Body Work and Massages
At Men's Resource Center we offer three types of bodywork to meet the needs of men who are healing on many different levels. Bodywork is beneficial not just physically, but also emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. The physical body stores the memory of past trauma, and holds the patterns of thoughts and behaviors that have become automatic. Bodywork helps loosen the grip that these patterns have on the body, freeing up emotions, mind, and spirit.
Relaxation massage
Men are often heavily armored against feeling their emotions, and this armoring shows up as stress and physical tension, and affects relationships, health, job performance, and every other aspect of men’s lives. Relaxation massage re-educates the body, helping men remember what it’s like to live in a state of balance and ease.
Therapeutic massage
Many physical complaints, such as back and neck pain, migraines, work and sports injuries, and gastrointestinal problems, are a direct result of the armoring that men carry. Therapeutic massage uses several different treatment modalities, including deep tissue, acupressure, CranioSacral Therapy, and myofascial release, to address injuries and body armoring on a physical level.
Transformational Bodywork
Requiring more active participation, transformational bodywork facilitates emotional healing through touch, dialogue, and body awareness. It draws on all the modalities of relaxation massage and therapeutic massage, plus teaches men to understand the language of the body, which is so crucial for healing dysfunctional emotional patterns. Men gain powerful tools for breaking out of unhealthy patterns such as addiction, rage, or depression. Many men do this work in conjunction with groups or individual counseling.