Efrat Livny has been a massage therapist since 1998 and is a graduate of A SpiriTouch Institute in Madison , Wisconsin . While extensively trained in various massage modalities, she specializes in Zero Balancing, a unique form of bodywork that focuses on alignment and balance both in a person's body structure and in her/his energy. Focusing on the bones and on joints, Zero Balancing is very effective in resolving physical pain from a whole-body perspective. It can also be a transformational tool for reducing anxiety, creating more clarity and bringing more ease and joy into one's life. Many of Efrat's patients report profound and lasting changes through Zero Balancing.
Efrat is also trained to provide massage that is safe, nurturing and supportive to people living with cancer. While based on understanding the disease, its treatments and its long term physical and emotional effects, her work focuses on the person not the disease.
Efrat also coordinates Complimentary Medicine services to those who are affected by cancer. A survivor of Ovarian Cancer, she has been working as a Cancer Guide since 2003. She meets with patients one-on-one listening to their particular needs and challenges and helping them find their own path on the cancer journey. Whether in the midst of diagnosis, during medical treatment or beyond to survivorship, Efrat companions them and sometimes their family members along with them. She helps them create a healing plan that incorporates complimentary modalities, such as massage and acupuncture, and includes mind/body skills such as meditation, journaling and yoga, and. She also helps them create lifestyle changes that support healing and wellness such as nutrition and exercise.
Efrat finds that for many of her clients, a cancer diagnosis can become a portal for self discovery, a deeper self connection and better self care. Her work empowers each person to become an effective partner in his or her own care, and on healing from the “inside out”.
In her personal life Efrat travels extensively whether to visit loved ones or to get acquainted with more and more of our planet. She is also an artist and uses objects collected during her travels to create her unique mixed media art. She loves yoga and is an avid walker, biker and kayaker.
Capitol Clinic, 675 W. Washington Ave , Madison , (608) 662-5090
