Welcome
Contact me at lisabregman@yahoo.com or (202) 686-7202.
At Ease Massage
This is bodywork that leaves you refreshed. I quiet down all the parts of you that have been overworking. You'll walk out feeling taller, lighter, freer. Ordinary walking will have an enjoyable new meaning. You'll be able to sit tall at a desk or behind a steering wheel with ease. You'll notice increased flexibility, leading to a new ease in sports and daily activities. Specific results of a session will be: disappearance of musculo-skeletal discomforts, and pains; heightened energy and vitality; better posture; greater joint mobility; and a deep sense of relaxation.
Here are the ways I achieve this mission:
Client Focus
I learn about each client before any therapy begins. When we schedule the first appointment, I clarify therapy objectives and provide information on different options to consider with you. When clients arrive, I observe how they move while walking, talking, sitting, and standing before they even get on the massage table. I learn about their lifestyle and history and what brings them to me. Once on the table, I tie together all this information with an assessment of the body: the flexibility of the spine and neck; how much resilience/springiness there is through the connective tissue; joint range of motion; hardness/suppleness in the feel of the muscles.
With those clients who are interested, I then discuss how best to achieve their therapy objective(s). After each session, I study my notes and together with client feedback assess how to continue treatment using one or several of the techniques I practice.
With 24 years of experience informing me, combined with what just about everyone who has been on my table describes as my healing touch, I go to work.
Kindness
I love connecting with clients as their teammate -- helping them come to an awareness of deleterious patterns they have developed over time, then developing a sustainable method for replacing those patterns with more comfortable and efficient ways of moving, standing, sitting, working, playing. While you are on the massage table, I move you in ways that unwind your body and bring a sense of fully letting go to your neck and shoulders, back and hips, legs, feet and hands. Then, with that feeling of deep relaxation, and with me as your guide, you create pain-free, pleasurable ways to move through your day and all your activities. You learn principles that can complement and add more meaning to exercises you have learned. If a physical therapist or personal trainer has given you exercises, the easeful principles you learn here will give those exercises more meaning so you will look forward to doing them.
Patience and Open-Mindedness
Changing patterns, like learning anything new, can take time and usually bears repetition. By being patient with my clients, I witness beautiful transformations occurring right before my eyes (and hands). We start with problem(s) that may have originated years ago, or that have accumulated over time. It may take one session or may take a series to discover and unravel what's going on, and to develop longlasting solutions.
Continuous Professional Development
To be a licensed massage therapist and Trager practitioner in Washington, DC, 24 hours of continuous education is required every two years. I take over 100 hours of continuing education courses each year because I love learning new techniques and skills and weaving them into those I already have to help clients.
Services & Rates
Students and individuals over the age of 65, please contact me directly for special pricing.
Contact Info:
Phone: 202-686-7202
Email: lisabregman@yahoo.com
Location: 4201 Cathedral Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
There is plenty of free, non-metered street parking on my block.
The N2 bus line stops at the door of the building, and it's a short walk to Tenleytown Metro. Nearby are American University, Tenleytown, Glover Park, Georgetown.
