Elemental Retreat Massage Therapy

 TEXT 608-448-8993
​ to confirm the location for your massage.
Modalities
Several modalities may be used during your integrated massage, unless a specific modality is scheduled, or discussed before your massage.
**Please note, we are not practicing pregnancy massage at this time. However, feel free to email us for a referral. **

Swedish Massage
Deeply relaxing, a great stress-buster. Improves circulation, works tension out of your muscles and improves general health.

Relaxation Massage
A gentler version of Swedish massage. By stimulating the body's parasympathetic nervous system, blood pressure decreases, heart rate slows, and digestive activity increases. Breath deeply and let your troubles float far away.

Deep Tissue Massage
For chronic pain due to repetitive strain injury, soreness due to heavy physical activity, or for clients who have sustained physical injury. Deep, focused work can facilitate the healing process and help you to manage your pain.

Connective Tissue Therapy
A form of intense massage that aims to release myofascial (connective tissue) restrictions in the body. It has also been known to help relieve chronic tension, to increase the body’s range of motion, to improve posture and to enhance the natural harmony of the entire body and mind.

Trigger Point Therapy
A trigger point is an area of highly contractile muscle tissue within a taut muscle fiber (what most people call knots). Trigger points often refer pain and can be very uncomfortable. Trigger point therapy deactivates these points through finger pressure.

Picture
About Your Therapist
Hanna Friedericks is nationally certified, Wisconsin  and Iowa state licensed, and a member of the American Massage Therapy Association. A graduate from Lakeside School of Massage Therapy, Hanna has been offering high quality massage, to a diverse clientèle, since 2008.

Hanna believes in a holistic care model and supports her clients journey to form healthy habits. Good sleep, a healthy diet, clean water, and everyday stress management, can be the best health care insurance. When we create the right conditions to activate our parasympathetic nervous system, our bodies are allowed to do what they are meant to do: heal themselves.

Hanna will encourage you to breathe deeply and reach new levels of relaxation. She will "listen" with her hands and heart, working gently, efficiently, and deeply, to find the places that need attention, space, movement and light.

Hanna was born in a small town, on the South Dakota plains, and has been deeply influenced by the serenity of nature. The vast open space of the prairie has always been in her heart. It has taught her that great wonders are revealed through stillness and presence. Hanna now lives in Dubuque, Iowa with her house rabbits, Juniper and Clover.  She loves gardening, hiking, traveling, cooking, dancing and learning new things.