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Manual therapy · Osteopathy · Somatic movement
Assessment-led manual therapy, osteopathic care and somatic movement — shaped around your body, your history and what you want to get back to.
Nazanin “Nana” Vala Jam — Manual Physical Therapist · DOMT · MCIO · RMT · EMF
Founder of Aura Art Group · theatre director · author
01 What brings you here
Most people arrive knowing where it hurts, not which technique they need. Naming the right approach is the job of the assessment, not of you.
02 Care shaped around you
Every session begins the same way — with a history, a physical and palpatory exam, and a working clinical impression. What follows is chosen from there.
Manual care
Hands-on care for joints, muscles, fascia and neural tissue.
Joint and soft-tissue mobilization, myofascial release and gentle traction — delivered after clinical assessment and combined with individualized exercise, education and self-management.
Learn moreTreating the relationship between how you’re built and how you move.
Palpation-led assessment and osteopathic manipulative treatment — myofascial release, joint mobilization and cranial techniques — addressing restrictions that contribute to pain or reduced function.
Learn moreLight, rhythmic work that helps fluid move. Slow, comfortable, deeply calming.
Skin stretching, rhythmic pumping, spiral motions and proximal-to-distal decongestive sequencing. Pressure is intentionally light — lymph vessels sit just beneath the skin. This is not deep tissue work.
Learn moreSlow pressure that lets connective tissue let go.
Sustained pressure, shearing and gliding, cross-fibre work, fascial stretching, skin rolling and movement integration — quiet and subtle enough for the nervous system to down-regulate and permit change.
Learn moreMovement & mobility
Yoga done to you — fully clothed, from start to finish.
Assisted postures, acupressure along the Sen energy lines, joint mobilization, rhythmic rocking and breath synchronised between practitioner and client. Sessions typically run 60–120 minutes.
Learn moreStructured, guided work on range, posture and ease of movement.
Passive and active-assisted stretching, contract–relax methods, joint mobilization within a comfortable range, soft-tissue preparation and breath-guided movement re-patterning.
Learn more03 Inside a session
These are selected and combined according to your assessment, your comfort and your goals. You never have to pick between them.
MET uses very gentle contractions and repositions the joint into ease rather than pushing into a barrier. PNF uses stronger contract–relax cycles to build stretch tolerance. Both work by engaging the nervous system, not by forcing tissue.
04 What to expect
A history, movement observation, and orthopaedic and palpatory testing relevant to your muscles, joints and soft tissues — alongside what you actually want to get back to doing.
Manual, movement or somatic techniques selected for what the assessment showed. Other health professionals are brought in or referred to when that serves you better.
Remedial exercise, education and practical self-management strategies, so the work keeps going between sessions rather than resetting each time.
05 Who you’ll be working with
I integrate hands-on manual techniques with individualized movement education and remedial exercise, to help restore mobility, reduce pain and improve function.
For more than a decade I have worked across both clinical and creative worlds — directing international productions, leading community projects and publishing books, while developing movement-based programs for people of all ages and abilities.
I believe well-being is shaped by the connection between mental, emotional and physical health. My goal is a compassionate, non-judgmental space where curiosity, understanding and practical tools help people move forward with greater confidence, clarity and resilience.
06 Scope and safety
Massage therapy in Ontario is regulated under the Massage Therapy Act, 1991 and practised within the scope defined by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario. Care is delivered within the practitioner’s authorized scope, with referral to other health professionals where indicated.
Bring the problem, not the diagnosis. We’ll work out the approach together.
