Gentle and Sensitive Therapeutic Massage:
When administered consciously and skillfully, touch has enormous power to ease discomfort, relax the body, calm the mind and lift the spirit. It offers reassurance and support to those who are anxious and troubled. It helps restore a sense of worth and value to those who are frail of body and mind. Medical research has shown that the benefits of massage include pain relief, reduced trait anxiety and depression, and temporarily reduced blood pressure.
From the book: From the Heart through the Hands- The power of touch in caregiving By: Dawn Nelson
Reiki:
Translation for Reiki and pronounced RAYKEY – (rei): meaning unseen or spiritual and ki(key): meaning chi/energy or life force. Developed by Mikao Usui in 1922/Japan. This Energy Therapy or complementary therapy is for the treatment of physical, emotional and mental disease.
Reflexology:
Is the practice of massaging, squeezing or pushing on parts of the feet, or sometimes the hands and ears, with the goal of encouraging a beneficial effect and correlates to the other parts of the body, or to improve the general health of the client/patient.
Aromatherapy:
Is the use of pure essential oils for enhancement of body, mind and spirit.
Breema Bodywork:
Breema Bodywork uses nurturing touch, tension-relieving stretches and rhythmic movements to create physical, mental and emotional balance, in an atmosphere of harmony and nonjudgement.
Becky Russon, LMT
As a Massage Therapist in Hospice, I have had so many wonderful experiences with the patients and their families. I feel so blessed to have known these wonderful people and especially during this time in their life, to help bring them a little bit of peace and comfort. I am so grateful for this in my life!
One of my first clients was in end-stage bone cancer. His devoted girlfriend kept him clean and fed his body, fed his soul. She sought out someone who could help and called hospice. I came in about 2 months before he made his 'celestial departure' (as they say at Children's Hospital) as his Breema therapist. Towards the end, he would call me and ask me to come over as the morphine couldn't dull all the pain, and sleep was difficult. I would always assure him that I'd be right over to put my hands on him, and he would fall asleep right away, knowing that gentle touch therapy was on its way. He benefited greatly from others' modalities; also music and art therapies.
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