Massage Vermont LLC

06/01/2025

All are welcome and safe on our tables. Thanks to our professional organization, Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP), for speaking out. 💜🏳️‍🌈💜

Here’s to showing up, speaking out, and standing proud. 🌈

ABMP celebrates by honoring those who create safe, inclusive spaces for all. We believe in love without limits and practices rooted in respect and equality.

We’re honored to share resources that reflect our commitment to inclusion—because supporting every individual’s worth isn’t just a belief, it’s a practice.

🔗 Explore our blogs and podcasts that spotlight the power of belonging—PLUS, hear from one of ABMP’s 2024 winners, Maggie Truelove , as she shares her inspiring essay: “Inclusion in Senior Care: Massage for Elderly LGBTQ+ Clients.” 💜✨

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03/16/2025

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02/06/2025

You, the client, are in charge of your experience. And we, your practitioners, are responsible for upholding that.

Massage is a conversation between a client and their practitioner, and each client’s needs are what’s most important to us. We will offer only what is okay for us. Thus, we don’t have super early morning or late night hours because we can’t give you our best work at those times. We don’t p...

12/27/2024

Thank you for the shout-out in The Bridge! What a lovely surprise to open the paper and see Massage Vermont recommended for gift giving. Our best wishes to all for a healthy, happy New Year.

A common problem most shoppers face is similar to Nancy Reid’s. “Many of my family members are hard to shop for but are into cooking …,” said Reid, a board member for The Bridge. Reid suggests a gift certificate at a local shop. “They will special order items that they don’t have in stoc...

10/24/2024

Overwhelmed? Here's what you can do, step by step. If you know anyone this might help, please share it.

Sheryl here. This post draws from the episode “I’m going through a really hard time What can I do?” of Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, one of my favorite podcasts. Hosts, clinical psychologist Dr. Steve Thayer and psychiatrist Dr. Reid Robison, offer support for the hardest times. I recommend l...

09/18/2024

We've learned from pleasant and unpleasant experiences why it's crucial to maintain a relaxing, soothing environment, from our treatment rooms' appearance and comfort options to our silence and attentiveness to your needs. Here's one of experience we'll never forget.

In 1997, Sheryl accepted a three-month contract to do massage therapy in the spa on Grandeur of the Seas. The cruise ship was less than a year old and quite posh. In 2002, Massage Magazine published her story about it. Step into the wayback machine and on board—briefly, anyway.

06/11/2024

It was probably 15 years ago that a client brought us this cat bed, which they said their cats never used. Our cats immediately did. We have different cats now, Yuki and Ru, and the tradition continues.

In those days, we were still in the Rutland house, where our cats interacted freely with clients in our entry hall. Our Montpelier office is completely separate from the house, but the feline spirit continues to imbue our every space.

05/22/2024

"What if the first thing you noticed about your body wasn't what it looks like from the outside but how it feels on the inside? What would that change?"

From "Being Body Conscious"
To the Best of Our Knowledge
First aired September 30, 2023

When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? Maybe you’ve heard of body positivity. But what if we just felt neutral about our bodies?

04/18/2024

The touch is the point. Safe, healing touch that is for you and only you.

Not surprisingly, many, many people who contact Massage Vermont seek relief from physical and mental suffering, from pain, anguish, and from the effects of stress. Someone who wants a massage wants to feel better. What's perhaps more surprising is that it probably matters less what kind of bodywork....

03/17/2024

One month of bodywork available at our previous prices. Buy before April 17 and mention this offer! Buy ahead and use (and gift) the sessions whenever you'd like.

It's time. We put it off for years, and now Massage Vermont has updated our rates to reflect increases in our operating expenses. Purchase treatments for yourself and gift certificates for others by April 17, 2024 to get them at our previous rates: 30-minute relaxation massage: $50, package of 5 for...

09/15/2023

Do you or anyone you know need support for living with Long Covid? Do you work with people living with Long Covid? We've studied breathwork with Essential Yoga Therapy and highly recommend this virtual workshop.
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Therapeutic Yoga Approach for Long COVID
October 14th-15th, 2023
8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PST

Do you have students, friends, or family members who struggle post-COVID with fatigue, brain-fog, post-exertional malaise, systemic inflammation, and pain?

08/09/2023

This is a come-as-you-are practice. We don't ruminate on clients' appearances. Clients need never worry that we're considering what they're wearing, how they look that day, what we think of their body art, etc.

The answer to the second question in this NY Times piece is why we don't mention clients' body art—or any other part of a client's appearance—unless it relates directly to working with us. For example, "The skin around that ink/piercing looks red. Is that an area to avoid today?"

On the other hand, I take it kindly, with thanks, when clients compliment my ink. I'm not the client here, and our clients need not uphold the professional boundaries we operate within.

"Now, there are others who believe that society is enriched by engaging with strangers. And I rarely succeed in convincing them that comments about appearance are often unwelcome, and even compliments betray an unappealing entitlement to judge. “It’s just a compliment!” they say. (Sigh.) So, choose your own path. But I would respect the privacy of strangers and engage with your tatted-up friends, instead."

A reader asks whether she should be more blunt about her wish for birthday and anniversary presents from a man who isn’t the gift-giving type.