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  • Traditional Thai Massage

    Enjoy meditative rhythmic massage, assisted yoga poses with herbal compresses infused with lemongrass, ginger and other fresh herbs. Learn your bodies secrets

  • Therapeutic Massage

    TuiNa style massage with warm oils and lineaments. Based in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sara uses acupressure techniques both deep and feather touch for chronic conditions.

  • Yoga and Thai Instructor

    Learn in individual or group multilevel setting that focus on structural alignment, principles and Eastern philosophy.

 

Services Available

Thai Yoga Bodywork and Therapeutic Massage
$85 1 hour | $120 1.5 hours | $150 2 hours
Private Yoga
$85 1 hour | $120 1.5 hours | $150 2 hours
Combo: Thai Yoga Bodywork and Yoga
$100 1.5 hours
Tandem body work
$100 1 hour
Package Rates, Gift Certificates Available


Thai Bodywork Instruction

Thai Yoga Bodywork Level 1

Thurs-Sun February 23-26
8-5pm each day
Cost 600 (650 after Jan. 23) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Studio Melt202 State Street Suite 303, Madison, WI

Therapeutic Massage & Yoga

East-West Healing Arts Institute
6425 Normandy Lane, Madison, WI

Life In Motion

  • Sara Cotton is a Nationally Certified, Licensed Bodywork Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher and Registered Thai Therapist. Rhythmic massage, assisted yoga poses, acupressure and meditation combine in Sara's bodywork. A session will leave you euphoric with a greater sense of self awareness and well-being. At your request, Sara applies Thai herbal compress therapy and different acupressure accessory techniques like moxa, guasha and cupping in her sessions. Her Thai herbal compresses are handmade with select dry and fresh herbs.

    A lifelong committment, Sara maintains her daily yoga practice since 1997 and teaching since 2007. She teaches yoga with patience, generosity and gentleness. Drawing upon her extensive experience and training, Sara carefully observes and assesses your abilities to develop restorative, therapeutic, flowing sequences of movements melded with massage that are always specific to your needs. Movement made to measure.

    Sara completed an 800 hour Asian Bodywork and Therapeutic Massage program at East-West Healing Arts in Madison, WI and traveled throughout China to continue building TuiNa or Chinese massage technique, an integral part of TCM. Sara blends her unique Eastern bodywork style with her yoga roots in Marma, Nadis, Chakras and Thai Sen. Her belief is motion, movement meets your needs. She completed over 400 hours of certified Thai training approved by Thai Healing Alliance International.
    Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to schedule an appointment.
    Sessions with Sara can be in an individual or class setting, and are usually 60-120 minutes long. Equipment needs are simple: comfortable, loose-fitting clothing and a padded floor mat. In yoga, Sara likes to point out, gravity is the real equipment.

    Saraphim Bodyworks: Life in Motion, Guided by Sara Cotton LMT, RTT, RYT, MA

    Recongized by State of Wisconsin, NCBTMB (National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, THAI (Thai Healing Alliance International), Yoga Alliance

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