The Therapeutic Hands of The Massage Specialist
Put your health in the hands of a Professional. Find out more about Body Health & Wellness Center in Fresno, CA. Trained and experienced Certified Massage Therapist, Alma Ball offers a variety of techniques to improve the health, comfort, and well-being of her clients.
Alma Ball, CMT
Alma Ball is a Fresno/Clovis Native. She has been a Certified Massage Therapist (CMT) for over 15 years. She specializes in CranioSacral Therapy, Shiatsu, Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy, Swedish, Reflexology, Hot/Cold Stone Therapy, Sound Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, and teaches Self-Massage Technique classes and Positional Tissue Movement classes. As a CMT, Alma enjoys using her skills to bring health and wellness to others. It is her belief that our bodies have the natural ability to heal and bring balance to mind, body and spirit. The goal of any body modality is to assist the client’s own natural healing abilities. She looks at herself not as a healer, but as a facilitator of the bodies’ own miraculous ability to self-heal. She hopes to bring: * HOPE * FAITH * JOY * PATIENCE * KINDNESS * to each session with her clients.
Purpose
Body Health & Wellness Center strives to meet the needs of clients with varying degrees of chronic and acute pain in the muscle-skeletal system. The goal is to help clients return to their fullest functioning level after an injury, maintain current functioning level, and decrease pain/stress. Clients are educated on how to maintain and reduce pain in their muscle-skeletal system.
Alternative Holistic Therapies are offered to provide an avenue for healing the emotional, physical, and energetic bodies.
The goal is to bring: * HOPE * FAITH * JOY * PATIENCE * KINDNESS * to each session.
A Holistic Approach to Chronic Pain
Massage & Bodywork Modalities are a way to help the body stimulate its own natural healing, and to kick start the immune system into action. This is a holistic approach to strengthening and balancing dysfunction in the body. Dysfunction can lead to chronic pain and disease. Massage and other bodywork modalities are meant to be a natural restorative to THE MIND-BODY-SPIRIT CONNECTION.
The mind, body and spirit are made of energy, which is in constant flow. Eastern thought and theories of bodywork focus on excess energy or stagnation of energy that occurs in the bodies’ organs, tissue, meridians and chakras. Dysfunction in any of these areas can affect a person’s physical, mental, emotional or spiritual state.
Breaking “The Pain-Spasm-Pain Cycle” is an important goal of bodywork. Muscles have “Muscle Memory” and will continue to repeat dysfunction, unless reminded to unwind, relax and elongate. A repeated pattern of thought or energy can be stored in the mind, body and spirit, that triggers an emotional and energetic holding pattern in the body, similar to that of the “Muscle Memory” pattern. Certain modalities of bodywork are suited to look at THE MIND-BODY-SPIRIT CONNECTION. All body modalities can achieve similar goals, or work intrinsically on certain systems to restore function to THE MIND-BODY-SPIRIT CONNECTION. It is not that one style of massage/bodywork is better than another, but for the purpose or goal of the session a person may benefit from the use of one modality over another or a combination of styles. Talking with your Certified Massage Therapist regarding the purpose of a session is necessary in order to meet each client’s individual needs.
