“Do you know our soul is composed of harmony?” - Leonardo Da Vinci

MASSAGE & BODYWORK AND OTHER THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS

  • Sacred Bodywork

    Sacred Bodywork was developed by Monique to help clients enter into a deep meditative state. These states increase the likelihood of the client having an ‘out-of-body experience’. Out-of-body experiences play an important role in resetting mental, physical, emotional and psychological patterns.

    See below for more information

  • Therapeutic & Relaxation Massage

    Therapeutic Massage can be focused on Essential Tremor or other tremor disorders or address aches, pains, injuries such as arthritis, whiplash, headaches/migraines, digestive issues and Heart Health (see add-ons). While each session is created specifically for your needs, Therapeutic Massage often focuses on the area of discomfort or pain and Relaxation Massage is often a full body experience. Either way, a deep level of relaxation is at the heart of these sessions.

  • Island Massage

    Island Massage was developed by Monique after traveling to small, beautiful islands such as Lombok and Pulau Weh. In the background is the sound of the ocean. Broad, slow, meditative touch evokes the beauty and space of an island experience and is particularly good for those who need to create internal space and open the heart.

    An Island Massage is a fabulous way to get a mini-vacation while stying close to home!

  • Add-Ons

    Monique has developed specific protocols to work effectively with headaches, migraines, whiplash and TMD (jaw tension, clicking, grinding). Abdominal Massage and Healthy Heart Massage are also offered. These are offered as add-ons to Therapeutic Massage.

    *Please note: You are not charged extra for add-ons. Add-ons refer to the focus of the session, not extra time. TMD is not offered during covid times.

  • Men's Issues Counseling/Mentoring with Blane

    These1-hour in-person or zoom counseling/mentoring sessions with Blane Allen offers support and a means of exploration for issues such as grief, anger, loss, work/life crises, anxiety, finding life balance.

  • ADD/ADHD Counseling/Coaching with Blane

    ADD/ADHD can be challenging at any age. These 1-hour zoom sessions with Blane Allen offer those of all ages support, understanding and coping mechanisms for dealing with ADD/ADHD

  • Therapy/Counseling with Monique

    This powerful modality with Monique Illona, M.A.E.T., LMT, allows those of all ages to explore issues of stress and explores personal issues using various modes of self expression, including ‘talk therapy’.

    No previous art experience is necessary to participate. Included in the sessions may be drawing with various art media, clay, writing, movement, voice, etc.

    See below for more information

  • Payment

    A SLIDING SCALE IS AVAILABLE FOR ALL SESSIONS

    Payment is due at time of session. You can pay by credit card, cash, Venmo and check.

    Insurance is not accepted.

    Counseling/Mentoring and Therapy sessions are all 1-hour in length.

    PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR OUR SLIDING SCALE FEE

Therapy/Counseling with Monique

In 1989 I graduated with a Masters from Lesley University and began my career as a therapist in mental health facilities prior to opening my private practice. For over 30 years I have been working with the mind/body connection concluding that to find health and balance, body and mind often do better being addressed together. People are complicated and while everything on the outside may look fine, on the inside a whole other reality may be playing out. Life itself is complex… events and transitions, including those we plan and those that come out of nowhere like a freight train, can introduce hurdles, challenges and hardships. Being thrown off balance like this can leave us feeling lost, bewildered, experiencing physical tension and emotional vulnerability, disconnection from our body, our sense of self and what we truly want or need.

Whatever brings you to my office (stepping into a new life, divorce or relational difficulties, financial hardship, trouble with sleep, stress and anxiety, old unhelpful patterns re-emerging, lack of confidence, loss and grief or other issues), will be explored with respect, open-mindedness and empathy. We will explore your way forward by talking together, through a hands on approach of therapeutic touch, writing, drawing and other modalities that assist in getting to deeper layers of awareness and understanding. Client feedback describes me as insightful, having a gentle, attentive presence that supports, questions and responds with  integrity.

I have been in private practice as a Massage Professional since 1991 teaching meditation, breathing and other techniques which may be integrated in to your session to bring a focused, grounded, calm framework to our time together. Sessions are available via video chat or in-person (In-person sessions I will be masked the whole time, you can mask or not).I invite you to see if we’re a good fit by scheduling a free video consultation.

Our Sliding Scale

A sliding scale is available for all sessions. We do not look at your finances. We simply ask you pay whatever you feel you can afford and is a fare exchange within our scale. If your financial situation fluctuates, please feel free to take that into consideration at time of payment. Thank you and we look forward to working with you.

PLEASE NOTE:

Our booking system will show one price as it cannot be set up to handle a sliding scale. When you pay, wether that is on-line or in person, please simply pay what you can afford and feel comfortable with within our scale.

Massage & Bodywork

60 minutes: $110 - $160 90 minutes: $160 - $210

2 hrs: $240 - $320 | 2.5 hrs: $300 - $400| 3 hrs: $360 - $480

Therapy/Counseling/Mentoring

$120 - $190

Massage &. Bodywork ADD-ONS: No Extra Charge

The value of your Hand in Hand Massage session

Extra time… I like to take my time with each client, creating a memorable and in-depth experience. However much time you book, you can expect to be with me for an extra 20-minutes to an hour beyond your session time. This time is used to tune in, connect and exchange information before and after your session. I don’t want to rush our time or your experience.

Over 30 years of experience… which means training, study, expertise, dedication and competency that has shaped my sense of touch, intuition, knowledge-base and presence. I do not have a predetermined routine. For each client and in each session I tune in to your unique system and allow it to show me what it needs.

A sensory experience… of sounds, vibration, and visuals that together calm and reset the nervous system before, during and after the session.

If you or a loved one needed an operation, who would you choose? A first year resident or someone with decades of expertise…?

The Massage Experience

Rushing clients in and out is antithetical to the purpose of massage. Allow yourself plenty of time…book your time on the table and then we may talk for 2 minutes or 30-minutes or even more. Then lie on the table and the session begins…

Touch is the most known and understood of the senses I use to do my work. Over 30 years of experience has honed the rest, the senses that for many are difficult to ‘believe in’. My work is not about a theoretical belief system. Rather, it’s an application of slowly accumulated and developed skills and techniques that allow us both to enter through an invisible and magical doorway. 

I invite you to join me…

Sacred Bodywork

From the moment a client enters to the moment they leave, I am listening. I am listening with my eyes, with my ears, with my heart, and yes, with my hands

If you call in the silence within yourself, if you ask yourself to be completely and totally present, it's amazing what you can hear.

But then again, it's not about what you can hear. It's the fact that you are there, present, and doing nothing but listening. You are simply and purely being the witness to the sacredness of the other. And in those moments there is breath, movement, release, expression, connection, communication emotion - life itself fills you, soaks into you, the listener. 

You do not judge if this is right or wrong. You do not decipher if this is healthy or not. You do not diagnose it the muscle is tight or torn... You simply exist... in that ethereal, dreamlike space that is neither you nor them. You simply float, noticing the environment you find yourself in, it's tendencies, it's hues, it's willingness to expand and contract, to give, to hold on, open, let go. 

Listening: The profound sacred art or presence, of being, of healing

 

Kriya’s: Sacred Bodywork Video

 

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