Freedom To Move Massage Therapy

Our Story

Besides Therapeutic Massage, Shirley has been educated in the following modalities to enhance the treatments she gives to her clients.
Visceral Manipulation:
An integrative approach to evaluation and treatment of a patient requires assessment of the structural relationships between the viscera, and their fascial or ligamentous attachments to the musculoskeletal system. Strains in the connective tissue of the viscera can result from surgical scars, adhesions, illness, posture or injury.
Tension patterns form through the fascial network deep within the body, creating a cascade of effects far from their sources for which the body will have to compensate. This creates fixed, abnormal points of tension that the body must move around, and this chronic irritation gives way to functional and structural problems.
Imagine an adhesion around the lungs. It would create a modified axis that demands abnormal accommodations from nearby body structures. For example, the adhesion could alter rib motion, which could then create imbalanced forces on the vertebral column and, with time, possibly develop a dysfunctional relationship with other structures. This scenario highlights just one of hundreds of possible ramifications of a small dysfunction - magnified by thousands of repetitions each day.
~written by Jean-Pierre Barral

*Reiki Master and Teacher
*Ortho-Bionomy Practitioner
*Hot Stone Massage Therapy
*Lymphatic Drainage Therapy
*6 Levels of CranioSacral Therapy
*NLP and Time Line Therapy Practitioner
*Reflexology

She is a member in good standing with the College of Massage Therapist of Ontario (CMTO).

Shirley is also a Medallion Member of the International Association of Health Professional.