Sanctuary Yoga and Massage

Sanctuary Yoga and Massage Nervous System Expert helping you address stress and its symptoms at the root—through massage, movement & personalized coaching.

Creator of NeuroCalm Touch™ + The Brain & Body Movement™. Hi, I’m Brenda Sanders—Registered Massage Therapist and creator of NeuroTouch Calm™ massage and founder of The Brain & Body Movement™. Through massage and movement, I help women ease the physical, mental, and emotional toll of stress—so they can reduce pain, sleep more soundly, feel more energized, and reconnect with a sense of calm and clarity in their lives. In Charlottetown, I offer NeuroCalm Touch™, a nervous-system-based massage that uses acupressure and vagus nerve stimulation to gently unwind tension and help you feel safe, grounded, and at ease. It’s for the ones who feel stressed out and burned out, who carry too much, feel too much, and need more than just a moment of relaxation. Online, I lead The Brain & Body Movement™, a nervous-system-first approach to brain and mental health that blends brain science, movement, and restoration. It includes two powerful class types:
🧠 Quick Boost – In just 15 minutes, this science-backed, moderate-intensity movement session helps you release stress, restore mental clarity, regulate emotions, and reclaim the energy you’ve been running low on.

🧘‍♀️Restore – Gentle, nervous-system-soothing classes that weave together somatics, mindful movement, and elements of yoga you may remember from our time in the studio—now evolved to support deeper healing, regulation, and connection. 👉DM me for a free trial! When you’re used to holding it all together, slowing down can feel indulgent—but it’s not. Caring for your nervous system isn’t a luxury—it’s how you protect your energy, your sleep, your mood, and the life you’ve worked so hard to build.

01/14/2026

“It’s amazing to me how you can work on one acupressure point and my whole body tingles.”

What she was feeling wasn’t just physical.

It was her nervous system responding to safety.

In NeuroCalm Touch, we use gentle, specific acupressure points to stimulate reflex pathways — sending signals through the skin and fascia to the brainstem and spinal cord.

That one point?
It wasn’t about releasing a muscle.
It was about giving her whole system permission to soften.

This is what makes NCT different from traditional massage.
It doesn’t just affect the area we touch.
It shifts your state — guiding your body out of survival and into calm.

If your body feels like it’s always “on,”
if you crave stillness but can’t quite reach it,
you’re not doing anything wrong.

Your system might just need a different kind of input — one that doesn’t push, but invites.

Comment CALM if your body is craving this.
I’ll send you the link when you’re ready to exhale.

01/13/2026

I’ve been practicing massage therapy for 22 years.
For most of that time, people came to me with tension, pain, and physical discomfort.
And we worked those areas, often with great results.

But something has shifted.

Since introducing NeuroCalm Touch, more and more clients are coming in for something deeper.
They want better sleep.
Less anxiety.
A way to feel calm in their body again — not just for an hour, but in their daily life.

Traditional massage focuses on the area being worked.
NCT works with your whole system.
We’re not just targeting a muscle. We’re signaling to your body, “You’re safe now.”

That one shift — from survival mode to parasympathetic activation — is what allows true rest and healing to begin.

This isn’t just massage.
It’s a nervous system reset.
And the ripple effects can be felt everywhere.

If your body has been living in fight-or-flight, there is another way.

Comment CALM if your system is asking for something gentler.
I’ll send you the link to book when you’re ready.

Your body already knows how to heal.
It just needs the right conditions.

01/12/2026

I didn’t touch her jaw, but the tension left.

She came in anxious, hypervigilant, and holding years of tightness in her jaw.
That kind of tension isn’t random. It’s protective.
The body doesn’t clench for no reason. It braces when it doesn’t feel safe.

After her first NeuroCalm Touch session, she felt the difference right away.
The anxiety lifted.
The hypervigilance quieted.
But the jaw tension was still there.

It wasn’t until her second session that something shifted.
She said it felt like the muscles were melting off her face.

She completed four weekly sessions.
The jaw tension released, and weeks later, it hasn’t returned.

Not because we forced it.
Not because we went deep.
But because we worked with her nervous system and gave it a new pattern to follow.

This is what happens when your body finally believes it’s safe to let go.

01/09/2026

She came in hoping to reduce inflammation.
She left feeling present.
Relaxed.
Calm.

For someone who’s always on the go, helping others, and struggling to sit still — that kind of peace felt almost foreign.

But her body remembered.

This is the quiet magic of NeuroCalm Touch.
It doesn’t force relaxation.
It helps your system feel safe enough to soften.

If your nervous system has been running the show — always alert, always “on” — this is your reminder:

You don’t have to earn your rest.
You don’t have to wait until you break.
Your body is allowed to exhale.

Comment CALM and I’ll send you the booking link when you’re ready.
Gentle care is here when you are.

01/08/2026

You’re allowed to rest before you break.
You don’t have to wait until your body forces you to stop.
Let’s normalize preventative care — the kind that calms your system before it crashes.

If your body feels tired but your mind won’t stop,
you’re not alone.
That loop is real. And it’s not your fault.
It’s a sign your nervous system needs gentleness — not more pushing.

Comment CALM if that’s where you are right now.
Save this if you need the reminder later.
Your rest is valid. Even when nothing’s “on fire.”

01/07/2026

Some women come to me when they’re already in burnout.
Others feel it approaching, but don’t know how to stop it.

Their bodies are tired.
Their minds are overstimulated.
And no matter how much they try to relax, they can’t.

For clients in this state, I often recommend one NeuroCalm Touch™ session a week for 4 weeks.
Not as a luxury.
As a reset — for the nervous system, the stress response, the patterns of tension that have been running the show for years.

Not everyone can do that, and that’s okay.
But the ones who can… are experiencing real shifts.

One woman resolved her IBS symptoms.
Another is sleeping through the night again — after a 10-year battle with insomnia.
And one client, after 15 years of chronic migraines, has been migraine-free for several weeks now.

What changed?

We stopped treating the symptom.
And started listening to the stress underneath it.

The old way of working on migraines meant deep neck work, stretches, muscle release.
And it helped — for a day or two.

But with NCT, we calmed the cause.
We worked with her nervous system, not against it.
And her body finally got the signal:
You’re safe now. You can let go.

If your body has been holding on for years, maybe it’s not resistant.
Maybe it’s just waiting for the right input — one that doesn’t push, but gently guides you back to yourself.

01/06/2026

“No pain, no gain” is one of the most harmful myths we’ve inherited about healing.

Especially when it comes to the nervous system.

Pain isn’t proof that something’s working — it’s proof that your body feels threatened.

And when your system is in threat mode, it’s not healing — it’s protecting.

That’s why so many high-achieving women feel worse after deep tissue or intense bodywork. Your body isn’t stubborn — it’s smart. It’s bracing.

NeuroCalm Touch™ isn’t about pushing through.
It’s about giving your body the signal that it’s safe enough to finally let go.

This isn’t just relaxation.
It’s a return to safety — where true restoration begins.

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What if the reason you haven’t been able to relax… is because your body was never given a reason to?

01/02/2026

They kept telling me they were “fine.”

They were laughing about it before their second session…how they’d convinced themselves they weren’t that stressed. Their stress wasn’t that bad.
That it was just life. Just being busy. Just part of the job.

But after their first NeuroCalm Touch™ session…
Everything shifted.

For the first time in years, they felt their body truly relax.
A deep, full-body exhale they didn’t even realize they’d been holding back for so long.
And it was in that contrast — between survival mode and peace — that they finally saw just how much they’d been carrying.

This is what happens when your nervous system gets the signal that it’s safe.
Not just mentally. But physiologically.

During a NeuroCalm Touch™ session, I’m working with cranial nerves, acupressure points, and reflexology pathways to guide your system out of survival mode — and into the parasympathetic state where real healing begins.

And the calm doesn’t just disappear when the hour ends.
We’re rewiring your system to remember what it feels like to be relaxed… unbraced… safe.
So that, over time, calm becomes your new baseline.

Because sometimes, the ones who say they’re “fine” are the ones who need this the most.

12/29/2025

She’s experienced a lot of bodywork.
She’s trained in massage.
She’s no stranger to energy work.

And still — she called this phenomenal.

NeuroCalm Touch™ isn’t your typical bodywork.
It’s a nervous system recalibration.
A deeply restorative experience that goes beyond the surface…
And stays with you long after the session ends.

If you’re a therapist, healer, or helper of any kind — this work was made for your kind of nervous system.

✨ You carry a lot. Let this carry you for once.

Drop the word CALM below and I’ll DM you the link to book.

12/24/2025

She came in feeling tightly wound — her words.
She walked out feeling euphoric.
Two weeks later, her husband looked at her and said:

I don’t know what she did to you, but you need to go back for more of it.

This is what happens when your nervous system finally feels safe enough to let go.

When your system is used to bracing, pushing, performing —
calm doesn’t come from a spa day.
It comes from a deeper kind of care.

You probably know someone like her.
She gives and gives and gives.
She says she’s fine.
But you see the tension in her jaw, the tiredness in her eyes.

Give her something she’d never buy for herself —
but will thank you for over and over again.

NeuroCalm Touch isn’t just a massage.
It’s a reset for the woman who’s been running on survival mode for way too long.

Comment the word GIFT and I’ll send you the link to purchase an e-gift card

12/22/2025

You’ve watched her keep going.
Even when she’s exhausted.
Even when the weight of everything lands on her shoulders.

She’s the one everyone turns to.
The strong one. The calm one. The capable one.

But lately… you’ve seen it in her eyes.
The tiredness she hides.
The tension she’s carrying in her body.
The way she keeps showing up — but has nothing left for herself.

What do you give someone like that?
Someone who doesn’t ask for much…
but desperately needs something to help her come back to herself?

💆‍♀️ You give her a gift that meets her where she is.
🌿 One that says: “You don’t have to hold it all.”
💗 One that gives her nervous system a reason to exhale.

NeuroCalm Touch™ is that gift.

It’s not just a massage.
It’s an experience that helps her finally feel safe enough to rest — deeply, and lastingly.

✨ Comment the word GIFT below and I’ll send you the link to purchase an e-gift card.
Let this be the holiday she feels held.

12/19/2025

“I don’t know what she did to you… but you need to go back for more of it.”
That’s what her husband said after her very first NeuroCalm Touch™ session.

She came in wound tight — her words — and walked out feeling euphoric.
Two weeks later, the calm hadn’t worn off.
In fact, her husband, her coworkers, and even her kids were noticing:

🌀 “You seem more chill.”
💗 “You’re just… calmer.”
🌿 “You feel more patient.”

She told me,

“It’s not just a massage… it’s an experience. I’ve been telling everyone, and I still don’t know how to describe it.”

That’s the nervous system at work.
That’s what happens when the body doesn’t just “relax” — it rewires.

And when that happens, people feel it — even if they don’t know what’s changed.

✨ Want to experience it for yourself or gift it to someone you love?
Comment CALM for the booking link or comment GIFT for the e-gift card link and I’ll send it right over.

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Sanctuary Yoga and Massage is locally owned and operated by Prince Edward Island native, Brenda Sanders-Passmore, RMT.

With 20 years experience in the field of health and wellness Brenda is an expert in stress reduction, pain management, movement therapy and mindfulness.

Brenda has been a registered massage massage therapist for almost 17 years. She is a yoga instructor specializing in a slow and gentle beginner-friendly style that offers nervous system regulation, pain management and deep stress reduction! Her style of yoga is very nourishing to the body mind and spirit.

She’s a Reiki practitioner and loves integrating energy healing into her massage and yoga practice when called for. She blends all of her skill sets and modalities to give all her clients a truly holistic approach to health and wellness.