Healing Touch
Mascha Thompson of Healing Touch is a body worker based out of Morriston Florida who travels to surrounding areas such as Ocala, Williston, Dunnellon, Reddick and more.
Her focus is on improving horses' tensegrity and biomechincs to help them live, move and in the case of sport horses perform better.
Mascha is also a Licensed Massage Therapist who does Myofascial Release Therapy for people; the focus can be, relaxation, post surgery or injury rehabilitation, helping with acute or chronic pain and much more.
Treatments
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Human 60 min MFR
Treatments are John Barnes Myofascial Release Therapy.
Sessions begin with a standing postural evaluation and a conversation about client's history and ailments.
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Location: Client's Home
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Session Price: $120
Session Length : 60 min
Equine Body Work Session
Equine sessions are a mix of John Barnes' Myofascial Release Therapy and Tami Elkayam's Tensegrity Balancing Therapy.
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Location: Equine's Home
Session Price:$120
Session Length : lengths are determined by the horse.
(Sometimes 45 min sometimes a little longer than 60 min this is so that the horse is not flooded or overloaded and is present and able to integrate and assimilate).
Human 90 min MFR
Treatments are John Barnes Myofascial Release Therapy. Sessions begin with a standing postural evaluation and a conversation about client's history and ailments.
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Location: Client's Home
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Session Price: $170
Session Length : 90 min
Modalities
Tensegrity Balancing Therapy
Modality Creator: Tami Elkayam
"Tensegrity Balancing Therapy is a three pronged approach to maintaining and restoring the integrity of equine body tensegrity.
1) Brain: The brain is targeted to help regulate and re-balance the nervous system by harnessing and retraining the brain through neuroplasticity.
2) Somatosensory Integration: Somatosensory integration is targeted by utilizing touch combined with motion to reactivate the connection of body and brain while reduce cortical smudging.
3) Fascial Remodeling: We facilitate fascial remodeling to create a more balanced whole body tensegrity.
Tensegrity is a design principle that applies when a discontinuous set of compression elements is opposed and balanced by a continuous tensile force, thereby creating an internal pre-stress that stabilizes the entire structure.
Fascia follows this principle in the body. When we have compromised tensegrity and the body is struggling to maintain shape and structure, compensation takes place. This can manifest itself in muscle strain, joint dysfunction, organ dysfunction, nerve restriction and fascial adhesions.
Daily application of techniques which contrast the habitual patterns allows the body to return to balanced tensegrity."
Tami Elkayam
Myofascial Release Therapy ( MFR )
Modality Creater: John F. Barnes
"The John F. Barnes’ Myofascial Release Approach® is considered to be the ultimate therapy that is safe, gentle and consistently effective in producing results that last. John F. Barnes, PT has trained over 100,000 therapists and physicians, is an international lecturer, author and authority on Myofascial Release. He is a physical therapist and is considered to be a visionary and teacher of the highest caliber.
Trauma, inflammatory responses, and/or surgical procedures create Myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain sensitive structures that do not show up in many of the standard tests (x-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.)
The medical approach is to drug patients so they temporarily are free from pain, but does nothing about the “straight-jacket” of pressure that is causing the pain. Traditional physical, occupational and massage therapy treats the symptoms caused by the pressure of the “straight-jacket” of the Myofascial system, but does nothing about the “straight-jacket” of pressure that causes and perpetuates the symptoms. This is why so many patients only have temporary results never seeming to get better with traditional therapy. Only Myofascial Release treats the entire Myofascial mind/body complex eliminating the pressure of the restricted Myofascial system (the straight-jacket) that causes the symptoms.
Patients are sent to us from around the world for Myofascial Release when medicine, surgery or traditional therapy or massage did not produce the desired results. Myofascial Release will safely and gently release the entire Myofascial complex for lasting and comprehensive results and authentic healing."
John Barnes Myofascial Release website.