Welcome to JC Massage Studio

Swedish massage called a “classic massage,” the Swedish massage is one of the most offered techniques to promote relaxation by releasing muscle tension. Because Swedish massage is gentler than deep tissue massage, it’s better suited for people interested in tension relief and relaxation. If you sit at a computer for long stretches or retain a lot of tension in your lower back, shoulders, or neck, Swedish massage is perfect for you. It loosens up tight muscles caused by daily activities or exercising.

With a traditional Swedish massage, which involves the whole body, we’ll position you either on your stomach or your back, and then at the halfway point, we’ll rotate you to your other side. Because we want you to be delighted with your results, you can ask your massage therapist to use light, medium, or firm pressure, depending on your preferences. You can ask your therapist to spend more time in some regions of concern, such as a tight neck or lower muscle pain.

If you have a repetitive injury to a muscle or are prone to injuries because of an active lifestyle, Sports massage is ideal for you. It can help prevent sports injuries because it increases flexibility and performance. Sports massage can be used to relieve pain, anxiety, and muscle tension.

As with any of our massages, our sports massage can be full-body or focused on the body parts you feel need the most attention. Depending on your needs, deep pressure may be alternated with soothing strokes.

How we perform your sports massage is your choice: clothed or naked. If you prefer dressed, make sure what you wear is thin and loose and allows the therapist access to your muscles. Loose shorts and a tank top are acceptable.

Medical & Sports Massage Certification

With Trigger point massage (TPM), we focus on tightness in the muscle tissues that cause chronic pain in other body parts.

With TPM, our therapists soften a muscle knot to reduce or eliminate the pain. We do this by rubbing and pressing your muscle knots at various pressure levels and then stretching the areas through a complete range of motion. You may experience both discomfort and relief throughout the massage.

Trigger Points Massage Certification

With the Lomi Lomi massage, our therapists use broad, flowing, dance-like strokes with their fingers, thumbs, palms, forearms, and elbows.

Also known as “loving hands massage,” this traditional Hawaiian treatment combines massage techniques, nut oils, and breathing to soothe the body.

‘Lomi Lomi’ translates to ‘rub rub’ in Hawaiian. It’s only fitting that we use Macadamia, palm, and coconut oils as moisturizers to keep the strokes smooth and to nourish the skin.

Our therapists massage two parts of your body simultaneously – for example, massaging a hip with one hand or forearm while simultaneously using the other hand or forearm on your shoulder. Our therapists gently stretch the muscles and rotate the joints.

Like other massage types, Lomi Lomi offers the physical benefits of relaxing muscles, promoting circulation, and releasing blocked energy, adopting the Hawaiian belief that “loving hands” help release physical tension and spiritual and emotional blockages.

Prenatal massages are designed for the anatomical changes that occur during pregnancy. After the first trimester, as long as you get your practitioner’s approval and you tell your massage therapist you’re pregnant, prenatal massages are generally considered safe.

During a prenatal massage, don’t expect deep tissue work on your legs. But on other parts of your body, the pressure can be as firm, as deep, or as gentle as you’d like. While gentle pressure is safe (and can feel wonderful!), pregnant women are particularly susceptible to blood clots, which deep massage work can dislodge. And that can be risky.

The benefits of prenatal or pregnancy massages are many: they not only help you relax, but they may also relieve leg cramping, insomnia, neck and back pain, joint pain, and sciatica. Additionally, they can reduce common pregnancy problems such as swelling in your hands and feet (if that swelling isn’t a result of preeclampsia), alleviate headaches and sinus congestion, relieve carpal tunnel pain, and lift depression.

Prenatal Certification

Lymphatic Drainage Massage (LDM) is a gentle massage that encourages the movement and drainage of lymph fluids that help remove waste and toxins from the bodily tissues. While some health conditions can cause lymph fluid to build up, LDM can reduce swelling and improve circulation throughout the lymphatic system while benefiting people with fibromyalgia, lymphedema, and other conditions. Lymphatic drainage massage is usually combined with a treatment program called decongestive lymphatic therapy (DLT).

If you have circulation problems, infections, congestive heart failure, kidney problems, or blood clots, you should avoid a lymphatic massage. If you have medical conditions, please talk to your doctor before trying an LDM.

Lymphatic Massage Certification

For cancer patients, our technicians offer a customized oncology massage is designed to reduce the stress, pain, anxiety, and short- and long-term side effects of radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery. Other benefits may include reducing fatigue, nausea, and depression.

Oncology massage is not a treatment but a complementary therapy. And because cancer presents itself to each patient uniquely, our treatment is tailored to your specific needs.

Our oncology massages minimize the late effects for post-cancer patients, with your comfort and safety our top priority.

Before your visit, please complete an Oncology Intake Form. In some cases, a Physician’s Approval Form from your oncologist will be necessary.

Cupping is a unique massage technique that uses plastic cups to create local suction on the skin to facilitate healing. This therapy increases blood circulation wherever the cups are placed. Increased blood flow relieves tension in the muscles and promotes cell repair. It helps form new connective tissue by creating new blood vessels in the tissue.

Cupping therapy can also lift restrictive connective tissues, loosen adhesions, and soften tight muscles and tone. This technique brings blood flow and hydration to the body’s tissues. It can drain excess toxins and fluid by opening lymphatic pathways and moving deep inflammation to the skin surface for release. While cupping is more suited to larger muscles, if there is a seal between the skin and cup, this therapy can be used over any body region.

If you have skin conditions (including eczema and psoriasis), blood clotting problems (such as deep vein thrombosis), a bleeding disorder (like hemophilia), or a history of strokes, we’ll recommend another massage other than cupping.

To reduce inflammation or chronic pain, such as arthritis and fibromyalgia, and those that trigger muscle and joint pain, we use a traditional Chinese healing therapy called gua sha .

Our professionally trained therapists use a smooth-edged stone-like gua sha massage tool to press and stroke your skin.

We often perform gua sha therapy alongside other complementary treatments like heat therapy, acupuncture, massage, and herbal medicine. We apply oil on your body to prepare you for treatment and then scrape your skin in long, downward strokes with the gua sha massage tool. This motion raises small, red, rash-like dots called petechiae that show under your skin. Gradually, we will add more pressure to the strokes, but only as much as you’re comfortable with.

While gua sha is generally considered safe, this therapy may cause temporary bruising and discoloration of your skin, and you may be sore and tender for a short time. If you’re taking medicine for blood clots, we’ll recommend another equally beneficial therapy instead.

This therapy is most commonly used on: backs, buttocks, necks, arms, and legs.

Gua Sha Certification

Foot Reflexology applies the belief that if you do something to one part of the body, it’s possible to cause a reaction in another region. Our therapists will apply pressure to particular points on your feet that correspond with your muscles, tissues, glands, and organs elsewhere in your body. This improves blood and oxygen circulation, stimulates healing around the body, and relieves stress and pain in other body parts.

At first, this technique may feel unusual and even a little overwhelming. But as our therapists apply pressure to your feet, pain can be dissolved, and tension can be released quickly.

After your session, you may feel relaxed, even desiring a nap or long bath. Or, you may be energized. However, you feel, you will feel a release of tension.

Note: Reflexology is not a foot massage. While our reflexologists may massage your feet to help you relax before they begin, they will then apply firm pressure to specific pressure points on your foot.

Reflexology Certification

Unlike a full table massage, where you lay flat on a surface, with chair massage you kneel in a chair equipped with a pad and face cradle to support your head and chest. You will then be seated face-forward in the chair, adjusting for comfort. As with all our massage options, our therapists will discuss your session goals and any physical limitations we need to know about.

Because large muscle groups support smaller muscles that are often the pain sites, our therapists will begin with the large muscle groups in the upper back before migrating toward your lower arms, neck, shoulders, and back. Once we begin, our therapists may recommend different massages based on your physical responses and what they believe will feel best.

We combine aromatherapy (the addition of powerful essential oils) with other massages to help reduce the anxiety and tension you may be experiencing. We believe this combination can be transformative.

With aromatherapy, you will be relaxed by a lovely calming smell. As this smell penetrates your skin and quickly moves into your bloodstream, you’ll experience a loosening of your muscle pains and suppressed tension. As the physical effects of the smells and oil on your body travel through your nasal passage to your brain to help you relax, you may feel the urge to nap, and that’s fine with us.

We have found that aromatherapy massage is ideal for eczema, digestive woes, sleep problems, and period pain. Note: Due to the power of the essential oils, we don’t recommend this therapy if you are pregnant or have kidney problems.

Aromatherapy Certification

Many of our clients prefer a hot stone massage to help relax and ease tense muscles and damaged soft tissues throughout their bodies. Heat helps increase blood flow to an affected area, and for centuries has been used to relieve spasms and increase flexibility and range of motion.

During this therapy, smooth, flat, heated stones are placed on specific parts of your body. Adding hot salt stones to a massage introduces heat, which relaxes the muscles and improves circulation. We use Himalayan salt stones, which contain 84 naturally occurring minerals and salts. We heat the stones to between 130 and 145 degrees.

Sometimes, cold stones are also used after a hot stone massage to calm any engorged blood vessels and soothe the skin reducing inflammation. Depending on your symptoms, alternating hot and cold stones during your massage may be helpful.

This therapy is most used for reducing or eliminating insomnia, stress, and muscle tension. If you are experiencing a painful chronic condition, adding Himalayan hot salt stones therapy to your massage can be quite beneficial.