THERAPEUTIC TREATMENTS
Registered Massage Therapy*
Rachel Pfau, RMT/CFST / Matthew Toth, RMT
Massage effects change in the soft tissue of the body by decreasing muscle tension, soreness and pain, while also increasing range of motion in the joints. RMT’s incorporate techniques such as hydrotherapy, myofascial release and joint mobilization to break up adhesions due to injury and work on specific areas of skeletal and muscular misalignment. Massage can also be used as an effective form of relaxation.
Rachel Pfau, RMT/CFST
60 minutes – $90
90 minutes – $135
Matthew Toth – RMT
60 minutes – $80
90 minutes – $120
*Registered Massage Therapy is covered by most insurance plans.
Shiatsu*
Trinity Dempster, RMT / Tomo Murashita
In Shiatsu therapy the therapist applies pressure to specific points on the body using the fingers, palms and elbows. Using gentle, rhythmic pressure along the meridians (network of energy pathways), the Shiatsu therapist works to release energetic stagnation, restore harmony and stimulate the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Shiatsu can help relieve anxiety due to stress, boost the immune system, increase energy levels, improve digestion, stabilize emotion and psychological conditions, relieve back pain and headaches, provide benefits for pregnancy and childbirth and improve circulation.
Trinity Dempster, RMT
60 minutes – $90
90 minutes – $135
Tomo Murashita
60 minutes – $80
90 minutes – $100
*Registered Massage Therapy is covered by most insurance plans.
Therapeutic Yogassage
Kathryn Beet, ERYT 500 / Sarah Tomlinson, CNHP
Jessica Hinkson, CYT / Adrian Tasopoulos, CYT
Tomo Murashita, CYT
Releasing restrictions due to tension, injury and habitual holding, the practitioner guides the recipient through a series of restorative Yoga postures, applying various massage techniques to encourage the release of fascial constriction and essential oils to encourage deep breathing. Used to treat insomnia, anxiety, depression, back pain, chronic aches and stiffness. Deeply relaxing. Request gentle or deep work.
60 minutes – $80
90 minutes – $100
Semi-private – $50/$100
Thai Yoga Massage
Sarah Tomlinson, CNHP
In Thai massage the practitioner guides the recipient through a series of assisted Yoga postures while palming and thumbing along the body’s energy lines and pressure points. Together these actions result in an elegant, graceful treatment that relieves muscular tension, improves circulation, boosts the immune system and balances the body energetically.
60 minutes – $80
90 minutes – $100
Reflexology
Sarah Tomlinson, CNHP
Reflexology is a term that refers to the stimulation of the micro-systems of the hands, feet, or ears, which has an effect on all the glands, organs and other parts of the body. A micro-system is a part of the body that contains a reflection of the whole body. By applying pressure to the reflexes, one can boost the immune system, alleviate physical and emotional problems, as well as balancing the body and energy field.
60 minutes – $80
Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching
Janice Tomlinson, BA, RHN, CYT
This dynamic approach to health works on all levels; physical, mental and emotional. Nutrition assessments help identify key nutrients that the body requires to heal while determining which foods are hampering health. Lifestyle counselling addresses the deeply rooted mental and emotional patterns that may be perpetuating destructive food choices. All the programs are unique and customized to meet each client’s specific needs and preferences.
60 minute initial consultation – $80
30 minute follow up – $40
Ayurvedic Consultations
Matthew Remski
The best evidence shows that the holy trinity of preventative and supportive health consists of proper diet, adequate exercise, and stress reduction. Ayurveda focuses on how these three can speak most efficiently through the medium of a person’s constitution. Constitution cannot be concretely defined, but gleaned from the holistic analysis of physique, drives, social context, development, and emotional and mental patterning. Assessing what a person needs begins with beginning to understand who a person is and is becoming.
“Stress reduction” is the broadest category. Ayurveda addresses all stressful relationships: to food, to time, to family, to culture, to technology, to the earth, to one’s own self-narrative.
Underneath its technique, ayurveda performs the important function of speaking to a recently-buried layer of consciousness. Its lore arises from the majority experience of our history: the hundreds of millennia prior to books and science, when we relied on intuition, mythology, and dreams to forge connection of balance and meaning.
Ayurveda reminds the postmodern person of a time when her internal climate mirrored her external climate in a language she could intuit and add to. A time when she was, in a word, possessed by nature and its evident rhythms. This experience is still within us, but is now starved for attention. Ayurveda treats the ancient person within.
Ayurvedic consults begin with chart, hand, pulse, structure and tongue analysis, inquiry into the presenting issue, inquiry into underlying issues that might be obscured by the present complaint, and then dialogue about the general context in which Ayurveda would view the circumstance, along with instruction in general balancing measures, including daily routine and dietary suggestions, if there is time. This is a very good way to get your feet wet in a whole new ocean of integrated self-inquiry.
At least 2 days before meeting, clients are asked to send a short blurb to contact@matthewremski.com
Exact birth time, date, and location: certificate proof is best1
Relevant health history
Pressing concerns
A 3-day journal (bridging weekdays and weekend) of food intake and waking/working/sleeping hours
60 minutes – $90
All fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars.