While the modalities used each have a specific intention - which are described below- they overlap as well.
All of them have a soothing quality that helps your system to switch from the Sympathetic Nervous System to the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
Which means that (among other things):

• breathing and heart rate calm down
• breathing becomes deeper (more oxygen intake)
• endorphins (body’s natural painkiller) are released
• awareness of the body increases
​• a sense of well-being occurs
• full relaxation helps break the pain-tension-pain cycle


Massage Therapy
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It is a ‘passive work out’- all the benefits of working out are happening such as
increased blood flow which means the body can function more effectively since nutrients are taken to the tissues faster and waste products taken away faster.

body awareness, proprioceptive reactivation, a sense of being in your body.
pain makes us shut off parts- we need to integrate
increase rom


Reiki

Reiki is a gentle hands on relaxation technique that was founded in 1900 by Dr Usui. He developed a system, brought to the US Hawaya Takata.
Libby’s link
literally it means Universal Life Energy and the practitioner becomes a vessel.
It can be experienced as heat coming from the practitioner’s hands, some people experience tingling, shifting, coolness, sometimes nothing.
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Myofascial Release

breaking up adhesions
increasing rom
trigger point
meeting tension with pressure to free up movement
Fascia is collagen, elastin, hyaluronic acid, it keeps our shapes, it lets everything glide and move.
like gello-when not in use, stiffens up. When warm/motion it ‘melts’.
Protection- but stays even after original problem has been solved. Needs help to adjust before it becomes the next layer of problem/ tension.

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