Welcome to Total Therapy.
This is a complete therapeutic massage institute run by Natalya and Nikolai Kulakovsky.
Nikolai has over 28 years international massage experience and has been massage therapist to sportsmen, in the clinical field and has taught massage to medical and nursing professionals overseas. He is a professional of the highest degree.
Natalya has over 18 years experience as massage therapist. She has worked in hospitals as a massage therapist, (especially therapy of ill children). She is also a trainer of swimming champions. She is a champion of Russia in swimming (butterfly) and holds a masters first class degree in swimming and training children. She now specializes in the massage of women, including pregnant.
The institute has been operating in New Zealand for over six years and has helped countless customers with numerous problems ranging from serious illness and injuries to relaxation issues. Nikolai is a member of the Massage Institute of New Zealand.
The institute offers methods and modalities of massage rarely offered in New Zealand and many other countries around the world.
Some of The therapies offered include:
- Manual Therapy –post isometric relaxation therapy (muscular-skeletal alignment)
- Deep Tissue massage
- Segmentary-reflex massage
- Acupressure and pressure point massage
- Thai massage
- Shiatsu
- Lymphatic drainage massage
- Infant and child massage
- Pregnancy massage
- Exercise therapy
The great Ancient healer Avicenna, a student of the physician Hippocrates writes of massage:
“This is the greatest of all healing arts –it revitalizes the body, removes the fouled humours and increases the powers of the mind. It is good for women men and children alike amid is both a cure and preventor of disease in man”
This most ancient of all the healing arts must however be practiced by professionals. Natalya and Nikolai have training in physiology, bioenergetics, sports massage as well as having studied the traditional and ancient massage modalities. Their knowledge of this art is that of a master. You are invited to experience the complete revitalization of mind and body that the Total therapy Institute can offer.