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What are Natural Therapies?
Massage
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Naturopathy is a natural system of health-care that empowers
the individual to take responsibility for their own health and well-being by
diet and lifestyle management. It incorporates a variety of modalities such
as diet, nutrition, herbal medicine, mineral therapy, flower essences and
lifestyle management. It helps in promoting the physical, mental, emotional
and spiritual health of an individual person. In contemporary society,
Naturopathy has adapted to fit into our modern lifestyle. The demands of modern
living such as stress (different types like biochemical, physical, emotional,
geopathic), negative emotions, agricultural chemicals and nutritional
defiencies in micro and macro nutrients all contribute to disease or
imbalances in the individual.
What are Natural
Therapies?
"VIS MEDICATRIX NATURAE" or the Healing Power of Nature is
fundamental to the principles of natural therapies. The healing process is
activated by inherent natural processes that act to return the organism to a
state of equilibrium.
Natural Therapies promote and enhance healing by their ability to assist
Nature to maintain balance, harmony and wholeness. The Doctrine of the Vital
Force respects the laws of nature. Nature has the tendency to restore all
things to a state of balance and order. This is evident in the natural world.
For example, the regeneration of a forest after a bushfire as the order is
restored. In the Indian Ayurvedic system, health is a state of balance where
mind, body and environment are in harmony.
The Natural therapist acknowledges that the human being is made uo of
different dimensions. Healing must address the individual as a whole made up
of physical, mental, intellectual, emotional and spiritual dimensions. The
orientation of natural healing is holistic and acts on balancing life's
energies, rather than a specific sector of the individual.
According to the World Health Organisation, health is defined as "a
state of physical, mental and social well-being, a state in which a person
feels at every moment of living a joy and zest for life, a sense of
fulfilment and awareness of harmony with the universe."
Health is not only freedom from disease but an integration of the body, mind
and spirit. Measures of health are vitality, enthusiasm, aliveness and
happiness. In regard to this, all levels of the human being are taken into
consideration.
Naturopaths look at these elements and encourage them all rather than just
one aspect to bring out positive changes. Health is not only absence from
physical symptoms but an ability and willingness to change.
Massage
During a massage treatment, a range of hand techniques are used to stimulate
different parts of the body and specific body trigger points which generally
hold tension. This helps to restore and balance the blood flow and energy in
the body.
In a therapeutic massage commonly used hand techniques include rubbing,
chopping, kneading, rolling, pushing, digging, grasping, plucking, vibrating,
pressing and pinching.
Massage is effective in the treatment of a range of pain conditions such as
headaches, period pain, musculo-skeletal conditions as well as common
ailments such as sinus problems, colds etc.
In fact, caring through touch, Massage has been shown to encourage the
release of endorphins - chemicals that affect development in children as well
as emotional and physical well being in adults. Massage is a wonderfully
relaxing experience and in addition can be an effective treatment for a range
of physical conditions.
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Consultation
Fees
Naturopathic
Consultation
Initial $80.00 1hr
Follow up $40.00 1/2 hr
Therapeutic
Massage
(With Ayurvedic or Chinese Medicated Oils)
$70.00 1hr
$40.00 1/2 hr
Ayurvedic
Medicine Consultation
Initial $80.00 1hr
Follow up $40.00 1/2hr
Acupuncture
First Consult and Treatment
$70.00 app.1hr
Follow up $45.00
2nd follow up same week $40.00
Pre-paid 10 treatments $375.00
Therapeutic
Massage and Acupuncture
$75.00 app. 1hr
Ear
Candling
$60.00 app. 1hr
Reiki
– Natural Therapy
$ 60.00 1hr
$ 35.00 1/2hr
10% Concession for Students and
Pensioners
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