Abdominal Therapy
Massage & Self Care

What is Abdominal Therapy?

Abdominal therapy (previously Arvigo® Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy) is best known for addressing misalignment or congestion in the reproductive organs of both male and female bodies, as well as many common digestive disorders. 

The techniques effectively alleviates tissue congestion and organ constriction to improve the vital flows of energy, blood, lymph and nerves in the abdomen. It addresses and can release emotional and energetic tension from the abdomen as well. This assists to prevent the progression of chronic disease symptomology while improving the body’s ability to self repair and balance.

Sessions include going over your health care needs/concerns; a specialized massage treatment addressing the abdomen, pelvis, and back; and a customized protocol utilizing lifestyle, diet, nutritional and herbal formulas to target underlying causes.

Typically, 2-3 professional sessions (at a minimum) are required to address most conditions. Clients who perform their self-care massage on a routine basis report an improvement in their symptoms.

PLEASE NOTE: I do not perform these techniques on patients who are pregnant, post ovulation while trying to conceive. Technique will be modified if you have an IUD.

Benefits of Abdominal Therapy

There are many reasons you might seek this type of therapy, from soothing digestive troubles, painful periods, fertility support, or relief from prostate or pelvic issues.

Abdominal Therapy encourages balance and optimal function in the belly, but the greater impact can be felt throughout the entire body.

Benefits of abdominal massage may help with:

• Fertility challenges

• Headache/Migraine

• Digestive Disorders

• Low energy

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

• Gastro Esophogeal Reflux (GERD)

• Crohn’s Disease

• Chronic constipation

• Low Back ache

• Chronic indigestion or heartburn

• Gastritis

• Restricted breathing due to tension

Helpful for Females Experiencing

• Displaced or prolapsed uterus and or bladder

• Painful menstrual cycles and ovulation

• Irregular menstrual cycles and ovulation

• Bladder or yeast infections

• Miscarriages, difficult pregnancies

• Endometriosis

• Fertility Challenges* (see benefits for males also)

• Peri-menopause, menopausal symptoms

• PMS/Depression with menstruation

• Ovarian cysts

• Uterine fibroids

• Abnormal uterine bleeding

• Pelvic congestion, pain

Abdominal Therapy for Preconception Health & Fertility

Abdominal Therapy supports women as they prepare their bodies for conception, helping to optimize conception with a holistic approach. We encourage a three month period of uterine rest and self care where you are actively avoiding conception to prepare the uterus and your body for pregnancy. However, the work can also be received while a women is actively open to conception. The best time to receive your first session for Fertility is between menstruation and ovulation.

Helpful for Males Experiencing

• Fertility (Sperm Count and Quality) – *treatment works best when both partners are treated.

• Early stages of prostate swelling

• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

• Prostatitis (mild)

• Impotence, Erectile Dysfunction (depending on cause)

This Treatment Cannot Be Performed

• First 6 weeks Postpartum

• Within 8 weeks of any Abdominal Surgery

• When taking pain medications

• When any infection is present within the body

• If you have an IUD or Essure (uterine massage is contraindicated, but you can receive a modified treatment)

• During menstruation uterine massage is contraindicated but you can a modified receive treatment.

What to Expect During Your Initial Session

An Abdominal Therapy session begins with an exploration of your health history, current circumstances, and goals. This may take place in a virtual meeting or in-person.

The in-person Abdominal Therapy treatment involves an external massage of your entire abdomen: the diaphragm, digestive and reproductive organs, as well as your back, hips, and sacrum. Massaging these areas systematically and thoroughly, affects all the systems of flow in your body: blood, lymph, nerve conduction, and life force or prana. Clients are draped throughout the entire massage to protect their modesty.

Finally, you will learn how to perform Your Abdominal Massage (YAM) and other simple self-care tools that will help to increase treatment benefits for the long term.

What is YAM?
Early in her professional practice, Dr. Rosita Arvigo recognized the need for clients to continue their healing with their own hands, in their own time, in their own homes. With this in mind, she developed her unique self-care massage to encourage and empower her clients to take charge of their healing.

Although Your Abdominal Massage is a simple practice and takes only 10 minutes a day, it has profound, lasting effects on your health and wellbeing. It’s not unusual for clients to report – even years later – that YAM has become an integral part of their daily lives.

What to Expect During Your Follow-up Appointments

Our work doesn’t stop in the treatment room. On your second visit, in addition to a full massage treatment, you will receive a customized wellness protocol. This plan is based on the findings of your initial session and may include recommendations around lifestyle, diet, nutrition, or herbal formulations specially tailored to address underlying root causes. All recommendations are based on the timeless wisdom and science of Ayurveda.

Additional follow-up appointments will allow time for celebrating progress made, addressing new or continuing challenges, as well as a full massage treatment, front and back.

Session Rates

2 Session Minimum: $250
2 Hour Initial Session: intake, massage, and self-care instruction
90 Min Follow-up: massage and wellness protocol

Ongoing follow-up appointments:
60 Min: $70
90 Min w/full body massage: $95
120 Min w/full body massage: $125