ABOUT KRYSSIA
Krysia Schwab is a licensed massage therapist certified by the NCTMB, licensed by the State of Illinois, and a member of the AMTA (American Massage Therapy Association). She also holds her Reiki Mastery Certificate.
Growing up in Dublin, Ireland, Krysia was surrounded by Holistic healers and spiritual people. Her mother and Aunts received acupuncture treatments while her grandmother relied heavily on herbal supplements and remedies to help cope with diabetes. From an early age, she learned to deal with ailments and stress through nutrition, meditation, and energy healing. She received her first Angel and Reiki treatments at an early age from her Aunt Pauline, a Reiki Master and Krysia’s current mentor. It was this same aunt who noticed Krysia’s natural intuition, empathy, and ability to heal and encouraged her to seek out a healing program.
Krysia then attended the Sanctuary School of Massage Therapy and Energy Healing. She graduated in 2005 as the class Valedictorian, was awarded with the Dean’s Award for exemplary performance, and received her certificate in the Reiki Mastery Program. She is also certified in several other healing arts, including Reflexology, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Hot Stone Therapy, and Deep Tissue Massage. She continues to advance her studies, including a focus on prenatal massage.
A strong spiritual understanding guides Krysia through her life. Although educated in Christian schools, she was heavily influenced by her Celtic heritage and its culture of healing, spirituality, and reliance on intuition. At a very young age she visited the spiritual grounds of Stonehenge, Druid’s Circles, and Newgrange. She was also introduced to Buddhism and other Eastern religions by her father, who studied in India and brought home stories of Eastern philosophies, culture, diet, and art.
Understanding the importance of working mind as well as body, Krysia incorporates relaxation techniques, spiritual guidance, and massage therapy to help clients deal with chronic pain. Besides the physical relief it can bring, massage therapy and energy healing can have a major impact on emotional symptoms such as anxiety, depression, stress, and self-esteem. She has found that long term healing and happiness, for both her and the client, can be attained through Holistic avenues.
Displacement Symptoms
The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy are offered as a supportive modality to enhance health and wellness, and are not meant as an entire approach to health care. If you have any serious medical conditions, please consult your health care provider first.
This being said, our techniques support and enhance health and wellness and have been found to provide satisfactory results when compared to alternate treatments.
Practitioners of The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage report that many common health care symptoms are alleviated by these techniques. Organ functions are supported and enhanced.
This list contains the most common symptoms that are improved by incorporating this holistic modality into ones health care.
For Women:
· Displaced or prolapsed uterus and or bladder
· Painful periods and ovulation
· Irregular menstrual cycles and ovulation
· Bladder or yeast infections
· Miscarriages, difficult pregnancies
· Endometriosis
· Peri menopause, menopausal symptoms
· Infertility
· PMS/Depression with menstruation
· Ovarian cysts
· Uterine fibroids
· Abnormal uterine bleeding
· Enhances Pregnancy, aids in labor and delivery
For Men:
· Early stages of prostate swelling
· Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
· Prostatitis (mild)
· Impotence, Erectile Dysfunction (depending on cause)
For Everyone:
· Headaches/migraines
· Digestive Disorders
· Low energy
· Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
· Gastro Esophogeal Reflux (GERD)
· Crohn's Disease
· Chronic constipation
· Low Back ache
· Chronic indigestion or heartburn
· Gastritis
· Restricted breathing due to tension
Swedish Massage
Swedish Massage is a very relaxing and therapeutic style of bodywork. It combines oils or lotion with an array of strokes such as rolling, kneading, and percussion to help the body improve its circulation. The benefits of this type of bodywork are wide-ranging and include relief from aches and pains, decreased stress levels in the body, enhanced mental clarity, improved appearance, and greater flexibility.
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep Tissue Massage is a form of bodywork that aims to relieve tension in the deeper layers of tissue in the body. Deep Tissue Massage is a highly effective method for releasing chronic stress areas due to misalignment, repetitive motions, and past lingering injuries. Due to the nature of the deep tissue work, open communication during the session is crucial to make sure you don’t get too uncomfortable. Keep in mind that soreness is common after the treatment, and that plenty of water should be ingested to aid with the flushing and removal of toxins that have been released from the deep tissue during the session.
Sports Massage
Sports Massage is a type of massage designed for highly active people who engage in athletics. Engaging in sports is harsh on the body and can often lead to injuries in both the short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping to prevent injury, reduce pains and swelling in the body, relax the mind, increase flexibility, and dramatically improve recovery rates. Sports Massage is also highly effective in aiding the rapid recovery of an athlete from an injury by encouraging greater kinesthetic awareness and in turn promoting the body’s natural immune function.
Reiki
Reiki is a Japanese form of energy healing that cleanses and balances the energy patterns in the body. As a result, the body’s natural self-healing mechanisms strengthen, helping to establish optimum mental, emotional, and physical health.
During a session, we work in energetic connection with you in order to remove blockages, detoxify your energy system, and restore your vital life force energy. The Reiki technique utilizes a gentle laying on of hands to conduct the necessary energy force between us. The benefits of Reiki range from the release of habitual mental/emotional stress to alleviating chronic pain.
Trigger Point Therapy
Trigger Point Therapy is a style of bodywork that focuses on stimulating and releasing “trigger points” in your body. Trigger points are tender areas of tension similar to acupressure points, except they occur in the belly of the muscle tissue rather than along the energy pathways of the body. These ‘knots’ are built up throughout a person’s life due to physical, mental, and/or emotional stress. During a session, focused pressure is applied through a variety of techniques order to release your trigger points. This process can be quite painful at times, yet the effects are lasting and profoundly transformative.
Stone Therapy
Stone Therapy is a type of bodywork that uses deep penetrating heat and/or alternating cold from specialized stones. The physiological benefits of alternating hot and cold to the body have long been scientifically and medically proven.
Stone Therapy delivers a profound expansion and contraction inside your circulatory system, improving the function of your lymphatic and immune systems, and enhancing your body’s self-healing mechanisms. This style of bodywork takes you into deep states of relaxation, releasing stress and anxiety, detoxifying the body, and balancing your nervous system.
CranioSacral Therapy
CranioSacral Therapy is a bodywork method that focuses on gently stimulating your CranioSacral system (membranes and fluid that surround the brain and spinal cord) to heal the body by improving the functioning of the central nervous system. CST effectively complements your body’s natural healing process, and has been known to help alleviate a wide variety of problems including:
· Central Nervous System Disorders
· Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
· TMJ
· Fibromyalgia
Pregnancy Massage
Pregnancy Massage is a form of bodywork designed specifically for pregnant women. Pregnancy is a time in which a woman’s body endures tremendous stress due to dramatic physical, mental, and emotional changes. Using various techniques specifically for the new mother, Pregnancy Massage helps alleviate discomforts experienced throughout the pregnancy. The benefits are profound, including emotional support, the reduction of joint pain due to extra weight and postural imbalance, improved breathing and relaxation, and relief from uncomfortable digestive issues.
Medical Massage
Medical Massage differs from regular Massage and Bodywork in that the treatment is specifically directed to resolve conditions diagnosed by a medical doctor. I may use a variety of modalities or techniques during the treatment, but I focus the treatment only on the specific areas of the body related to the diagnosis. This enhances the body’s natural self-healing process and reduces the needed recovery time from injury.
On-Site Massage
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A growing number of businesses are providing wellness programs in the workplace . They believe that have increased competitiveness in the marketplace. Naturally , workers with high levels of wellness are more productive on the job.
On-site massage is a convenient, safe, and cost-effective addition to a workplace wellness plan. It helps boost employee morale, and provides valuable health benefits too. All sizes and kinds of businesses from small offices to large companies can benefit from on-site massage services.
On-site Massage:
Recipient is seated and fully clothed
No oil is used
Massage focuses on upper boy, head, neck shoulders, back and arms
Usually lasts 10-20 minutes
Addresses common problems of today's workers
Can be given at the workstation or in any availale small space
Cupping Therapy
Massage cupping is a modified version of the common practice of cupping therapy, used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and the results that this simple treatment produces are impressive. Through suction and negative pressure, massage cupping releases rigid soft tissue; drain excess fluids and toxins; loosen adhesions and lift connective tissue; and bring blood flow to stagnant skin and muscles.
Facial Cupping
Facial Cupping is a quick, non-invasive way to rejeuvanate the face. Facial muscles are tightened. Lines, wrinkles and puffiness are reduced. Rigidity associated with TMJ can be relieved and sinus pressure is reduced.
Facial Cupping can be helpful with the following conditions:
· Drains stagnant fluids to ease puffiness in the face
· Reduces tension of facial muscles
· Loosens rigid muscles associated with TMJ
· Aids in draining sinuses
· Eases expression lines
· Softens lines, wrinkles and scar tissue
· Enhances absorption of lotions and serums
Maya Abdominal Massage
Definition and History
The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy TM are founded on the ancient Mayan technique of abdominal massage which is an external non invasive manipulation that repositions internal organs that have shifted, thereby restricting the flow of blood, lymph, nerve and chi.
Based on over thirty years of training and experience in massage, naprapathy, herbology, and spiritual healing, Dr. Rosita Arvigo developed these techniques which now bear her name. This modality incorporates a holistic approach to health care which includes massage, anatomy and physiology, herbology, nutrition, and emotional and spiritual healing. Dr. Arvigo believes that with any natural healing technique, these areas must be simultaneously addressed to promote optimal health.
Dr. Arvigo learned these techniques from her mentor, Don Elijio Panti, the great Maya Shaman of Belize, Central America with whom she apprenticed for ten years. Don Elijio believed that a woman's center is her uterus. "If a woman's uterus is out of balance, so is she," he would say. Midwives and healers of Central America agree that most female troubles are caused by the wandering womb. Don Elijio passed away in 1996 at the age of 103. Rosita also studied with Hortence Robinson, a 73 year old herbal midwife of Belize who has been delivering babies since she was 13.
The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage TM address position and health of the pelvic and abdominal organs. The work is best known for the correction of the prolapsed, fallen, or tilted uterus and for the prevention and treatment of benign prostate enlargement in men, and for relief of many common digestive disorders.
Benefits for Women
Normally the uterus leans slightly over the bladder in the center of the pelvis, about one and a half inches above the pubic bone. It is held in this position by muscles, the vaginal wall and ligaments that attach it to the back, front, and sides of the pelvis. Uterine ligaments are made to stretch to accommodate a growing fetus inside and to move freely when the bladder or bowel is full. The ligaments and muscles can weaken and loosen, causing the uterus to fall downward, forward, backward or to either side.
A uterus in any of these positions is called tilted or prolapsed. Modern medicine has little or nothing to offer women with this problem. Options may include using the birth control pill, muscle relaxants, or surgery and women are generally told, "your uterus is tipped, but that is normal and don't worry about it." Yet women have a laundry list of physical and emotional symptoms that can be addressed and prevented with these simple, noninvasive massage techniques. When reproductive organs shift, they can constrict normal flow of blood and lymph, and disrupt nerve connections. Just a few extra ounces sitting on blood and lymph vessels can cause havoc throughout the different systems in the body. By shifting the uterus back into place, homeostasis, or the natural balance of the body, is restored in the pelvic area and the surrounding organs. Toxins are flushed and nutrients that help to tone tissue and balance hormones are restored to normal order. This is essential for healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery.
Old adhesions from invasive treatments to the pelvic and abdominal area, including fibroid tumors, endometriosis, and cesarean delivery are diminished when addressed by uterine massage. In addition, digestion, urinary and bladder problems can be helped.
Benefits for Men
Men benefit greatly from Maya Abdominal Massage techniques as well. By ensuring a full blood supply to the prostate, the abdominal massage helps to prevent swelling and inflammation. Men report that they can feel a distinct difference in blood flow after a treatment. Not only does the massage relieve prostate swelling, but it helps alleviate varicose veins, premature ejaculation, some impotency problems and the need to urinate frequently.
Digestive and Emotional Benefits for Men and Women
Individuals with digestive disorders benefit greatly from Maya Abdominal Massage. Many of our common disorders such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Indigestion, Constipation, and heartburn are treated with antacids, muscle relaxants, and a variety of other medications. These treatments address symptoms, not the causes. By using the techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage, the upper abdomen is also given a deep, thorough massage to loosen the tight muscles around the stomach and the arteries that feed the digestive and eliminative organs with their vital blood supply. The diaphragm is gently massaged allowing relaxation of tight musculature.
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