Consider your skin is your largest living and BREATHING organ of your body. Every day, your body is assaulted by harmful air pollution, smoking, harmful ingredients from lotions, soaps, perfumes, dangerous cleaning chemicals, UV rays, and even the wind. Harmful chemicals get trapped in our fat cells.

Body Wrap process is a treatment to aid in dispersing toxins, taking off inches, changing body shape, size, contour, as well as tightening and toning the skin. It reduces the appearance of cellulite, stretch marks, and saggy skin. It involves wrapping the body with elastic pliable type bandages which are saturated with pure aloe, herbs and stress relieving aromatic fruit extract solution (all natural). The treatment applied helps to disperse the toxins which cause cellulite (waterlogged fatty issue). The toxins do not go into the bloodstream, they are pulled out of the body through your pores; and the solution continues to work for up to two days, thus ridding your body of even more toxins. Body Wrap works by shrinking the size of your fat cells. The all natural solution is applied warm to open pores and soaks into the fat deposits to draw out toxic accumulations from the skin.

The solution provides nutrients which penetrate the cell walls and cause the lipids (fatty material) inside the cells to be released into the lymphatic system. The fat is then circulated naturally and carried out through the normal elimination process of the body. The aloe works as a carrier breaking down hardened toxic tissue (cellulite) this result in inch loss, detoxification, and smoother and firmer skin.

Massage therapy provides numerous benefits, on physical, mental and emotional levels.  Some of the many benefits of massage therapy include deep relaxation, stress reduction, relief of muscle tension, reduces blood pressure, increases circulation, strengthens and boosts the immune system and increases energy flow at all levels and creates a feeling of well being.

Massage therapy in not to be seen as an indulgence, but as a major health benefit; especially when combined with proper diet and a healthy exercise program and lifestyle.

We, at Internal Focus invite you to incorporate massage therapy and all of our services into your regimen to allow you to feel your best

Our Certified Massage Therapist

Elise Braithwaite – Licensed and Certified Massage Therapist

Elise is a 2000 graduate of the Potomac Massage Therapy Institute in Washington, DC. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Physical and Health Education and a Master's degree in Health and Fitness Management.  She has integrated these studies and her experience as a former internationally competitive track and field athlete for her massage therapy work.
Elise has been trained in a variety of massage techniques and healing modalities.  She incorporates Swedish, deep tissue, connective tissue (myofascial), pre-natal, manual lymphatic massage into her sessions depending the needs of the client.  She believes in facilitating the healing of the whole person and as a third degree Reiki practitioner she can use the universal life force energy in her work.
Elise services her clients with love and compassion to allow them to feel their best.

Karen Becks – Body Wrapper, Hydro-Colon Therapist, and Reiki I

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”—Abraham Lincoln

In February 1996 I lost my mother to breast cancer.  It was one of the saddest intense moments of my life.  I watched her seek the medical community for a solution and nothing prevailed.  She grew tired and weary in her fight.  I began to filter out the synthetic things that made her uncomfortable and she would call me nurse Becks.  One of the last things she uttered to me before transitioning was to make sure my sisters knew the importance of “internal cleansing”, something she did not intensely practice.
Karen is energetic, jovial native Washingtonian with a diverse background in administration, computers, and audio.  Her journey to good health started before her angel mother charged her with a duty but she was not in tuned with self.  Without second thought she abused her body by feeding it whatever it wanted the need to satisfy the flesh and not the spirit which led to a spiritual bottom.  Later after developing a sense of self on getting on the path to healing a friend suggested colonics and without further investigation she turned her nose up in the air and said no thank you very much.  Well one year later she walked into Internal Focus for her very first colonics.  After several colonics and body wraps her energy soared, depression subsided, and she began to lose weight—an unexpected benefit.  It was unbelievable. 
She joined the Internal Focus staff realizing she wanted to make a difference.  She has been blessed to have Ngozi Hall—Founder—to mentor her on the wholistic path.  Karen is a certified Body Wrapper, Attuned Reiki Level I, and certified Colon Hydrotherapist.  She is currently an active member of International Association of Colon Hydrotherapy (I-ACT).