I am trained in many modalities including Swedish relaxation, clinical massage, reflexology, cranial sacral, myofascial release, healing touch, and infant and pediatric massage. I always practice through a trauma informed lens and am constantly assessing my own biases including anti-fat bias, racism, sexuality and gender biases (yes, even me a queer person!), and ableism. My style is intuitive massage that blends many modalities based on what I hear you tell me and feel in your soft tissues. However, single techniques for an entire massage are happily accommodated.
General massage benefits offers pain relief, improved sleep, and decreased stress.
Relaxation or clinical massage 60 minutes is enough for a full body massage with extra time for specific work in 1 area or specific work in 2-3 areas. 90 minutes is enough for a full body massage with extra time for specific work in 2-3 areas.
Transition preparation and recovery massages focus on tissue preparation, surgery recovery, and body reconnection. While I do not offer counseling services, the treatment room is always a space where your stories can be shared, validated, and celebrated.
Oncology massage - offers pain relief, improved sleep, and decreased stress. We focus on your symptoms and at home techniques are shared. These are happily done in home with the travel fee waived.
Trauma and body reclaimation massage offers the opportunity to receive healing touch and practice full bodily autonomy. Any massage is offered with whatever amount of clothing feels safe and co-create how the space can feel the safest it can. While I do not offer counseling services, the treatment room is always a space where your stories can be shared and validated. If it is prudent to end the massage early I will only ever ask you to pay for the time we spend together.
Prenatal massage addresses body discomforts and disfunction that arise from pregnancy. I can help you identify how your baby or babies are positioned and offer soft tissue release to optimize positioning for comfort and labor. After 38 weeks I can incorporate techniques that work with acupressure points to get the body ready for labor. Some practitioners call this an induction technique but I have found this isn’t a start button so much as it is priming your body systems for labor and delivery.
Breech Balancing and Release is a technique developed by Adrienne Caldwell who I am so humbly grateful to call my mentor and friend. This session includes a health history and assessment before we work together to release soft tissues to give baby space to turn on their own. Partners are highly encouraged to attend as active participants as I show you techniques that can be used at home. I reserve two hours for these sessions, though only charge for the time spent together. I do not manually turn breech babies. That’s a procedure called an external cephiliac version (ECV) that is out of the scope of massage therapists.
Labor massage - The intention of massage during labor can look a couple of different ways. For some laboring people, massage provides much needed relief of specific muscles that have tensed up during contractions allowing them to get rest while labor is ongoing. For some laboring people, the softening of tissues helps facilitate the decent of their baby to continue labor. $150 for up to 2 hours of attendance, assessment, and hands on assistance ($200 between the hours of 10pm-8am) call Shea directly 612-600-6337
Postpartum massage offers a time for birthing people to reconnect with their bodies. Often times people process their birth through this reconnection internally or verbally. While I do not offer counseling services, the treatment room is always a space where your stories can be shared, validated, and celebrated. Postpartum massage also offers relief from tension or pain from pregnancy and birth, improved sleep, and decreased stress.
Loss massage offers space to reconnect with the body while receiving comforting massage. While I do not offer counseling services, the treatment room is always a space where your stories can be shared and validated.
Infant and pediatric massages are excellent for connecting with your baby or older child. In infant sessions Shea shows parents and caregivers techniques for giving infants massage while addressing any issues that you may be facing. With older toddlers and children Shea addresses dysfunctional tissues while also showing parents and caregivers techniques for continuing massage at home.
