Gender Affirming Top Surgery
Sessions are customized to each unique individual and may include connective tissue, neuromuscular, cupping, and craniosacral techniques. We aim to create a space for collaborative learning where your insights and autonomy are valued. Together, we can address any chronic holding patterns, movement and breathing restrictions, and post-op scar tissue while deepening body awareness and your personal connection to your body.
For the purposes of increasing range of motion, it is best to wait six weeks after surgery to receive manual therapy. However, light-touch craniosacral techniques can be used more immediately for nervous system regulation and relaxation.
There’s no strict time frame for experiencing the multidimensional healing bodywork offers, we welcome you at any point in your journey. We are committed to on-going learning, research, and gathering resources to expand what we can provide to the queer and trans community. Book with Madeyo below.
Auto-Immune and Chronic Illness
Every single person living with chronic illness have their own special recipe of needs, we recognize this and support as best we can. This can mean lots of bolstering and padding, trying different types of emollients based on feel or allergies, body temperature, and the amount and type of pressure applied. Our goal is to help support your body to live flare free. You can receive a massage during a flare, however, if your flare includes a fever or any type of systemic infection, we ask that you wait until that resolves.
Hyper-mobile Spectrum Disorder/Hyper-mobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Thanks to social media, EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) has become more and more visible recently. Patients and doctors are more aware of the complexity of the condition, and the daily struggles of the people who live with it. There 13 variations of EDS, many of them are very different from one another, but the common theme is collagen. The entire body is made of collagen so the condition can be very complex and wide spread throughout the body. Kim happens to have hEDS (h=hypermobile), so she has intimate knowledge of what happens to the body of someone living with hEDS/HSD (hypermobile spectrum disorder). Massage therapy can be very helpful in reducing the constant tension carried in the body, and reduce over all pain and discomfort. We avoid stretching joints to the end feel, but do use passive pin and stretching to help maintain mobility, and decrease stiffness in the joint to help support the integrity of the structure. We do not attempt to make any major structural changes or shifts to any one area all at once, there is a delicate balance of releasing a muscle, but not too much that will throw off all the hard work the body has been doing to keep itself held together.
Prenatal Massage
Pregnancy is a beautiful time in a persons life, but it can also be very difficult and quite uncomfortable for some. Massage can help ease the aches and pains of pregnancy throughout the entire 40+ weeks. When appropriate, we use the full body pregnancy cushions that allow you to lay face down for the treatment. This is not only a nice break from all the side-lying you’re doing, but also allows us to work more effectively on the back and hips which are often a huge source of discomfort.
Sessions are customized to each unique individual and may include connective tissue, neuromuscular, cupping, and craniosacral techniques. We aim to create a space for collaborative learning where your insights and autonomy are valued. Together, we can address any chronic holding patterns, movement and breathing restrictions, and post-op scar tissue while deepening body awareness and your personal connection to your body.
For the purposes of increasing range of motion, it is best to wait six weeks after surgery to receive manual therapy. However, light-touch craniosacral techniques can be used more immediately for nervous system regulation and relaxation.
There’s no strict time frame for experiencing the multidimensional healing bodywork offers, we welcome you at any point in your journey. We are committed to on-going learning, research, and gathering resources to expand what we can provide to the queer and trans community. Book with Madeyo below.
Auto-Immune and Chronic Illness
Every single person living with chronic illness have their own special recipe of needs, we recognize this and support as best we can. This can mean lots of bolstering and padding, trying different types of emollients based on feel or allergies, body temperature, and the amount and type of pressure applied. Our goal is to help support your body to live flare free. You can receive a massage during a flare, however, if your flare includes a fever or any type of systemic infection, we ask that you wait until that resolves.
Hyper-mobile Spectrum Disorder/Hyper-mobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Thanks to social media, EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) has become more and more visible recently. Patients and doctors are more aware of the complexity of the condition, and the daily struggles of the people who live with it. There 13 variations of EDS, many of them are very different from one another, but the common theme is collagen. The entire body is made of collagen so the condition can be very complex and wide spread throughout the body. Kim happens to have hEDS (h=hypermobile), so she has intimate knowledge of what happens to the body of someone living with hEDS/HSD (hypermobile spectrum disorder). Massage therapy can be very helpful in reducing the constant tension carried in the body, and reduce over all pain and discomfort. We avoid stretching joints to the end feel, but do use passive pin and stretching to help maintain mobility, and decrease stiffness in the joint to help support the integrity of the structure. We do not attempt to make any major structural changes or shifts to any one area all at once, there is a delicate balance of releasing a muscle, but not too much that will throw off all the hard work the body has been doing to keep itself held together.
Prenatal Massage
Pregnancy is a beautiful time in a persons life, but it can also be very difficult and quite uncomfortable for some. Massage can help ease the aches and pains of pregnancy throughout the entire 40+ weeks. When appropriate, we use the full body pregnancy cushions that allow you to lay face down for the treatment. This is not only a nice break from all the side-lying you’re doing, but also allows us to work more effectively on the back and hips which are often a huge source of discomfort.
