OUR STORY

Ireland-Hill Therapy is a collaboration between husband and wife team John Ireland and Raylene Hill. Their dream was to create a place of healing that strives on Excellence, Community and Respect.

Excellence

With a combined 30 years in healthcare the background of John and Raylene can be seen in the aspects of yin and yang. Two opposites that make a whole.

Raylene started as a Massage Therapist in Quebec in 2006. Upon moving to Ontario in 2011 she returned to school and became a Physio Assistant and worked in Long Term Care for a few years before becoming a personal trainer and and Yoga instructor. In 2015 she returned again to school for Traditional Chinese medicine and Acupuncture and took employment with Ste Anne’s Spa where she worked for 6 years. Currently she is dual registered as both RMT and R.Ac, her modalities include Japanese non insertion acupuncture as well as cranial sacral, Sotai, Tuina and Thai massage. Her treatments are five element based and she also has training in Feng Shui/Yi Jing and Chinese lifestyle and Nutrition Advice in the tradition Of Wang Feng Yi

John first started studying Eastern medicine as Shiatsu Therapist, then continued his studies to include Reflexology, Reiki, Thai-Yoga massage John and Raylene studied Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner together at AIM institute in Toronto where he was class Valedictorian. He is firmly rooted in Eastern medicine and philosophy and has worked 16 years as one of the top requested therapists at the award winning destination Spa Ste Anne’s.  In 2021 John received his Registered Massage therapist certification. he currently practices only under this designation only which included Acupuncture for muscloskeltal conditions

Community

Community is very important to John and Raylene. Raylene has over the years run Community Acupuncture Clinics including the fundraisers Acu loves Ontario and We are all Ears (benefit NHH hospital and metal health). As a fitness/ Yoga instructor she was recognized with Goodlife fitness as Top team trainer in her region and loves the inclusivity Community events create. Stay tuned for upcoming community events on our FB page. John is a seasoned Meditator and holds space with the Dharma center of Canada on zoom every Monday morning. Contact him to find out more on enhancing your meditation journey

Respect

Your Informed Consent to the treatment is vital, and we ensure that you feel empowered to discuss your treatment at any time and that together we enjoy clear honest communication and feedback.

We respect your dignity always using CMTO draping standards, ensuring your sense of security, and offering fully clothed treatments such as Tuina, Shiatsu, Thai, Foot Reflexology and Community Acupuncture. If sensitive areas (chest wall, glutes, inner thigh) are determined therapeutically necessary by you and your therapist, a special consent form will be signed.

Respect includes working with the 8 principles of tcm (including yin and yang) and the way your body-mind is in harmony with those rhythms or not. This is why our health history form is so thorough—we respect the amazing variety of relationships that exist within you and between you and your environment, and the way the past can affect the present/future.

Respect means as therapists and patients we endeavour to always do our best.

Ultimately respect is about encouraging each of us to take increasing responsibility, to the degree that we are able, for the improvement and maintenance of our health.

We honour your basic rights: to be, to feel, to ask, to care, to speak, to see, and to know.