With all of the rocking chairs and antique furniture sitting around Stephanie Grenadier’s new business you might think this was more like a cozy room than a massage studio. However she intentionally avoided that spa-like look reports the PatriotLedger.com.
“(Spas) have a conveyor belt type of mentality. It’s like in and out,” she said. “You don’t go to a spa to hang out and drink tea in a rocking chair.”
At Energy Matters, Grenadier offers standard massage options such as Swedish, hot stone, deep tissue and reflexology. But she also practices energy healing using Reiki and polarity techniques. Christine Jamieson, who also works out of Energy Matters, offers health card readings, which can bring emotional issues to the surface.
Both Reiki, a Japanese technique, and polarity, developed by an Austrian-American doctor in the 1940s, are massage techniques based on the belief that a balanced flow of energy through the human body is essential for good health.
“We do it all the time — we touch ourselves when we hurt,” like touching your head when you have a migraine, or a mother kissing her child’s scrape, she said.
Customers can choose to receive traditional massage work or energy therapy, and Grenadier often incorporates both techniques in the customized session.
“If you want deep tissue, I understand that. On the other hand, if your deep tissue work that you need done is (due to stress), then I’m going to say, ‘If you really want the massage to last, then there’s got to be some other kind of work done,’” she said.
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