Mission
Angelique's mission is to help you achieve your goals for optimal health and well-being. Her full range of professional bodywork techniques can be tailored to help you toward physical fitness, mental and emotional well-being, and relief from chronic pain and adjustment to lifestyle changes.
What Breakthrough Bodywork Does and the Benefits
Angelique will incorporate the fundamentals of Swedish massage along with deep tissue, neuromuscular, myofascial and trigger point therapies in all of your massages as needed. Massage and bodywork can help:
• Release chronic muscular tension and pain
• Increase joint flexibility
• Reduce mental and physical fatigue
• Reduce stress
• Promote faster healing of muscular tissue
• Improve posture and reduce blood pressure
Massage and bodywork are also known to promote better sleep, improve concentration, reduce anxiety and create an overall sense of well-being.
• Release chronic muscular tension and pain
• Increase joint flexibility
• Reduce mental and physical fatigue
• Reduce stress
• Promote faster healing of muscular tissue
• Improve posture and reduce blood pressure
Massage and bodywork are also known to promote better sleep, improve concentration, reduce anxiety and create an overall sense of well-being.
Cupping Massage
Cupping Massage is the combination of massage movements and negative pressure with the use of a suction device on the skin. A cup is positioned at the area to be treated and, depending on the type of cups being used; a vacuum is created within the cup to draw the skin and underlying tissue into the cup. The produced vacuum creates a suction effect that increases blood and lymphatic circulation systemically and to the local area, relaxes muscle tissue and support, draws stagnation, pathogenic factors and toxins out of the body and releases a myriad of pain causing factors.
The intended suction can range from light to heavy. This, along with the movements performed and areas treated by the therapist will produce stimulating (toning) or sedating (draining) effects. It is very important that therapists be able to effectively assess the condition (physical, mental and emotional) of their clients, before the procedure, so they employ the proper application of the cups to produce the desired outcome.
Conditions responding to cupping therapy include:
What are the marks or discolorations that sometimes occur as a result from Cupping Therapy?
One of the common and unfortunate misconceptions concerning cupping is the misinterpretation of the discoloration. “Bruising” is caused by impact trauma with breakage of capillaries and reactionary rush of fluids to the damaged area from the tissue compression/injury. There is no compression in properly employed suction cup therapy. Although it is quite common during Stationary Cupping (cups which are left static for 5 - 20 minutes) to achieve dramatic 'marks' or 'discolorations', the less aggressive action of moving the cups, minimizes the intensity and duration of the discolorations.
Often, when a condition exists within deeper structures where sufficient pathologic factors and stagnant fluids (toxins, blood and lymph) are dredged up during treatment, discoloration will appear on the skin. This is the therapeutically desired effect – the more this is visible, the greater the level of stagnation and toxicity. The discoloration will fade over a few days. As treatments cumulate and the release of stagnation and buildup has been thixolated, dispersed and drained – (usually by the 3rd or 4th treatment) no discoloration is likely to occur at all. Even though each time the cupping may have been focused on the same area for the same duration and with the same amount of negative pressure. This is clearly the result of having internal unwanted toxins systematically purged.
The intended suction can range from light to heavy. This, along with the movements performed and areas treated by the therapist will produce stimulating (toning) or sedating (draining) effects. It is very important that therapists be able to effectively assess the condition (physical, mental and emotional) of their clients, before the procedure, so they employ the proper application of the cups to produce the desired outcome.
Conditions responding to cupping therapy include:
- Colds & Influenza
- Headaches
- Arthritis
- Intercostal Neuralgia
- Intestinal disorders
- Sciatica
- High blood pressure, stroke and arteriosclerosis
- Bronchial asthma & congestion
- Gynecological disorders
- Dispels colds and respiratory infections
- Relieves gastrointestinal symptoms such as stomachache, vomiting and diarrhea
- Dermatological disorders
- Depression
- Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Anxiety & insomnia
- Post-injury trauma
- Post-surgery adhesions
- Cellulite
- Musculo-skeletal problems: pain, spasms, cramps, tightness, numbness, stiffness of the back and neck
- Chronic gastric pain
- Menopausal discomforts
- Activates the skin, clears stretch marks and wrinkles and improves varicose veins
What are the marks or discolorations that sometimes occur as a result from Cupping Therapy?
One of the common and unfortunate misconceptions concerning cupping is the misinterpretation of the discoloration. “Bruising” is caused by impact trauma with breakage of capillaries and reactionary rush of fluids to the damaged area from the tissue compression/injury. There is no compression in properly employed suction cup therapy. Although it is quite common during Stationary Cupping (cups which are left static for 5 - 20 minutes) to achieve dramatic 'marks' or 'discolorations', the less aggressive action of moving the cups, minimizes the intensity and duration of the discolorations.
Often, when a condition exists within deeper structures where sufficient pathologic factors and stagnant fluids (toxins, blood and lymph) are dredged up during treatment, discoloration will appear on the skin. This is the therapeutically desired effect – the more this is visible, the greater the level of stagnation and toxicity. The discoloration will fade over a few days. As treatments cumulate and the release of stagnation and buildup has been thixolated, dispersed and drained – (usually by the 3rd or 4th treatment) no discoloration is likely to occur at all. Even though each time the cupping may have been focused on the same area for the same duration and with the same amount of negative pressure. This is clearly the result of having internal unwanted toxins systematically purged.
