Massage & Wellness with Brittanya

Our Story

I started my massage journey way back when I was a wee child, giving my Grandma the worst tiny handed, pokey-fingered, dirt encrusted shoulder squeezes...and she always encouraged them, no matter the consequences. She was a smart lady, and later on I was able to give her real therapeutic massages to help the same tension she had shouldered all of her life.

Fast forward twenty years or so: I wanted to follow my passion of working with horses. After raising, training, competing, and breeding horses I wanted to gain a lifelong career that didn’t require the nasty bits of being a veterinarian. This lead me to a two year Equine Sport Therapy Program where I learned massage and a whole host of holistic modalities for horses. Over time I found that whenever I questioned the riders and owners more closely, I would find that the issue the horse was having, as also an issue the rider was having. Pastern pain and heel pain, hip problems, back pain, emotional stress...it was all coming from the rider/owner. I started to see that maybe I could do more good treating the owners and riders, thereby treating all of the horses they rode, and maybe even all of the animals in the household.

This lead me to human massage and a two year (2200 hour) massage therapy program in Alberta. Since 2010 I have been treating a whole range of issues and providing space for healing through relaxation. I believe that the body is more able to accept deep work and heal itself when it is able to relax, so my treatments are always a combination of types of massage. Relaxation itself is deeply healing, but I am often sought out for the deeper massage work that I do. I am also hoping to being offering treatments that incorporate work with horses soon!

These days I offer massage from my home in Glade while my 1 year old is napping. The space is quiet and relaxing, a hidden oasis. Inside the dogs sleep on their beds and outside the horses relax together while the ducks quack along in a line across the driveway. You’ll enter our home and find yourself tucked into a professional spa room. I love sharing the peace and quiet of our little farm with everyone who comes for a massage. Here and there I also offer massage out of a space just outside of Nelson.

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