Claire P.
A Textured Approach.
Water House Wellness welcomes Claire to the practice from Oregon. Claire is one of our Master Therapists.
Claire has always been interested in the path of holistic healing, forging a personal mission from a very young age to bring wellness and balance to her own life.
After discovering the Amma Therapy program at The Wellspring School for Healing Arts, these values began to blossom as a career path.
As a therapist, she strives to create a comfortable space in which clients can explore and enhance this path for themselves through education, healing, and relaxation. She continued her training in herbal medicine in the Professional Herbalist program through the East West School for Planetary Herbology.
It is her priority to treat each client through a holistic model, addressing all elements of mind and body in unity.
Amma Therapy is a specialized form of bodywork rooted in Chinese Medicine, combining deep, therapeutic pressure with acu-point stimulation, cupping & guasha.
Like acupuncture, the treatment is focused on Chinese medical principles for accessing and manipulating Qi (energy) in the body, but no needles are used. Amma works with the energetic and musculoskeletal systems to help restore balance and harmony within the body. Sessions include individualized treatment protocols for each client, with the goal of improving health and promoting balance and well-being of all systems.
Claire’s work feels complex as it addressed different areas of the body with different styles and sometimes with tools like cupping and guasha.
Claire’s work isn't "massage" traditionally where we would think of Swedish strokes and the hands staying on the body at all times.
Her work is a mixture of manual therapies that feel purposeful and layered. It feels like she is using a variety of tools, one of which is her hands, to apply strokes, pressure and friction. She also uses guasha tools and cups to both assess and treat at the same time applying Chinese medicine similarly to the way acupuncture uses Chinese medicine.
Her work treats what she finds with attentiveness. This is an incredibly relaxing and deep feeling process as our body craves being seen in this way.
Schedule
Monday 10am-5pm
Tuesday 9am-5pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 12:30pm-8:30pm
Sunday 1pm-8pm
Modalities
Amma Therapy, Cupping, Gua Sha, Personal Training
Claire is skilled in addressing
symptoms that arise from:
-body pain
- headache,
- digestive disturbance
- sinus issues
-insomnia
Amma Therapy is a highly refined and complex system of bodywork whose techniques and treatment strategies combine the use of traditional Chinese medical principles and a Western approach to organ dysfunction.
By Tina Sohn and Robert C. Sohn
Playlist
We have invited our therapists to link to a playlist that speaks to their personality or that is a sample of what would be played during a massage.
What To Expect:
Your session is based in Chinese medicine.
Like most all practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this approach is focused on treating the root rather than just the branch of an imbalance. There is an old saying in TCM "one symptom, one thousand diseases". This illustrates the idea that there is not just one root cause of a certain presentation. TCM is all about looking at the big picture, identifying what is going on in the body as a whole rather than just isolating specific symptoms (with the exception of certain acute conditions).
Everything is understood as one unified whole, each element interacting and inseparable. This holistic perspective is furthered in Chinese herbalism as herbs are rarely used alone. Multiple herbs are almost always combined in formulas to help address the whole picture, as well as to balance each other out. In essence, TCM is focused on treating the mind-body as one interconnected complex.
Added support with Chinese Herbal formulas are geared to restore balance in the body, addressing underlying factors that give rise to disharmony. Formulas are typically not intended to be taken forever, but rather for a period as harmony is attained.
Updates & New Developments..
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“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length—and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”