- Gifted Healing Hands for You… from Hawaii
This website is about my massage therapy service, about Waiheke Island, New Zealand and about my interests, abilities, and awarenesses — some of which I hope may be of service to you. If after reading this you want to meet me and have a chat I will be at the Ostend Community Market on Waiheke Island Saturday mornings May 9, May 23, June 6, and June 20 indoors in the Ostend community hall part of the market, on the right just below the stage between 8:30 a.m. and 12 noon. There I offer inexpensive chair massage, readings, and sometimes crafts.
Many people who visit magical Waiheke Island, near Auckland, New Zealand, wonder how people, especially foreigners, end up there. Perhaps by reading this site you will have insights into the magnetic attraction of this special place. It is a place for physical and emotional healing, for transition, for realignment with one’s higher purpose, and for accessing one’s “right brain” intuition and creative muse. Perhaps that is why Waiheke is full of artists! Within this site you will find my story, and I invite you to tell me your stories about your Waiheke transformation.
The quest for the soul’s expression is a beautiful but at times trying journey. Somehow it is easier for some to tune in to the spirit’s call on Waiheke, and those who desire that connection may find it useful to spend a while on the island. I used to live in Hawaii, the aloha spirit center of the USA, the birthplace of President Obama, and another shapeshifting environment. In both Waiheke and Hawaii one can see bumper stickers: “Slow Down, This Ain’t the Mainland”. It is by slowing down that one has a chance to center and, if necessary, reinvent oneself. Islands are special places — Waiheke is a gem.
MY MASSAGE THERAPY SERVICE
My massage therapy service, Your Healing Resource, is an expression of the natural healing abilities of my hands. In 1985, that is almost 24 years ago, I shook the hand of an alternative minister in Montecito, California (Oprah’s west coast home town) and the minister asked me what I was doing with the ability in my hands. I said “gardening”. I never had a clue I had healing ability. I was an intellectual with 8 years of university study, with “New Age” interests, diet and lifestyle. A year later the path started opening for me. Back in Maui I met people studying at Honolulu School of Massage, I published a holistic health-related businesses coupon book which helped raise money for conservation, and through that endeavor selling the ads I met many people in alternative health, from massage therapists to chiropractors, acupuncturists and the like. And from there doors literally swung open for my path into this occupation. I regularly commuted from Maui to Honolulu by airplane, working part of the week on Maui and studying part of the week at Honolulu School of Massage. All of this was done on a shoestring and was considered a quite unusual way to study 23 years ago. When my studies finished in Honolulu I continued working in other occupations, while apprenticing under David Salemme of Maui, my all time favorite massage therapist, (and I have experienced the work of dozens of excellent therapists). With David we learned massage as a spirtual extension of ourselves, not just a series of techniques and styles. Very few people in my apprenticeship group went on to become massage therapists, perhaps because there was and is no security in massage therapy as an occupation. It is a service that one has to do trusting the universe will show one how to make it work as a livelihood. In Hawaii we take state license exams and are part of the Hawaii state health system, able to take insurance payments. This is similar to Canada. After massage school and apprenticeship I began work the first day I earned my state health license, and started at a massage clinic at the Stouffers Wailea Hotel on Maui. From then on for 14 years I worked at several hotels and built my own business, A Massage in Paradise, which served guests at hotels and condominium resorts such as Destination Resorts in Wailea, clients of wedding consultants, and injured people from car and work related accidents. Included in my Hawaii career were stints at the first famous spa on the island, Grand Wailea Hotel and Spa (a Hyatt hotel) and the Four Seasons Hotel. Grand Hyatt Hotel had 15 therapists working at any one time, from 8 in the morning to ten at night. This phenomenon was way ahead of its time when it opened in 1990. Both the Grand Wailea and Four Seasons have won awards for their spas.
There were hundreds of massage therapists on Maui when I worked there– being able to work at these hotels was both competitive and rewarding. The rich and famous were an everyday part of the clientele at the hotels, and Sharon Stone , the film actress, was my client in my own business, before she became famous in the movie “Basic Instinct.”
If you visit Waiheke Island I am happy to assist you with remedial massage, sportsmassage, Hawaiian “lomi lomi” , reflexology, and my general customised style, which can include deep tissue, orthobionomy, reiki, cranialsacral techniques, etc. From working with over 11,000 people I have developed a strong intuition regarding relieving pain, reducing stress, and listening to the messages of the body. This is not “beauty therapy”, but feeling more relaxed through soulful body work, one cannot help but rejuvenate from the inside. There are no miraculous techniques that do this. It is a combination of the willingness of the client to let go of pain and the mindset and activities that create the pain or stress, and the ability of the therapist to tune in and to assist the release of the pain or stress, with the client’s permission. All my work is always no deeper than the client is comfortable with. That said, I can work very deeply, both physically and spiritually, with those who desire that. From pampering to transformation, there is the spectrum in which my healing hands can work with you to help make your time on Waiheke Island restorative and enlightening. 22 years of professional experience matters. I look forward to working with you with massage therapy for your health and well being when you visit magical Waiheke Island.
Here is my brochure with all the services and prices. Please email or phone within normal business hours every day of the week except major holidays for further information, bookings, gift vouchers, or payments. Payments can be made through PayPal — for information on that option click here.
|BROCHURE:
Gifted Healing Hands for you… from Hawaii
YOUR HEALING RESOURCE devoted to natural healing for 22 years
professional, therapeutic, registered
SUSAN HANSELL, B.A., L.M.T. 1979
372 2884 or 021 228 8894
http://www.yourhealingresource.com
Open 10 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Open weekends.
PLEASE BOOK AS FAR AHEAD AS POSSIBLE
For 7:30 p.m. – 11 p.m. a surcharge applies,
and there is limited availability.
| free celebration card sent with all gift vouchers — makes gift giving easier |
GENTLE OR DEEP WORK
CUSTOM-DESIGNED INTUITIVE TREATMENTS
* TRAINED IN Swedish, sports-massage, deep tissue work, Hawaiian “Lomi-Lomi”, foot
reflexology, remedial work, & more styles
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USING THE BEST NON-OILY NZ & USA PRODUCTS & AROMATHERAPEUTIC BLENDS
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WIDE & PADDED OREGON MASSAGE TABLE, COMFORTABLE ADJUSTABLE HEADREST
*Hawaii state licensed professional health massage therapist 22 yrs.
* Waiheke Island 8 years, NZ registered
* 11,000+ hours of massage therapy done
* Recommended NZ Herald travel 2/11/03 and NZ Weddings (Issue 15, Spring 2004)
* former staff at award-winning Hyatt and Four Seasons hotel spas in Maui, Hawaii
* gifted healing hands enhance your holiday
* Gift vouchers available
ENJOY BENEFITS OF MASSAGE THERAPY:
*REDUCES STRESS, IMPROVES MOOD/SLEEP
*RELIEVES BACK, NECK, SHOULDER PAIN
*HELPS TO HEAL SPORTS-RELATED INJURIES
*RELIEVES PREGNANCY’S LOWER BACK PAIN
ALL SESSIONS MODEST AND PROFESSIONAL
PRICES
MASSAGE THERAPY AT CLINIC
(OSTEND/PALM BEACH AREA, near bus stop)
1 person: Head2Toe + foot reflexology, or
90 min massage therapy $109
Head2Toe 60 min massage $75
Back/Neck/Shoulders $59
2 people: 2 X 60 minute massages $149
2 X 30 minute massages $89
3 or more people: same rate per person as for 2 people
Usana facial on its own for 1 person or added to 30 minute massage, add $60; included with same person’s 60 min. massage, add $55
2 facials added to same 2 people’s 60 minute massages, add $100
DRIVE-TO-YOU APPOINTMENTS
(includes one $30 fee for delivery to you, Oneroa to Onetangi)
MASSAGE THERAPY
1 person — 60 minutes of massage $105
1 person – 90 minutes of massage $139
2 people — 60 min. massage each $179
2 people — 30 min back/neck each $119
MASSAGE THERAPY AND USANA FACIAL
1 person 30 min massage and facial $135
1 person 60 min massage & facial $160
same 2 people: 2 X 30 min massages & 2 facials $239
same 2 people: 2 X 60 min massages & 2 facials $279
Credit card or Visa debit card option:
convert NZ dollar price to US dollars at bank exchange rate at http://www.xe.com,
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Buyer needn’t be a PayPal member. PayPal is the payment system for shopping
on Ebay, the USA equivalent of TradeMe. Transaction takes 2 minutes. If interested
please inquire when booking for further explanation. All credit card transactions must be completed before I arrive at your accommodation as they require a computer, and I may be on a schedule where I do not have time for this to be completed in your accommodation even if you have brought a computer on wireless internet.
