Since childhood I have been fascinated by the body, movement, and health. I have been practicing massage for over 15 years, and I’m so grateful to have found my calling.

When I attended massage school, there was an implicit ethos of “if it hurts, push on it harder” and a presumption that bodywork had to be painful to be medically useful.  For the first six years of my career, I used a more traditional “deep tissue” style.  And while I helped many people that way, it was often painful for them and exhausting for both of us. 

Then about a decade ago, there was a sea change in my work. I suffered a pretty bad injury to my knee. While recovering, I went back to a physical therapist who’d helped me in the past. I was astonished that she was making so much change to my body with no pain to me, and little effort for her.  She was practicing Positional Release. I began learning the technique, and I started getting better results than I’d ever gotten before. Ironically, I feel I get much deeper into the tissues now than when I used to do traditional “deep tissue” work with heavy pressure.