Welcome to
Starfire Massage and Bodywork
By Michele Williams
Your Provider
Michele is a board-certified massage therapist. Michele graduated from Maharishi University in 2023, where she learned to help better her clients health physically, mentally, and spiritually. She strives to improve her clients lives by finding and working on areas in the body that need healing through massage and bodywork(Energy) techniques.
Custom Massage (60-minute or 90-minute, $85/$120)
Options:
● Blended Massage: a fully customized massage blending any of the options below. For example:a blended therapeutic and integrative massage. The signature integrative massage itself is gentle but can be adapted to include deeper therapeutic techniques. Hot Stone Massage,Cupping, and Spa Massage are excluded from this option.
● Signature Integrative Massage: a fusion of relaxation massage, subtle bodywork, and relaxation techniques such as a guided progressive relaxation or a meditative journey. This massage is focused on nervous system regulation, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing, as well as breath and body awareness. The goal is healing, restoration, and grounding back into the body while also being specific and intentional and is based on client goals and needs. This option is great for gentle tension relief, mind-body coordination, and heart-brain coherence.
● Spa Massage: a relaxation massage using custom blended body scrubs to exfoliate and nourishthe skin OR muds, clays, or seaweed gels to detoxify, nourish, and replenish the skin’s tissues.
● Swedish/Relaxation Massage: a full body massage using gentle strokes and techniques and light to medium pressure which emphasizes relaxation and soothing the mind and body. This massage gently soothes muscle tension, relieves stress, and calms the nervous system. Some subtle body relaxation techniques may be used based upon individual needs and goals. This massage is a great option for anxiety and depression as it releases endorphins and other ‘happy’ neurotransmitters.
● Targeted Area Massage: a therapeutic massage but with the emphasis and attention on a specific condition or targeted areas of the body.
● Therapeutic Massage: uses deeper pressure and techniques where a variety of tools, methods, and modalities including Swedish massage, trigger point therapy, myofascial release, deep tissue massage, therapeutic stretching, cupping, heat therapy, etc. may be used. Tenderness may be experienced at or near the site of the tissues and muscles being addressed. The aim of this massage is improving and healing an ailment and/or targeting sore muscles and knots in the body.
Multiple sessions may be needed.
Hot Stone Massage (60-minute or 90-minute, $90/$130)
Relaxation massage paired with heat therapy using basalt stones to relieve muscle pain and tension, reduce inflammation, increase circulation and blood flow, and improve flexibility and joint stiffness. This service is a great option for many chronic conditions as well as to improve mental, emotional, and immune health.
Targeted Area Massage (30-minute or 45-minute, $45/$65)
Typically a therapeutic massage but with the emphasis and attention on a specific, targeted area or condition such as: back tension and pain, upper body only, lower body only, neck and shoulder tension, back and shoulder tension or pain, low back, hip, and/or glute tension, tightness, or pain, Ayurvedic style head/face/shoulder treatment, etc. Targeted massage is not full body as it is focused, detailed, and based upon client goals and needs.
Options:
● Targeted Therapeutic Massage
● Therapeutic Cupping with some Massage
● Foot Massage (rejuvenating and relaxing or therapeutic)
● Ayurvedic Head/Face/Shoulder treatment: fully customizable with a nervous system and energy focus, great for mental health
*when booking please comment what area you would like worked on, from areas listed above*
Signature Integrative Massage (90-minute, $120)
A fusion of relaxation massage, subtle bodywork, and relaxation techniques such as a guided progressive relaxation or a meditative journey. This massage is focused on nervous system regulation, emotional and spiritual healing, and breath and body awareness. The goal is healing, restoration, and grounding back into the body while also being specific and intentional and is based on client goals and needs. This option is great for gentle tension relief, mind-body coordination, and heart-brain coherence.
Therapeutic Cupping & Massage (90-minutes, $120)
Custom Massage and Cupping. Cupping is most often practiced on the back with stationary and dynamic silicone cups to create suction, drawing blood toward the tight and tense areas of connective tissue with the goal of decreasing tightness and tension. Cupping can be used to increase circulation and blood flow to the muscles and tissues, decrease fascial adhesions and muscle tension, and alleviate pain.
Energy & Subtle Bodywork Sessions (60-minute or 90-minute, $75, $100)
These are all fully clothed and gentle services targeted at relaxing and soothing the mind and body, as well as calming and regulating the nervous system. Various relaxation techniques and energy and subtle bodywork techniques that are both hands-on and above the physical body may be used. Other modalities such as craniosacral, polarity therapy, and indirect myofascial release may also be used.
Focus options include:
● Nervous System Regulation: This service focuses on regulating and restoring the nervous system. The nervous system is a subtle yet powerful system that is directly connected to and impacts every other system of the body. Techniques used help to essentially melt away tension held in the body and fascial network as well as restore balance of the craniosacral network. This service can be an effective tool to improve physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing, and to help gently guide the mind and body out of the fight or flight response. The goal is to activate the calm and regulated parasympathetic, or rest and digest, response.
● Biofield/Energy Healing and Energy Work: This service emphasizes the entire energy body including the bio/energy field (aura) and all of its multidimensional layers, energy centers, and pools of energy. It has been proven by science that we are made up of various fields of energy that include, but are not limited to, the electromagnetic field and even gravity. This service connects with those innate forces and elements, as well as with prana energy (universal life force energy), ground state or zero-point energy fields, and the elements of nature within and around us, all on both a macro and micro level (physical and quantum), with the goal of ultimately merging the physical and energetic aspects of being into one unbound spiritual body of consciousness energy. This service is completely guided by the intelligence of these energies and forces.
● Integrative Energy & Subtle Bodywork: This service is similar to the Signature Integrative Massage, minus the massage. It incorporates elements of both nervous system regulation and energy services along with guided meditation, breathwork techniques, and may also include a fusion of techniques connected to various subtle body and energy healing modalities including, craniosacral and polarity therapy, hands-on healing systems such as reiki and pranic healing, and many more. This service is tailored around the client intentions and goals.
Providing you with a safe space to relax
All your appointments will take place in our soothing office environment with private rooms and individualized care.
Location and Hours
Monday- Friday: 8am-5pm
Saturday: Varies
Sunday: Closed
Knoxville
114 W Robinson St Knoxville, IA