Melissa Stewart, RMT

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Melissa Stewart, RMT

Registered Massage Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy & Thai Massage in the heart of Victoria.

10/22/2025

✨ Hello! New season, new headshot, new clinic & new moon ✨

I thought I’d pop in to reintroduce myself and give this page some fresh energy. 💫

I’m Melissa Stewart, Registered Massage Therapist. I’ve recently moved my practice back into the cozy, beautiful clinic at Nurture & Flo!

My treatments are designed to support your body’s natural healing while bringing more ease and spaciousness into your being. Sessions focus on calming the nervous system, releasing tension, and creating a deep sense of balance and restoration.

I offer a few different treatment styles and modalities:
🌿 Therapeutic Abdominal Massage
🌿 Craniosacral Therapy
🌿 Table Thai Massage

📍 Clinic hours
Tues + Thurs: 2:30 to 8:00
Wed + Fri: 8:30 to 2:00

I’ll be sharing more about my treatments and practice here in the weeks to come. 🌸

💌 Questions? Send me a DM or email mel@olamassagetherapy.com
🔗 Booking link is in my bio

📸 .studios

03/04/2024

Need some weekend rejuvenation this spring?

I'm now offering treatments on Saturdays at Nurture & Flo from now until the end of April!

Head over to www.nurtureandflo.com to book your spot! ❤️

02/27/2024

Join me this Thursday evening in my beautiful studio for a nurturing massage!

I have an opening for one more patient at 5:50 pm.

Book now by heading to www.olamassagetherapy.com.

06/17/2023

Bodywork can so profoundly alter the shapes, internal relationships and process of the organism because it supplies what every self-regulating entity requires: New, more complete, and clearer information.

Bodywork is information.

- Deane Juhan

06/14/2023

Listening, when it opens and we’re feeling safe enough, leads toward connection with other people.

Our listening opens through numerous portals. We think of it commonly as an auditory phenomenon, yet it passes through other portals as well. We listen with our ears, yes, but we also listen with our eyes, our minds, our hearts, our touch and upstream from all sensations and perceptions we listen with our autonomic nervous system.

- Gary Whited, an excerpt from “Anchored” by Deb Dana

06/08/2023

Perhaps the most important factor in the therapeutic relationship is presence.

Presence creates the field for the therapeutic relationship.

Presence is a fundamental quality the therapist brings to the relationship and, as such, may be one of the most powerful forces in the healing process.

- Roger Gilchrist

Art: PRRINT

06/02/2023

I appreciate Reggie Ray's perspective on tension in the body, viewed through the lens of Somatic Meditation and Buddhist teachings:

"Tensing up is a way of avoiding the unadorned experience and the discomfort it brings ego, whether that discomfort is physical or psychological; tension is our way of closing down experience and shutting off awareness. It is the somatic expression of us holding on to our small ego concept, our restricted left brain identity.

Any naked, unfiltered experience is initially felt to be painful and problematic; without thinking, we try to withdraw from it, evade and get away from it.

We do so by literally tensing up, and this tension is everywhere.

By relaxing, our awareness opens and we gain access to a fuller and fuller range of our human experience, which means our somatic experience."

- The Awakening Body

We all experience pain and painful situations, which cause our bodies to tense up in an attempt to avoid it. Coming to a place of relaxation, we are able to open. Massage therapy is an incredible way to sink into deep, rejuvenating relaxation.

05/30/2023

Touch makes it possible to live in a body that can move in response to being moved

–Licia Sky, excerpt from The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

05/25/2023

We all know how amazing massage can be, how it relieves tension, helps to relax the body and mind and is incredible for repairing the physical body.

In The Body Keeps the Score, massage therapist Licia Sky answers Bessel Van Der Kolk's question in such a powerful way that speaks to the deep healing that massage therapy can offer:

“Just like you can thirst for water, you can thirst for touch.

It is a comfort to be met confidently, deeply, firmly, gently, responsively.

Mindful touch and movement grounds people and allows them to discover tensions that they may have held for so long that they are no longer even aware of them. When you are touched, you wake to the part of your body that is being touched”

05/22/2023

“There is something in the experience of touch that is not merely sensory, but that is potentially revelatory as well”

– Deane Juhan, Touched by the Goddess

The language of touch is something we all instinctively communicate with. Handshakes and hugs reveal much about a person’s character and mood.

Safe, therapeutic and nurturing touch is healing on so many levels.

Helping people feel connected to their bodies, safely held and cared for is an honour.

05/16/2023

“Healing involves a journey.

Therapists from every healthcare discipline discover steps in a lifelong process that lead them ever deeper towards the truth of life and the service of their clients.

Clients and patients learn about themselves and grow from the challenges of healing.”

I am deeply grateful to have discovered a modality that brings depth and expansion to my massage practice. With Craniosacral I tune in and listen deeply.
What is it that this body needs?
How can I be of service to this healing process?
What parts of the body require presence and awareness?
The body always guides the session, my job is to listen.

Excerpt from Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body, by Roger Gilchrist

03/28/2023

A little bit of information on Craniosacral Therapy and why I love offering it!

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Victoria, BC
V8W1R2

Website

https://olamassagetherapy.com/

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Offerings of Yoga, Thai Yoga Massage, Ecstatic Dance and insights on the Moon. Passionate about holding sacred space for healing and transformation and sharing ancient wisdom. Perpetual student of life. Certifications: Certified Thai Yoga Massage Therapist & Reflexologist through Lotus Palm School of Thai Massage & Traditional Bodywork. 250-hr Yoga Teacher Training through Vasishta Yoga Research Foundation, India. 200hr Ayurveda Therapy studies with Aithien Ayurveda Academy in India. Usui Reiki Level 1