Lawrence Jones, who first published an article entitled Spontaneous Release by Positioning, in 1964. He went on to write the textbook Strain and Counter-strain, in which he offered the definition of his technique as "Relieving spinal or other joint pain by passively putting the joint into its position of greatest comfort" or " relieving pain by reduction and arrest of the continuing inappropriate proprioceptor activity".

Basically the muscle spasm is stopped at its nervous system source, rather than simply trying to cover up the symptoms by rubbing the irritated tissue.  Because of this addressing of primary causes rather than symptoms, it is often successful where more traditional massage methods are not.

This method is designed to release painful muscle spasms and chronic tension in the body by interrupting the nervous impulses that cause muscle spasms and is often successful where more traditional massage methods are not.

Treatment using positional release creates no additional pain, unlike more invasive "deep tissue" massage techniques and can be performed without the removal of clothing.  It is an excellent method for the treatment of the chronically ill and infirm or any patient who would benefit from soft tissue bodywork but cannot tolerate more intrusive bodywork methods. 

Cranio-Sacral Therapy

CST was pioneered and developed by osteopathic physician John E. Upledger following extensive scientific studies from 1975 to 1983 at Michigan State University, where he served as a clinical researcher and Professor of Biomechanics.
CST is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of a physiological body system called the craniosacral system - comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.
Using a soft touch generally no greater than 5 grams, or about the weight of a small coin, practitioners release restrictions in the craniosacral system to improve the functioning of the central nervous system.
By complementing the body's natural healing processes, CST is increasingly used as a preventive health measure for its ability to bolster resistance to disease, and is effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction, including:

Myofascial Release

When muscle fibers are injured, the fibers and the fascia which surrounds them react to the injury by becoming short and tight. This uneven stress can be transmitted through the fascia to other parts of the body, causing pain and a variety of other symptoms in areas you often wouldn't expect.  Myofascial Release treats these symptoms by releasing the uneven tightness in injured fascia. 
In other words, Myofascial Release is stretching of the fascia. The stretch is guided by feedback the therapist feels from the patient's body. This feedback tells the therapist how much force to use, the direction of the stretch and how long to stretch. Small areas of muscle are stretched at a time. Sometimes the therapist uses only two fingers to stretch a small part of a muscle. The feedback the therapist feels determines which muscles are stretched and in what order.
Each Myofascial Release technique contains the same components. The therapist finds the area of tightness. A light stretch is applied to the tight area. The therapist waits for the tissue to relax and then increases the stretch. The process is repeated until the area is fully relaxed. Then, the next area is stretched.
The therapist is able to find sore spots just by feel. Often, patients are unable to pinpoint some sore spots or have grown used to them until the therapist finds them.  The size and sensitivity of these sore spots will decrease with treatment over time.
Most patients are surprised by how gentle Myofascial Release is.  Some patients fall asleep during treatment.  Others later go home and sleep.  Almost all patients find Myofascial Release to be a very relaxing form of treatment.

Rei-Ki

A century ago Dr Mikao Usui, a distinguished Japanese scholar, researched many ancient sources in search of a method of healing through the hands that had been practiced in olden times.
The system basically works by the Rei-Ki practitioner or channel gathering up the freely available universal energy around us an facilitating its use by the client to promote the clients own self healing processes.