South Loop Location

EQUILIBRIUM Energy + Education
Dearborn Station
47 W. Polk (at Dearborn)
Ste M-5
Chicago, IL 60605
(312) 786-1882

Hours

Mon.–Fri.  11 AM to 8 PM
Saturday  9 AM to 5 PM
Closed Sunday

SARA JOHNSTON, LMT

Sara Johnston, LMT, is a bodyworker, healer and teacher who weaves a unique blend of modalities into transformational therapy. The heart of her work is self-empowerment. Sara's bodywork focuses on freeing restrictive patterns within the body-mind-spirit and releasing them at the core level. She works with clients to help them reconnect with their true essence, to find their "fulcrum" in life. Sara specializes in Craniosacral Therapy and Myofascial Release, forms of structural bodywork distinguished by focus and gentleness, the foundations of healing. Sara also teaches advanced bodywork techniques as well as body-mind-spirit classes and workshops at Equilibrium. Sara's professional services include, but are not limited to craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, pregnancy massage, neuromuscular deep tissue bodywork, therapeutic Swedish massage, sports massage and rehabilitation.

MASSAGE
AND
CRANIOSACRAL THERAPIES

Because Equilibrium is dedicated to energy-based therapies, our massage and craniosacral therapists are energy workers as well as trained specialists in these two therapies.

At Equilibrium, you enjoy the double benefits of energy work as well as traditional massage and craniosacral therapy in every treatment

Massage Therapy
$100 for 60 min., $145 for 90 min.
Therapeutic massage offers a drug-free, noninvasive and humanistic approach that stimulates the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Massage is the manipulation of the soft tissue of whole body areas to bring about generalized improvements in health, such as relaxation or improved sleep, or specific physical benefits, such as relief of muscular aches and pains.

Practitioners use a variety of physical methods, including applying fixed or movable pressure, holding, or causing movement to the body. Therapeutic massage:

  • Increases circulation, allowing the body to pump more oxygen and nutrients into tissue and vital organs. Increased circulation of blood and lymph systems also improves the conditioning of the body’s largest organ, the skin.
  • Releases endorphins, the body’s natural painkiller, and is used for chronic illness, injury, and recovery from surgery to control and relieve pain.
  • Stimulates the flow of lymph, the body’s natural defense system against toxic invaders.  For example, in breast cancer patients, massage has been shown to increase the cells that fight cancer.
  • Improves range of motion and decreases discomfort for patients with low-back pain and other similar pains in the body.
  • Increases joint flexibility.
  • Relaxes and softens injured and overused muscles.
  • Assists with shorter labor for expectant mothers, as well as less need for medication, less depression and anxiety, and shorter hospital stays.
  • Reduces postsurgery adhesions and edema(swelling) and can be used to reduce and realign scar tissue after healing has occurred.

To schedule an appointment, call (312) 786-1882

Craniosacral Therapy
$100 for 60 min., $145 for 90 min.
Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of a physiological body system called the craniosacral system, comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.

Using a very gentle touch, practitioners release restrictions in the craniosacral system to improve the functioning of the central nervous system, optimizing a movement pattern within the body known as the "cranial wave." The Navajos call the cranial wave “wind's child,” a holy messenger wind that enters the body, while other traditions call this life-sustaining energy prana, chi, spirit or bioelectric energy.

Craniosacral therapy is used to treat a range of problems, including migraine headaches, chronic neck and back pain, autism, spinal chord injuries, learning disabilities, chronic fatigue, stress, and emotional issues.

STEVE POTOCKI, LMT

Steve Potocki, LMT, is a very gifted healer and bodyworker who specializes in Sacred Journey Therapy as well as other healing modalities. He worked as a core therapist at Miraval: Life in Balance, one of the world's leading alternative health spas in Tuscon, AZ. Steve uses his gifts and awareness to enhance his clients' own ability to access their "healer within" and to foster healing. Steve specializes in Sacred Journey Therapy, a light, gentle, hands-on method of intuitive energy work combining osteopathic principles, craniosacral healing methods, and native American shamanic traditions that often releases deep-seated emotions and encoded trauma, healing ancient wounds and creating a new level of peace and bliss. Steve's other services include but are not limited to therapeutic Swedish massage, deep tissue/sports massage, hot stone massage therapy, and Lomi Lomi Sacred Temple Bodywork.

ALEXANDRIA URGO, LMT, ATC

An extremely talented, engaging and resourceful therapist, Alexandria offers an extensive range of expertise in massage and energy therapies. An avid nature photographer, she contracted Lyme disease, and her efforts at healing led her into a path of complementary and alternative therapies as well as her current profession. Alexandria holds a B.S. in sports medicine as well as certifications as a licensed massage therapist, athletic trainer, and Level Two Reiki practitioner, and additionally uses Emotional Freedom Technique and other energy modalities. She is an instructor for the American Red Cross and has taught classes for physical therapists, massage therapists, personal trainers, physicians, nurses and other professionals as well as the general public. She is also enrolled at the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine, studying for her Master’s in Oriental Medicine and Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition. Alexandria specializes in myofascial release, pregnancy massage, neuromuscular deep tissue bodywork, therapeutic Swedish massage, sports massage, and rehabilitation.