The human body is both resilient and delicate at the same time. While the world often requires its toughness, massage therapy is an opportunity to let it be sensitive, to take care of the parts that feel.

Willow’s massage style is slow and steady, working with your body and not against it. For a session with lighter pressure, this keeps the work grounded and not overly energizing.

For deeper work, Willow avoids going too deep too fast, allowing the tissues to open up in their own time to avoid pain and overwhelm. This work may not feel super deep to some, but the results are profound.

Your body already knows how to take care of itself. Willow’s work merely serves to facilitate this natural process.

The Arndt-Schultz Law of physiology states that strong stimuli to the nervous system inhibit its proper functioning. On the flip side, weak stimuli actually help the system to operate healthily.

In other words, when we overwhelm the nerves in a muscle by applying too much pressure all at once, the muscle and surrounding tissues become guarded and “fight back” against the massage.

If we sink in slowly, however, great depth can be achieved without the side effects of pain, soreness, and added tension.