Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) can be used for integrative treatments, when recommended by your doctor.
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Yes, HSAs and FSAs cover massage and acupuncture
Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) can be used to pay for massage and acupuncture treatments, as long as your physician recommends it with a written prescription. At HaLe', we deeply believe in the effectiveness of our...
Breema Brings Deep Nurturing and Wholeness
Breema is a set of techniques based on 9 Principles of Harmony. It does not require mental beliefs, only attention to the experience of the body. It provides a way to feel nurtured, rather than drained, by your experiences and relationships. Breema can be done as...
The Therapeutic Benefits of Balls and Rollers
Therapy balls and rollers offer many of the benefits of bodywork, but with the accessibility of a self-care practice and classes. Bodywork and massage therapy has a long list of benefits for overall health, pain management, athletic performance, and immune function....
Self-Care
Our bodies require regular care in order to thrive and heal, and one of the best ways to make sure we are on top of our self-care is to put it on our schedule instead of trying to fit it in around everything else. As a health and wellness practice, HaLe' has...
Crackle and Pop: Knees and other Joints
Our knees and other joints can pop, grind, crunch, and make other interesting sounds. This can be alarming, causing worry about the health of the joint and whether the sounds are a sign of something serious. What makes those sounds: There are a lot of complex tissues...
Focus on Feeling Better: Medical Massage
Medical massage refers to bodywork that focuses on treating specific health issues. A lot of research has been done over the last several decades, proving the benefits of medical massage and bodywork as treatments for pain, stress-related illness, injuries, and some...
Replenish Your Capacity to Give
Being generous brings joy and improves our overall health. However, our capacity to give can become depleted by stress, high expectations, and reduced feelings of empathy. In other words, we can feel so distressed that it becomes more difficult to connect with the...
Deep Harmony through Being Present
Being present allows the stress of what has happened (past) and what has not yet happened (future) to fall away from the mind. Instead we turn our attention to the present, which is where the body lives. Common, simple techniques focus on the breath or the rhythm of...
Bodywork for Emotions
Bodywork and massage are great treatments for emotional health as well as pain and tension. Regular sessions have been shown to improve mood after as little as 15 min, and can help treat stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. The emotional benefits of massage and...