Intuitive Massage

Swedish-Esalen massage is a nurturing massage, extremely beneficial for releasing tension and stress. Swedish-Esalen is an expanded form of Swedish massage which has a more flowing technique intended to soothe and relax the body and increase circulation and lymphatic flow. Sometimes deeper work is employed if necessary. Mardi provides a safe space for you to relax, allowing for you to be quiet and go deep inside yourself.

Deep Tissue Massage:

Deep Tissue is a very deep approach to muscular release, each muscle group receives isolated attention. The movement is very slow, and each muscle is "sculpted" around and through, to loosen the muscles from each other, and any adhesions to bones or tendons. This experience can be very intense, not to exceed your comfort level, and highly effective. This modality is especially useful for clients with injuries, chronic pain, stiffness, inflexibility, or athletic builds who need a stronger massage.

For some people, especially if they've never had deep work done, this can also be emotional as old tissue memory is released. Mardi holds space for the client to let these memories and emotions come out, it is part of the healing process.

Deep Tissue allows the body to be sculpted into new correct positioning and posture, but more than one session is often necessary for lasting results. The client will need to take active participation in body consciousness in order to correct old patterns. Deep Tissue opens up restrictions in old tissue patterns to allow for the change, but the change has to be affected by the client.

Reiki is a form of energy work that is pure healing energy transmitted through the hands. The healing energy works on whereever it is most needed in the body. It is easily incorporated into any massage session and is particularly useful in sore, injured, or tender areas which are too sensitive to receive pressure. Reiki can also be received as a session without the bodywork, and is a transformative healing for body and spirit, promoting deep relaxation, rejuvenation, balancing, and awareness.

Mardi teams up with Sound Healer Travis Wernet to provide a truly transcendental experience - a sound healing while you are receiving a massage. Travis uses the Didjeridu and Tibetan bowls intuitively tailored for your needs.

Didjeridu is an ancient Australian Aboriginal instrument, whose use dates back at least 40, ooo years. This music comes out of a deep vibration in the breath, sometimes called the Sound of Creation. In a healing context, the sound of the didjeridu helps to invite the recipient into a field of frequency waves that are akin to the brain states of meditators engaged in delta wave consciousness. Traditional Aboriginal People hold that Music and Storytelling connect us with 'the Dreaming', the active relationship we each bear with the Soul, our Ancestors and the Earth and all the Elements that make up the matrix of the natural world which supprts and surrounds us. The use of didjeridu in Sound Healing supports such memory, bearing and connection and can help us to find a center within where we can feel the way we are held by Life.