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Ways to begin · The Body
Your body is constantly communicating with you. It carries both your strength and your experiences, and the ways you’ve learned to adapt.
Integrative Bodywork · licensed massage therapy · E Burnside, Portland
Where
My rooms on E Burnside, Portland. I travel to you when getting to me is the barrier.
How long
60, 90 or 120 minutes. Your first session is 120, because it begins with a full intake.
What it costs
$120 for 60 minutes, $170 for 90, or $215 for 120. Your first session is $225.
First step
A free 30-minute Connection Call. No pressure, nothing booked, nothing owed.
It’s incredibly resilient — shifting, learning, protecting, compensating, and responding to the experiences you’ve lived through.
Sometimes those messages come through pain or tension. Sometimes through fatigue, stress, or the feeling that you’ve been carrying too much for too long.
Rather than fighting your body, we’ll begin by getting curious about what it’s communicating and what it may need.
As your relationship with your body changes, new possibilities often emerge — not because you become someone different, but because you have more freedom to choose how you move through your life.
My goal isn’t simply to reduce pain — it’s to help create more possibility.
More freedom to move.
More comfort in your body.
More options in how you live your life.
Whether that means returning to a sport, carrying your child with greater ease, gardening without discomfort, sleeping better, or simply feeling more at home in your own body, we’ll work toward giving you more choice — not by forcing your body to do more, but by helping it do what it can with greater ease.
You might begin here if you’re experiencing
No two bodies tell the same story, so no two sessions look exactly alike.
Because I work with the body as a whole, your session may not always look like a traditional massage. Sometimes the most supportive intervention isn’t deeper pressure — it’s helping your nervous system process information differently through movement, sensory input, breathing, or simple neurological exercises.
Some sessions may feel like the therapeutic massage you expect, using techniques such as Swedish, deep tissue, sports massage, stretching, or myofascial work.
Other sessions may be more interactive, incorporating breathwork, movement, eye movement exercises, sensory or neurological input, and nervous system-informed practices drawn from both brain and body-based approaches.
Rather than following a predetermined routine, we’ll choose the tools that best support what your body needs that day.
I’m not attached to a technique. I’m attached to helping your body function in the way that’s most supportive for you.
The goal is to help your body experience greater ease, resilience, and possibility.
How this works in the body →Sessions & prices
First session · 120 min$225
The first session is longer because it begins with an in-depth intake: your history, what you’re experiencing now, and the goals you’re working toward. What we find there shapes everything that follows.
60 min$120
90 min$170
120 min$215
Add Reiki to a session$50
Tell me what’s going on with your body or your life and what you’d like to change. I’ll explain how I work and whether I can help. If I can, great. If not, that’s okay too. No pressure, nothing booked, nothing owed.
Mon, Tue & Fri 10–6 in person · Wed 9–1 virtual
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