Heart-Centered Healing Modalities
Bodywork Menu
If you have any questions about what modalities would be best suited for you, please email me and describe your goals or intentions for receiving bodywork, and I will be happy to discuss it with you!
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Personalized Healing Session
Benj's signature offering is the Personalized Healing Session. These sessions are ideal if you are coming to work through deeper emotional, psychological, spiritual, and physical things in your life.
These sessions are open-ended, allowing space for whatever comes up. We work until we are finished, which often takes 3-5 hours. The session will be custom-tailored to your needs and will include a combination of dialogue, meditation, breathwork and any of the bodywork modalities listed below to facilitate a transformative experience. The focus is on personal evolution through healing the whole being. This holistic approach creates long-lasting positive change.
Sessions can also be booked in durations of either 60, 90, or 120 minutes and can include any combination of the modalities listed below. If you want to combine multiple modalities, add up the recommended durations and book the closest length session​
Hawaiian Lomilomi Massage
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Lomilomi is the traditional style of massage from Hawaii. There are many lineages of Lomi that have been passed down since ancient times. They all share a holistic approach, treating body, mind, and spirit as one.
Lomilomi Massage
I draw from several lineages of Lomilomi, to suit the needs of the receiver. Long strokes emulate the ocean waves to integrate the whole body, move energy, and release pain, tension, and blockages. This improves circulation and helps the lymphatic system eliminate toxins. I may also include stretches, twists, creating space, and bonewashing to aid in the release process if that is called for.
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Lomilomi can have profound impacts on mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. It promotes deep relaxation and stress relief, and can be used to access and release emotional baggage and traumas. Sessions often include meditation and breath to help us reconnect with our body, feelings, and sense of purpose and potential in life.
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Recommended Duration: 60 or 90 minutes
Lomilomi Massage with
Deep Joint Rotations
Temple-Style Lomi, a lineage that uses rhythmic forearm strokes and manual stretches also traditionally included Deep Joint Rotations.
In this process, each joint (shoulders, hips, knees, elbows, wrists, ankles, and neck) is rotated very slowly at its maximum range of motion several times in each direction. This process clears out the joint sockets where some Hawaiians believe we store old traumas and emotions and increases range of motion.
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Recommended Duration: 2 hours
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Lomi Ke'alahoku ~
The Pathway to the Stars
Ancient Lomilomi, known as Ke Ala Hoku, came from Old Hawaii where it was offered as a ceremonial rite of passage in the temples. It would last anywhere from 10 hours up to 2 weeks, and would serve to bring the receiver into alignment within themselves and within their community.
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These sessions should be approached with a different mindset than normal massage, even my other Lomilomi offerings. There is no intention to fix, heal, or solve anything. We are simply in motion with whatever arises, allowing everything that is present to have space to be heard. The sessions do not have a time commitment but generally last 2-3 hours.
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Recommended Duration: Open-Ended
Lomi HA Breathwork
Lomi HA is Hawaiian-Style Breathwork that creates deep, lasting change. This is a very effective method for letting go of baggage and trauma, clearing the way for your goals to manifest.
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This can be booked on its own or incorporated into a Lomi Massage.
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Recommended Duration: 60 minutes on its own or 30 min add-on to a lomi massage.
Tandem Lomi Massage
Tandem (4-Hands) Lomi involves two practitioners working in synchronicity. This feels amazing and has a balancing effect on the nervous system. It also allows for an even greater depth of work to take place during a single session. With four hands moving around the body in harmony, the mind is lulled into a trance, and deep healing can take place.
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Recommended Duration: 60 or 90 minutes
Lomi & Reiki Tandem Session
In these special sessions, you receive the combined benefits of bodywork and energy work, which creates a powerful experience for the receiver! ​
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These sessions are especially helpful if you are working with challenging circumstances, mental/emotional distress, or anxiety.
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Recommended Duration: 60 or 90 minutes
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The Body Tune Up
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The Body Tune Up is a two-part system designed to improve your health and wellbeing. You can receive either part individually or as a pair. I recommend combining them with a Lomilomi massage to give your system a thorough detox.
Digestive System Rebalancing
All health begins in the gut. When people take on too much stress, it overloads valves in the digestive tract, causing toxin recycling. This breaks down the colon lining and causes a wide range of symptoms. This is known as Leaky Gut Syndrome.
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In this session, I use muscle testing to check for Leaky Gut and manual adjustments to reset any valves that are not working properly. I also balance the meridian system and use acupressure points to detox the colon. For most people, this work requires a 14 day meal plan to allow the gut to heal. The combination of adjustments and meal plan is very effective at healing the root cause of Leaky Gut.
Click here for more info: What Leaky Gut Is & How I Treat It.
Recommended Duration: 1 Hour or 2 hours with a Lomi Massage
Passive Structural Alignment
In this session, I use muscle testing to check the alignment of vertebrae, ribs, hips, cranials, and more. Then I use a gentle technique based on the principles of Orthobionomy to press any misaligned bones back into place. This can drastically relieve back/neck pain as well as headaches/migraines. It can also improve posture, range of motion, and energy flow.
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Recommended Duration: This takes about 10 Minutes which can be included in any length Lomi
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Followup Maintenance Sessions are $20 each or 3/$50 and last about 10 minutes.
Location
Sunday and Monday I work in Burlington at the Chace Mill located at 1 Mill Street, Suite 161. Park behind the building and enter through Door E4. Take the first right, walk down the hallway and down the stairs and you will be facing my door.
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday I am at my home office in Vershire located at 689 Goose Green Road.​
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Prices
If finances are an obstacle to receiving the work you need, you may take up to a 20% discount on all services at your own discretion, no questions asked.
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Open-Ended (3-5hrs): $300
60min: $100
90min: 140
120min: $180
Tandem 60min: $180
Tandem 90min: $260​​
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Gift Certificates
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Give the gift of wellbeing! Gift certificates are available in any amount!
You can fill out this form or email me to order one!
Home Visits & Group Massage Days
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Prefer to receive your session at home? I offers home visits! Add $15 + 50¢ per mile to the cost of the offering.
Email vermontholisticbodywork@gmail.com to schedule a home visit!
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Have a group of friends who want to receive bodywork? Host a Bodywork day at your space and get a free massage!
If you create a schedule with 3 or more people, I will show up and do the sessions and yours will be free in exchange for hosting! Contact me to learn more!
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Retreats and Festivals
I have had the enormous privilege of sharing Lomilomi at festivals, events, and on local and international yoga retreats. Lomilomi has a capacity to delve deep into inner work while providing an amazing receiving experience, which makes it a perfect fit for retreats, festivals, and other events with a focus on spiritual growth and exploration.​
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If you want to offer the healing energy of Lomi to your guests/clients, please reach out about collaborating! I am happy to travel and can provide references!
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Pictured left: Offering some impromptu Lomilomi at the GeoSea Hot Spring in Húsavík, Iceland while the sun set over the Arctic Ocean during a Yoga retreat. They combined water from Geothermal Hot Springs with salt water from the Arctic, creating hot tubs in which you perfectly float...inspiring a new style of Lomilomi!