Aromatherapy and Massage Center was originated to answer a need. Multi-disciplinary centers offering a holistic approach to healing are becoming more popular. Both ancient and modern thought recognizes that most of our center is an innovative, though proven, complimentary approach to your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. While never replacing your primary physician we work in a modality of mutual respect and cooperation. "The sense of touch is a powerful and highly sensitive form of communication. It is a natural reaction to reach out and touch, whether to feel the shape or texture of an object, or to respond to - perhaps to comfort- another person. A mother cuddles her baby, everyone strokes the family pets, loving partners caress, and if you accidentally bump into something, you instinctively rub the sore spot better. Touch can mean different things in different cultures. Fortunately, we are now rediscovering the healing power of massage and other touch therapies, which have been understood in other cultures for thousands of years. Massage is beneficial to the whole physiological system: it stimulates and warms the tissues, improves blood flow and the elimination of toxins, and soothes the nervous system by inducing a state of deep relaxation. It provides a safe and neutral situation in which to receive the loving touch that is so important for our emotional health and self-esteem." "Massage can fairly claim to be the oldest form of healing in existence. The use of touch to relieve aching muscles, to give comfort, or to express love is as old as humankind, and is something humans share with animals as an instinctive way of bonding and sharing, as a stress-reliever it is probably without equal, and every culture throughout history has used massage in some form: every language, ancient or modern, has a word for massage." **Taken from Massage for health, relaxation, and vitality by Sarah Porter.