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Dresden Varney
Registered Massage Therapist Please note: Dresden's practice is dedicated women’s health and therefore exclusively treats women.
Dresden is a 2012 graduate from the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in Victoria. She spent the first 8 years of her career practicing in Victoria, in naturopathic, and multidisciplinary clinics, treating a variety of different people. In 2019, Dresden relocated back to her hometown in the Comox valley and began practicing entirely on women. Dresden’s areas of focus are nervous system support, and abdominal health. Dresden takes special interest in supporting women with abdominal/pelvic discomfort and disfunction. Dresden uses a variety of different treatment techniques to increase abdominal/pelvic function, and decrease abdominal/pelvic pain. She addresses the body from a biopsychosocial lens’s, taking into consideration how your environmental and emotional experience, may be contributing to your physical presentation of symptoms. This form of massage therapy can be extremely helpful for the following: •Pain with menstruation and or ovulation •Painful bladder function •Rib restriction impacting lung expansion •Post operative scar discomfort from caesarean or abdominal surgery •Digestive discomfort such as constipation and or bloating •Sacral or Coccyx pain •Generalized or specific pelvic discomfort •Providing relief from sensations of gripping through abdomen At the core of all of Dresden’s treatments, is nervous system support. Dresden is also trained in Craniosacral Therapy, and subscribes to the therapeutic philosophy that the body often holds unresolved “stuff”, that can manifest into physical discomfort. When the body feels safe, and tended to, we can begin to address these stuck areas, to help facilitate in the process of letting go. She treats mostly in silence, to encourage inner presence, and uses a medium style of pressure, to allow the body to gently unwind and release tension. Dresden has an informed treatment approach, which is also guided by her intuition, into an application that is attentive, therapeutic, and nurturing. In addition to being an RMT who is trained in the Upledger method of Craniosacral Therapy, Dresden has also taken her yoga teacher training and has attended many mindfulness and meditation workshops. |