featuring Orthopedic Massage, Shiatsu, and other specialised modalities
Please Note: This is a Dog-Occupied Office.
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About EWTA
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East West Therapeutic Arts is a Portland, ME based practice, devoted to the art and the science of therapeutic bodywork. It is Meghí ní Domhnaill's response to the understanding that health and balance are found in the cycles of nature, and we are all inherently influenced by those cycles. Through EWTA, Meghí (Ze/ She) is devoted to a continual journey of physical, emotional, and spiritual balance, for Zirself and the surrounding world.
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Philosophy
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Informed therapeutic touch, and presence, are some of the most valuable healing tools out there. We are in a time of increasing awareness of our interconnectedness to each other and to all of Nature, awakening to ourselves. There is a great need and a calling to seek out our own healing in natural ways. Bodywork is finally evolving to be viewed as essential to good health, not luxury. EWTA is devoted to bringing the very real healing power of the many layers of bodywork to each session to the community, session by session.
The goal at EWTA is for services to be as accessible as possible, so that those who need the work may experience the benefits of periodic bodywork, while also ensuring the highest standards of knowledgability and care are consistent in every session. Please refer to the RATES PAGE to get a sense of the sliding scale philosophy here at EWTA. |
About Meghí Áine
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A 2008 graduate of the Finger Lakes School of Massage in Ithaca, NY, Meghí (aka Maggie) specializes in the development of Zir own forms of structural release methods, based on extensive trainings and exposure to medical settings. Ze also brings intuition along with other more subtle aspects of healing.
After FLSM's initial 1,000 hour certification program, Meghí continued on to study medical massage with Ralph Stephens, obtaining a medical massage certification (a course no longer offered), focusing in safety, advanced identification, palpation, and release techniques. In addition, Ze devoted over 6 years to working under the direct supervision of a specialist practice of Physical Therapists and Physiologists in Connecticut. Zir work is also infused with the theories of great healers and teachers of our time such as Tom Meyers, Donna Eden, and others. Meghí also relies on the scientific, the energetic, and the structural concepts of the Eastern-based medical and bodywork approach, commonly known as Chinese Medicine. The body functions as a whole, in a completeness that is incredible to witness, and it is important in our process of health as a continuum to seek ways of balancing, integrating and harmonizing the body in all its functions. Every session is unique and intended to meet the individual's needs at that moment, with a broad mind and an array of techniques. Meghí is proud of the wide range of professional experience, from the scientific rationale of rehab settings with post-operative patients, athletes, injury recovery and pain management, to the intuitive side of Zir work which can meet a range of needs by balancing energy systems in the body and knocking down stresses due to everyday life demands. Ze is always at Zir best for the hardest of hard workers, athletes, the good days and the bad, the young and not so young alike. As the client, you may experience the benefits of any of a combination of approaches, including Shiatsu, stretching, a range connective tissue (myofascial) therapies, neural release techniques, trigger point therapy, reflexology, breathwork, sound therapy, and intuitive work. Meghí uses a wide range of pressures and approaches to work with client relaxation response to optimize release and relief. It is the mastery of a range of skills that allows for a versatile approach. |
Meet Cricket!
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Cricket, above, 2018 & 2022
and the late, great irreplaceable, Laoise, below, 2008 
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Not only friends and family, but long term, regular clients of mine
will remember Miss Laoise, a very special soul who blessed my life for over 16 years. Laoise left us sweetly in May of 2017, but lives on in memory. It took a long time for me to begin my search to fill those doggy shoes, but the right pup finally came along in June of 2018. An intelligent, gentle, sensitive being, a nature lover and a people lover, Cricket is just the right fit for the office. There is something special about a canine presence in a healing environment. I hope old and new clients alike will agree. Sweet and gentle with a knack for a sense of humor, Cricket is a wonderful companion, not just in the office but everywhere we go. |
