- Active Release Techniques and Visceral Manipulation specialist.
- Extensive experience with national athletic teams.
- Focuses on trauma's impact on the body.
- Studies nervous and vascular systems' effects.
- Treats active individuals across age groups.
This summary is for informational purposes only and may not be accurate.
Balance and Motion Massage Therapy
50 Hutchison Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4A3
Paula Burchat, BA, RMT, CSMTA(SF) Paula Burchat became a Massage Therapist in 2005. Since then she has studied many different techniques ranging Active Release Techniques to Visceral Manipulation. Paula has been a teaching assistant for VM with the Barral Institute since 2018. Paula was selected for 16 national teams and travelled around the world as a team therapist with Athletics Canada. She was a member of core medical for Team Canada at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia in 2018 and the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru in 2019. As a distance running coach, she worked with runners for races from 5K to ultramarathon from 2004-2018. In 2022, Paula moved to Sweden with her family for two years. While there she continued her studies with the Barral Institute in the UK. Some of the courses she took focused on physical trauma and its impact on a person’s body. Other courses looked at the general day to day impacts of the nervous and vascular systems on the fascia, muscles and joints. Paula treats clients aged 10-90 years who are active at all levels.
This traditional massage treatment is aimed at stress reduction and recovery. Using lotions to create a flowing muscular treatment with Swedish Massage techniques the goal is to promote relaxation and stress reduction.