If you are looking for a therapeutic massage from an expert who prioritizes improving your health and well-being, Domi is your answer. She is a great listener and health detective and will quickly restore you. You can stop looking now. If you need more convincing, read on.
As a middle-aged guy who's been an athlete all my life, I have had literally THOUSANDS of massages from various schools of teaching. These have been performed by 17 massage therapists in chiropractic offices, massage clinics, and independent therapists who came to my home. Domi uses the "Bluff Technique" named after its creator, Jimmy Bluff.
I use massage to correct issues that crop up with movement inefficiency, mitigate chronic pain, and improve recovery. I've had hybrid stretching and deep tissue therapists, Swedish, Thai, Chinese, cupping, scraping... I have tried them all. This method works like deep tissue massage to help mobilize the fascia (your sliding surfaces). The fascia massage manipulates a layer that acts as a buffer between the muscles and other structures so that when your muscles of various types contract, they allow that muscle to SLIDE past adjacent structures without getting stuck on them. When this layer gets "junky" or dry or what have you, it can feel like those muscles are tight or not working smoothly. This can lead to poor posture, poor movement quality, and the muscle feeling "stuck".
Since your body is moving poorly, you can start developing chronic pain in other areas as your body does its best to solve the movement problem by using suboptimal strategies. This can increase wear and tear on structures that are doing more work than they are designed to do because of this suboptimal movement.
Deep tissue massage can break this pattern by getting the sliding surfaces mobile again which opens the door for your brain to go back to better posture and more optimal movement. But why go to Domi for your massage therapy?
Regular deep tissue massage can be quite painful while it overpowers other tissues in order to get to those sliding surfaces. You might even receive significant bruising from the deep elbow gouging from your therapist. "Cupping" is a form of this type of overpowering mobilization, and I'm sure you've seen several Olympic athletes with those telltale perfect circle bruises on their skin near their workhorse joints and muscle areas. The "Bluff Technique" is like deep tissue using a scalpel instead of a hammer. That was a metaphor, in case you thought otherwise. No hammers or knives are used in either method.
Domi's sensitive hands, ears, and eyes can find problem areas quickly. She lets the technique inform her movements to help rebuild your posture and position and get you back to where you need to be without excess force going into surrounding structures like bones, skin, and muscles. You can feel her following the nasty business at the surface and between muscles as she works in the fascia directly.
The best I can describe the sensation as she works is that it is like a slight pain that intuitively "feels good" somehow. It's like your body knows what it needs to get out of trouble, and Domi is giving it exactly that. It is not like the sometimes excruciating deep tissue massage sensation where you might feel like you need to jump off the table while elbows, thumbs, and body weight are being applied. The Bluff Technique is "all the good and none of the bad".
The Moon Waves Bodywork facility is quiet, comfortable, clean, and private. Domi is a good conversationalist if you like to talk while you're getting your healing. Music choices are excellent as well if you like to go into La La Land or fall half asleep while she works. I give Domi and Moon Waves Bodywork ALL the stars!! Book her now!! read more
