Located just blocks from Downtown Corvallis, Oregon, Corvallis Therapeutic Massage is the perfect fit for those seeking an experienced Massage Therapist!
With 17 years of experience every session can be tailored to fit your unique bodywork needs from wellness relaxation to chronic injury recovery or spot specific therapeutic bodywork.
Kevin LaChapelle
Licensed Massage Therapist, OR #14055
WATER RUNNING NEVER CEASING
We are mostly comprised of water and like water our bodies are in constant flux and flow; seeking harmony and homeostasis; think 98.6 and the rhythm in your heart beat… Every massage session I take the intention that your body is not the same as the last session. This is nature of things and why Heroclitus spake, “you can never step into the same river twice”.. For 17 years my practice motto is simple, my hands are an extension of my heart. I like to think my massage practice as active kindness. I believe the world needs more massage therapists and touch is indeed; a human need.
Massage therapy has been a gift for me and I hope massage therapy can be a gift for you. When we learn to actively relax and let go of solidifying our emotions, traumas, mental concepts about body parts or even our negative speak. Letting go is priceless as we tap into the natural flow of homeostasis, the parasympathetic system (rest/digest), and take the time to be intent with connecting our breath and our minds on our body; as it is in that moment and from there moment by moment “actively” practicing be present with your body.
Massage Therapy has been a mainstay throughout the last 20 years. As an athlete and growing up on the east coast I arrived in Oregon with some nagging injuries mainly from baseball and basketball specifically. Lucky to stumble across tai chi and massage therapy in 2000. I began to realize we do not have to hold on to tension or trauma patterns; unconscious, subconscious, and conscious There was even a word for it (Active Relaxation) and when practiced could unwind the body from injury and stored traumas; emotional and physical. Actively relaxing brought on the curiosity to know why one ilium seemed unable to balance out level with the left ilium or why my right shoulder was unable to internally rotate as well and easeful as the left… This aha moment led me to East West College of the Healing Arts in Portland, OR in 2006.
After practicing “going back to ward off monkey” in the yang form of tai chi and lok hup ba fa respectively and receiving massage therapy to help with the arts of Active Relaxation