Many hands help make Kaua‘i the Healing Island

Kaua‘i is celebrating Women’s Health this month and proudly being promoted as a health and wellness destination because of its intense beauty and serenity.

Those who are looking for health and wellness often feel they have found the ultimate experience here on Kaua‘i.

With hundreds of massage therapists and practitioners using various modalities, this is the place to be if you are interested in expanding yourself, many believe.

Holistic health practitioners address the whole person, not just symptoms of a physical ailment.

All aspects of an individual – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual – are considered in holistic health.

Recent studies have shown that massage and touch improve the immune function, digestion, and elimination. Massage can decrease pain, aggressive behavior and fear.

It supports concentration, learning, growth, sleep and communication.

Massage also promotes an overall feeling of well being.

Toni K. Liljengren, owner of Toni’s Skin & Body Care, is one of many who offer their services on Kaua‘i.

A licensed massage therapist who has mastered “The Art of Body Massage” including pre-natal, infant, children, adults, and seniors massage, she has practiced holistic health care for more than 20 years and uses Ortho- Bionomy in her sessions as a very gentle and innovative technique to help realign the body without forceful manipulation.

Ortho-Bionomy is effective for joint and muscle pain, postural problems, stress and other ailments, Liljengren explains.

She is also an Esthetic instructor, performing and teaching facials, body scrubs, body wraps, waxing and many other beauty treatments.

In addition, she is highly trained in internal cleansing, emotional clearing, chakra balancing and gem stone healing.

“I use conscious communication to clear all that no longer serves,” she said.

Liljengren has a free holistic health referral service to assist anyone who wants to set up their own Kaua‘i healing program.