Services
Mashing/ Stretching
What is Mashing
Mashing is a form of thai massage, "mashing", and foot shiatsu. This technique will effect myofascial tissue as well as blood flow and will also allow muscles to stretch more effectively. These techniques are similar to what they have been practicing in the East for more than 38 generations. It is deep and sometimes intense works that helps create a more lasting effect and changes in the body during the session while helping to save the practitioners arms and hands from the rigors and wear and tear of traditional massage work.
What is Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching
Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching is the revolutionary technique that utilizes a person's own resistance in the strengthening and elongating of muscles.
Benefits are:
- offers immediate, cumulative, and permanent increases in flexibility
- takes the pain out of stretching
- protects one from injuring themselves by over-stretching
- results in gains in both strength and aerobic capacity
- improves performance accuracy
- creates more powerful, explosive, and core stable movements
Our Instructor Heather Bryant
Although Heather Bryant has a B.A. in English with a minor in communications from Drury University, her real love is swimming. She first dipped her foot in a pool at the age of 11 and she has not looked back since. A competitive swimmer in high school and college, her expertise in the water landed her a job coaching the Wichita Swim Club, a year round swim team in her hometown. In her spare time she worked as a court clerk at Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita, Kansas.
In July 2006, Heather moved to South Florida to coach the Coral Springs Swim Club. Working with competitive athletes, she became acutely aware of the many injuries that plagued them. A solution presented itself when she learned about Innovative Body Solutions, a revolutionary way of stretching and strengthening muscles for optimal performance. After completing extensive course work at I.B.S., she was selected to apprentice directly under Anne Tierney and Steve Sierra, founders of the program and trainers of Dara Torres. Now clients at Pilates Health Connexion benefit from Heather’s expertise in resistive stretching and mashing, a method of preparing muscles by compressing them with the feet. In her free time, she continues to teach swimming at Quality Swim.