• Offers the joy of receiving
  • Reduces stress hormones
  • Alleviates depressive symptoms
  • Improves immune function
  • Calms and relaxes your nervous system
        - promotes deep relaxation
        - balances your nervous system
  • Revives and stimulates your energy
        - opens and releases meridians and blocked areas of your body
        - refreshes and rejuvenates body, mind, emotion and spirit
  • Relieves chronic pain and tension
  • Relaxes muscles
  • Improves muscle tone
  • Increases circulation of blood and lymph
  • Decreases healing time after injury
"...I learned that touch could open gateways
to the mind..."
- Ilana Rubenfeld, The Listening Hand, 2000