Holistic Massage Therapy (Previous RMT)
I graduated from Sutherland Chan massage therapy school back in 2011 but my initiations into this line of work have been unfolding for much longer.
As a child of two massage therapist parents (who were raised in a seventh day adventist reformist church and later excommunicated because of my conception) and granddaughter to midwives, bodyworkers, and plant medicine community healers, I learned the importance of the body and was also taught about the "good and bad" of religious institutions from a very early age.
Growing up I was always drawn to understand human pain and suffering as well as spiritual development; I'm grateful to come from a lineage of life and death weavers that were and are still able to nurture, cultivate and mentor that yearning within me.
During the years of my deepest struggles but also resilience, I allowed myself to learn not only from western medical frameworks of the body but I also dove deeply into understanding dance, sex, body language and touch as ways of moving energy and power but also as a way of understanding deeper forms of communication and healing. My background in these art forms is what gives me a unique lens in how I engage with my clients and with the world around me.
I believe everything we perceive outside of ourselves feeds our collective bodies on the social, systemic, and cultural planes and even deeper than that in the psycho-spiritual-energetic realms within those collective bodies, held within each individual being.
What many Bodyworkers, Practitioners, Therapists and Health Providers of all kinds are taught, within western educational models, is medicine of pathology. This can be necessary on someone’s journey, until it’s not, and one must choose to grow outside of the conventional models of healing.
What most of us don't understand, is that this way of teaching and learning medicine will only perpetuate the suffering we feel and see within ourselves and those around us, without even knowing it.
My intention with my body of work is to break open the stories we carry within our bodies, in order to co-weave new medicine for the generations to come.
Over the last 15 years but of course much longer than this, I've been integrating the wisdom I've received from the stories that move through me, into my life and into my massage practice.
The work I do with clients has undergone many deaths and rebirths. The changes over the years have given me many gifts to share within my life. Through those experiences I've come to see how necessary my unique touch, attunement and life/death weaving skills are needed for the challenges we're facing today.
If you feel called to work with me on a somatic, decolonial, anti-oppressive approach to understanding your body, here is a link to my booking site. I'm looking forward to supporting you on this journey of re-membering.
