Elevata Clinic and Retreat Massage
and Bodywork Therapies
Welcome to a sanctuary of holistic well-being - Elevata Clinic. Our suite of massage therapies is designed to provide the ultimate rejuvenation for your body, mind and spirit.
Let us guide you unwind, heal, and elevate your health with a variety of specialised treatments:
Available Days
Monday – Saturday (Closed Sunday)
Available Times
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Remedial Massage Therapy
This form of massage is a deeper treatment to bring back flow and harmony to places in the body effected by injury, stress, and over-use. It helps with pain and may be targeted to a specific area. A blend of different modalities may be used to gain a desired outcome in this treatment.
Hawaiian Lomilomi Bodywork
Lomilomi Massage and bodywork is an ancient Hawaiian Healing Art combining Aloha, Love, Pule (Prayer), and Massage. It incorporates broad fluid strokes of forearms and hands to activate the flow of mana (life force energy) for an holistic approach towards physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. In addition, the use of aromatherapy with a series of flowing strokes, kneading and gentle manipulations of the muscles helps as a pain-free way to relax both your muscles and your mind, body, and spirit.
Aromatherapy Massage
This is a blissful, relaxing and divine experience using 8 high quality essential oils and blends, applied in a specific sequence along meridians on the back and feet with gentle to firm hand strokes, to help balance the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. Facilitated by our Integrative Physiotherapist/Energy healer, Dannielle.
Maori Healing
Embark on a journey to wellness with our powerful indigenous Maori Healing therapy. Releasing ancestral blockages and past life blockages. Besides the power of touch, and breath, this ancient practice also uses sacred chants, and native plant remedies to restore balance and harmony within your body and spirit.
Trigger Point Therapy & Myofascial Release
Trigger point therapy is a soft tissue technique that works to release painful, tension in muscles and fascia that you would usually experience as a knot in the muscle or sometimes direct or referred pain. There are many different approaches to trigger point therapy including soft tissue work, deep tissue massage, and ischemic pressure.
Myofascial Release is a safe and very effective hands-on technique that involves applying gentle sustained pressure into the Myofascial connective tissue restrictions to eliminate pain and restore motion. It can be a slow and deep technique that blends nicely with trigger point therapy.
Pregnancy Massage
Pregnancy can put a lot of stress on your back, shoulders, neck, and abdominal muscles. Designed to relieve some of the aches and pains that are common during pregnancy, this type of massage is tailored to help you relax deeply. For this reason, it can be especially useful to help ease discomfort at a time when you can't use some medicines or other medical options.
Bowen Therapy
Experience the gentle, yet profound, Bowen technique. Unlike other therapies, Bowen uses precise moves on specific points of the body to stimulate energy flow, promoting self-healing, pain relief, and a deep sense of overall well-being.
Cranio Sacral Therapy
Connect with your body's natural rhythms through our Cranio Sacral Therapy. This gentle treatment helps release tensions deep in the body, improving the functioning of the central nervous system, and promoting a profound sense of relaxation and balance.
What Is Remedial Massage?
How Does a Remedial Massage Work?
A remedial massage therapist uses different techniques to locate and repair the damaged tissues in the body. They may apply deep pressure on the muscles associated with the problem, trigger point therapy, some stretching and petrissage techniques among others.
What Are the Benefits of Remedial Massage?
Headaches
Abdominal pain
Back pain
Sciatic pain
Sports and dance-related injuries
Muscle cramps
Whiplash
Muscular atrophy
Frozen shoulder
Fibrositis
Arthritis
Spondylitis
What Can You Expect From Remedial Massage?
The client is encouraged to communicate their needs to the therapist, especially with regard to the amount of pressure applied to their body. After the session, the practitioner advises the client to drink plenty of water to move the toxins released from the muscles out of their body.
The frequency of a remedial massage depends on the client's state of health. The practitioner may recommend a healthy person to get a massage once a month, while those who are working on long-standing pain may need it once or twice a week.
Is Remedial Massage Safe?
Add On: Lomi 'ili (Hot Stones)
Any of the Lomi techniques can be used with the tools of the stones, because they relax all the tissues around the problem area. It increases the blood flow and heat, allowing the practitioner to get much deeper without creating a “guard” from the client’s body. These amazing tools from the earth will absolutely help to ground, nourish and obtain better results from the treatment.
ABOUT YOUR THERAPIST
Danielle Smith
Danielle has 30 years experience as a healing practitioner and is often described as having “magic hands”. She commenced her career with a Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy at Sydney University. She has worked at over 10 clinics in and around Sydney, as well as owning 2 private practices of her own, and running clinics within several health, fitness and wellness studios. In 2022 Danielle and a colleague founded Freshwater Wellness Centre, in the Northern Beaches of Sydney, which was a haven of eastern, western and esoteric healing modalities
During these years Danielle also became fully qualified as a Spinal Energetics practitioner, Clinical Pilates Reformer teacher, and a Master Trainer in Personal Training. She also upskilled in additional healing modalities such as Dry Needling, Muscle Energy Techniques, Aromatouch Massage Technique and hot stone massage
During her own healing journey, Danielle also studied and experienced many forms of natural and alternative healing practices. This journey was the catalyst to her expanding into a much more holistic and intuitively-guided way of healing others, in combination with Western Medicine methods.
Danielle completed Diplomas in Integral Sound Healing for groups and Integral Sound Healing 1:1 with the Sound Healing Academy (UK) and is an intuitive energy healer who can channel high frequency transmissions, through her hands with specific codes, that can facilitate healing, wellbeing and energetic shifts within both the body and the environment.
Danielle is a believer that we are multi-dimensional spiritual and energetic beings, living an earthly experience in a physical body. In order to be in a state of wellness, all elements of our being need to be in balance and in a high vibrational state. She is passionate about facilitating healing through the energetic fields of the body, clearing unhealthy energy that does not serve the health of the client, and raising the body’s frequency so as to release pain and unease bring the client into their most authentic and whole state of being.
Danielle is very empathic, empathetic and nurturing, providing a safe, loving and supportive container for all those who seek her offerings.
ABOUT YOUR THERAPIST
Jeannette Oliver
My Journey to Hawaiian Lomilomi Practice
Sometimes transformation pops into our life in apparently simple but profound ways. It is a part of our earthly life that seems to manifest when the destiny intervenes. In the most mundane appearing circumstance, the preparation is being brewed behind the scenes and comes to form when we are not chasing it. This was the case in my path in massage therapy.
In returning to Hawaii from Australia in 1997 we ended up on the Big Island of Hawaii. I fell into working for a philanthropist, visionary who helped create the first integrative hospital in the USA, then becoming the outreach person for a successful Community Health initiative for a cluster of his non-profits we were facilitating. I really connected to the Hawaiian people, their way of life and was invited to study the traditional medicine.
In 2005, I met a highly revered master Aunty Margaret Machado and as she held my hands she said, “You do Lomi, it is in your heart and in your hands.” Aunty Margaret Machado is known as one of the first Hawaiians who started to teach outside of their ‘ohana (family). She was the Kupuna (elder) of the Hawaiian Lomilomi Massage (Lomilomi Aunty Margaret Style). I knew that when someone of that stature gives you a directive you better pay attention. So, my journey in Hawaiian Lomilomi Massage began. My training from her lineage was experienced directly in Hawaii through my Kumu (teacher) Haunani and several other respected Kumus throughout the years.
I have also gained more skills, knowledge and practices whilst working in Australia and believe we must grow and learn from many schools to blend what is needed to provide sessions unique to each person. This leads me to continue to grow and learn to bring what methods, knowledge and care I can to my clients.
