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Experience ultimate relaxation and rejuvenation with our expertly crafted massages, melting away stress and tension while restoring your body’s natural balance.
You deserve self-care time, and what better way to take some moments for yourself than with a therapeutic, nurturing massage that’s tailored to meet your unique health and wellness needs?
Our goal is to ensure that your massage is relaxing and calming, while also moving through deeper layers of tension and tightness in the body if that is what you seek.
Included in your massage are some of those extra perks we all love such as organic essential oils, warm neck and back pillows and therapeutic compress. You may choose to enhance your massage with hot stones, CBD massage oil or dry brushing.
Our Restorative Massage
Our signature Swedish massage is tailored to meet your needs, with a goal of helping to decrease tightness and tension in the body, increase relaxation, and restore a sense of rejuvenation. It’s as if you’re hitting the “reset” button on your health and wellness.
Our deep tissue massage will provide you with a more firm, therapeutic pressure while helping you experience a reduction in the aches, pains, and soreness that comes with significant tightness in the muscles, tendon, and fascia. Ideal for those that want to work out some tight knots and persistent muscle tension.
Many individuals hold a high degree of stress in their neck and shoulders. This massage is adaptable to your preferences so that you can experience the full calming, spa-like relaxation and stress relief that comes with taking the world off your shoulders and putting it into the relaxing hands of our attentive and caring practitioners.
This therapeutic massage is highly beneficial to the pre- or post-natal mom and her overall well-being! Experience a reduction in many of the normal discomforts during pregnancy, such as back aches, stiff neck, leg cramps, headaches, and edema (swelling). This will also help reduce stress on the joints and improve blood and lymph circulation. Our pre/post-natal massage helps to calm the nervous system and the stress response in the body, therefore improving sleep and mood.
A particular type of massage technique suitable for athletes or active individuals with the purpose of supporting overall recovery, circulation, and reduction in muscle pain and tightness, while also promoting healing from injuries, strengthening / elongating connective tissue and improving range of movement. This occurs through massage, isolation of muscles and muscle groups, and stretching as needed.
Lymphatic massage helps to gently move extra fluid that may have built up in your body through your lymph vessels. This type of massage may help you if you suffer from swelling, sinus pain, tenderness, hormone imbalances, fatigue, and depression and anxiety.
Reflexology is not only a feel good foot massage but it also offers many therapeutic health benefits. Our feet contain certain reflex or pressure points that, when massaged, help to promote a healing response in the corresponding organs or area of your body. Yes, your whole body is represented in your feet! Reflexology is utilized to promote healing with headaches, stomach issues, sinus problems / allergies, promote circulation, open neural pathways, and support the elimination of toxins.
Please arrive 10-15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time. Starting your service on time allows you the full relaxing experience you deserve. If you are late, we may need to shorten your treatment to accommodate for the next scheduled appointment.
Please dress in comfortable clothing. We supply plush wraps, robes and slippers for any service that will require a change of clothes.
Please inform us of any health conditions at the time of booking (e.g., pregnancy, high blood pressure, heart condition, allergies). Our therapists will work with you to best customize your experience to your needs.
Alive and Well offers well appointed lounges complete with individual lockers, showers, and toiletries such as body wash, shampoo, conditioner and hair dryers. If you require additional products or accessories, you’re welcome to bring them with you.
Acupuncture is a type of traditional Chinese medicine that’s been around for about 2,500 years. It’s used to support wellness and improve overall mental and physical well-being. The acupuncturist places needles into specific points on the skin to help activate an energy in the body, called qi. According to traditional Chinese medicine, qi is the lifeforce energy in the body — it helps regulate and move things in the body to keep us well. Stress, environmental factors, lifestyle behaviors, and genetics are some of the things that can block qi in the body. The needles help to unblock or move qi to other areas in the body to help support wellness.
Acupuncture needles are solid, stainless steel needles that are usually not much larger than a strand of hair. Acupuncture needles are placed at a very shallow depth and go between tissues, making them less painful than a typical injection.
You might be more sensitive in certain areas, but acupuncture shouldn’t hurt. If you feel pain, tell your acupuncturist. They’ll adjust the needles or choose other points. Their goal is not to make you feel pain. They do a lot of work to position you properly and make sure you feel comfortable.
Indeed you can do acupuncture or massage while pregnant. It is safe and our practitioners are very well versed in how to treat pregnant women. Please let us know when you book a treatment if you are pregnant and how far along you are.
Share vitality and well-being this holiday season. Gift cards are an easy avenue for your loved ones to explore our ecosystem of services and products.
Cindy Nilson is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Full Mesa Carrier, Reiki Master and Intuitive advisor. Utilizing acupuncture, energy-infused acupressure massage therapy and body psychology, she integrates teachings from eastern medicine, shamanism, energy/chakra healing and archetypal patterns to provide a unique diagnostic perspective and treatment experience. Specializing in how stress, our thoughts and emotions affect the physical body, and resourcing from the 10,000 hours spent honing her work, Cindy creates new and exciting collaboratives to her foundations in acupuncture therapy. She believes joining Alive + Well is the joyous culmination of her work and is excited to share this beautiful environment and healing space with her clients.
Cindy holds a B.A. from Texas A&M University and a Masters degree from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine. In 1999 she received her Doctor of Oriental Medicine from the New Mexico State Board of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. A native of Central Texas, she has been in private practice in Lakeway, where she lives happily married, raising kids.
