Massage Therapy

Massage and body work at The Soul Space is not your average massage experience.  Our licensed massage therapists aren’t just massage therapists, but healers.  We focus on healing physical body, mind and spirit from the nervous system up.  We love to fix problems, not just perpetually treat them.

The environment at The Soul Space has been cultivated to put you in an instant state of relaxation when you arrive, replete with plants, cozy salt lamps, an extensive tea selection, and comfortable lounging areas.  We encourage our guests to arrive early and hang out for as long as they want to after a session.

Our therapists are trained in a variety of massage modalities, and can infuse myriad energy work modalities too.  We go out of our way to bring you the absolute best massage therapists in Olympia, and we know you’ll feel the difference, leaving relaxed, refreshed and reset.

“This was my first time doing a float (ever) or a massage at Oly Float.
I. AM. IN. LOVE. Walking in the whole place is so peaceful and relaxing, and the staff was so helpful.
My massage was so soothing and the masseuse was so friendly. Five stars all around.”
– Kristy K. 

The Ultimate Relaxation
Consider taking advantage of our Float & Massage package – the only place in Olympia that you can experience this – for the most relaxing three hours of your life.

At The Lowest Price …
For the lowest session price and to reward your own commitment to your self-care, we have a monthly Massage Membership available, which includes a complimentary monthly infrared sauna session.

“Great massage. Great float. I didn’t know what to expect.. I was wondering to myself, will I get that feeling that other people have experienced? Will that happen for me? YES! Ultimate relaxation.”
– Tony W. 

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Together, our team’s full complement of massage and body work services include:

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Swedish Massage

Not actually from Sweden, this describes a comfortable, flowing style which can be performed at light, medium, or deep pressures, useful for both injury treatment and relaxation. It enhances immunity, reduces stress, and shifts the body’s energy out of guarding and into healing.

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Deep Tissue Massage

With little or no oil, specific muscles, tendons, and trigger points (knots) are slowly stretched and released with focused pressure. Not to be confused to with deep-pressure Swedish massage, although the two can be blended together easily.

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Myofascial Release

This dry technique slowly holds, rolls, stretches and releases connective tissue specifically, to restore full motion to a joint compromised by adhesions. (Excellent for lower back pain, plantarfascitis, and cramped hands and wrists.)

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Postural Analysis

Many chronic pain problems are caused by misaligned posture. Before we begin, we can check the positions of various bones. The origin of the problem may be far from where the pain manifests – for example, jaw pain can be the ultimate result of an unhealthy tilt in the pelvis. Follow-up measurements after the massage help track progress and help you remember what your goals for better posture feel like.

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Injury Treatment

Repetitive motion, whiplash, sports injury, carpal tunnel, pulled hamstring, rotator cuff, chronic back pain, headaches, the list goes on. With extensive training in injury treatment and postural analysis, skilled hands will assess and treat your specific injury to speed your recovery and allow you to return to your normal activities of daily living pain free.

Unfortunately, we do not accept insurance claims due to consistent underpayment by insurance companies, but are happy to provide receipts for your services with us so you can be reimbursed directly by your insurer.

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Prenatal / Pregnancy Massage

Prenatal massage can help relieve many of the aches and pains that occur during pregnancy, such as backaches, leg cramps, fatigued muscles, stress on joints from extra weight, headaches and edema. Massage helps induce a relaxed parasympathetic state, which is great for mother and baby alike. Consider combining a massage with a float session too; floating can be an incredible therapy for pregnancy, both physically and mentally.

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Dynamic Cupping

Massage cupping is essentially the inverse of the typical massage therapy. Instead of exerting pressure on different points of the body for healing, massage cupping uses suction to tug the skin, tissues and muscles upwards, and can then glide and move adhesions in a way sometimes not available to regular massage techniques. Massage cupping has been known to be used over the centuries by all cultures and the oldest records of traditional Chinese medicine talk about using the therapy to cure a range of ailments. In contemporary times, massage cupping is seen as an effective, non-invasive, inexpensive, and safe form of treatment.

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Hot Stone Therapy

Imagine your massage therapist’s hands suddenly getting really hot and that heat penetrating deeply into your muscles as they glide through stiffness and adhesions.  That’s how hot stone therapy works.  Smooth, flat, heated stones made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock that retains heat, are heated to between 130 and 145 degrees and oiled for a deeply pleasant and effective additional massage technique.

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Percussion Therapy

At your request, or if your massage therapist feels it will be more effective (they’ll ask you first), a Hyervolt percussion massage therapy tool can be used to vibrate deeply into areas of the body that may benefit from more mechanical intervention.  The high frequency vibration can almost literally shake tension and adhesion out of those areas that are tightly holding on too much.  Those parts are almost forced to let go and relax in a way that feels like an amazing release.

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Hot Towel Therapy

Hot towel therapy can be used to bring in extra heat to areas needing deeper natural relaxation before being manually massage.  Not only incredibly pleasant to experience, this can also make your massage that much more effective.  Any part of the body might have hot towels used to relax the tissues, but they’re often used on feet, face and for traction on the neck.

 

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Visceral Mobilization

Visceral Mobilization – also known as Visceral Manipulation – is a massage technique that utilizes gentle pressure and massage to restore movement and mobility of the organs, or “viscera”, especially in the abdomen. Just like the connective tissues of the more obvious muscles and tendons in your body that typically get focus and care, the connective tissues of the organs also lose fluidity and full mobility and develop adhesions and stiffness. This can result in inferior function of the organs, which affects the whole body and any nervous system branches connected to that organ. Read More

 

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Grief Massage

Grief can often leave us feeling unstable, out of sync, irrational, numb, and many other things. The important thing to know is that these feelings and experiences are different for every person, and each one is valid. Grief massage is an intentional and gentle modality which puts the mind and body into a state that allows for the safe processing of grief that is being experienced and held in the physical body. Read More

 

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Float & Massage

90 minutes in a zero gravity, sensory relief environment prior to a massage makes the entire body significantly more ready to release stored tension in all of the muscles. You won’t believe how much more can be achieved during a massage if it follows a session spent floating in 1,000 lbs of magnesium-rich Epsom salts.

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Combined Therapies

At your request, there are many other techniques and traditions our massage therapists can incorporate into their massage sessions with you, as there are often underlying emotional and energetic issues that create the foundation for the types of injuries and ailments that massage is good for. Bodywork can be combined with craniosacral therapy, reiki, acupressure, and more, to help fully heal body, mind and soul. The priority is always finding what is best for you and building on your own resources for healing.

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