Release the tissue, then move it through its new range. The combination holds longer than either one alone.
Travel included across my local areas. Other locations on request — a travel fee applies.
This session pairs remedial massage with guided PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching — contract-relax techniques where you briefly engage the muscle against my resistance, then let go into a deeper, safer stretch.
It suits anyone who feels tight no matter how much they stretch on their own, and anyone whose range matters: dancers, aerialists, martial artists, lifters and people returning to training after time off.
Where is the restriction really coming from — muscle, joint capsule or nervous-system guarding?
Release work on the areas that are limiting range.
Contract-relax stretching through the new range so it sticks.
If you stretch regularly and nothing changes, passive stretching has given what it has. PNF assisted stretching works with the nervous system instead of against it — most people access more range in one session than months of solo holds.
Splits, kicks and deep positions need range you can control under load. Release-then-stretch-then-strengthen is how flexible becomes functional.
Some bodies simply run tight — genetics, age, years of lifting. Assisted stretching is the efficient path: I do the positioning and support, you just breathe and follow instructions.
PNF contract-relax
You engage the muscle against my resistance for a few seconds, then release — the nervous system allows a deeper, safer stretch than passive pulling ever will.
Targeted release first
Deep tissue work on the restriction before stretching it, so we're lengthening tissue that's ready to move.
Active end-range control
Owning the new range with strength, so it's still there next week.
Take-home programming
Two or three specific stretches matched to what we found — not a generic sheet.
A method where you contract the muscle against gentle resistance for a few seconds, then relax — the nervous system lets the muscle lengthen further than passive stretching allows.
Yes, with the right approach. For hypermobile bodies I focus on control and stability at end range rather than pushing for more range. I am hypermobile myself, so this is a session I have refined on my own body.
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