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Is a Licensed Massage Therapist with 15 years of experience. Alea graduated from Healing Mountain Massage School and from Southern Utah University with her BA in 2008. She believes that balance and wellness come from the inside out. Her goal is to help each client find true balance in mind, body, and spirit.
Is a Reiki Master, Licensed in Craniosacral, & a Licensed Massage Therapist. She graduated from Myotherapy College of Utah on August 15, 2020. Her hope for anyone who comes to Umbrella Wellness is that every client feels the love, peace, and balance intentionally created by the staff and that the clients are then guided to the modality or modalities that fit their highest and best good along their individual healing journey: physically, emotionally, spiritually, and energetically.
Has been a Massage Therapist for 15 years. She specializes in Deep Tissue Massage, Therapeutic Bodywork, and Reiki. She’s a Master in Usui and Karuna Reiki. Shallyn likes to combine deep work with energy work, and finds that it is very effective. She is skilled in many different modalities of massage that she can combine to meet the individual needs of her clients.
Practices very gentle acupuncture, acupressure, shiatsu massage, cupping, reflexology/meridian foot massage. These modalities are very effective for relief from stress, anxiety, insomnia, digestive disorders and PTSD.
Has been a practicing, licensed massage therapist for 23 years. During her career she has expanded her practice in massage to include, yoga, meditation, herbology, cupping and auricular therapy to bring a balanced and customized experience to her clients health journey.
Angie also has a love for supporting community through education and offers several classes in holistic health practices, meditation and childbirth education.
Angie is also a certified doula and teaches prenatal yoga, childbirth education classes, and herbology.
Cupping therapy is a therapeutic massage that started about 5,500 years ago in Egypt and Macedonia. Your therapist will place round, heated cups on your skin to increase blood circulation. Cupping therapy relieves muscle tension, increases blood flow, and promotes cell repair. According to healthline.com, “It may also help form new connective tissues and create new blood vessels in the tissues.”
Lymphatic drainage massage, or manual lymphatic drainage, relieves swelling and edema when medical treatment or illness blocks your lymphatic system. Lymphatic drainage massage involves gently manipulating specific areas of your body to help lymph move optimally. Those recovering from general colds or other illnesses, surgery, arthritis, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disorders, and lipedema tend to find this massage very helpful. It is also beneficial for anxiety/depression, and for those who do not like pain as it is a very gentle, hypnotic massage.
NIH conducted a study in Atlanta on those who suffer from anxiety. They found that massage significantly decreased fatigue. A second study was done on those with cancer, and it was found that the patients felt a light touch massage for 45 minutes, which was very beneficial in helping them feel less stressed and more relaxed.
Studies have also shown that massage is very beneficial for children. It helps them relax and sleep deeper. Massage has been used to help children with autism, ADHD, and auto-immune diseases for over fifty years.
A study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information and the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) showed that different types of massage reduced a child’s anxiety and improved their social communication and linguistic abilities. Massage also increased their tolerance to touch. This is powerful because when an autistic child’s tolerance to touch increases, their anxiety and aggression diminish. A back massage, using moderate pressure, done by a parent to their child for 10-15 minutes before bed has been shown to help children fall asleep faster, relax, and get more sleep.
