Services
Stretch Therapy
Helping you move better, feel better, and live better.
Services
Stretch Therapy
Helping you move better, feel better, and live better.
Pricing and Information
Sessions available* at Roots Yoga in Wadsworth, OH. M-Th.
Under Appointments on the Wellness App, choose Assisted Stretch to schedule a session.
Mondays: 3-6pm (3 sessions available)
Tuesdays: 10am-12pm (3 sessions available)
Wednesdays: 1pm-5pm (5 sessions available)
Thursdays: 9am-11am (3 sessions available)
*Please message me if you need another time slot available. Hours are flexible.
Private in home sessions available. Please contact me for more information and pricing.
Regular Sessions
• 30 Minutes — $45
• 60 Minutes — $90
Package Savings:
✔ Save 20%
• 4-Pack of 30-Minute Sessions — $144
• 4-Pack of 60-Minute Sessions — $288
What to Wear:
Please wear clean yoga or athletic-style pants and shirts to your session for comfort and hygiene. Socks are required (grippy socks preferred) to support both cleanliness and safety during assisted stretches.
*Cancellations accepted (no less than 12 hours in advance). No shows will be charged the full rate.
What Is Stretch Therapy?
Stretch therapy is a personalized, hands-on approach to helping you move better by improving flexibility, restoring mobility, and supporting healthy movement patterns throughout your entire body. During a session, we focus on some of the most commonly tight or restricted areas—like hamstrings, quadriceps, hip flexors, and the piriformis (deep in the hips). We also target key areas that affect posture and daily comfort, including the TFL/IT band, shoulders, chest, upper back, and neck.
By gently lengthening these muscles, stretch therapy helps release tension, improve alignment, and create more freedom in how you move, both in athletic performance and daily life. Whether you’re looking to ease stiffness, prevent injury, or simply feel better in your body, stretch therapy gives you a customized, supportive path toward greater mobility and long-term well-being.
At Bodywork with Wendy, I combine mindful movement, breath awareness, and personalized techniques to help you move with more ease, freedom, and balance. You don’t need to be an athlete, a yogi, or flexible to begin. Stretch therapy is for everyone—from teenagers and athletes to busy professionals, active grandparents, and anyone in between who wants to feel better in their body.
Benefits of Stretch Therapy
1. Improve Flexibility and Mobility
Flexibility is about more than being able to reach your toes—it’s about how freely your muscles and joints can move in daily life. Stretch therapy helps gently lengthen tight muscles, allowing you to move through your full range of motion with less restriction. This can make everyday activities like walking, bending, and reaching feel easier and more natural.
2. Reduce Muscle Tension and Discomfort
Tight muscles often lead to stiffness, discomfort, and pain. Whether it’s tight shoulders from stress, tension through your IT bands from activity, or sore hips from hours of sitting, stretch therapy targets those restricted areas to help you release tension safely. Over time, regular stretching sessions can help relieve chronic tightness and improve posture, making it easier to move through life without discomfort holding you back.
3. Enhance Athletic Performance
For athletes of all ages, stretch therapy can be a powerful tool for improving performance. Flexible, mobile muscles move more efficiently, helping athletes run faster, jump higher, and recover better after workouts or competitions. Stretch therapy also helps reduce the risk of common sports injuries by promoting balanced flexibility and muscular alignment.
4. Prevent Injuries
When muscles are tight and imbalanced, the risk of injury increases. Stretch therapy promotes better alignment and muscle balance throughout the body, helping to prevent strains, sprains, and overuse injuries. For anyone who’s active—or who wants to stay active as they age—this is one of the smartest long-term investments in your physical health.
5. Support Recovery
Stretch therapy also plays a key role in post-workout or post-activity recovery. By increasing circulation, stretching helps bring oxygen-rich blood to tired muscles, which can reduce soreness and speed healing. It’s an excellent complement to other recovery practices like massage, foam rolling, and hydration.
6. Promote Relaxation and Stress Relief
Stretch therapy isn’t just physical—it’s deeply calming to the nervous system. With breath awareness and gentle guidance, each session helps you shift out of “fight or flight” stress mode and into a state of ease. Many people leave sessions feeling lighter, more grounded, and mentally refreshed.
7. Personalized to Your Needs
No two bodies are alike, which is why stretch therapy at Bodywork with Wendy is always tailored to you. Whether we focus on tight hamstrings, opening restricted shoulders, releasing tension in your hips, or addressing full-body flexibility, we’ll design each session around your goals, limitations, and preferences.
Feel Better. Move Better. Live Better.
Stretch therapy is not just about flexibility—it’s about creating freedom in your body so you can do the things you love with greater ease. Whether you want to improve your yoga practice, perform better in your sport, or simply move through daily life with less discomfort, stretch therapy can help you get there.
