Breckenridge Massage | Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy | Julie LaFrano

As a medical massage therapist, Julie’s passion lies mostly with athletes and others suffering from scar tissue, unexplained chronic pains, musculoskeletal and connective tissue problems, sports injuries and recovery, nerve impingements or entrapments, etc. Julie has worked with dancers helping to increase range of motion and runners and cyclists helping to improve their performance. Massage is just one way for them to balance their daily life with their active life.

Julie’s medical massage experience includes:

• Mastectomy Reconstructive Surgery
• Infertility (medical or emotional)
• Pregnancy
• Sports injuries/recovery and scar tissue
• Chronic back pain
• Neck and shoulder pain
• Muscle and tendon strains
• Ligament sprains
• Inflammation

Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy – “The Deepest Most Luxurious Massage on the Planet”

Full body deep tissue performed by the therapist using her feet and holding onto and overhead bar system for balance and support. Gravity and body weight supply the pressure as apposed to force allowing for a more consistent and smoother approach. Deep compression, gliding and myofascial massage strokes are used, resulting in structural change in chronic soft tissue damage, stimulation of the lymphatic system, as well as providing deep relaxation leaving you with longer lasting results. The depth of pressure is controlled by using the overhead bars and by the therapist using one or two feet on the body. This technique is best for those who feel regular deep tissue is not enough or just can’t hit the proper depth. The sessions are tailored specifically to each client pertaining to their needs.

Ashi-Thai

A series of full body deep compressions and passive stretches. Combined with traditional Thai techniques it has been modified for the therapist to use the overhead bars. Ashi-Thai sessions can be done as a full 75 minute treatment done with the client fully clothed, as a 60 minute warm up before a 60 minute Ashiatsu treatment, or during a 60 or 90 minute Ashiatsu treatment to help increase range of motion, relieve muscular tension, and revitalize energy in the body.

Julie has developed and tailored her style of Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy and Ashi-Thai to athletes to help restore and improve their performance levels.

Julie travels with a portable overhead bar system for Ashiatsu. If you wish to receive a treatment at your home, it will require 8 foot ceilings and time for set up and break down. The luxury of the portable bar system in the summer is the ability to receive a session outdoors in the privacy of your own home or in a remote location. Privacy is kept outdoors by draping sheets over the top of the bars.

Julie’s mobile massage practice travels in Breckenridge and throughout Summit County in Colorado, and often travels to other areas in the state. The fee in the Summit area for medical massage is $100 per hour session and $130 per hour for the Ashiatsu.

 

To schedule a massage:
call 630-291-5824 or