Functional Relief Therapeutic Massage - Athena Stairs CA, LMT

After taking time off to focus on recovering from injuries from a car accident in 2023, I am back in business and now offering oncology (cancer-related) recovery support massage, as well as my restorative rehabilitation massage.

My therapeutic approach combines levels of deep tissue, lymphatic, and a technique that I developed called Rocking Compression to help reduce pain and discomfort from chronic tension and past injuries while rehydrating and reoxygenating tissues during the session.

I look forward to your scheduling with me!

Athena Stairs, LMT 541-671-8012
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The "Letting Go Of Attachments" Process: A Healer's Reflections:

After experiencing a lifetime of various accidents and stressors to my physical systems, I became unable to stretch out my muscles. They just simply stopped responding to efforts of linear expansion.

I have since realized that muscle tension is often a result of shifting-angled compressions which group tightly along impact zones for structural strength reinforcement.

Thus, there is natural resistance to fibers easily unwinding along a straight plane of pulling because they are gripping along bones and each other to reinforce core joint and bone alignment stability.

Over time by this process compounding, muscles can get stuck to each other and onto and in between neighboring bones, which can significantly decrease elastic expansion and contraction adaptability.

This can result in reduced movement in essential zones such as the intercostals between ribs; large and small collaborating muscles along the spine and neck vertebrae; between forearms' and lower legs' rotation-flex bones of the ulna and radius and the tibia and fibula; and especially wherever muscles slide and glide against bones.

In my restoration and recovery massage therapy for clients, I am able to gently reactivate “frozen” muscle fibers and help get them responsive again by helping to revive open-access circulation and lymphatic flow through muscle micro channels.

However, because I am the creator of my version of “Rocking Compression,” it has been difficult to find another practitioner who I can teach to give me this therapy so that I may also experience its benefits.

Therefore, I have been applying my “Rocking Compression” concept to my workout routines where I focus at and along tissue attachment zones by gently rocking into them around joints and then stretch-decompressing in a pattern of spiraling movement opposite normal compression patterns.

This reactivates proprioceptors within locked down regions to allow muscle fibers to expand again and I am beginning to experience positive effects to where I am now able to partially stretch out my muscles again!

Meanwhile, I have been surprised to discover how much pain and discomfort gets trapped within bound and adhesed tissues due to oxygen deprivation and stagnant fluid pressure buildup.

Gently pulling apart the fibers while decompression-twisting reopens lymphatic channels to allow restoration rehydration by increasing circulation.

However, sometimes my own after-healing process has these regions sore with minor inflammation swelling for several days because it is harder for me to perform integration techniques on myself as I cannot do so from proper angles.

I am also beginning to experiment with this process allowing me to recenter my bones into having better joint alignment, but I do not recommend these experiments to others without their own further study of these concepts to ensure clear understanding of the delicate yet profound approach these regions require.

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Helping another person heal requires a type of active meditation, syncing with the state of their physical and mental-emotional well-being within their muscles and seeking sources of tension while manually guiding related tissues to help unwind spiral torsion patterns that life and circumstances have entangled.

Hello, my name is Athena Stairs of Functional Relief Therapeutic Massage and I specialize in pain-free massage therapy that helps to restore muscular functional ease of movement in the body.

I combine what I call Rocking Compression with deep tissue, lymphatic, and cervical-spine-sacral remobilization techniques to help reduce pain and tension in the body from muscle overuse and injury.

This combination of techniques works to reduce the overload stress in larger working muscles while gently reactivating smaller structural support muscles, causing targeted groups to move better together at insertion and overlap points which helps restore their 3-dimensional cooperative synergy.

During a session, nourishing rehydration and oxygenation are also being pumped into previously starved tissues, and muscle fibers are being released to slide and glide more easily over each other and against bones so that the body can more fully embrace ease-of-movement recovery.

Give me a call or text to discuss your needs. I look forward to helping you regain your functional ease!