Esalen Massage®
"At the heart of the session is a sense of empowering each individual to regain a sense of harmony, reverence, and balance, and to awaken inner resources for healing." - Brita Ostrom
About My Work
My work marries the feminine and masculine energies, bringing a sense of balance and integration to the body. I do deep, structural work focusing on muscular detail, cross fiber friction, and stretching. The more feminine aspect in my work addresses the emotional and energetic systems of the body. In addition to Esalen massage®, I have studied, reflexology, Aquacranial, Brazilian Spiritual Healing (Laying on of hands), Essential oils (Raindrop Therapy), Lomi Lomi and Deep Tissue.
Esalen Massage® has been informed by sensory awareness, Swedish massage, oriental medicine, meditation and the Gestalt therapy practice. The influence of, deeper work borrowed for Ida Rolf’s teachings, Moshe Feldenkrais’ sense of neural co-ordinates, Milton Trager’s passive movement to awaken the mind, yoga stretches, somatic mind-body psychology, and more energetically based polarity massage and cranial-sacral work continue to “grow” the work. Each practitioner translates this into his/her personal art form.
Special Thanks goes to Peggy Horan my teacher and mother. Peggy is one of the contributing founders of Esalen Massage. Thank you mom for a life-time body awareness, for teaching me that the body is a temple, a sacred home, a housing for the divine spirit.
Lucia R. Horan is certified to teach Esalen Massage® under the EMBA. If you are interested in producing an Esalen Massage® workshop in your area. Please contact her at Rhythmdanza@gmail.com.