Get STONED at SeaRhythms Massage
Posted on | August 17, 2010 | No Comments
If you think a regular massage is wonderful, just wait until you try a Hot Stone Massage! This specialty massage takes the relaxation experience to a whole new level, often leaving your body completely tension free and your mind in a state of euphoric bliss.
With a Hot Stone Massage, heat is conveyed deep into the soft tissues of the body by the laying on of stones at strategic points. This relaxes both the nerves and muscles, and is also thought to open life force, energy flow channels throughout the body.
Deliciously warm stones are placed along the spine, at the solar plexus and heart chakras, between the toes, as well as on several important acupressure points. The therapist also holds heated stones in her hand while gliding them across the major muscle groups during the full body massage.
This treatment is extremely effective for relieving chronic tension and certain pain conditions, as well as simply providing an overall fantastic relaxation massage experience. Plus, when the initial bliss wears off, and you begin to assimilate the healing initiated by this wonderful massage, you will likely enjoy the beneficial effects and feel great for weeks to come.
Back-to-School Special
From now through the end of September you can get a 60 or 90 minute Hot Stone Massage at SeaRhythms for the price of a regular Essential Massage. That’s $20 off the normal price!
Book yours today by calling, emailing, or using my online scheduler. To receive your discount, be sure to mention the STONED special offer, or note it in the special request field when you book your massage online. Remember, the Hot Stone Massage also makes an excellent gift!
Phone: (434) 409-3817
Email: tammy@searhythms.com
Online Scheduler:
Free Massage Give Aways, Bike Night at Buffalo Wild Wings in Charlottesville
Posted on | June 24, 2010 | No Comments
Update: Severe thunderstorms caused a change of plans. With trees down, blocking our road, and the rain, no bike night tonight. We’ll be there next week, weather permitting…
Last year I learned to drive a motorcycle, and got my license this past winter. One thing I have learned from this experience is that riding can be very hard on the muscles of the back, shoulders and hips! I know that my entire back can get very sore and stiff after a long ride. I also know that massage is an extremely effective treatment for this.
As part of the biker community in Charlottesville, we often attend “Bike Night” at various restaurants around here. Tonight we will be at Buffalo Wild Wings in Barracks Road. We will enjoy live music, raffle prizes, lots of cool motorcycles and meet other bikers. Buffalo Wild Wings holds this event every Thursday night.
Tonight SeaRhythms is donating a sweet T-shirt for the raffle and also offering a chance to win a free massage when you enter my drawing. I’ll draw a winner every week from all the entries through the month of August, so enter once and have multiple chances to win this summer.
Come on out for a great evening. I’ll be driving the red Spyder. Hope to see you there!
Spyder
It’s Vacation Season!
Posted on | June 14, 2010 | No Comments
Just a quick note to all my clients that our family will be spending a few days at the beautiful Outer Banks next week! We are all very excited, and I can’t wait to sit by the ocean and get my SeaRhythm on!!
Since I will be at the beach soaking up the sun, I will be unavailable for appointments beginning Saturday, June 19th through Wednesday, June 24th. However, if you need to get in before Saturday, I do have several openings this week.
To make an appointment, give me a call at (434) 409-3817, email tammy@searhythms.com, or use my online appointment scheduler (click the “Book Now” link in the sidebar of my website). Same day appointments are welcome, but it is best to call for those.
For those of you who have already taken advantage of my $39 first-time-client special offer, I now invite you to subscribe to my automated newslist and get a $10 coupon toward your next visit! It’s easy… simply click this link and follow the easy instructions: http://www.massageincharlottesvilleva.com/subscribe/
And if you know a friend who has not yet experienced one of my massages, encourage them to try one out for just $39 the first time. They’ll get a great massage for a great price, and you’ll get your next massage half price. Refer two friends and your next massage is free!
Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Why you need a massage, and what to do when you can’t get one
Posted on | June 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
There are many reasons why you might seek out a Massage Therapist. Here are a couple very general scenarios almost everyone can relate to.
At times, we can simply become so stressed from life’s worries — tense all over, mind racing, hunched shoulders, stress headaches, general aches and pains, and much more – that we just need someone to provide gentle, relaxing TLC through human-to-human touch. As little as 10 or 15 minutes of nurturing, gentle, flowing massage can send your mind straight to the Alpha state, clear your worries, relax your body, and bring you back to a state of emotional and physical balance.
Other times, especially when general tension has been part of your life for a long time or there has been an injury or strain, you may also have structural imbalances, muscle spasms, and serious pain, among other symptoms. This condition will require not only a nurturing human touch, but also skilled manual manipulation to release those areas of chronic tension, encouraging the body to send nutrient-rich blood flow to repair tissue damage, and to bring an overall deeper level of balance and harmony and healing.
A well-qualified massage therapist will be able to use both these forms of therapeutic touch seamlessly, moving effortlessly from soothing, flowing, nurturing touch to a more focused deep tissue release, and back again. She will also have an intuitive sense of which is needed and when. She will be familiar with your anatomy, having a thorough understanding of where those excruciating trigger points are, where those muscles and connective tissues are bound up and pulling at you painfully. She’ll know how to release them, flush out the metabolic waste, and bring sweet relief to the problem areas, all integrated together with a nurturing touch that will leave you feeling peaceful and relaxed, in order to begin a true healing process.
Ideally, a professional massage is what you need when you are experiencing either of the above scenarios. Nothing can provide the total relaxation that is possible when you can simply lie still and allow your body to passively receive therapeutic massage.
However, sometimes you just can’t get to a therapist, whether it be for financial reasons, time constraints, or other limitations. The good news is that, while a professional Massage Therapist is an expert in providing manual therapy to her clients, YOU are the expert in what feels good to you! And you can use your particular expertise to help yourself when, for whatever reason, you can’t see a skilled therapist.
Here’s what to do when you can’t see a therapist
If you have non-chronic stress and just want to relax, do as I did as child. Find someone you love to sit with you and rub your back in a gentle and nurturing way. This will do wonders for you, I promise!
If you have more chronic tension, and painful areas that need deeper work, you have a couple of options. First, you could ask someone you know and love to rub the the parts that hurt a little more vigorously, or ask them to press their elbow into a sore spot.
This will likely help a great deal, but you may need even deeper, more focused work to really help yourself feel better. If that is the case, you will probably want to massage yourself, so that you can control the amount of pressure and the length of time you spend on an area, using your unique expertise in what feels good to YOU.
My favorite tool for self massage is a tennis ball. While you can easily reach areas like your arms and legs with your own hands, it is virtually impossible to reach the back of your body to massage effectively. And the fact is, most chronic tension is stored in the shoulders, along the spine, and in the hips and buttocks. These are the places that can most benefit from deep massage, and you can get to them by rolling around on the floor on top of a tennis ball.
The tennis ball takes the place of a therapist’s thumb or elbow, and your control of how deeply you push the tennis ball into your muscle tissues, according to what feels good and therapeutic to you, provides the expertise. Simply place the ball on the floor, lie down and position yourself over the tennis ball at one of your sore spots, maybe your shoulder blade or the top of your hip on your lower back. Then simply push your body into the ball for deeper pressure, or raise yourself up a bit for lighter pressure.
Roll around on it if you like, to create a massaging action, or stay still for static pressure which can sometimes release a spasm. Move yourself over the ball so it rolls along your shoulder blade, or along side your spine, or over your hips and buttocks and lower back. What feels good? That is your guide.
Again, this will not totally take the place of a professional massage. After all, you will have to be actively engaged in the process, and will not be able to fully relax. But it is a good substitute when you simply can’t get to a therapist.
Try it, and let me know how it works for you!
$69 Hot Stone Massage
Posted on | April 19, 2010 | No Comments
Treat the special women in your life to the ultimate indulgence for Mother’s Day!¬† From now through May 9, 2010 you can purchase a 90 minute Hot Stone Massage gift certificate for the price of a regular 60 minute massage!
The Hot Stone Massage uses smooth, heated stones to soothe and relax the body from head to toe. Heat is conveyed deep into the muscle tissues by the laying on of stones at strategic points of the body, as well as the therapist holding heated stones in her hand while gliding them across the major muscle groups.
A typical response from one of my recent hot stones clients: “I can’t believe how warm and relaxed I feel, my whole body is as limp as a dishrag.”
If you want to give a gift this year that will truly be appreciated and remembered, this is it! 
Sample of a SeaRhythms Gift Certificate
Just give me a call at (434) 409-3817 or email tammy@searhythms.com.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Location, location, location!
Posted on | April 8, 2010 | No Comments
Thanks to all my wonderful clients, SeaRhythms is growing!   The time has come to relocate my studio to a more dedicated space, and so I will be moving to a professional building near Martha Jefferson Hospital on April 15th.
415 Lexington Ave, Charlottesville VA
My new studio is in a prime location, easy to find, easy to get to, with an ample parking lot behind the building , as well as plenty of street parking when the lot is full.  I will be sharing the building with several other therapists.
The building is charming, and my studio is warm and inviting — just the right atmosphere for that relaxing massage you are needing.¬† I think you will like it!
I hope to see you soon 
Be well,
Tammy
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Tammy Dudley
Certified Massage Therapist
(434) 409-3817
tammy@searhythms.com
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