Muscle mobilisation Sustained pressure,
Muscle mobilisation, in Jonathan’s words. Pressure worked through the deeper layers rather than across the surface, and worked at a rate that lets tissue give rather than brace against it.
This is the one people mean when they say the last massage did not touch it. Firm is not the same as painful: the pressure is worked to what you can breathe through, and it is adjusted as he goes: there are moments in a session you will feel, and none you should have to brace through.
If there is a specific injury, or an event to prepare for, sports massage is the same hour pointed at a narrower target.
Why the two cost the same →I had a lovely deep tissue massage with Jonathan and his pressure and knowledge were exactly what i needed ... highly recommend him , very skillful therapist, thank you .
Great experience today with Jon he really knows the anatomy and worked Deeply on My problem areas which most masseuse miss. Came away feeling untangled for the first time in ages
The question this treatment actually raises, answered as a scale rather than as a promise. Drag it: three is where the hour actually runs, and four is that same pressure held on one point rather than moved through an area.
Long gliding strokes with oil, warming the surface. Pleasant, genuinely relaxing, and it stays above the tissue that is actually holding.
Lighter than this work. If a massage has ever left you thinking it never reached the problem, this is usually what it was.
Real pressure, worked across the surface rather than through it. Firm, and still not the same thing as deep.
Lighter than this work. Most people arriving here have had this and assumed it was as deep as it goes.
Sustained, through the deeper layers, at a rate that lets tissue give rather than brace against it.
This is where the work happens. There are moments in a session you will feel. The pressure is worked to what you can breathe through, and it is adjusted as he goes.
Narrow and static. One point held on a single band of tissue until it gives, rather than pressure travelling through an area.
Deeper than the rest of the hour, and only where it earns it. Not the whole session and not every session. Where one point is holding the rest of an area, it gets worked on its own, under the same rule as everything above it.
Not harder. Slower, and further in: pressure held long enough for tissue to give rather than skidded across the top of it at speed.
Most of what separates this from a firm massage is rate, not force. A surface technique can be perfectly strong and still never reach the layer that is holding, which is why people arrive having had plenty of pressure and no result.
What that does not mean is a diagram of your fascia. Which layer is holding, and whether soft tissue work is the right answer to it at all, is decided in the room by someone with his hands on it, not by a page.
The same three steps whichever session you book. There is one therapist, so there is one way this goes.
The intro call is complimentary and it is the fastest way to find out whether this is the right thing at all. If it is not, he will say so, the same way a session that needs a diagnosis, a scan or a prescription gets pointed at the right person rather than worked around.
Shorts, and a vest or t-shirt if the problem is in the upper body; come as you would to train. The session is one-to-one with Jonathan for its full length; there is no team and no handover.
What he is working towards is range and tension rather than a single injury, so the hour tends to move between a few connected areas.
Whether one session is enough is not something either of you can know before it starts. Something that has been there for years usually takes three to six (weekly at first, then spaced out as it holds), and you will get a straight answer about which of those you are looking at at the end of the first session, not as a package sold up front.
Prices are per session and are the same whoever you see, because there is only one person to see. The wider therapies Jonathan offers are arranged by enquiry.
Both lengths are the same hands and the same room: the longer one is more of the session, not a different one. If you are not sure, book the sixty and say so on the call.
Book deep tissueNot sure which of these you need? That is what the first session is for, or start from the situation instead: something already hurts, or nothing hurts yet.
Worked to what you can breathe through. There are moments in a session you will feel, and none you should have to brace through. If it gets there, it is adjusted. Firm is not the same as painful, and bracing is not a sign it is working.
No, and the difference is rate rather than force. Pressure is held long enough for tissue to give rather than worked fast across the surface, which is why people arrive having had plenty of pressure and no result.
Then sports massage is the better hour: same length, same price, pointed at a narrower target. Deep tissue works range and tension across a few connected areas rather than one structure.