Body Connect

✨G I V E A W A Y ✨

We’re giving one lucky winner the chance to win a 60 minute massage with Trina, valued at $110. 
2024 is going to be a big year, so leave those aches and pains behind!

To enter:
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🗓️DRAWN ON 14/05/24🗓️

T&Cs
-Clinic location is Lower Hutt, Wellington
-Voucher valid for 6 months
-Can be gifted
-Winner announced on our stories

This giveaway is not endorsed, sponsored, promoted by or associated with Instagram or Facebook.

Maybe one day, massage will have a subsidy, but for now Southern Cross Health Insurance is one of the only options to have treatments covered. Check your policies to see if you have this option 📃

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Southern Cross Health Society

🎄What a YEAR! 🎄

~ It was a big push fitting all my awesome clients in before I have a much needed 2 weeks off!

~ A massive THANK YOU to everyone for the great chats, interesting puzzles the body presented, and letting me do what I love!

~ I will see you all again in the New Year from the 9th of Jan 🤘🏽 Have a lovely break!

#2022

👀 Massage techniques 👀

Cross fibre technique is a deep friction directed across the muscle belly or tendon. Generally preformed slow, deep and specific, the aim is to:

💃🏼Create movement💃🏼

With many layers of tissue between the epidermal (top) layer of the skin and the underlying muscles, it is likely that muscles will become ‘stuck’ and feel rigid.

Through this movement we can stimulate the muscle to help:

👉🏼Reduce/ prevent adhesion formation 
👉🏼Pain relief 
👉🏼Nerve stimulation
👉🏽Increase range of motion

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Not long now!🎄

How has this year flown by so fast?!

𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱- 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝟵𝘁𝗵

‼️VERY limited spots available in Lower Hutt at Body of Work
❗️Appointments in December still available at

Don’t wait til next year to put your body first!

💆🏼‍♀️Bliss💆🏼‍♀️

What better way to finish off a treatment with a soothing head massage!

Do you like your head massaged? Ask to have it included next time!

🖤𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄 🖤

Is incredibly important to maintain BALANCE in mental and physical wellbeing.

Too often our own health and well-being is low on the priority list due busy lifestyles, cost, time and priorities ⏰

Massage therapy is an amazing self-care option to invest in, it allows your body to reach a level of relaxation that is restorative and healing for the mind and body. Working with the nervous system to lower stress levels, muscle pain and sensitivity.

✨Are you ready to put YOURSELF first?✨

💦 Hydration 💦

Water is a key ingredient that our body uses to maintain function of all systems within the body.

Hydrating post massage is encouraged not because it will flush out toxins or lactic acid, but because our muscles perform better when fully hydrated, that is the ultimate goal after a massage session.

🦵🏽Grastrocnemius and Soleus🦵🏽

Both of these dominant calf muscles are considered POSTURAL muscles.

➡️ Fight gravitational pull
➡️ Are in constant use
➡️ Have a tendency to have a shorter testing length and prone to tightness
➡️ Have a readiness to act

Considering the amount of work these muscles do on a daily basis without the added physical activity, are you looking after them as well as you could be?

Massage is a wonderful tool to add to your recovery routine to reduce muscle shortening and fatigue 💆🏼‍♀️

🔴 Erythema 🔴
(during a massage)

Superficial skin redness is a very good sign that heat is being generated which is transferred to the tissues via the friction on the skin from the therapist’s hand/elbows/fingers.

This heat causes the blood vessel in the area to dilate leading to an increase in blood circulation in the area.

It doesn’t last long and will likely fade soon after the treatment.

This is not a one answer fits all, its about what is right for you!
🥸The short answer is, as often as you’d like!
🥸The long answer depends on many factors including the type of massage you are having, your discomfort and physical needs and your stress and emotional needs. Depending on the presenting concern, options can be discussed to ensure you achieve the optimal goals!

Feel like it’s been too long? ⏱

My favourite technique to use on the upper trapezius muscle 🤌🏻

The ‘grab and roll’ is effective to create movement in the upper fibres which are quite often bound tightly by built up tension.

Do you find yourself constantly squeezing your shoulders for relief?
✨Book in to see me!✨

Body Connect is now on Instagram👀
Head over to @𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲.𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭_𝐦𝐭 to check it out and don't forget to follow along! 🗣

Massage spots available on Friday @ HealthFit Wellington. DM to secure yours today or head to www.healthfitcollective.co.nz to book!

Dry needling!

I am very excited to announce that I am now qualified to offer dry needling to clients! It has been a long awaited goal of mine to add this modality to my tool kit. Thank you to Advanced Clinical Education for an amazing course!

Some benefits from dry needling are:

✅Gentle treatment for hyper-irritable trigger points
✅Releasing myofascial trigger points
✅Increases blood flow to the treated area
✅Promotes a healing response
✅Balances pH levels in the area

ℹ️If this is something you would like to know more about feel free to have a read of this information sheet https://1drv.ms/w/s!AhpQHT1-xECB8i7IoBiHs843A870?e=EzZpeo

Otherwise, feel free to message me for more information! Appointments will aim to go live in the next week at both Body of Work and HealthFit Wellington, so stay tuned!

✨Escape✨

Always make time to escape your busy lives with a weekend, a day or longer, away! A change of scenery and pace can leave you feeling refreshed.

Winter is almost over, who else is counting down the days until Spring? 🌸

What a day! Such a buzz to be finally back out in the community with the brave warriors who battled the winter elements at the Gazley Volkswagen Wellington Marathon! 🏃🏼‍♀️

See you again in 2023 with the wonderful team at Healthfit Collective.

🔔TAKEN🔔

Good Morning! What a peaceful day it's shaping up to be.

I have a spot at 𝟭𝟭:𝟰𝟱𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵 available @ Body of Work for a new or returning client.

If you'd like to start your week off doing something for YOU, then either comment below for send me a message! 💆🏽‍♀️

Wellington Marathon! 🏃🏼‍♀️

After a long couple of years its back. What's more exciting is that Healthfit Collective is offering a recovery zone at the finish line.

Coaches will be there to take you through a stretching/ mobilising routine and a group of therapists will be offering post-event sports massages.

$15 for a 15 minute massage, with eftpos available. Recovery is important no matter what race you entered!

Sign up will be on the day at the end of the race 😄

See you there!!