La Ceiba Massage  -  "Rejuvenating Your Tree of Life" 

Massage therapy is one of the oldest methods of healing the body from several forms of distress. More than often these are compelled by tensions that usually degenerate into greater discomforts. After five years of experience, I have not only reaffirmed the belief that adequate massage therapy can improve health by acting directly on the muscular, nervous, circulatory and lymphatic system, but it can also serve as an invaluable antidote to stress caused by the never ending pace of modern society.

La Ceiba, or the Tree of Life for Mayan culture, represents the belief that all aspects of life are interrelated. Body and mind are the synthesis of human existence and one does not coexist without the other. A tranquil body brings about a peaceful life. It is on this premise, along with the traditional aims of massage treatments (relief or prevention of physical dysfunction and pain, relaxation of tight and tense muscles, improvement of circulation and immune system functions, etc.) that I have based my approach. Massage therapy, when done properly, with all its tangible and intangible virtues, can restore the individual physically, mentally and spiritually.

For the Mayans, trees were intermediaries between the physical and spiritual worlds, and absolutely essential to life. They believed that without the tree man could not survive and that  "with the death of the last tree comes the death of the human race."

The tree of life is a common symbol in many cultures. To the Maya, the sacred Ceiba tree connects the three layers of the world. The roots reach into the underworld of death, the trunk is in the middleworld of life, and the branches reach up into the upperworld of paradise.