Bodywork and Energywork

  • Pain Relief

    Joanna lived with chronic shoulder pain for years. After finding solutions to her own pain, she has been passionate about discovering ways to support her clients to find relief and live more fully.

  • Soul Spa

    Be enveloped in an all-encompassing restorative experience. Joanna will soothe and nourish your body, mind, and spirit all at the same time in a 90-minute session.


Reviews

 
 
 
 
 

 Pain Relief Bodywork

Joanna, you have helped me so much. Our work together has made me remember what my body felt like before chronic pain.
— Kathylynn Saboda
 

Bodywork

I always experience Joanna’s bodywork as quietly joyful. As the session unfolds Joanna’s presence seems to coalesce and strengthen, and I feel an abundant flow of energy and intention into her hands, which positively radiate with warmth. Under the strength and guidance of her whole being I become aware of the weight of my own limbs and the way they sink into currents of movement created between us. At the end of the session I’m left with a sense of stillness and nourishment,
— Karen Tanner, Software Analyst & Athlete
 

Vibrational Healing Massage™

“I cannot thank you enough for the healing treatment you blessed me with. I literally walked out of your working space a different person. You transformed my energy from dark, heavy and negative to light and positive. I now see with different eyes; the most immediate effects were the changes in my awareness, perspective and attitude. Another observation I have made about myself is the change in things I give energy to. For example, negative words and actions that would typically bother me, now bounce off. I walk lighter, think clearly, seek God’s grace, speak words of encouragement and I am easy to laugh!
— Anna Maldonado, Scheduler for Rep. Raul Grijalva
 
Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy allows you to access a deeper energetic state (than massage or other bodywork modalities), putting you in touch with your own intuitive sources of healing.
— Alice Adams, Licensed Acupuncturist Registered Nurse

 

About my experience in Bodywork and Energywork.

 

Using my 20 years of assessment skills and knowledge of bodies, I will guide you through an assessment of your current pain condition and then make suggestions for exercises, trigger-point self-treatment, and other body-mind therapies.

I work in several modalities including Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy, Vibrational Energywork, Pain Neutralization Technique, and Breema Bodywork. In my one-on-one healing work, I especially enjoy supporting other healers and service-oriented people to feel whole and empowered so they can best serve their communities.  

I began my training in 1997 at the World School of Massage and Holistic Healing Arts in San Francisco, where I became a Holistic Massage Therapist and Holistic Health Counselor. I continued training at the Breema Center in Oakland, studied Zen Shiatsu at the Providence Institute in Tucson, Muscle Release Technique with Michael Young, Pain Neutralization Technique with  Stephen Kaufman, Craniosacral Balancing with Heidi Wilson, and  Neuro-Muscular Therapy at A.S.I.S.


Are you in pain?  

Physical Pain?  Back? Neck? Shoulders?  Hips, Legs, Feet? Have you been to doctors and been told to take anti-inflammatory drugs?  Have you had an MRI and been told they cannot find anything?  Are you suffering through the pain on a daily basis hoping for some relief and getting nothing?  

How much is this costing you in pain and suffering?  Missed work?  Missing out on the things you enjoy?

Let me help. 

  • Since 1997, I have been studying pain, my own and others, to find solutions. Through my study of Trigger Point Therapy with Clair Davies, Pain Neutralization (PNT) with Dr. Stephen Kaufman, and Muscle Release Technique and Repetitive Motion Injury Therapy with Michael Young, I have developed a set of tools that can quickly reduce and often eliminate neuromuscular pain and disfunction.  

    Neuromuscular pain can easily mimic other problems like arthritis and bursitis. These simple, hands-on techniques have done wonders for my clients.  I would know in the first session if they will be effective for you. 

  • In a 90-Min Pain Assessment Session With Treatment you will receive:

    • Someone to listen to your story of pain, your WHOLE story

    • A detailed examination of your current condition

    • Hands-on physical testing and evaluation

    • Hands-on treatment

    • A treatment plan specific to your condition(s)

    • Recommended exercises specific to you

 

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