Massage Therapy

Bridget has been practicing since 1998. She is an herbalist, massage therapist specializing in Integrative Massage, and offers urban plant walks and herbal preparation classes. Bridget deeply enjoys all people feeling a sense of empowerment and self knowledge on their healing journey.

Jeffrey has practiced massage for over 4 years.  He is a licensed Massage Therapist trained by the Swedish Institute.  The modalities he provides include: Swedish, Shiatsu, Deep Tissue, Reflexology, Medical and Thai.  Each session may combine each modality or stay exclusively to what is requested.

Jeffrey is Queer friendly and has been the Chair of the Diversity & Equality Committee of the Park Slope Food Coop for 2 years.

Since 2007, Kaia has been practicing Thai massage for relaxation and wellness.  Thai massage involves yoga-like stretching and loving touch along energy lines starting with the feet.  She learned Thai Massage through exchange, books, and a Level I & II course (70 hours of formal study). She is Queer friendly.

Sarah enjoys offering highly-personalized sessions to a diverse clientele, seeking to nurture each person’s sense of participation, empowerment and self-knowledge. Sarah graduated from The Swedish Institute in New York City in 1998, is New York State licensed in massage therapy, and while still maintaining her various critiques of hierarchical “formal education” has also received Reiki attunements in the traditional linear progression up through and beyond the “master” level, and continues her post-graduate studies with a variety of institutions and individuals. Drawing from a wide array of approaches, a session may include:

SWEDISH MASSAGE For general relaxation, enhanced wellness, stress and pain management

MEDICAL & DEEP TISSUE STRATEGIESIncluding trigger point/neuromuscular therapy. Focused, vigorous work especially helpful for pain, injuries, and chronic conditions.

HOT STONE MASSAGE & HEAT PACKS Relaxing and soothing for anyone, and especially helpful for fibromyalgia, chronic muscle pain and spasm, and preparing for deep-tissue massage

ENERGY WORK Including Reiki, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and shamanic techniques. Quantum physics and ancient indigenous wisdom complement contemporary physiological conceptions of cause and effect by providing poetic and effective models for wellness, healing and personal growth that stress the interdependence of sentient beings, environments, and their dynamic forces and energies.

Sarah’s approach to bodywork is further informed by a wide variety of complementary studies including WiseWoman Green Herbalism, Nonviolent Communication, Core and various indigenous Shamanic practices, Realization Process meditation and embodiment practices, and various dance and movement practices.

Sarah co-founded Opal Center for Massage and Allied Therapies in Brooklyn in 2000, where she still continues a practice, and settled in the Hudson Valley in 2008, where her local practice is centered in Cold Spring.

Sarah is dedicated to making bodywork-based therapies an integral and accessible component of wellness for all, and towards those ends happily participates in alternative economic strategies such as mutual aid, barter, and sliding-scale fees.