Massage Therapy has been proven to help decrease stress and release soft tissues within the body that may contribute to pain, tension, decreased range of motion, emotional holding, and various other conditions and injuries of the body. The main effect of Massage Therapy is to assist the body in its own healing process on a physical, mental, and emotional level. Registered massage therapists are trained to use a variety of hands on techniques to achieve therapeutic goals; these techniques include Swedish massage, Myofascial release, low grade joint mobilizations, trigger point release, Craniosacral therapy among many more. Massage therapy can provide relief for many common concerns such as:

- Headaches
- Back pain
- Scoliosis
- Stress ailments
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Nervous system regulation
- Pregnancy discomfort
- Tendonitis
- and many more

Aria (previously known as Kristina), has a passion for holding deep, compassionate space for people to feel whole within themselves. Part of Aria’s belief in maintaining optimal health, is integrating all of the body systems into the journey of self healing; the physical body, the mental body, the emotional body, and the spiritual body. In all of Aria’s Massage Therapy treatments, you can expect to receive a warm presence, client oriented goals for your session, and energetically intuitive hands. Her somatic-centered approach is to release tension and stress from the body in a gentle, compassionate manner to support the nervous system; and offer a supportive, healing space to recalibrate the body systems on its own time. This is beneficial for clients experiencing chronic stress, and increased nervous system responses.

Please note: Aria is able to direct bill to Pacific Blue Cross. If you have another insurance provider, you may pay for your session and submit to your policy directly. She is currently not set up to direct bill for ICBC or WCB claims.

Breathwork Therapy is a guided breathing practice with a series of intentional inhales and exhales, that has many profound effects on our body systems and how we live our lives. You will be guided through a style of breathwork called Conscious Connected Breathing, in a safe, relaxed, and therapeutic setting. Breathwork has the ability to connect us deeply into our bodies, and recalibrate our unconscious and conscious patterns of breathing that can be learned by the body over time. Breathwork sessions can range from deeply emotional, physically processing, and/or spiritually enlivening.

Breathwork therapy has many benefits, including physical, emotional and spiritual:

Physical:
- Improves energy by bringing more oxygen into the cells of the body
- Recalibrates the Nervous System into a resting, calm state
- Reduces anxiety by supporting nervous system regulation
- Stimulates detoxification by movement of the diaphragm during deep breathing
- Improves sleep

Emotional:
- Helps to process and hold space for stored emotions in the body
- Repatterning old beliefs, patterns, childhood conditionings
- Reconnection to our emotional body

Spiritual:
- Connects us to our energetic consciousness

This treatment takes place lying down in a face up position, on a comfortable mat. If consent is given, the practitioner may ask to place their hands directly on certain areas of the body. Your practitioner may guide you to breathe, make sounds, or connect to your body with different methods throughout the session.

If you are considering Breathwork as part of your therapy and have questions not answered here, please reach out to Aria at kpawlyshynrmt@gmail.com for further guidance.

Please note: Breathwork therapy is unable to be billed to insurance providers.

Reiki is a deeply relaxing, light-touch, energy based modality used for stress reduction, relaxation, and promoting healing in the body, mind and spirit. Reiki is the transfer of high frequency energy from the practitioners hands to the recipient. The practitioners hands are placed on or above the recipients energy centres (known as Chakras), and along the pathways of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, legs, arms, feet and hands. Your practitioner is a channel for this energy to travel through your energy centres and into your body, for it to be distributed wherever it is needed.

This treatment takes place lying down in a face up position, on a massage table. If consent is given, the practitioner may ask to place their hands directly on certain areas of the body. Your practitioner may guide you to breathe, make sounds, or connect to your body with different methods throughout the session.

Please note: Reiki Treatments are unable to be claimed on insurance policies.

Donavin is offering group and private sound healing.

The relaxing and integrative experience of sound bathing has been utilized for centuries, to help promote recalibration in the bodies cellular, and energetic systems. Donavin is passionate about learning new instruments to assist the body in dissolving old frequencies and to cultivate higher vibrations. He works intimately with quartz crystal sound bowls, the didgeridoo, and a variety of drums and chimes. Each instrument is played with loving intention, and has a specific frequency that enlivens sensation within the body. Donavin’s journeys through sound will take you deep within yourself, for a restorative and relaxing experience.

Donavin’s intention is to lead you into a whole body experience of coherency, harmony, connection and remembering.

For group sound baths, please email Donavin at donavinkuhl@protonmail.com to join his email list.

Please note: Sound therapy is unable to be billed for insurance purposes.

Life is full of challenges and triumphs, and it can feel helpful to have a grounded, supportive presence to help us remain present through the ups and downs. During Aria’s coaching sessions, you will have a safe and supportive space held for you to share about your experience, and have any intuitive guidance or reflective questions be provided for you. This is a space to be vulnerable, to look within, to celebrate your wins, and come back home to your core.

Think of these coaching sessions as a lighthouse in the rocky waters; sometimes we just need a guiding light into the areas where we are having trouble seeing, in order to move forward.

Some tools that we may bring in during these sessions are parts work, energy work, spiritual guidance, relationship theory, somatic experiencing and breathwork.