Tension Drops Therapy.
Each touch has value.
The Session
A 35-minute session, fully clothed.
About 25 minutes is spent making light contact along specific anatomical points that invite the release of held tension, with cranial holds, gentle unwinding, and muscle compression added as the body calls for them – the follow-through that lets a release complete rather than stall.
What Happens
When tension drops, the body often begins to move out of bracing. Breathing may ease, muscular holding can soften, and there is simply less effort being used to hold everything in place.
What that opens up is integration: with some of that effort set down, the system has room to settle and reorganize. The session creates conditions in which the body can do more of its own work.
Most people notice it as a kind of quiet self-awareness – the body’s own sense of itself, arrived at through touch and a fuller breath rather than through thinking about it.
Who It Is For
It is for anyone whose body is working hard – at a job, through change, in movement, in caregiving, in creativity, or simply in daily life.
This work suits people who carry tension in the spine, neck, and jaw, people who get headaches, and people living with ongoing stress – the kind that stops being an event and becomes a background setting, held in the body long after the situation has passed.
If that describes you, a session is a chance to exhale. Each contact invites you to let a little more go, and as tension drops, people often notice greater ease in the places that have been carrying it. Nothing is forced. You are giving yourself the time and the conditions to let go and integrate.
A Note on This Work
This is subtle work. It is not deep pressure, and it does not try to force change. What it does is let tension drop – and when the body is less braced, perception tends to open with it. People often describe feeling more present, more connected to themselves, and less separated from what is around them.
What People Notice
What clients report tends to be practical and specific:
- More room through the spine
- Tension released between the shoulder and the jaw
- An easing through the low back
- Less tension in the feet - some people notice it first in how their shoes feel
- More comfort driving
The changes usually show up in ordinary movement rather than as something dramatic on the table.
Where This Comes From
Tension Drops Therapy grew out of twenty-five years of hands-on practice, including Craniosacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy, massage therapy, and years of studying how the body responds to skilled touch.
It is my own work. What happens in a session comes from my hands and from felt sense: where to make contact, how much, and when, is read from your body rather than followed from a script.
Booking & Rates
Single session - 35 minutes
$85
Three-session series - $240
$80 per session
With Massage
Tension Drops also works well alongside massage. In these sessions, roughly 25 minutes of Tension Drops contact is woven together with hands-on massage – the massage addressing the muscle directly, the Tension Drops work giving the body time to settle.
60-minute massage with Tension Drops
$140
90-minute massage with Tension Drops
$180
Three 60-minute sessions - $390
$130 each
Five 60-minute sessions - $625
$125 each
Three 90-minute sessions - $495
$165 each
Five 90-minute sessions - $800
$160 each
Booking Note
Spinal Flow Care may be booked as its own session or included as part of an integrative massage session when appropriate.
Tension Drops Lab
Schedule TBA
35-minute shared sessions · Fully clothed · Two or three clients
Experience Tension Drops in a small, shared clinic setting. I move between clients, offering light, specific contact, gentle unwinding, and individual attention, with time to rest and notice what unfolds between contacts.
$40 per person
Wellness package: four Lab visits for $140
Two-hour Lab windows are planned for Saturdays and either Tuesdays or Thursdays. Each appointment lasts 35 minutes.
Final days, times, and booking details to be announced.
Frequency
For people working with long-held patterns of tension, twice-weekly sessions can be useful for a period of time. Rather than starting over at each visit, the work has a chance to build from one session to the next. Others may find a weekly or occasional rhythm suits them better.
Between Sessions
What you do between visits matters as much as the sessions themselves. The aim is simply to give your body time in the lowered-tension state, so it becomes familiar rather than occasional.
Anything that coordinates breath with movement works well:
- Walking
- Gardening
- Gentle breath practice
- Journaling
- Stillness of any kind
Nothing strenuous is needed. What helps is regular, unhurried time where the body is not braced.