Unlike Any Other

Clients who love massage and have had hundreds of bodywork treatments in varying styles throughout the world, admit that Paula's work is unlike any other. Consequently, one must experience her work to appreciate it or to understand how it might help you. You may come in for massage, but you will find yourself coming back for better health.

Integrative Bodywork

Paula integrates her own research and techniques with Swedish, Medical, Connective Tissue, Myofascial, Reflexology, Neuromuscular (NMT), Tok Sen, Shiatsu, Gua Sha, Cupping (Vacuum Therapy,) and others as required for each client's specific and unique needs. Although, Tok Sen and palpate-and-treat methods are used most often, being the most effective.

The Client - Therapist Relationship

Clients who can take a leap-of-faith, stay open-minded, and are willing to cooperate and collaborate - are the most welcome and get the best results. For bodywork to be effective, the client and therapist must trust each other. Demanding clients can cause a sensitive therapist to shut down, so please be gentle with your bodywork therapist wherever you go. As a special needs therapist, Paula has extra compassion, skill, and knowledge for helping others with special needs. (If a bit too enthusiastically at times, and for that, she asks forgiveness.) 

Comparative Therapy

One way to understand the importance of collaborative bodywork is to compare outcomes between manual (long-term) and chemical (short-term) therapies. Bodywork is meant to be supportive to the body's immune system and therefore self-healing by nature. Yet, some approach bodywork as if it is like taking a pill: They just want their symptom(s) to go away. In general, medications force changes on the body. Force almost always creates new problems that often lead to more medications. (Ref: Drug Muggers by Cohen.) True healing cannot be forced, so cooperation and collaboration in good faith is required. Also, bodywork is very up-close and personal like no other profession, so respect and cooperation between therapist and client are vital for successful, long-term healing.

Goals

While Paula's short-term goal is to alleviate the problems presented by the client, the long-term goal is about helping the body help itself: Clearing all connective tissues of the congestions and blockages that interfere with normal functioning.

Clean, healthy fasciae leads to:

• Prevention of injury, pain, and dis-ease
• Reversal of premature or unnecessary functional aging
• Deeper self/body awareness
• Improved quality of life.

Issues In the Tissues

Paula's clients are regularly surprised at her ability to find issues in the tissues that they either had not told her about or did not know were there. This ability is due to her highly refined palpation skills, allowing her to first locate and then clear sub-clinical problems. She saw the value of medical palpation while working with an exceptional skilled veterinary surgeon, and has focused her career on developing similar hands-on assessment skills. Without great palpation skills a therapist can only be as good as the protocols they memorize, and protocols are terribly limiting and prohibit getting to the root of a client's issues.

Long before pain presents itself and long before a diagnosis of disease is made, sub-clinical problems exist. Identifying and clearing the sub-clinical problems means you not only get your current issues addressed, but you likely eliminate future issues by getting to them before they get to you: This, is true prevention.

Heal Faster

Paula's work helps your body to heal faster, too. From frozen shoulder to tendonitis to osteoarthritis, you can get faster, longer lasting relief than through traditional methods. Faster healing means you get to spend your time and money on enjoying life more.

Adaptability

​Paula's years of experience, compassion, and palpation skills make her highly adept at intuitively adjusting pressure from light to deep, allowing her to care for the very ill to the very robust, for the very tender to the very tough. Always seeking new challenges, Paula welcomes the widest variety of client complaints. If she is unable to resolve your problem, she will do her best to find someone who can. ​

​Paula is expert at handling the issues of:

• Chronic pain & invisible illness sufferers like those living with arthritis, fibromyalgia, diabetes, etc. 
• Stubborn or trauma-based conditions others say can't be helped, like frozen shoulder
• Sensitive and allergic individuals 
• Athletes, performers, and brainiacs who want that extra edge
• Aging (while aging cannot be reversed, premature aging can, and most people are dealing with premature aging)
• Geriatric pain, stiffness, and mobility
• Anyone who wants to maintain their mind and body to its fullest functioning, regardless of most physical limitations.​

All Bodies are Beautiful!

Whatever your physical activity or wellness goals, Paula's Body Shop is about the repair, maintenance, and, if needed, overhaul of your beautiful body. Make The Change Toward Therapeutic Massage