- April 24, 2024
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Inside a building just off Florida Park Drive is a world where relaxation is rule and voices are always kept low; where the noise from the street is swallowed by instrumental music and visitors shed their smartphones for soft robes.
“Stress causes 85% of all diseases,” said Eva Larsson, an esthetician and certified herbalist at Body Therapy Center. “We emphasize relaxation because we live in such a stressful world.”
Body Therapy Center is an amalgam of four women’s independent businesses, all of which offer services in what the women call “complementary medicine.” They avoid the term “alternative medicine,” they say, because they don’t want to oppose traditional health care; rather, they wish to offer approaches to healthy living that vary from mainstream medicine.
Together, the women offer an array of services that emphasize relaxation and natural methods of being healthy.
Larsson operates Naturelle Skincare Inc. from within the center, offering chemical-free facial treatments and micro-current therapy. A facial from Larsson is mixed with a moisturizing facial massage for relaxation and nutritional advice, because, she says, beautiful skin comes from the inside out.
She is joined by Carolyn Randolph, who operates the Light Works Wellness Center from within the center. Randolph, a licensed massage therapist, offers massages and Esogetic Colorpuncture, a form of therapy that focuses different wavelengths of light on acupuncture points throughout the body.
Randolph has also reached mastery level at cranial release technique, a hand-and-shoulder stretching therapy that relieves stress in the body by bringing facial features and ankles into alignment. “People are often amazed by the results,” Randolph said. “They feel lighter, more graceful, and more at ease.”
The third act of the Body Therapy Center is CranioSacral Therapy mixed with massage therapy, which is offered by Certified Massage Therapist Linda Hellman. This kind of therapy involves massaging specific bones in the skull and back to release tension in the body.
“Sometimes, the answer we need to our problems is simpler than running straight to the doctor,” Hellman said. “Relieving tension is sometimes all the body needs.” Hellman also offers life coaching through the center.
The fourth member of the team, Patti Dodge, offers sessions on a Trinity Table. This table, built by Jim Harmon, simulates a feeling of floating to put the body in a state of deep relaxation.
The table balances precisely on a fulcrum halfway down its body and, when used, rotates in a complete circle.
“This is the body’s natural state,” Dodge said. “When you have a baby, you rock the baby. When children play, they spin and roll down hills. But when we get older, we stop experiencing that motion. ... I have people who come from miles away to try the table."
Dodge acquired the table while on a trip. The table’s former owners met her and told her they had a feeling that the table was meant to be in Dodge’s possession next, so they shipped it to Palm Coast for her.
Although each of the women operates her business separately, they have a common goal.
“Sometimes, people are sick of going to doctors and not seeing results even though they’re taking all of these medicines,” Hellman said. “We like to offer another way to make changes in people’s lives.”
And they’ve found a devoted following through their time in business, they say.
“Sometimes, what the body needs isn’t synthetic,” Dodge said. “There’s worth to the natural approach, and sometimes, it’s just about having an escape from the stress of life for a while.”
