Luana De Oliveira

Massage Styles

Massage therapist in Littlehampton
Luana offers many different massage styles and is able to adapt her technique, style and approach to all patients. Luana has spent the last few years learning, improving and perfecting her art form, helping patients with many different symptoms. The techniques that Luana favours include; 

Therapeutic Massage - Book Now
The therapeutic massage treatment is a combination of Swedish and deep tissue techniques using trigger point therapy with passive movements and stretches to induce deep relaxation and help to de-stress the body. It is also possible to combine the treatment using tools and techniques that can be tailored according to the individual needs of the client, including cupping, hot stones, foot massage and Indian Head massage. This flexibility of techniques can create a natural flow, harmonising with the needs of the client and leaving them feeling relaxed and grounded and is altogether a wholesome and nurturing experience.

Lymphatic Drainage - Book Now
Manual Lymphatic Drainage is a very gentle form of advanced massage therapy, aimed at moving the lymph under the skin using specialised, gentle, rhythmic techniques, it aids the formation and transport of lymph around the body. 

Hot Stone Massage - Book Now
Hot stone therapy is a specialist massage that uses smooth, flat, heated basalt stones that are positioned along your spine, in the palms of your hands, along your legs and between the toes.

Bamboo Massage - Book Now
The bamboo sticks can be used in various techniques and modalities, giving the therapist a lot of versatility and ability to focus on specific client needs. Many compare bamboo massage to deep tissue massage, but the bamboo can also be used to replicate the strokes used in Swedish Massage. Depending on client needs, bamboo can also be combined with Thai, Lymphatic Drainage and Ayurvedic techniques. Some masseurs combine it with elements of Shiatsu to stimulate acupuncture pressure points. Even specialists in traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) sometimes combine bamboo massage with bamboo cupping jars.

Reflexology - Book Now
Reflexology is a blissfully relaxing therapy that treats the feet and hands in order to balance the whole body. This treatment works on the principle that each of our body systems is mapped out on to our feet.

Cupping - Book Now
Cupping is used as a direct clinical application. The therapist notes an area of restriction and applies the suction directly onto it to affect change. This is different to traditional Eastern methods which rely on affecting change in the line of meridians or “Qi” throughout the body. Cupping invigorates local circulation of qi and blood in the area being treated, resolving swelling, pain, and tension. By drawing impurities to the surface, it removes toxins. From a Western physiology perspective, cupping loosens connective tissue or fascia and stimulates blood flow to the surface.

Pregnancy Massage - Book Now
Prenatal massage helps to relieve the physical tension in the body and is also extremely beneficial to mental and emotional health. The goal of prenatal massage is to help mummies minimize stress, stimulate relaxation, and prep the muscles for childbirth.

Reiki - Book Now
Reiki is an ancient yet simple healing technique. It has been found to produce profound results all through gentle touch, positive mindsets, and energy transfer.
Whether you want to receive Reiki for emotional trauma healing, energy level balancing, or to develop yourself spiritually, promotes harmony & balance, relaxes and releases tension from the body, breaks down energy blocks and balances the mind, body, and spirit, cleanses the body of toxins and supports the immune system, clears the mind and improves focus, helps you sleep better, helps spiritual growth and emotional cleansing, accelerates the body’s self-healing ability.

Bowen Therapy - Book Now
Bowen therapy is a form of bodywork. It involves gently stretching the fascia — the soft tissue that covers all your muscles and organs — to promote pain relief. Specifically, this form of therapy uses precise and gentle, rolling hand movements. These motions focus on the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, along with the fascia and skin around them. The idea is to reduce pain by stimulating the nervous system. This type of Therapy works in the autonomic nervous system. It’s said to inhibit the sympathetic nervous system (your fight-or-flight response) and activate the parasympathetic nervous system (your rest-and-digest response). Bowen therapy is used to treat a variety of ailments. Generally, it’s done to relieve pain and increase motor function.

Trio Therapy - Book Now
Trio therapy is a holistic approach for the alignment of body, mind and soul. When a person is misaligned from their centre, caused by trauma, stress, anxiety, restlessness, tension and emotional imbalance, physical ailments can manifest within the body as a result. As a fully qualified Holistic Therapist, Luana has both the skills and ability to listen to the body and can create a healing approach that promotes balance and harmony within the body, mind and soul that is tailored to one's specific individual needs. As a talking therapist, she is able to provide a safe space, allowing the free expression of emotions and feelings, this approach can open a pathway to Theta Healing techniques that can help to resignify the emotions. A combination of trigger point therapy and reflexology helps to release tensions held in the body. Luana will also use energy healing and Reiki to help create a feeling of deep relaxation and well-being. This results in an overall blissful experience that culminates with hot stones and sound bath healing. Trio therapy will help you to realign with the best version of yourself by creating harmony between body, mind and soul.

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