Massage Services by Gitana Smith L.M.T.

  • Swedish Relaxation Massage

    This treatment is a must if you are looking to relax and unwind, while releasing muscle tension. During this treatment you will experience, kneading of sore muscles, long gliding strokes that stretch and release tension. Deep circular movements that will loosen your stress knots, and passive joint mobilization to help everything to become free flowing.

  • Deep Tissue Massage

    This therapy is a deep muscle miracle. The Therapist applies deep pressure with her hands, forearms, and elbows to reach the deep muscle layers. Both, passive & active stretching is added to help with stubborn pain areas. This treatment facilitates healing by releasing contracted areas of muscles. It helps increase blood flow and reduce inflammation.

  • Therapeutic Prenatal Massage

    Prenatal Massage can help relieve aches and pains caused by pregnancy in your back, neck, while also addressing leg pain. Fewer aches and pains can lead to a better nights sleep, improve circulation, help reduce nervous tension, and anxiety. This therapy aims to relax muscle tension, improve lymphatic and blood circulation, as well as reduce swelling in the joints during pregnancy.

  • Sports Athletic Enhancement

    This treatment is the choice of Athletes, Coaches, & Sports Physical Therapist. It assist in effecting an Athlete’s psychological readiness, it enhances sports performance, in recovery from exercise and competition, and the treatment of sports related musculoskeletal injuries. It reduces muscle fatigue, prevents cramping and increases flexibility and improve endurance. Treatment includes, cupping, myofascial scraping, active and passive stretching & compression with hot towels.

  • Foot Reflexology

    This therapy uses a targeted, pressure point massage to restore the flow of energy throughout the body. Specific reflex points on the foot are stimulated to induce a healing response in corresponding organs & areas of the body. Kneading the soles of the feet, pulling toes, tracing & releasing tight tendons, and deep pressure on reflex points help clear any channels of blocked energy. This treatment includes Peppermint Oil & hot aroma towels. The feet up to the knees and hands up to the elbows are worked.

  • Hot Stone Massage

    Hot Stone Massage is deeply detoxifying and profoundly relaxing. By combining massage with hot stones, the circulatory system is both stimulated and relaxed. This treatment promotes the release of toxins from the muscles, assisting the body in self-healing. In addition, tense muscles are also softened and eased by the deeply penetrating heat of the stones. Pain and muscle spasms are banished and a feeling of peacefulness and spiritual well-being takes hold. The combined effect prompts a state of enhanced relaxation that washes away stress and sets the stage for re-energizing and rejuvenating the body, mind and spirit.

  • Sacral Chakra Hot/Cold Stone Therapy

    Using heat-absorbing basalt, pink marble and jade stones our hot/cold stone massage combines elements of the earth with a grounding human touch that soothes muscles and increases circulation with the release of heat through both the massage and the stone. Many ancient cultures have used the healing power of stones for medicinal and spiritual purposes. It is believed that stones are filled with the vitality and energy of the water that flows over them in the stream. Harnessing the properties of the stones, we bathe them in warm water, anoint them with healing aromas and place them on key energy points of your body, to balance the spirit. The deep penetrating heat of the volcanic basalt stone is combined with traditional massage and aromatherapy techniques to release muscular tension. Enveloped in warmth, you can achieve a deeper dimension of relaxation, to harmonize your energy and invoke a meditative state. Crystals are also be included along your chakras for their balancing and healing effect...A clearing Herbal Smudge is used to clear negative ions in the energetic body. While a warmed customized aromatherapy blend is used to oil the body before working the stones along muscles and the meridians and energy points of the body. This therapy goes beyond the Physical experience of typical massage, and enters deeper dimensions of relaxation, health and spiritual well-being, creating a positive approach to "Body-Mind-Spirit" philosophy.

  • Myofascial Release Therapy

    Myofascial Release is an effective hands-on therapy which can directly change and improve health of the fascia. The purpose of Myofascial Release is to break down scar tissue, relax the muscle and myofascia and restore good posture. Myofascial Release techniques focus on relaxing the deep tissue of the body providing lasting and effective relief to the client. M.F.R. techniques is applied directly on the body and uses slow and sometimes deep pressure to restore the proper health of the fascia. Myofascial Release therapy has been used effectively for: Low back pain, Headaches, Neck stiffness, Shoulder injuries, Arthritic conditions, Sports injuries, Physical Trauma to Areas of the Body, etc.. The benefits includes: Reduction in muscle spasms, Improved joint movement, Decreased muscle and fascial tension, Improved breathing, Reduction in chronic recurring injuries. The techniques of M.F.R therapy help to re-organize and lengthen the tight tissue allowing for better movement and health to the tissue.

Add on services:

Headache Relief Session

(25 mins)

This session includes an oil free scalp, neck, and face massage. Aromatherapy oils may be used depending on your needs for the session.

Myofascial Scraping

(Graston Technique)

After injury or trauma to a muscle, it is common to have build up of unneeded cells, scar tissue & fascial restrictions. This creates stiffness in the muscles which impairs function and mobility. The increase in blood flow, which is promoted by scraping, speeds up the removal of scar tissue & restrictions, thus restoring function and range of motion. 


TMJ Massage

(25min)

A unique combination of TMJ Myofascial Release techniques, massage, trigger point therapy and Cranial Sacral Therapy are used to help relieve jaw pain, headaches, migraines, sinusitis, tinnitus, & facial pain. Therapist use a gloved hand to work inside the mouth to reach the Masseter, and other jaw muscles.


Cold Stone Face Therapy

Designed to refresh your senses, this upgrade includes placing hot towels on the face to stimulate circulation, followed by cold stones that are used to reduce inflammation. Essential oils are then added to help relieve stress. This enhancement is excellent for treating sinus, headache, and TMJ problems and is available as an add-on to your massage.

Ultimate Head, Neck, Face, Shoulder Massage (25 min)

This treatment releases tension in the head, neck & shoulders. To reduce pain & inflammation from stress, headaches, migraines. Areas addressed, shoulders, neck, scalp and face. This is a great add on Therapy, it includes Trigger Point Therapy, Cranial Sacral Release, Essential Oil, & Hot Aroma Towel Wrap. Makes a great add on treatment.

Cupping Therapy

Cupping is a therapy which decompresses soft tissue using suction. During cupping therapy the cups gently sucks to your tissues and lifts myofascial layers to provide tension release. Cupping benefits the body by releasing scar tissue & fascial adhesions, reduces painful trigger points, improves circulation, blood & lymph circulation, promotes mobility and range of motion to help relieve chronic pain.

Signature Foot Ritual

Reflexology massage with warm peppermint infused Himalayan Salt Foot Scrub, Hot Aroma Towels, Table Top Therapy

Meditation & Rest (15 mins)

During snooze appointments, your therapist will leave the room to allow you to meditate quietly, nap or listen to a guided meditation. 

Energy Therapies

Reiki Healing

Reiki is a gentle form of natural hands-on or above the body in the energy field, energy based healing that promotes relaxation, reduces stress and anxiety through a gentle laying on of hands. The practitioner uses her hands to deliver energy to the body, improving the flow and balance of your energy to support your healing. This universal life force energy therapy can help with chronic pain, stress-related illness & digestive problems. 


Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle hands-on technique that uses light touch to examine membranes and movements of the fluids in and around the central nervous system. Relieving tension in the central nervous system promotes a feeling of well being by eliminating pain and boosting health and immunity. It uses gentle pressure on the head, neck and back to relieve the stress and pain caused by compression. 

Shiatsu Massage

This therapy originated in Japan. It reply’s solely on the use of pressure to certain points that run down the meridians, as well as rocking movements, stretching and joint rotations to re-energizing the body. In this therapy the therapist targets many parts of the body using fingers, palms, and thumbs to heal and correct the disharmonies in the body. We ask that you wear loose fitting clothes for this therapy. 

Polarity Therapy

Polarity therapy uses bipolar contact, which involves applying both hands or fingers to the body at once, with each hand on an "opposing location".

Call Gitana to schedule today!

(337) 884-8702