The Body Artisans

The Body Artisans Body Artisans are:
Translators of the unseen, reading fascial tension, breath, and energy. Healers and artists.
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Craftsmen of transformation, where every stroke, stretch, and stillness is intentional, creating space for the body to remember itself.

03/22/2026

Aerial Hammocks are hung! It may look like drywall, but it's attached to steel beams inside the ceiling. 🥰

03/21/2026

Glide and slide… or stuck and dried. 🤣

But truly, this isn’t about “good” versus “bad” bodies. It’s about the environment. It’s about movement. It’s about how the body is cared for over time.

Fascia is meant to glide. To hydrate. To respond like a living, breathing fabric that shifts with every breath we take and every step we make. When it is nourished through touch, movement, and presence, it begins to organize, to soften, to move with a kind of quiet intelligence.

When it is neglected, held in tension, or left without that input, it can begin to feel denser, more restricted, and less responsive. Not broken, just waiting.

This is where bodywork becomes something more than routine. It becomes a conversation with the tissue. An invitation for the body to remember fluidity again.

So, let’s aim for movement and glow, not grip and “no.”

03/20/2026

I hope to have this all done tomorrow! May the odds be ever in my favor. 🤣

03/20/2026

Fascia senses.

It is filled with mechanoreceptors and interoceptive nerve endings that constantly gather information. Pressure. Stretch. Temperature. Internal state. It feeds that information directly into the nervous system. This is part of how the body determines safety, orientation, and internal awareness.

So when someone experiences stress, fear, grief, or trauma, those experiences are not just “mental.” They are physiological events.

Breath changes. Hormones shift. Muscle tone adapts. The nervous system moves into protection. And fascia responds right alongside it.

If that response is brief, the system can recalibrate. But when stress becomes chronic, the body begins to adapt in more lasting ways. Fibroblasts respond to tension. Collagen fibers reorganize along lines of load. The ground substance can become more viscous, reducing glide. Muscles begin to hold patterns that were once protective but are no longer necessary.

Over time, these patterns can feel like “just how someone is,” when in reality, they are learned adaptations.

Research continues to show that connective tissue remodels in response to mechanical stress, that the nervous system influences tissue tone, and that chronic sympathetic activation changes how the body organizes itself. The body does not store memories as stories. It stores them as patterns.

This is the space from which Emotional Body Mapping comes, not from trying to fix the body, but from learning how to read it differently. When we stop seeing tension as the enemy and start recognizing it as communication, everything shifts. Pain becomes information. Restriction becomes a doorway rather than a wall, and the body starts to show you the patterns it created to survive.

Wow! 🥲 To be inducted into the Utah Hall of Fame, recognized for influencing this industry beyond the massage room, is s...
03/19/2026

Wow! 🥲 To be inducted into the Utah Hall of Fame, recognized for influencing this industry beyond the massage room, is something I am still taking in.

This work has never lived only on the table for me, but has lived in the spaces between us. In the classrooms, in the shared stories, in the moments where hands become more than technique and turn into something deeply meaningful.

I have always believed this work is an art. Not just of tissue, but of presence, of listening, of helping someone feel at home within themselves again.

A ripple can cross an ocean. It does not force its way forward, nor does it ask to be seen. It simply moves, carried by something deeper than itself.

In much the same way, what we offer the world, our presence, our kindness, the quiet ways we choose to show up, does not end in the moment it is given. It travels. Through lives, through hearts, through time. Softening what was rigid, opening what was closed, and shaping what comes next.

We may never witness where it reaches, or who it touches, but it becomes part of something greater than us. A more gentle world, created not by grand gestures, but by the steady, unseen movement of care. 🥰

⛰ UTAH RETREAT ⛰️ Each retreat takes on a life of its own, shaped by the therapists who gather and the energy we build t...
03/17/2026

⛰ UTAH RETREAT ⛰️

Each retreat takes on a life of its own, shaped by the therapists who gather and the energy we build together. Still, here’s a glimpse into the flow of our March Retreat.

Sunday is all about arriving, settling in, and exhaling. After check-in, we ease into the week with a cozy pizza and movie night, giving everyone space to land and connect.

Monday begins with Intra Oral Basics and Emotional Body Mapping, setting a strong foundation for both technique and awareness. In the evening, we head to Midway Hot Springs to soak, soften, and let the body integrate.

Tuesday we step into the aerial space with safety and inversions, followed by Myofascial Flow Part One. We close the day with either Infrared Yin Yoga or breathwork, allowing the nervous system to unwind.

Wednesday continues in the aerial gym with front belt and back wraps, then moves into Myofascial Flow Part Two. As the sun sets, we drop into our Aerial Sound Bath… Flow in the Dark.

Thursday brings a beautiful shift with the Aerial Foot Soak experience, followed by Parasympathetic Reset Part One. The evening is reserved for rest and recovery in the hot tub.

Friday invites a sense of play with aerial flipping and flying, then completes our Parasympathetic Reset journey with Part Two. We celebrate the week with a visit to the Red Barn for apple cider slushies.

Saturday is a gentle goodbye with departure and checkout, as everyone leaves carrying new skills, deeper connections, and a body that feels just a little more like home.

03/17/2026

It’s Intra Oral training day… and there’s something really special about teaching this basic introduction course online.

I love being able to give you that overhead view, where nothing is hidden… where you can truly see the layers, the direction, the intention behind each movement. And even more than that, I love knowing you’re working with another LMT beside you, two skilled sets of hands learning, exploring, and trusting the process together.

We begin with an introduction to the muscles, a moment to meet the tissue, to understand the landscape we’re about to enter. Then we turn inward first, moving through a self-care routine so your own body can feel what you’ll soon offer to someone else.

From there, we begin to unwind.

Small resets that ripple through the jaw and into the pelvis… because the body never works in isolation, it speaks in long connected lines. We move through the anterior and posterior neck, softening the pathways, creating space where there was once tension.

Then into the face for a myofascial awakening. A warm-up that invites the tissue to listen, to respond, to trust your hands.

And finally, we pull on our gloves for our intra oral work. Quiet, precise, deeply intentional.
Where so much is held and so much can be released.

03/16/2026

Growth, and choosing to invest in yourself, can sometimes feel like a really hard decision. There are moments where you question it, where you run the numbers again, where you wonder if it’s the right time. But I’ve noticed something over the years. Every time I finally step through the uncertainty and reach the other side, I’ve never once regretted it. Even when it took years of saving and waiting to make it happen.

This gym remodel has been one of those decisions I’ve gone back and forth on more than a few times. It’s a big step, and it will come together in stages rather than all at once. But at the end of the day, I kept coming back to the same feeling.

This space will allow me to keep growing in the work I truly love. It will give me more room to teach, to host retreats, and to create experiences for the therapists who come here. And it will also allow me to bring other educators into the space and share what they do best as well.

My hope is that it becomes a place where people gather, learn, laugh, and reconnect with why they fell in love with this work in the first place. And I can’t think of a better place for that than here in beautiful Utah.

03/16/2026

Our March retreat is just a week away, and I can already feel the excitement starting to build. It always amazes me how quickly these weekends come together once everyone arrives. We still have two spots left for our May retreat, so I wanted to share it again in case anyone has been thinking about joining us.

These retreats are really special to me. They’re a chance for us, as bodyworkers, to step out of our busy lives for 5 days and take care of ourselves the way we’re always caring for everyone else. We slow down, we breathe, we learn together, and we also give ourselves permission to relax, laugh, and just enjoy being around other therapists who understand this work.

There’s always good food, great conversations, and those moments where someone shares an idea or technique and you can almost see the lightbulb go on for everyone in the room. Those are some of my favorite moments as a teacher.

For me, these retreats are about reconnecting with why we fell in love with bodywork in the first place. If you’ve been feeling like you need a little inspiration, a little rest, or just some time around people who get it, I would absolutely love to have you join us.

There are only a few spots left for 2026.
2 Spots in May
2 Spots in July
1 Spot in September
2 Spots in October

Well, I brought my zero-gravity chair and my aerial hammock to Colorado simply to show how much fun we can have when we ...
03/15/2026

Well, I brought my zero-gravity chair and my aerial hammock to Colorado simply to show how much fun we can have when we allow ourselves to think outside the box and explore familiar modalities in new ways. I certainly wasn’t expecting anything quite like this when I woke up this morning.

As an instructor, my favorite thing is inspiring other therapists to see what might be possible. There is something really special about watching someone’s face light up when an idea clicks and they start imagining their own path forward.

I’m so grateful I came and had the chance to demo some of the work I’m passionate about, from Zero Gravity Chair Massage to my Aerial Sole Drift experience. There were so many massage students eager to absorb everything us veterans had to share, and seeing that excitement in their eyes meant the world to me.

I feel both humbled and deeply grateful to be surrounded by such an incredible community of healers. I learned so much by watching all of you. 🥰

I’m really enjoying my time this weekend at the Colorado Massage Championship. 🥰 One of my favorite things about the mas...
03/14/2026

I’m really enjoying my time this weekend at the Colorado Massage Championship. 🥰 One of my favorite things about the massage community is how quickly strangers start to feel like old friends. It’s the kind of place where hugs are handed out as easily as smiles, almost like they’re just another part of wellness.

I also shared a little about some of the modalities I brought with me this weekend and the experiences I’m demonstrating here.

03/10/2026

Quite a few people were curious about how sideline work looks in a zero-gravity chair, so I thought I would share a few of my favorite approaches.

In this video I’m demonstrating several sideline techniques that allow beautiful access into the back and glutes, along with some of my favorite work for the psoas. I also finish with a bit of scalp, neck, and shoulder work, which flows wonderfully from this position.

The zero-gravity chair opens up some surprisingly versatile possibilities. With just a little creativity, it becomes an incredible tool for treating the body from multiple angles while still keeping the client deeply supported and comfortable.

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