Autumnal Wind In-Home Services - Joan Cole Massage LLC

Wild is the music of autumnal winds. Amongst the faded woods.

First time clients not permitted to book online. Please contact us via phone or email.

About Us

Household Accounting and Tax Record Organization
Technology Tutoring
Therapeutic Touch and Mobility Coaching

In 2018 I downsized my massage and bodywork practice in order to make room for my own next step. As I have done from the beginning of my working days in the late 1980s, I am working one on one with clients helping where my skills are most valuable. The recognition of my own aging and transition towards my own golden years is the imperative to make strenuous physical work a smaller part of what I do.

The clients I serve are mainly those born in the 1920s through the 1950s, and I offer services in three main areas:

Household Accounting and Tax Record Organzation

After a break of nearly 30 years, in 2019, I returned to seasonal tax work with H & R Block. But I've found that there is ...

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Household Accounting

If your partner or parent who used to handle the money and bills has developed health or cognitive issues, suddenly you need to try to figure out where everything is and how to start handling it yourself. I can help with the transition - finding and resetting passwords, figuring out how things had been filed in the past and where things stand now, dealing with banking sites, household finance and password manager apps, and setting up a new process to handle these tasks going forwards..

$50

60min

Monthly Household Accounting Basic Fee

A monthly access fee is available once the accounting system is set up and ready to hand off to a responsible family member to maintain, This fee provides the ability to retain me to oversee current accounts, continue to visit your loved one, and assist in communications with banks and financial institutions and bill paying as needed, This also provides access to email and text message questions as needed. Additional options, such as medical appointment assistance billed separately

$400

1min

Tax Record Organization

This service does NOT include consultation in tax matters or preparation of returns – I must be engaged through H&R Block for that. This is assistance in gathering records and summarizing ahead of handing off to a tax pro and subsequently filing returned papers. Specifically, spotting relevant paperwork among other papers, sorting papers into categories, helping scan and upload into myBlock, helping fill out tax organizer packets, and helping file what's returned in the household filing system.

$25

30min

$50

60min

$100

120min

Technology Tutoring

Things that the younger set find very easy can be very frustrating to handle for those who have been out of the workforce for some time. Classes and online videos go too fast, are hard to hear and see, and simply can't compare to having someone patient willing to sit side by side and tutor on the use of smartphone and tablet apps, computer applications, directory structures and the like.

$50

60min

$100

120min

Mobility Coaching

Working together doing gentle movement starting where you are at. Motion is lotion. Movement is very helpful in living better with the infirmities like arthritis that can come with aging. We can explore practices for better mobility drawn from chair yoga, taiji standing practice and qigong (such as the eight pieces of brocade)

$50

60min

Seated Work on Neck-Shoulders-Arms-Hands

Seated across from each other on two chairs*, with you remaining fully clothed, pain and stiffness will be addressed through any appropriate techniques I have in my repertoire, including but not limited to SMRT, positional release, DNM, passive joint movements, trigger point. pin and stretch, and myofascial release. * chairs - movable chairs that you have at your location, whether they be dining chairs, folding chairs or rolling desk chairs. I do not bring chairs with me.

$60

30min

$100

60min

Seated Work on Feet and Lower Legs

Seated across from each other on two chairs*, with you remaining fully clothed except for shoes and socks, pain and stiffness in the foot and calf will be addressed through gentle joint movement and myofascial spreading strokes to open up the whole foot and ankle. * chairs - The ideal set up is the client in a recliner, and the therapist on a rolling chair, but other set ups can be adapted from the furniture you have available at your location. I do not bring chairs with me.

$60

30min

$100

60min

Targeted Knotwork for Muscular Pain Debugging

On a table and linens you supply (or positioned on furniture you have available at your location) you will receive skin and joint movement and myofascial release techniques for restricted or painful area debugging. (Not a full-body massage.) This style is intended to work on issues that ARE tissue and structure-based - recent injuries or imbalances caused by athletic pursuits or work demands.

$60

30min

$100

60min

$160

90min

$220

120min

Gentle Pain Calming for Geriatric or Chronic Pain Support

On a table and linens you supply (or positioned on furniture you have available at your location), you will receive a gentle massage session oriented to calming pain, supporting lymphatic flow and improving mood. A reclining session (your table or hospital bed) addresses the limbs and head with gentle soothing strokes. A seated session (on any straight-backed chair or wheelchair) is based on Indian Head Massage enhanced with these other gentle techniques.

$60

30min

$100

60min

Joan S.

License: IL #227.006987

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With an orientation towards modern pain science, I offer both gentle styles oriented toward desensitizing ramped-up nervous systems and bodywork that feels deep without being barbaric. With training in many clinical and orthopedic massage modalities, I use the same system analysis and troubleshooting skills developed writing software and providing technical support in my former IT career to help clients experiencing pain and mobility issues associated with the soft tissues of the musculoskeletal system. In the last several years, I have been reexamining my earlier training with an eye to whether the stories told about HOW those styles work are really physiologically plausible, and it has changed my implentation of those techniques, as well as how I communicate what is happening during a session.
In practice since 2006, I have served a select group of clients for many years, helping them sustain good health and mobility, and working through the attendant aches and pains of bodies no longer in their twenties. I have taught continuing education classes to other massage therapists, and am an active volunteer in the massage community, currently serving as Financial Administrator for the Illinois Chapter of the AMTA.
The styles of bodywork I offer are rather unusual for Champaign-Urbana. Fully clothed, without oil or lotion, positioned according to best leverage. Sessions might include practicing a movement or posture that can help with awareness or pain prevention.

Targeted Knotwork for Myoskeletal Pain Debugging - for clients with issues limiting painfree mobility in a particular area, like a hand, or ankle, or shoulder. Considering the issue in the context of kinetic chains of movement, this style may include techniques from many different schools of bodywork, ranging from direct myofascial release to edgework, novel movements and positional release.
Gentle Pain Calming - Focusing on the sensory nervous system, reclining face-up on the massage table, gentle touch relaxes and calms pain. DNM (Dermoneuromodulation) and SMRT (Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique) are incorporated.

Seasonally, I have additional availability and access to a home-based office where I can offer

Fijian Myofascial Massage, a style of barefoot massage done on a floor mat, that is focused on balancing perceived tension across the myofasciae for maintaining smoother movement. I use my feet as wells as my hands to give a deep-feeling full-body massage. The client must be physically able to get down on the floor and get up off the floor. Currently this is not available June-September or January-April.

I am open to performing housecalls (see my Autumnal Wind listing), and can bring an athletic massage table (65x28). I am also very comfortable doing bodywork using the client's own furniture (e.g. dining chair or recliner).

Coaching Services

Household Accounting

$50

60min

Monthly Household Accounting Basic Fee

$400

1min

Tax Record Organization

$25

30min

$50

60min

$100

120min

Technology Tutoring

$50

60min

$100

120min

Mobility Coaching

$50

60min

Bodywork Services

Seated Work on Neck-Shoulders-Arms-Hands

$60

30min

$100

60min

Seated Work on Feet and Lower Legs

$60

30min

$100

60min

Targeted Knotwork for Muscular Pain Debugging

$60

30min

$100

60min

$160

90min

$220

120min

Gentle Pain Calming for Geriatric or Chronic Pain Support

$60

30min

$100

60min

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