(07) 5478 5438

Elevata Clinic and Retreat Massage
and Bodywork Therapies

Welcome to a sanctuary of holistic well-being -
Elevata Wellness Centre & Retreat.
Our suite of massage therapies is designed to provide you with the ultimate relaxation for your body, mind and spirit.
Let us help you to unwind, heal, and elevate your health.

Available Days - By Appointment

Monday – Saturday (Closed Sunday)

Remedial & Relaxation Massage Therapy

1 Hour $195

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.

Aromatherapy Massage

1 Hour $195
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.

Pregnancy Massage

1 Hour $195
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.
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What Is Remedial Massage?

Remedial massage is a type of complementary therapy which focuses on assessing and treating muscles that are damaged, tense, impaired, knotted or immobile. It is effective against a number of problems affecting the muscles, bones, fascia, ligaments and tendons. The main purpose of remedial massage is to identify the underlying cause of a musculoskeletal condition and then specifically work on the affected area to achieve a significant change. The change includes reduced pain, improved mobility, less tension, or a combination of these. Remedial massage can either be deep or shallow, gentle or strong, depending on the problem to be addressed.

How Does a Remedial and/or Relaxation Massage Work?

The patient lies on the massage table, with towels covering their body for privacy and to keep them warm. Creams or essential oils can be used in massaging the skin deeply and smoothly. Also, these will help the therapist work deeply into the affected muscles to address discomfort and restore mobilisation of the joints.

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 a Remedial/Relaxation Massage?

A remedial massage therapy session offers numerous physiological, psychological and emotional benefits.
As it breaks down muscle adhesions, it improves the rate of blood flow, promotes cell growth, strengthens the joints and eases muscle stiffness. Additionally, it improves body posture and skin tone, restores the natural position of the bones in the body and eliminates toxins stored in the muscles.
Receiving this type of massage on a regular basis also helps boosts immunity to combat all kinds of ailments and diseases, including:

Headaches
Abdominal pain
Back pain
Sciatic pain
Sports and dance-related injuries
Muscle cramps
Whiplash
Muscular atrophy
Frozen shoulder
Fibrositis
Arthritis
Spondylitis

What to Expect?

A remedial massage session always begins with an assessment that takes roughly 5 minutes. The practitioner will ask the client about their health history, lifestyle and usual activities to get to the root cause of their pain. The therapist will perform different kinds of tests to check the client's posture, range of motion, muscles and nerves. From what they have gathered, the therapist will be able to determine which massage techniques to use to address the client's issue. Finally, before they get down to work, the practitioner will ask the client their preferred level of pressure. The treatment session can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on the specific area to be addressed or whether a whole body massage is to be given.

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.
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.