Core Connections Abdominal Centered Therapy

A massage therapy practice and school integrating Abdominal therapy into your massage sessions for a holistic approach to healing. Sessions are customized to meet your unique needs. You can choose to have your session be mostly focused on abdominal work, OR you can choose to have it integrated into a more traditional full body massage. I offer a very specialized style of massage that can really benefit everyone. I am trauma conscious. For some, "abdominal therapy" may not include any touch to the abdomen at all. I meet you where you are on your healing journey. 

I have been practicing massage therapy for 9 years. My formal massage training was 2 years and 900 hours of Traditional Chinese Medical massage. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), abdominal therapy is super important for holistic treatment of dis-ease. I became very interested in this aspect of TCM, and integrated abdominal massage into almost all of my sessions from the start. Through word of mouth, people started coming to me for digestive issues, menstrual regulation, and abdominal/pelvic pain. 

I still treat the musculoskeletal pain and imbalances and feel that by incorporating abdominal therapy into those sessions, my clients are receiving a more relaxing and effective treatment than if that large and very important part of the body is omitted. 

I offer prenatal and postpartum massage and bodywork options, and love working with this population. I have two young children of my own so it only feels natural to be supporting this community. 

I'm current working through the Visceral Manipulation curriculum with the Barral Institute. This is such a gentle yet powerful form of bodywork that I incorporate into many of my sessions. I've also taken a 9 month Shamanic energy work class which has deepened my ability to sense and work with energy both within the body and as a more external energetic field. 

Let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to reach out to me at coreconnectionsvt@gmail.com.