Bodywork Approach

After holding a massage practice for almost 20 years, my skill sets and values in bodywork have deepened and widened in a variety of ways, compelling me to offer a couple of different pathways of care.

Structural Care:
Working with Muscles & Fascia Toward Alignment & Recovery

This is a regular bodywork session. To everyone who works with me, I offer a depth of skill in structural care, tending to the soft tissue systems of the body through deep therapeutic massage.

Deeper Threads:
The Emotional Body, The Psyche, the Self and The Capacity of Bodywork

For those who venture to explore their emotions, experiences, realms of their psyche, I am committed to holding a container that aids in the discovery, integration and embodiment of the deeper realms of the self.

Structural Care:
Working with Muscles & Fascia Toward Alignment & Recovery

I have spent much of my life in total awe and appreciation for the human body. When I began my study as a massage therapist, learning about the body–its beautiful, intricate design of interconnected systems–felt like a worlds within worlds experience.

Our bodies are incredible in their structure, mechanics and their beautiful complexity.

As a bodyworker, I am passionate about the way deep, therapeutic massage can support the body, working with its beautiful complex design to break up adhesion, realign soft tissues, support healthy circulation, relieve tension, aid in recovery, improve mobility, and work toward healing patterns of chronic pain.

I love working with clients who are ready to commit to positive structural change, and acknowledge the powerful role that therapeutic bodywork can play in achieving this wellness goal.

If you are recognizing that your physical body is needing extra support, a session with me may include:

  • A pre-massage conversation: discussing what’s going on in the body and what areas may need extra support

  • A therapeutic massage session

  • A reflection conversation, post massage: Discussing what you notice after receiving bodywork, and possible invitations for stretching, mobility and fascial release practices on your own

Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of working with many clients and conditions:

  • athletes

  • those who lead very active lives or hold very physical jobs

  • those who have little opportunity for physical activity and need extra assistance with adhesion and mobility

  • those with soft tissue injuries, including

    • plantar fasciitis

    • tension headaches and migraines

    • chronic back pain and sciatica

    • TMJ dysfunction

    • carpal tunnel syndrome

    • thoracic outlet syndrome

    • and more

I continue to be inspired by the change, improvement and even transformation that regular bodywork can create for a client.

Deeper Threads: The Emotional Body, The Psyche, the Self and The Capacity of Bodywork

I am curious and inspired by the way our physical bodies hold and carry the deeper threads of who we are, our emotions, experiences, inner wounds and our wide capacity for wholeness.

As a bodyworker, I am particularly excited about the way therapeutic touch can bring these threads to the surface to be seen, discovered, worked with, moved with, and/or released. 

I am drawn to working with clients who are ready to see and work with the deeper threads of who they are, recognize the capacity therapeutic massage holds in aiding this quest, and incorporate this kind of massage as a practice toward conscious self-awareness, integration, deeper inner healing and becoming.

I have worked with clients who are recently returned from vision fasts, psychedelic assisted therapeutic medicine journeys, therapeutic intensives, and those navigating big life/transformative experiences, deep grief, difficult and powerful life transitions. It is an honor to aid others in these pivotal life inquiries, experiences and thresholds.

If you are looking to integrate these deeper threads into your massage experience, a session may include: 

  • A Pre-massage Conversation: Discussing what’s moving in the deeper layers of you, what you’re bringing to the session, where it lives in the body

  • A grounding meditation: to drop into the body, presence the imagery or matter related to your intentions for the session

  • A therapeutic massage session: At your request, can include light guiding to aid in deepening your experience 

  • A reflection conversation post massage: what emerged, where are you now, invitations for going forward.

Brooke N literally walks differently

Sally is so skilled and intuitive. She's a good listener and can work anywhere between gentle, relaxing touch and deep work that takes my breath away.

As someone who finds soft, surface level massages unsatisfying, I find Sally's physical strength and anatomical knowledge phenomenal. Thank goodness she uses her lethal hands for rejuvenation and healing!

There have been times when I've hopped off the massage table and felt like my hips had been physically rearranged. Sally releases my tight fascia and I literally walk differently after her massages.

Sally is lovely to talk with, gentle, kind, and humorous. I feel so comfortable in her care.