Hands Above All provides a welcoming and safe environment for your customized session. Choose from a wide range of complementary upgrades to enhance your experience.
For first time scheduling, please book and complete the initial intake form prior to your session that can be found just below this section. Please note that all session times are inclusive of hands-on time.
A massage can also help specifically address a number of health issues. These include:
-Alleviate and improve range of motion.low-back pain
-Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays.
-Ease medication dependence.
-Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body's natural defense system.
-Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
-Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
-Improve the condition of the body's largest organ—the skin.
-Increase joint flexibility.
-Lessen depression and anxiety.
-Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
-Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
-Reduce postsurgery adhesions and swelling.
-Reduce spasms and cramping.
-Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
-Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body's natural painkiller.
-Relieve migraine pain.
Experts estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress-related. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high stress. Massage is an effective tool for managing this stress, which translates into:
It can help lessen depression and anxiety through a variety of techniques and overall wellness. When your body is healthy, you are happy.
Enhanced sleep often follows a massage due to the relaxation of muscles, reduction of stress hormones, and release of endorphins, promoting a deeper and more restful slumber.
More energy following a massage is often experienced as the body's circulation improves, muscles relax, and tension dissipates, fostering a revitalized and rejuvenated feeling conducive to increased vitality and alertness.
Improved concentration post-massage can occur due to reduced muscle tension, decreased stress levels, and enhanced blood flow to the brain, all of which contribute to a clearer mind and heightened focus on tasks at hand.
Massages boost circulation by stimulating blood flow, delivering oxygen and nutrients while removing waste, leading to improved vitality.
Massages can reduce fatigue by alleviating muscle tension, promoting relaxation, and enhancing circulation, resulting in a rejuvenated feeling and diminished sense of tiredness.
Your massage or bodywork session will take place in a warm, comfortable, quiet room. Soft music may be played to help you relax. You will lie on a table especially designed for your comfort.
Most massage and bodywork techniques are traditionally performed with the client unclothed; however, it is entirely up to you what you want to wear. You should undress to your level of comfort. You will be properly draped during the entire session.
The practitioner will leave the room while you undress, relax onto the table, and cover yourself with a clean sheet or towel.
You will be properly draped at all times to keep you warm and comfortable. Only the area being worked on will be exposed.
A typical full-body session will include work on your back, arms, legs, feet, hands, head, neck, and shoulders.
A relaxing Swedish massage is often a baseline for clients. In a general Swedish massage, your session may start with broad, flowing strokes that will help calm your nervous system and relax exterior muscle tension. As your body becomes relaxed, pressure will gradually be increased to relax specific areas and relieve areas of muscular tension. Often, a light oil or lotion is used to allow your muscles to be massaged without causing excessive friction to the skin. The oil also helps hydrate your skin. You should communicate immediately if you feel any discomfort so that another approach may be taken. Massage and bodywork are most effective when your body is not resisting.
There are numerous types of massage and bodywork; various techniques utilize different strokes, including basic rubbing strokes, rocking movement, posture and movement re-education, application of pressure to specific points, and more. We can discuss which methods may be most appropriate for you.
Prior to the massage, feel free to ask the practitioner any questions about the technique or the upcoming session. During the massage, make yourself comfortable. The practitioner will either gently move you or tell you what is needed throughout the session (such as lifting your arm). Many people just close their eyes and completely relax, communicating if/when they need more or less pressure, another blanket, or anything else relevant to the session. If you have any questions regarding the session or about the particular technique you are receiving, feel free to ask.
Most people feel very relaxed. Some experience freedom from long-term aches and pains developed from tension or repetitive activity. After an initial period of feeling slowed down, people often experience increased energy, heightened awareness, and greater productivity which can last for days. Since toxins are released from your soft tissues during a massage, it is recommended you drink plenty of water following your massage.
Yes. That's why it's imperative that, before you begin your session, the practitioner asks general health questions. It is very important that you inform the practitioner of any health problems or medications you are taking. If you are under a doctor's care, it is strongly advised that you receive a written recommendation for massage or bodywork prior to any session. Depending on the condition, approval from your doctor may be required.
Email: handsaboveall@gmail.com
Call/Text: 484-574-0388
508 Bridge St. Phoenixville, PA 19460
