About Me

Nedra van de Reep, LMT, owner of Live to Give Massage is a New York Licensed Massage Therapist. She has created a unique style of Therapeutic Bodywork by integrating various modalities from her education. It is not traditional "Massage" and it is not so clinical in its way of applied techniques. It is however, completely therapeutic in form, practice and outcome. Nedra has described her work as a moving meditation. A Kinaesthetic Awareness through Movement for client and therapist. She has sustained a 14 year career by leaning on her education in Body Mechanics.

Living and working in The Hague, she uses a variety of techniques to facilitate her work. From Passive & Active Release Techniques, Positional Release Therapy, Neuromuscular Therapy, Myofascial Release , to simple changes of how you may lay on the table. In between these techniques is her attention to detail and the transitions of her strokes. Her signature style has been influenced by her education in both dance and therapeutic massage.

Nedra has a background in the study of human behavior, having graduated from Curry College, earning a Bachelors Degree in Psychology. With her minor being Dance, it was no surprise when she later moved to New York to study Therapeutic Massage.

The Finger Lakes School of Massage offered an integrated program of Western and Eastern philosophies and practical techniques. Her instructors were medical and bodywork professionals, yoga gurus, reiki masters and some were professional dancers. This infusion of knowledge inspired her ability to treat the entirety of a human being. To treat the pathology while at the same time knowing how to hold ones heart in her hands.

She graduated in 2010, and combines Behavioral Therapy , Dance , FEMWAWOO and Myofascial Release. Putting the power of intention into her work with transitions that are fluid and feel without end. She stays quietly concentrated into what she's feeling. She listens to your breath and to your body and to the stories that it holds. The web of its connected tissue that spreads from head to toe, she sinks into it all, and your body becomes like molding clay. Full of possibilities. You'll at times feel as if you're in an active or passive dance. She will gently move you by using passive range of motion and active resistance. Thus releasing tention so that you may go beyond the limitations that brought you in. Throughout the session, she wants to know: "How does this touch, How does this depth, How does this stretch - make you feel?" This is your time.

Post treatment, she may create a plan for the way you move, sit or how you stand. During a session she will untangle the patterns of pain and help to facilitate function out of disfunction. Nedra understands how important the power of intention, the power of stillness, and the power of informed touch is. Each treatment builds upon the next. Again and again the depth of her work is guided by your trust and permission. Working within your level of comfort, using techniques to calm your mind and your central nervous system. Treatments are considered to be both deep and relaxing.

All treatments provided are professional and ethical.

+31 (0) 6 829-30828 | nedra.lmt@gmail.com

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2586AW Scheveningen, The Hague