Alison is a Registered Massage Therapist and owner of Hand Prints Massage Therapy. Alison graduated with honours from the 2400 hour MacKay Massage Therapy and Hydrotherapy Program in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Alison is an active member of the Natural Health Practitioners of Canada. She is a born and raised Yukoner who loves her job and loves to work. It is job full of satisfaction and gratitude, in a serene, one on one environment. Alison believes in health, in alternative health care and in feeding your body the best so we can perform at our best.
Alison says “Massage Therapy has been a gift to me, it has opened my life to alternative health care. I love to share my passion and wonderment of the endless possibilities of personal health and wellbeing. I love being a client as much as I love being the therapist.” Our body is the only mechanism in life that gets stronger the more we use it and feed it health, love and positive energy.
Kate will away from the clinic to finish a theory course over the summer returning end of August 2024.
Hi, my name is Kate, I am a Registered Massage Therapist and the massage practice I bring to Hand Prints began in the realm of body work in 2008, graduating with Honours from the Vancouver School of Bodywork and Massage (now Vancouver School of Healing Arts), taught by internationally renowned founder of ‘Deep Flow’ Milena Bergeron. In 2018 I persued clinical training and graduated with Honours from MH Vicars’, 2200 hr Remedial Massage Therapy Program. I specialise in chronic pain, injury and chronic stress.
Together these two trainings bring a ‘two eyed seeing’ approach to massage (Marshall, 2004); seeing from one eye time honoured holistic ways of knowing and from the other eye the strengths of western, evidence-based ways of knowing. I have practiced in clinics providing massage therapy for industrial workers and spent several years working for the Ahousaht, Hes-qui-aht and Tla-oh-qua-at peoples in the Pacific Rim. I have practiced in world class boutique spas, bush camps, 5-star Heli-Ski lodges, mobile services and detox treatment centers. I have been a student of Suzi Hately, the renowned Calgary based Yoga therapist, for almost two decades and this work demands the ability to ‘look up stream’ in the kinetic chain for potential culprits of persistent pain. “Where the pain is, is not always where the problem is” (Suzi Hately, 2006). This approach directs attention to where compensation and tension holding patterns may benefit from building awareness.
The treatment will include, where indicated, orthopedic assessment; infra-red heat; ice and hydrotherapy protocols; the use of stones as tools for focused work and importantly the use of breath in decreasing the sympathetic nervous state and zeroing in on muscular trigger points.
We will curate your bespoke treatment together; designed around your knowledge of your body and circumstance.
Hately, S. (2006) Anatomy & Asana: Preventing Yoga Injuries. Eastland Press.
Marshall, A. (2004) integrativescience.ca/Principals/TwoEyedSeeing/
