bodywork FAQs

Use these scenarios as a guide to find an ideal appointment.

  • 120-Minute Deep Tissue with Paulina

This extended session gives us time to work through multiple areas of tension, explore how they connect, and incorporate deeper myofascial and mobility-focused work without rushing the process. It’s especially well suited for pre-hab, demanding training schedules, or preparing your body for an upcoming event.

  • Consider Adding: Hot Stone Body Contouring + Contrast Therapy 

Add Hot Stone Body Contouring when you’re preparing for an event, competition, or simply want more focused work through larger areas of restriction. Then follow your bodywork with Contrast Therapy to transition from intensive hands-on work into active recovery—giving your body time to decompress, move, and reset before heading back into training or your day..

  • Want something even more comprehensive?

Athlete Advantage expands this into 2.5 hours of deep-tissue myofascial work, hot-stone scraping and contouring, cupping, and biomechanics-focused bodywork.

  • For ongoing care: 

Longevity Membership — ideal when longer, consistent bodywork helps you stay ahead of recurring restrictions.

Your Best Starting Point: 90- or 120-Minute Massage with Michelle

  • Why It Fits

When stress and tension feel less like one problem area and more like they’ve settled into your entire body, a longer session gives you time to actually slow down. Michelle’s relaxation-focused approach allows your body to settle while still giving chronic areas of tension the attention they need—without making the session feel rushed or overly aggressive.

  • Consider Adding: Contrast Therapy

 When stress and fatigue have been building for a while, follow your massage with contrast therapy. After your body has had time to slow down and release tension, the sauna lets you stay in that relaxed state while the cold plunge provides an invigorating finish—helping you leave feeling refreshed, reset, and ready to re-enter your day.

  • Want More of a Spa Experience

Consider one of our Signature Spa Services with Paulina when you want to go beyond routine massage and turn your appointment into a more immersive recovery and relaxation experience.

  • For Ongoing Care: Longevity Membership

When stress and tension tend to accumulate everywhere, Longevity gives you a 90-minute massage each month—enough time to make regular bodywork part of managing the buildup instead of waiting until you’re completely depleted.

Your Best Starting Point: 60- or 90-Minute Bodywork Session

  • Why It Fits

Your body regularly switches between long periods of sitting and periods of activity, which can leave certain areas feeling tight, restricted, or overworked. A 60- or 90-minute session gives your therapist time for focused work where you need it while still addressing the larger patterns that help keep you moving comfortably and functioning well.

  • Consider Adding: Hot Stones + Contrast Therapy

Hot stones or targeted heated towels can be incorporated into your bodywork to warm stubborn areas and complement deeper myofascial-focused techniques. Follow your massage with Contrast Therapy to transition from hands-on work into active recovery, giving your body additional time to decompress and reset before returning to your routine.

  • Feel Confident With: Performance or Longevity Membership

Performance is an easy fit if a consistent 60-minute monthly massage gives you the maintenance you need. Longevity gives you more breathing room with a monthly 90-minute massage—and is especially worth considering if you prefer longer sessions or want the flexibility to share eligible massage benefits with another household member.

Your Best Starting Point: 30- or 60-Minute Lymphatic Drainage Massage

  • Why It Fits

When you’re preparing for a wedding, photos, vacation, competition, or another big event, lymphatic drainage offers gentle, focused bodywork designed to support fluid movement and help with temporary puffiness. Choose 30 minuteswhen you have a couple of specific areas you want to focus on, or 60 minutes when you want a more complete full-body session.

  • Want the Full Event-Prep Experience? Try Rendezvous.

When you don’t want to pick and choose, Rendezvous turns your prep into a two-hour head-to-toe signature treatment. Body contouring and abdominal/fascial lymphatic flushing are paired with scalp massage, reflexology, and TMJ work to address the little places we tend to hold tension while giving extra attention to how you want to feel in your body before the big day.

  • Timing Tip

For an important event, especially if lymphatic or body-contouring work is new to you, we can also guide you toward an appointment schedule that gives your body time to respond before the event rather than trying something unfamiliar at the last minute.

Your Best Starting Point: 60- or 90-Minute Massage + Lymphatic with Paulina

  • Why It Fits

You don’t necessarily have to choose. If you still want traditional bodywork for tension, chronic discomfort, and overall maintenance, a 60- or 90-minute massage gives your therapist enough time to address those needs while incorporating lymphatic techniques where they make sense. This is a great middle ground when you’re feeling puffy, heavy, or simply want lymphatic support to be part of your regular bodywork.

  • Consider Adding: Incorporate Lymphatic

Choose Incorporate Lymphatic when massage is still your priority. Your therapist will weave brief lymphatic flushes into the session after working an area, giving you elements of lymphatic drainage without adding additional appointment time.

  • Want More Lymphatic Work? Add Abdominal/Fascial Lymphatic Flush +15 Minutes

Choose this option when you want your massage and dedicated time for more comprehensive lymphatic work. We’ll add 15 minutes specifically for abdominal and fascial flushing rather than taking that time away from your massage.

  • Feel Confident With: Performance or Longevity Membership
    Performance

 is a great fit for consistent 60-minute maintenance when you like combining bodywork and lymphatic techniques regularly. Choose Longevity if you want the breathing room of a 90-minute monthly massage—especially when your body tends to need both focused tension work and enough time for lymphatic techniques without feeling rushed.

Your Best Starting Point: 30- or 45-Minute Focused Deep Tissue Session

  • Why It Fits

When you’re dealing with something specific—like whiplash, a recent injury, an acute flare-up, or one persistent area of chronic pain—the first appointment doesn’t need to be a marathon. A focused 30- or 45-minute session gives your therapist time to understand what’s happening, assess how the surrounding areas are moving and responding, and begin targeted bodywork based on what your body tolerates that day. Deep tissue describes the focus of the work, not a requirement for heavy pressure—pressure and technique can be adjusted throughout your session.

  • Consider Adding: Therapeutic Hot Towels

Targeted heat can be used to warm and settle guarded areas before more focused hands-on work, helping your therapist gradually work into the area rather than immediately asking irritated tissue to tolerate deeper techniques.

  • Feel Confident With: Performance Membership

If the issue is recurring or requires ongoing maintenance, Performance gives you a 60-minute massage each month so your first focused appointment can become the starting point for a more consistent bodywork routine.

For a recent injury, we’ll work within massage therapy’s scope and may recommend medical clearance or evaluation when your symptoms or injury warrant it.

Your Best Starting Point: 30-Minute Lymphatic Drainage with Post-Op Assessment

  • Why It Fits

Post-operative bodies require a different approach than routine massage. Your first 30-minute appointment gives us time to review where you are in your recovery, discuss your surgeon’s instructions and restrictions, and determine what lymphatic techniques are appropriate before creating a plan for additional sessions.

  • Planning for Multiple Sessions? Try the 5-Pack of 30-Minute Lymphatic Flushes.

If lymphatic drainage is already part of your surgeon-approved recovery plan, our 5-pack makes it easier to schedule a consistent series of focused 30-minute sessions rather than booking each visit individually.

  • Before You Book

For recent surgical procedures—including cosmetic and plastic surgery—we may require clearance from your surgeon and will always follow their post-operative restrictions. Lymphatic work is intended to support, not replace, your surgical team’s post-op care.

Your Best Starting Point: 45- or 60-Minute Massage

  • Why It Fits

You don’t need an entire afternoon to make bodywork worthwhile. A 45- or 60-minute session gives your therapist enough time to prioritize what your body needs that day—whether that’s focused tension relief, a quick recovery session, or simply an opportunity to slow down and reset before getting back to your schedule.

  • Choose Your Therapist Based on What You Need Today

Choose Paulina when you’re looking for deeper pressure, focused bodywork, or a specific area that needs attention. Choose Michelle when stress is the bigger problem and you want your appointment centered around relaxation and a nervous-system reset.

  • Consider Adding: Hot Towels or Aromatherapy

Both can enhance the experience without adding time to your appointment. Hot towels bring targeted warmth into areas that need extra attention, while aromatherapy can make even a shorter appointment feel more intentional and restorative.

  • Feel Confident With: Performance or Longevity Membership

A busy schedule doesn’t mean a membership won’t work for you—in fact, the flexibility may make it easier to use. Your monthly massage benefit can be broken into 30-minute sessions, giving you the option to use bodywork in smaller windows when life gets busy, while unlimited daily 30-minute Contrast Therapy gives you another way to fit recovery into your routine without needing a full massage appointment.

  • Performance is an easy starting point if 60 minutes of monthly bodywork fits your routine. Longevity gives you more massage time to work with each month, making it especially useful if you want the flexibility to divide your benefit into multiple shorter visits.

Membership and Contrast FAQ

Our memberships are month-to-month with no contracts and a require a 30-day cancellation policy. 

Your membership rate is locked in for life and can be paused for up to 3 months. 

Generally we recommend to bring a swimsuit to your contrast sessions. This allows you to go from sauna to cold plunge effectively. 

If you are coming from a massage to a contrast suite, robes are provided to help you transition from room to room.

Good News! Our Longevity Membership allows the membership holder to add a household member to the membership- making it easy to share benefits or come in for contrast together- all at no extra charge.

All of our memberships are good for daily 30 minute sessions - we recommend breaking this down to 19-22 minutes in the sauna followed by 1-5 minutes in the cold plunge. 

1 hour of sauna and 10-20 minutes of cold plunge per week is generally recommended for optimal results and this equates to roughly 3 Contrast sessions.

Once your body adapts to the sessions, you have the freedom to come in more often or give yourself an increased boost by adding more time to your session at a discounted membership rate. 

We do! If you would like to incorporate a more holistic and effective recovery program to your business, we offer custom memberships and corporate discounts. Simply use the contact form below and we will be in contact with you within 24 hours.

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