Southern Vermont’s Stark Naturals, LLC offers a variety of natural products, fitness and wellness classes, bodywork sessions, and private coaching for all ages to promote health and longevity. Services include Thai bodywork, sports and manual therapy, trigger point therapy, and heat therapy by appointment. Fitness classes are held daily in Brattleboro and virtually.
What is Thai Bodywork? Thai Bodywork (also known as Thai Massage) is therapeutic bodywork that combines assisted stretching, rhythmic compression, and deliberate movement to improve mobility and reduce tension. Sessions are performed with the client fully clothed on a Shiatsu mat, with the therapist using hands, forearms, elbows, knees, and body weight to apply pressure and stretch fascia. Clients are encouraged to relax; heat is often utilized to aid in relaxing muscles. Thai Bodywork is often ideal for pain-relief, mobility and range of motion, reducing chronic tension, promoting sleep, and reducing headaches, as well as providing relief from injuries. Most Thai sessions last 60-90 minutes, as the therapist works through the body in a structured flow to follow trigger points and referred pain.
Our Mission Statement: “Supporting people of all ages and in all stages of life, from child to elder, in their quest for health and happiness.”
Owner Lissa Stark is a Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT250) with a focus on functional strength, pain relief, anatomy, mobility, and range of motion. She is also a Reiki Master & Teacher and Thai Bodywork practitioner. Offering strength training, personalized instruction, stretching and movement, sports massage, heat therapy, and manual therapy. She creates natural body care products, pet products, and handcrafted workout essentials. Lissa has been practicing Yoga for 28 years. She brings a real-world perspective to classes in order to provide the tools for functional strength to anyone and everyone.
Lissa developed a Yoga program for the Basic Training Recruits at the Vermont Police Academy in 2012. She has been teaching Strength Training at the Brattleboro Rec Center, Senior Center, and local venues for many years. The Stark Naturals Fitness and Wellness Center is located in the Black Mountain Square, 972 Putney Road in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Lissa’s classes are suitable for all levels; from the beginning student to the more advanced. All ages and fitness levels encouraged.