Elevate your spirit and restore your radiance with our wholesome and healing massage therapies. Customize your massage and personalize the experience by choosing from a range of options.  Massage is beneficial to everybody whether you have a specific ache or pain or sore from your workouts. Our massage therapists, Abbie Yandle [NC# 02796] and Margaret Gant [NC# 04697] are certified and specialize in clinical and relaxation massage techniques.

The Benefits Of Massage
What exactly are the benefits of receiving massage therapy? Useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can:

• Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
• Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays.
• Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body’s natural defense system.
• Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
• Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
• Improve the condition of the body’s largest organ—the skin.
• Increase joint flexibility.
• Lessen depression and anxiety.
• Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
• Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
• Reduce postsurgery adhesions and swelling.
• Reduce spasms and cramping.
• Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
• Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body’s natural painkiller.
• Relieve migraine pain.

Massage Program Fees

	30-Minute	60-Minute	90-Minute
YMCA Member	$50	$70	$90
YMCA Program Member	$60	$80	$110

Massage is available by appointment only, Monday-Friday, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM.   To make your appointment visit the Member Service Desk or contact them at (704) 716-6400.

For more information, contact:

Amy Hurt

Operations Director - Health, Wellness & Aquatics

(704) 716-6448

amy.hurt@ymcacharlotte.org