Thrive Massage & Bodywork
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Dedicated to providing expert care for your body and mind, conveniently located on Packard Street in Ann Arbor. Thrive Massage & Bodywork, LLC is dedicated to providing the highest quality of care. With over 20 years of hands on massage & bodywork experience, we remain dedicated students of our craft, continuously learning new ways to more effectively reduce pain and support physical and mental health.

We have offered healing attention to hundreds of clients in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti area and have helped them tune in and feel what their bodies are communicating. For over 20 years Heidi Johnson has provided clients in the Ann Arbor area with outstanding massage therapy services.

Whether you are seeking the restorative pleasure of relaxation, soothing prenatal massage, a comprehensive sports massage, relief from a chronic backache, and/or trying to manage your stress, I adjust my style and technique to fit your needs.Jenna Castor, LMT, is a graduate of the Orion Institute in Perrysburg, Ohio.
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Pregnant woman can enjoy massage therapy during all 9 months!
Pillows are used to support the body, and the massage can also be performed as the woman lays on her side.
The massage style is focused on relaxation with a light to medium pressure enhancing comfort and decreasing pressure and pain to low back, hips, legs and feet.
A relaxation massage is light to medium pressure utilizing Swedish massage techniques such as kneading and gliding.
Muscle tissue responds to lighter touch and this is a great way to reduce overall body stress and muscle tension.
It may have come from hard physical training for your sport, but it is just as likely to be caused by long hours sitting in front of a computer.
It may come while mowing the lawn or bending down to pick up your car keys or a backpack, the Ann Arbor massage therapist continues.
And sometimes there are the unbearable headaches that may be caused by a trigger point muscle spasm.
Your pain probably is being caused by a movement trauma in your muscles, tendons and connective tissue from at least one of these five causes.
I am particularly excited by her TMJ massage skills in relieving TMJ dysfunction, including jaw clenching, which you may know as bruxism.
Finding a specialized TMJ massage in Ann Arbor is not easy and I feel very fortunate to have Julia as part of the Thrive Ann Arbor Massage team.
The temporomandibular joint or TMJ (it's pronounced tem-puh-roe-mun-DIB-u-lur) is like a sliding hinge within your mouth that connects your jawbone to your skull.
You have one of these sliding joints on each side of your jaw, Julia says.
You train and perform constantly, and you are surrounded by some of the best massage therapists in the world.
Because we work on one another, as well as our clients, Ann Arbor's massage therapists strive to be the best in the US.""Performing massage in Ann Arbor is like an Olympic training camp, " say Heidi Johnson, owner and operator of Thrive Massage and Bodywork, LLC.
People here take care of their pregnancies, of their children and of themselves.
Their shared interested in health is extraordinary, and massage is a key strategy to sustaining their vigor.
As a spouse, a mother of two school-aged children and the owner of Thrive Massage and Bodywork, Heidi Johnson knows something about balancing career and family.
And with her two decades of training, knowledge and experience, Heidi knows as much or more about providing immediate relief from anxiety disorder symptoms as any massage therapist in Ann Arbor.
As a woman, whether pregnant or raising your children, at each stage of their lives you will worry about them.
As a man or woman, you worry about your spouse/partner and yourself.
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