Body Balance Therapeutic Massage

12/19/2025

Happy Holidays everyone!

Body Balance Therapeutic Massage will be closed from December 24th-28th, as well as New Year’s Day - I hope everyone has a lovely holiday season!

Beginning the week of January 12th, my hours will be shifting to accommodate my teaching schedule! I’ll be in office Tue-Sat rather than Mon-Fri and will be offering afternoon hours rather than evening availability.

As I move forward into my new role, I’ll be a lot more protective of my downtime. In the past I’ve been open to “squeezing people in”, even on my days off. While I am SO excited to start teaching, it does mean that I will be sticking to whatever availability that is on my website. If you’re not able to see any availability for booking, I will be happy to add you to my waitlist as well as make a recommendation for another therapist so you can still have the therapeutic care that your body needs! I am lucky to be sharing an office with an amazing group of LMTs and would gladly recommend any one of them!

2025 was a very challenging year with lots of change, including the loss of my mom. If I learned anything from her, it was to live your life unapologetically and to the fullest - whatever that definition means for each person. This is my resolution for 2026.

Happy holidays and find your joy!

11/29/2025

To my amazing and wonderful clients:

I wanted to take a few minutes to say thank you for all of the love and support and understanding over the past couple of months since my mom’s surgery and subsequent passing. The past couple of months - actually, this entire year - has been one of the more challenging times of my adult life. But through it all, you’ve sent me some lovely messages and encouragement and have rolled with the punches when I have had to cancel last minute. I am fortunate and feel so grateful to have a community of clients like you all.

I’m looking forward to being back in the office on Monday and very much ready to get back to my regular schedule.

With love and healing-
Sara

10/28/2025

Obituary for my mom 🌹

View Sheryl Thomas's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

10/07/2025

I’m sure most of you are aware, but I wanted to give a heads up, just in case. My mom will be having surgery tomorrow (all good vibes are welcome!), and so I will be out of pocket for a few days. If anyone has any questions regarding future appointments and/or availability, please reach out via text or through my website. I’ll get back to you when I’m able to. Thanks in advance! 💆🏼‍♀️🥰

05/28/2025

Many of you have already probably read the email I sent out in regards to 2026 and my change of schedule and if you’ve had me set up recurring appointments in the past, but in case I didn’t have your email on file, here’s the information! Happy Wednesday!

Friends, Clients, and Countrymen - lend me your ears!

I have opened online booking for 2026 and my new hours of operation will begin the 3rd week of January 2026. Hours of availability will be as follows:

Tuesday - Friday: 1p-5:30p
Saturday: 11a-2:30p

I tried something different this past year, which was setting up recurring appointments for as many clients as I could. And while it did help ensure that I would be as booked as I possibly could be - it created some issues for me behind the scenes that were very difficult to navigate with my outside responsibilities. That being said, I am moving away from that model and will go back to a first come first served basis.

I know I may have spoken with some of you about recurring appointments as recently as within the last week or so, but when I sat down to plug clients into the calendar I realized just how overbooked it made me.

That being said, for my handful of clients who book every other week, I did go ahead and schedule your appointments because of the volume of services and so I will reach out to you on an individual basis.

For the clients that this schedule won’t work for you, I am so very sorry that we may no longer be able to work together as often or even at all. I didn’t make the change of schedule with the intention of losing valued clients that I care about very much, and I’m so sorry that this new schedule may create that scenario as a byproduct of the change. If you want or need a recommendation for additional providers, I have some amazing colleagues that I would love to share with you.

As always, thank you for your continued support and entrusting me with your body care needs.

With healing and love -
Sara Apel, LMT
Body Balance Balance Therapeutic Massage

05/21/2025

Edit: So as it turns out, you CAN teach an old dog new tricks. I just recently had a chat with a colleague who informed me better about the contagious factor of poison ivy and I had some misinformation going around that fact. Learning new information is always empowering, even if you had the best of intentions. So my apologies on spreading misinformation, which is never my goal.

However. I’m still personally uncomfortable with massaging someone who has poison ivy or any of the other itchy plants and will be maintaining that if you have an active flare up, please do cancel. Thank you for growing and learning with me. ❤️

*google image, not any of my clients*

Hello, friends! I’m making this post to request and remind everyone that if you have any poison ivy, oak, sumac, or any other contagious rash to PLEASE reschedule your appointment, even if you have it covered, it’s “just” a small area that you think I may be able to work around, or it’s at the scab stage. The risk is just too high for me to also get it and if that happens, I can’t work. ❤️❤️❤️ Moving forward, if a client comes in for an appointment with poison ivy etc, I will cancel the session. I would rather lose one appointment than potentially lose days of work. The same holds true with illnesses. If you’re under the weather, please reschedule/cancel. 🤒

I know this is stronger language than I typically word my posts, and I don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable or put off by this post, but this will be a hard boundary for me now.

As always, thank you for being the most amazing clients and for your support and understanding that there are just times where massage is not appropriate and rescheduling or cancellation is the best option for both of us.

Have a wonderful day! 🫶🏻🤗💕

04/24/2025

Hello!! I have a 90 minute appointment available on Monday afternoon if anyone is interested! 😊💆🏼‍♀️ Follow the attached link to book! ❤️

04/22/2025

I’m back in the office from a lovely vacation and excited to be getting back into my routine and taking care of my amazing clients!

Now that my vacation is done, I’m going to be a bit more protective of my recovery time again. I worked a lot of long hours and extra shifts to be able to take my trip and came pretty close to injuring myself and was definitely overworking my body. ❤️ So just a little heads up, if there isn’t availability on my website, then I am booked. I’m always happy to add clients to my waitlist for possible cancellation openings, but the website is an accurate representation of what I might have available.

As always, I am so grateful for each of you! You all bring sunshine to my life and I couldn’t ask for better clients to be taking care of!

💆🏼‍♀️🥰❤️🤗🫶🏻

04/10/2025

I am officially on vacation and will be back in the office on 4/21! ❤️

04/02/2025

An update from Body Balance Therapeutic Massage!

After lots of thought, I have decided to take Hot Stone and Fire and Ice massages off my service menu. After being in business for a little over a year now (🤯), I’m still figuring out what works best for me as a practioner and for you, my clients. My stone appointments are very rarely booked, which is a huge deciding factor. But if I am being honest, I am not as passionate about “spa” types of services as I am with therapeutic massage and prenatal massage.

Thanks to everyone for rolling with it as I am still navigating being a business owner and how to best streamline my menu for what my clients (and myself) need.

Additionally, Body Balance Therapeutic Massage will be closed April 11-20 while I am away on vacation. I am going to do my best to respond to any questions but will not be super plugged in, so just a heads up there!

As always, thank you all for being the most amazing and supportive clients a therapist could ask for!

🥰💆🏼‍♀️

03/19/2025

Need a massage? I have space available for up to 90 minutes at 2pm the next couple of Wednesdays! I also have a couple of 30 minute sessions at 5:30p! 💆🏼‍♀️🥰