THERAPEUTIC SERVICES
Would someone you love (perhaps yourself) benefit from one of the following?
- Reduced pain and restriction
- Restoration and softening of tight, overused muscles
- Relief from repetitive stress syndromes and decreased stress hormones
- Greater immunity through stimulating lymph flow
- Improved circulation and decreased toxins
- Greater energy and reduced fatigue
- Decreased anxiety and depression
- Relief from physical and emotional trauma
- Increased mental/emotional perspective and clarity
- Improved sleep
These are critical factors affecting quality of life, and Volcano Island’s licensed and certified staff is dedicated to providing customized treatments that bring you results. Most of our therapeutic services are for women only and are especially attuned to feminine refinement (gentlemen seen by referral). Dr. Bresnick's therapies are one exception. Our Service Menu includes (quick info directly below, with more detailed info following):
1. RELAX and RECEIVE. Massage Therapy & Bodywork
(exceptional diverse, specialized staff with Deep Tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral Therapy, Hawaiian Lomi Lomi, Hot Stones and more): $100 for one hour and $135 for 90 minutes. Discounts for a series of treatments.
2. SENSE and SPEAK. Talk and/or Light and Sound Psychology
(with Dr. Todd Bresnick and Synaesthetic Surround): Psychotherapy sessions are $160 for a one-hr session, $260 for a double session. Flow sessions are $130 for a one-hr session. synsurround.com or 347-577-9899
3. FLOAT and RELEASE. Specialty Therapeutic Soaks & Aquatic Therapies:
$40 for a 30 minute to 1-hour soak. Aquatic Bodywork $125 for an hour and $160 for 90 minutes. Discounts for a series of treatments. Soaks and bath products available for retail purchase and home use.
4. PLAN and PRODUCE. Creative Life Coaching:
Initial consultation (20 minutes) is free. $125 for each 45-minute session. Discounts for a series of sessions.
5. STRETCH and MOVE. Private Yoga Sessions and Mind-Body Exercise Coaching:
$115 for an hour.
6. REMEMBER and BREATHE. Instant Stress Relief Interventions:
Free to infinite, depending on the stress complexity and location. Most visits $50-100.
7. PROCESS and TRANSCEND. Deeper Healing Integration Experiences
(combinations of the above services during the same visit, with the most powerful combinations being bodywork, talk/light and sound psychology, and/or therapeutic and foot soaks): Discounted rates range from $120 to $360.
8. THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER.
This is what happens when your initiative and courage meet Volcano Island’s staff and services. Golden opportunities are before you every day. We are here to help you see them and take action.
Make an Appointment Today:
Contact the owner, Jena Chambers, at 917-226-2526 or jena@VIBEworldwide.com to inquire about services or make an appointment. Gift certificates are available for all services and classes. Individual, executive inspiration and employee benefit programs are available, including brief workshops on stress reduction and purpose-alignment to increase productivity and enhance the life of your self, staff and business. We are available by appointment at our East Village, Manhattan treatment center (10th St. and 1st Ave.) or for selective outcalls by agreement.
Detailed Information:
For those of you with more curiosity and interest in reading, here is more detailed information about our services:
Massage Therapy & Bodywork:
Our phenomenal staff of star therapists are licensed experts in reducing stress/pain and facilitating positive transformation, so you can bring more of yourself to your life. Each therapist has been carefully selected for their years of experience, advanced training, transformative intent and results. In addition to Swedish and Deep Tissue-based massage, our offerings include a spectacular variety of unique specialized treatments. These include: Trigger Point & Neuro-Muscular Therapy, Myofascial Release, Hawaiian Lomi Lomi, Hot Stone Massage, CranioSacral Therapy, Reflexology, Reiki, Shiatsu, Shamanic Energy Work, Sound Therapy, Prenatal Massage, Sports Massage, and Aromatherapy. Our bodywork sessions provide physical relief of symptoms and tension, as well as help heal emotional contributors to physical disease, increase creative clarity, stimulate pro-activity, and provide a true transcendent self-learning experience.
Basic Rates: $100 for one hour and $135 for 90 minutes. 5-session series = 20% discount. 10-session series = 30% discount
Talk and/or Light and Sound Psychology:
Todd Bresnick, Psy.D., is offering talk therapy, integrated with sound and light therapy (at your request), at our East Village location (also see his Park Slope location listed below). You may wish to see him for a stand-alone session, or you may add, before or after, a massage therapy session with our licensed staff or private therapeutic bath soak to relax and integrate further.
Todd Bresnick, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who has drawn from his background in psychology, critical theory, and art to research and develop Synaesthetic Surround, an innovative new technique that involves the use of light and sound to gently influence brainwaves, fostering receptive and creative states of consciousness. These states are integrated with psychotherapeutic and mindfulness techniques for particularly effective perceptual-emotional change and growth.
Synaesthetic Surround involves two tracks, therapy and flow. The therapy track is a psychotherapeutic treatment for anxiety disorders, depression, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ADHD. The flow track is a practice that creates growth in perspective, problem solving, productivity and creativity for those interested in developing deeper sense of satisfaction and more meaningful experiences. This track can be conducted in individual sessions tailored to the client’s particular interests and needs or can be taken in modules of four sessions each developed around specific aspects of growth and flow.
Contact and appointments: tbresnick@synsurround.com 347-577-9899 synsurround.com
Offices in Manhattan at Volcano Island (10th and 1st, East Village) and Park Slope, Brooklyn: 699 Sackett Street
Rates: Psychotherapy sessions: $160 for a one-hour session, $260 for a double session. Flow sessions: $130 for a one-hour session.
Specialty Therapeutic Soaks & Aquatic Therapies:
Our skin is the body’s largest organ, and the therapeutic possibilities through our pores, especially while our body relaxes in warm water, are vast. Our soaks are hand-picked by hydrotherapy experts, including seaweed baths and innovative formulas for balance, detoxification, pain relief and more. We also offer Aquatic Bodywork (including Watsu® and Waterdance) in a 16-foot warm pool in Williamsburg.
Rates: $40 for a 30 minute to 1-hour soak. Aquatic Bodywork $125 for an hour and $160 for 90 minutes. 6-session series = 20% discount. 10-session series = 30% discount. Soaks and bath products available for retail purchase and home use.
Creative Life Coaching:
Private and group sessions to help individuals from all walks of life identify, prioritize and manifest their most passionately held personal and professional goals. Rahti Gorfien’s specialties are artists, freelancers, parents, and people with creativity, productivity and time management issues. Ms. Gorfien’s system includes the following five steps:
1. Daring to dream again: Identifying the project(s) that are closest to your heart
2. Defining the project: Talking about your goals so that together we can break them down into steps or stages
3. Doing the math: Estimating approximately how long each of these steps will take in order to create a reasonable deadline for completion of the goal
4. Dealing with ‘buts’: Looking at all the reasons why the desired results haven’t happened yet, and creating strategies for overcoming those obstacles
5. Dealing with process: Addressing the resistance and issues that arise in the act of actually encountering the work entailed in manifesting goals.
Rates: Initial consultation (20 minutes) is free. $125 for each 45-minute session. Series of 6 sessions within 3 months = 20% discount
Private Yoga Sessions and Mind-Body Exercise Coaching:
Customized sessions to improve body awareness, core strength and flexibility while uncovering and releasing emotional patterns stored in the body. Yoga sessions fuse the physical intensity of solid Vinyasa with the traditional approaches of Hatha yoga, along with a paramount focus on Pranayama. Our Mind-Body Exercise Coaching features Dynamic Motion Experience, an evolution of Douglas Drummond’s investigation into the physical realms of human movement. The practice is in essence muscular conditioning, drawing from the disciplines of isometric strength training, yoga asana and free flowing dance. This multidiscipline fusion cultivates the neuromuscular and soul-spiritual connection within oneself, easing the body into motion by embodying the mantra “Strength through Fluidity.”
Rates: $115 per hour.
Instant Stress Relief Interventions in offices and stressful situations across Manhattan:
Wherever you are, Volcano Island has suggestions and services for reducing your stress level. Our outreach program, the “Stress Stops Here” Campaign, appears when anxiety and fear seem unstoppable. We show up in offices, cubicles and street corners to perform instant stress-relief reminders and interventions. Call for a successful intervention for yourself or a colleague.
Rates: Free to Infinite, depending on the stress complexity and location. Most visits $50-100.
Deeper Healing Integration Experiences:
Combinations of the above services during the same visit, with the most powerful combinations being bodywork, talk/light and sound psychology, and/or therapeutic and foot soaks.
Discounted rates: range from $120 to $360.
We maintain an extensive referral list for quality holistic health services not currently on our menu.
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Location:
After an extensive search for an optimal home, Volcano Island has happily chosen New York City. We are based in the East Village, surrounded by restaurants, boutique shopping, and ample entertainment. Our block, 10th & 1st, is lined with trees and also includes exotic flower shops, health food restaurants, a pilates/gyrotonics studio, and the Russian & Turkish Baths. Commodities Natural Market, a lovely health food store, is a one-minute walk. We have convenient access to multiple subway and bus lines.
The treatment space is on the second floor of a well-maintained brownstone. It has high ceilings, beautiful Southern exposure light, pristine bleached blonde hardwood plank floors, authentic exposed brick, and a decorative fireplace. Decorated with timeless charm and cheerfulness, it includes ample space for comfortable movement, as well as a library devoted to massage therapy & healing arts. The facility also includes a separate reception/office, a windowed eat-in kitchen, and a private bathroom with a deep clawfoot soaking tub.
We find some of the most talented massage therapists and teachers right in our neighborhood, as well as in the greater New York area and worldwide. We know we could not have found a better home for our services and are giving back to our community in every way possible, through expanding massage therapy access, supporting and partnering with local businesses, and extending, when possible, our non-profit Dancing Lotus Alliance outreach program.
Additional projects:
Dancing Lotus Alliance:
Non-profit bodywork outreach tour, offering services to populations with special needs, including people with disabilities, elders, hospice patients and supports, veterans, survivors of rape and domestic violence, premature infants, and children with special needs. A portion of all VIBE profits goes toward DLA, which is moving toward 501(c)(3) approval and welcomes fundraising support. More information forthcoming at www.dancinglotus.org.
Biscuits & Bubbles:
Volcano Island is developing a custom menu of healthy, natural comfort foods and refreshing beverages. These are not currently available for sale but sometimes emerge as we share delights from our test kitchen with clients and guests.