Finding the Best Massage Modality that Works for You

In-Home Massage in Jupiter, Florida

I’ve been receiving massage & bodywork since I was 12 years old. I’ve experienced a whole gambit of modalities from Myofascial Release to Deep Tissue to Thai Massage to Visceral Manipulation to Cranial Sacral to Rolfing.

I’ve met many practitioners and educators who whole heartedly believe that their modality is THE way and the healing cure to all body pain.

And sure, some modalities have hit harder for me at certain times AND I’ve had just as profound healing sessions with visceral manipulation as I have with a deep tissue massage.

If you are sitting there, trying to figure out what is the best modality for you and your body right now, here’s my answer:

I believe each modality has its medicine, its place and time AND all modalities will ultimately bring you closer to you.

I believe that the level of attunement that the practitioner has for you and your body can play a major factor in being able to access your larger energetic and emotional patterns that are at the root of your body pain and dis-ease.

Each practitioner has their own style and years of practice with each modality, so it can be a patient process of trial and error to know who and what is jiving with you and your system by experiencing them for yourself.

It also depends on what is going on in your system at the time. Your system might need soft and subtle touch, or it might need deep and broad pressure to take you into deeper relationship with your body.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

Massage can be a soft landing place for your tender emotional states with nourishing, gentle and loving touch. Massage can shift the way you show up for your bodying yourself in those sensitive moments.

Bodywork can be much needed structural and organ work that can alter the functioning of your body and bring an inner peace and new levels of mobility and postural support you didn't know were possible for you.

Your massage & bodywork journey really comes down to educating yourself and listening to your discernment and inner guidance to feel into what and who feels like a yes in this phase, and what doesn’t.

No matter what modality you choose, massage & bodywork creates a space for you to melt into yourself.

It gives you an hour or two without distractions and with full focused attention and awareness to your body and all its layers.

It provides the most basic human need of touch that can bring powerful healing when you are receptive, listening and tracking your body.

Because ultimately, healing is coming home to yourself.

In our sessions together, I listen to your preferences and your body and allow my intuition and hands to dance with your system and discern which modality works best in each moment.

Mana Lomi, Thai Massage, Myofascial Release, and Visceral Manipulation are just a few of the modalities I work with in my massage and bodywork sessions. 

Learn more about my services here.

~ Jillian xx