The Element Center offers a wide variety of massage therapy services, including: Deep Tissue, Prenatal (pregnancy) massage, Sports injury rehab, Reflexology, Ashiatsu
Make an appointment now by calling 303-455-0277, email, or request an appointment online. Meet our talented therapists: Melissa, Elania, Toni, Sancken, Bonnie, and Lisa
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Melissa Cadogan, Certified Massage Therapist & Acupuncturist L.Ac., CMT
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Melissa’s background in physiology, sports medicine, holistic nutrition, yoga and meditation have all come together to create an all encompassing approach to Chinese Medicine and health. Her training in the Japanese style of acupuncture, which is very subtle yet powerful, lends itself wonderfully to working with people that are sensitive to needles. Melissa’s gentle and effective style of acupuncture is highly regarded among her patients. She has great success working with patients with lower back, neck & joint pain, reproductive concerns, gastrointestinal imbalances and stress conditions that affect every part of one’s optimal functioning and health.
Melissa also offers therapeutic massage modalities which include Acupressure, Shiatsu, Tui Na (traditional Chinese medical massage), Circulatory Massage and Reiki (energy work). She loves working with her patients to meet their desired health goals by utilizing her attentive listening skills, her compassion, knowledge and healing touch. Melissa would love to engage with you and be a part of your healing process by assisting your body, mind and spirit back to a state of optimal health and well-being.
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Elania Layman, Registered Massage Therapist, RMT
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Greetings. My name is Elania and I am proud to be part of The Element Center and its variety of healers. I graduated from Heritage College in 2002 with a degree in Associates of Occupational Studies. I later was trained in Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy as well as Cranial Sacral Therapy. I enjoy diversity and can also do Prenatal Massage, Hot Stone Therapy and Aura Clearings (energy work). I am looking forward to sharing time with you so that I can assist in your creation of balance, clarity, healing, and ease for your everyday life. You do create your life....may these therapies become a part of that. Below I would like to describe in further detail a few of my modalities. See you soon!
Ashiatsu seems to be the most popular amongst my clients. I use my feet for the entire treatment while holding bars on the ceiling for balance. The feet are used to give the whole body a deep, thorough flushing. A push-pull pumping effect is especially created along the spine and creates much relief for back pain. It's a great treatment for those who prefer deep work while also providing overall balance and rejuvination.
Cranial Sacral Therapy takes a completely different approach in healing. It is a technique that can have a profound effect on many levels as it balances the autonomic nervous system. Using the gentlest of touch, the therapist can gain access to the cranial sacral system throughout the entire body with extra emphasis on the bones of the cranium, the upper neck, the sacrum and the coccyx. This is accomplished by tuning into the rhythms of the cranial sacral wave. Cranial Sacral Therapy commonly creates an environment that allows stress, emotions or repressed memories to surface. This treatment brings clients into a new level of mental and emotional health, where they feel more relaxed and gain greater focus and clarity.
Aura Clearing/Chakra balancing can be integrated into any session. This focuses on energy or blockages in a person's body/space that does not serve them in their growth. In a sense, it lifts the fog and helps to clear away what the body/client is ready to let go of. This leaves a person with much more clarity, support, and validation to enjoy their path. Upon request I can do just the aura clearing while the person is sitting in a chair and integrate a reading into it.
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Toni Shaw, Registered Massage Therapist, RMT
Reiki Master
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Toni earned her certification and Reiki Master Training from the Holistic Learning Center in Evergreen, Colorado. She has been trained in various modalities including Raindrop Aromatherapy, Deep Tissue, Reiki, Reflexology, and Hot Stone Therapies. Working in the Chiropractic environment, Toni has extensive experience treating clients with whiplash, sciatica, migraines, and scoliosis. She is also very gifted working with people with addictions.
The Raindrop Technique, using high-grade Young Living Essential Oils, is one of the most effective and powerful techniques for working with clients as a means to raise the vibrational frequency in the body, as well as being a noninvasive tool for bringing the body into structural and electrical alignment. Toni also holds her B.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Florida.
Working through her intuition, Toni aspires to create a nurturing space in which clients can bring their mind, body, and spirit into harmonious balance, relaxation, and integration. It is with the highest intention that Toni works with each client on an individual basis to meet their wellness needs and help them continue to grow in their awareness of self-healing and overall well-being.
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Sancken Burgess LMT, CLD (CAPPA)
Specializing in Women’s Health, Prenatal/Labor/Postnatal Massage
Sancken Burgess graduated from the Massage Institute of Colorado (Denver) in 2007 and in spring of 2009 completed Kate Jordan’s “Bodywork for the Childbearing Years” (Santa Cruz, CA). That same spring Sancken trained as a Labor Doula through CAPPA (Denver). Sancken is a member of CAPPA, Colorado Doulas Association, House of Doula (Denver) and has been a featured Doula at Belly Bliss (June 09).
Most recently, Sancken is pursuing her midwifery training through NARM to become a registerd midwife. During her work as a massage therapist, Sancken developed a desire to focus on the special needs of expectant and new mothers. Sancken is an intuitive, educated and gifted healer and labor doula. Through a special therapy known as Muscle Energy Technique, Sancken has found success in relieving neck, lower back pain and hip pain, predominately common during pregnancy and post partum. Her greatest joy second to being a wife and mother is witnessing and being a part of the empowerment of women through the birth process.
Since the birth of my son, I now more than ever recognize birth as a key life experience that you the mother will remember for the rest of your life. I bring to my work a unique passion for serving new families and a strong commitment to excellence in the doula and massage profession.” - Sancken Burgess LMT
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Bonnie St. John LMT
Bonnie moved to Colorado from Michigan in the fall of 2008 and started studying bodywork at the Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado in 2009. With a background in molecular biology, Bonnie enjoyed studying the physiology and anatomy of the human body and enjoys working with her clients to provide relaxation and relief from pain and stress. In addition to Swedish Massage, Deep Tissue, and Neuromuscular Therapy (trigger point release), Bonnie employs Myofascial release, Motion Palpation, joint range of motion, and Zoku Shin Do, which is the oldest form of East Asian Foot Massage.
Bonnie is excited to be a part of The Element Center and learning from its many practitioners, as well as from you, the client! She looks forward to creating a time and space for you to breathe, balance, and be.
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Lisa Stacey LMT
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.” – Thich Nhat Hahn
Because of stress, injuries, or illness our bodies don’t always function perfectly. Lisa’s goal is to assist the client in returning his or her body as closely as possible to wellness and functioning perfectly. Her intuition and training can encourage relaxation, movement, calmness, and stimulate tissue towards healing.
Lisa received her certificate in Massage Therapy from Denver School of Massage Therapy, Westminster, Colorado in 2004 with 815 hours of instruction. She maintains her massage credentials as a Massage Therapist with the State of Colorado.
Lisa was cited in 5280's Top of the Town Editor’s Choice for "Best Massage" in 2008.
Lisa works with people that have recent injuries or chronic pain by using intuitive and trained techniques for long-term results. With Lisa’s numerous years of experience, she specializes in Deep Tissue bodywork. She also is a skilled Prenatal massage therapist and a certified Infant Massage instructor.
As a member of AMBP (Associated Massage & Bodywork Professionals), Lisa maintains the highest level of professional code of ethics and practice mandated by this national organization.
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Prenatal Massage:
Some of the numerous benefits of prenatal massage include:
* facilitation of the physiological process of gestation by supporting the work of the heart, increasing cellular respiration, reducing edema, and contributing to sympathetic nervous system sedation (aka: relaxation of the Momma brain).
* alleviation of stress on weight-bearing joints and musco-fascial structures
* reduction and alleviation of neck and back pain caused by improper posture, muscle weakness, tension and imbalance
* development of the sensory awareness necessary to embody kinesthetically the birth process (in order to birth, the musculature of the legs, back, abdomen, pelvic floor must release to allow to labor with no resistance.)
* an experience of loving, nurturing touch so that the women may more easily touch her own baby lovingly ( Study by Reva Rubin, University of Pittsburgh).
In the postpartum period, massage therapy can:
* facilitate the restoration of pre-pregnancy physiology through enhanced circulation and lymphatic drainage
* alleviate muscle strain and soreness produced by the labor and delivery process
* promote structural realignment of the pelvic region (also practiced by Sancken in prenatal care)
* facilitate healing from Cesarean section using connective tissue and scar massage techniques
* provide physical nourishment to a new Mama during the physical and emotional stress of earlier mothers.
